Comparison · Digital business cards
Digital business cards vs scanning the cards you receive
A digital business card app shares your own details; a card scanner deals with the cards other people hand you. HiHello, Blinq and Popl are digital-card and lead-capture apps that also scan, some with monthly limits. Meishio does mainly the second job: it reads the paper cards you receive and keeps those people current. You may want one of each.
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The two jobs get mixed up because the apps overlap. Digital card apps added scanners for paper cards and event badges, and scanning apps sit next to the address book where those contacts end up. Meishio is built around the cards you receive.
Facts about HiHello, Blinq and Popl below come from each vendor's pricing and help pages and from the Indian App Store, read on 20 Oct 2026. Vendor prices are in US dollars; App Store prices are in rupees.
Who each is for
Meishio is for
- People who receive more paper cards than they hand out, especially Japanese or bilingual cards
- Teams that want a shared record of who they have met and who knows whom
- People who want those contacts kept current in Google Contacts
Digital business card apps are for
- People who want to share their own details with a link or QR code instead of paper
- Teams that want everyone's cards and a company directory (HiHello Business) or a corporate contact book (Blinq Business)
- Teams capturing leads from event badges (Popl describes itself as an event lead capture platform)
Side by side
| What | Meishio | HiHello | Blinq | Popl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main job | Meishio:Reads the paper cards you receive and keeps those people current. It is not a digital card app. | HiHello:Digital card plans from one person to a whole organisation; also scans paper cards and badges.[1] | Blinq:Digital cards; Premium adds a scanner for badges, cards, QR codes and LinkedIn.[5] | Popl:An event lead capture platform for teams, in its words.[9] |
| Price (vendor site) | Meishio:Free during early access; nothing is charged. Team is ₹999 per seat a month in India, from 2 seats. Prices in US dollars and yen are not set yet.[11] | HiHello:Personal free. Professional $6 a month ($72 billed yearly). Business $5 per user a month, 5-user minimum. USD.[1] | Blinq:Free. Premium $7.33 a month billed yearly. Business $4.99 per user a month billed yearly, plus $9.99 per lead captured and enriched. USD.[5] | Popl:Team pricing on request.[9] |
| Indian App Store (in-app) | Meishio:Not on the App Store yet: the iPhone app is in TestFlight. The web works on any phone. | HiHello:Professional ₹999 a month or ₹8,900 a year. unverified[4] | Blinq:Premium ₹999 a month or ₹8,900 a year; Pro ₹2,299 a month or ₹19,900 a year. unverified[8] | Popl:Pro ₹249 a month or ₹4,099 a year; Pro Plus ₹1,399 a month or ₹13,900 a year. unverified[10] |
| Scanning paper cards | Meishio:Up to 12 cards in one photo. Counted but not capped during early access; the Free plan after it includes 50 scans a month.[11] | HiHello:Monthly caps: 5 on Personal, 20 on Professional, 50 per user pooled on Business; unlimited on Enterprise.[1] | Blinq:Universal scanner on Premium (badges, cards, QR, LinkedIn).[5] | Popl:Plans include an "AI-native Universal Badge Scanner".[9] |
| Japanese cards | Meishio:English, Japanese and bilingual cards. Kanji and English names stay on one contact; titles such as 部長 are read as titles.[12] | HiHello:Not stated on the pages we checked.[2] | Blinq:Not stated on the pages we checked.[5] | Popl:Not stated on the pages we checked.[9] |
| Team contacts | Meishio:Early-access team workspaces: each person chooses which work contacts to share, and the team sees who knows whom and who follows up. Notes and personal numbers stay private. | HiHello:Business includes a company directory, searchable on web and mobile.[1] | Blinq:Business includes a corporate contact book; admins can export company contacts as CSV or push them to an integration.[6] | Popl:Pricing for teams of all sizes; details on request.[9] |
| Google Contacts | Meishio:Two-way. Contacts come in from Google Contacts; fixes you approve go back, each can be undone, and nothing already in Google is deleted.[12] | HiHello:On paid plans. Pushes contacts to Google, two-way if you turn on import; syncs every 6 hours.[3] | Blinq:Not listed. Its Google Workspace integration covers user provisioning and Gmail signatures.[7] | Popl:Not stated on its pricing page.[9] |
| Data location | Meishio:Singapore. Storage in Japan is available on request for company plans.[13] | HiHello:Not stated on the pages we checked.[2] | Blinq:Not stated on the pages we checked.[5] | Popl:Not stated on the pages we checked.[9] |
Choose digital business card apps if
- You mainly want to share your own details with a link or QR code, and want a polished card to do it.
- Your team wants a company directory (HiHello Business) or a corporate contact book (Blinq Business).
- You capture leads from event badges: Popl and Blinq both scan badges.
- You want scanned contacts pushed to Salesforce, HubSpot or Microsoft Dynamics 365: HiHello says its scanned contacts sync there.
Choose Meishio if
- You receive more paper cards than you give out, especially Japanese or bilingual cards.
- You scan in stacks, up to 12 cards in one photo.
- You want the people you have met kept current: job-change checks with sources, and Google Contacts cleaned up.
- Your team wants a shared record of who knows whom.
Using a digital card and Meishio together
Hand out your own card
Use whichever digital card app suits you, or paper cards, to share your own details.
Scan the cards you receive
Photograph the paper cards people give you, up to 12 at a time, and check only the fields Meishio was unsure about.
Meet in Google Contacts
Meishio syncs the changes you approve to Google Contacts. HiHello's paid plans can sync there too, so both land in the same address book.
Questions
Do I still need a way to scan paper business cards?
If people still hand you paper cards, yes, whichever card you hand out. A digital card shares your details; it does not read theirs.
Can HiHello scan paper business cards?
Yes, within monthly limits that depend on the plan: 5 scans on the free plan, 20 on Professional and 50 per user, pooled, on Business, as HiHello's pricing page showed on 20 Oct 2026.
Is Meishio a digital business card app?
No. A digital card app shares your own details. Meishio looks after the cards you receive: it reads them, keeps the people current and writes them back to the address book you already use.
About these guides
Meishio editorial team
The Meishio editorial team writes these guides: how to keep a business network in order when cards pile up, teams change and people move on. Every fact about another product is checked on that product's own pages, and the sources are listed on each page.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from, and when we read them. Products change; check the source before you decide.
- [1]HiHello pricing (opens in a new tab), HiHello, Inc. ·
- [2]HiHello FAQ (opens in a new tab), HiHello, Inc. ·
- [3]Syncing contacts with Google (HiHello help) (opens in a new tab), HiHello, Inc. ·
- [4]HiHello on the App Store (India) (opens in a new tab), Apple App Store (India) ·
- [5]Blinq pricing (opens in a new tab), Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd ·
- [6]Blinq docs: contacts (opens in a new tab), Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd ·
- [7]Blinq integrations (opens in a new tab), Blinq Technologies Pty Ltd ·
- [8]Blinq on the App Store (India) (opens in a new tab), Apple App Store (India) ·
- [9]Popl pricing (opens in a new tab), Popl Co ·
- [10]Popl on the App Store (India) (opens in a new tab), Apple App Store (India) ·
- [11]Meishio pricing, Meishio ·
- [12]Meishio FAQ, Meishio ·
- [13]How Meishio handles your data, Meishio ·
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