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Hold the card in frame and CardVault auto-detects the edges and captures it — no perfect aim required.
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Point your camera at a business card and CardVault reads the name, company, title, phone, email and address — turning a messy pile into a clean, searchable contact list. Every card is processed on your device, so your data never leaves your iPhone.
Capturing a card takes one tap. CardVault frames the card with automatic edge detection, then on-device OCR (optical character recognition) reads the text and sorts it into the right fields. There's no server, no upload — recognition happens on your iPhone, even in airplane mode.
Hold the card in frame and CardVault auto-detects the edges and captures it — no perfect aim required.
Name, company, title, phone, email, website and address, extracted and sorted into clean fields.
CardVault recognizes Korean, English, Japanese and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and even reads small print and bilingual names. Hand it a card mixing a Latin name with Chinese characters and it handles both.
CardVault doesn't just dump text — it understands what each line is and files it accordingly. Emblem and logo detection help it tell the company name from the rest, so parsing stays accurate even on busy cards.
The full name, including bilingual 한글/漢字 pairs printed together on one card.
The organization name, guided by emblem and logo detection for better accuracy.
The role and department, kept separate from the name and company.
Detects several numbers on one card and prefers the mobile for one-tap calling.
Picks the address out cleanly, ready to tap into a new message.
The site and street address, ready to open in your browser or Maps.
For even sharper results, turn on an optional on-device AI model (Google Gemma). It works alongside OCR to understand the whole card in context and sort ambiguous lines correctly — and it runs entirely on your iPhone, so your data still never leaves the device.
OCR is great at turning pixels into text, but a card is more than text — it's a layout. The AI model reads that layout the way you would: it knows the big word up top is a name, the number after M is a mobile, and the two-line block at the bottom is an address.
It's optional and downloaded on demand. Leave it off for fast, lightweight scanning, or switch it on when you want the extra precision — either way, nothing about your card is uploaded.
Once a card is in, its details become live buttons. No copying, no retyping — just tap the way you want to reach out.
Dial the number straight from the card — the mobile first.
Open a new text to the number in one tap.
Start a message to the address without retyping it.
Open the company site in your browser.
Add the card to your Phone Contacts, fully filled in.
Share a card by text message with one swipe.
The more cards you collect, the more this matters. Star the ones that count, add tags to group them, and search across every field — name, company, even a tag — to surface the right person instantly.
Met someone important at a conference? Star them, tag them “conference”, and they're one filter away. Search runs across names, companies and tags at once, so a half-remembered detail is enough to find the card.
Everything stays in sync across your devices through your private iCloud — with no account and no login to set up.
Cards you scanned shouldn't be trapped in one app. Take them anywhere as a spreadsheet, keep a full backup of everything, and sync privately across your own devices — all free for everyone.
Export every card to a single .xlsx spreadsheet — ready for your CRM, email, or a colleague.
Save all cards including their images to a single file, and restore the whole set anytime.
Kept in step across your devices through your own private iCloud — nothing to sign up for.
Contacts are personal — yours and the people who handed you their card. CardVault is built so that data simply never leaves your control.
Scanning, OCR and AI all run on your iPhone — even offline. No card image is ever uploaded.
There's nothing to sign up for. CardVault works with your own iCloud — or fully offline on-device.
Protected by iOS Data Protection on device, and encrypted in your private iCloud.
Everything that matters is free — export, backup and iCloud sync included. Pro is a single, one-time purchase when your collection outgrows the free tier.
Tap the camera, hold a business card in frame, and CardVault auto-detects the edges and captures it.
Name, company, title and contact details come pre-filled. Glance over them and tweak anything if you like.
Save the card, star the important ones, and add a tag or two so you can find them later.
Tap to call, message or email — or export the whole set to Excel whenever you need it elsewhere.