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Planned app page
This app concept is published as a planned portfolio page and is not live in the App Store yet.
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Business Card Scanner for iPhone
Scan a business card with the iPhone camera and the contact lands in Apple Contacts in 5 seconds — name, title, phone, email, address — saved via CNContactStore. No HiHello $3-per-week subscription, no CamCard premium upsell.
Free to try. Pro $4.99/month (3-day free trial), $14.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime. No weekly subscription traps.
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iOS Vision OCR
Extracts name, title, company, phone, email, address from any business card. Multi-language support (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese Simplified + Traditional, Korean).
Privacy
Private by default
Business Card Scanner is planned around local-first handling for scans.
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Business Card Scanner Cards
Auto-crop ready OCR
Features
Built around the work people actually need to finish.
iOS Vision OCR
Extracts name, title, company, phone, email, address from any business card. Multi-language support (English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Chinese Simplified + Traditional, Korean).
Direct save to Apple Contacts
Uses the CNContactStore API to save directly to your iOS Contacts. The new contact appears alongside the rest of your address book; syncs to iCloud, Mac, and Apple Watch automatically.
Edit before save
Review the parsed fields before saving. Swap a personal email for a work one, fix a misread company name, add a tag. Nothing lands in your address book until you confirm.
Multiple emails + phones
Handles cards with multiple emails (work + personal) and phones (office + cell). All save to the contact with correct labels (Work, Mobile, Home).
LinkedIn search shortcut
One tap on a contact opens a LinkedIn search for them. Useful for following up after a conference where you collected 30 cards in one day.
On-device only
OCR runs locally with iOS Vision. Cards never upload to a server, never train an external model. Verify by enabling Airplane Mode — scanning still works.
Quick answers
Short answers before this app ships.
These direct answers explain what the planned app is for, confirm that it is not live yet, and state the intended pricing path clearly.
What is Business Card Scanner?
Business Card Scanner is a planned Swarmval app for business card scanner, scan business card to contacts, OCR business card on iPhone. Scan a business card with the iPhone camera and the contact lands in Apple Contacts in 5 seconds — name, title, phone, email, address — saved via CNContactStore. No HiHello $3-per-week subscription, no CamCard premium upsell.
Is Business Card Scanner live in the App Store yet?
No. Business Card Scanner is a planned standalone app page in the Swarmval portfolio, so the page explains the product direction without claiming the app is already live in the App Store.
What pricing is planned for Business Card Scanner?
Free to try. Pro $4.99/month (3-day free trial), $14.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime. No weekly subscription traps. That is the intended Swarmval pricing model once Business Card Scanner ships.
Free vs Pro
Try the workflow first. Upgrade when the limits matter.
Swarmval apps avoid surprise weekly pricing. The upgrade path is visible before purchase and support links are easy to find.
Free
- ✓Useful free starter workflow
- ✓No ads
- ✓Local-first defaults where possible
- ✓Clear upgrade path before purchase
Pro
- ✓Higher limits
- ✓Batch or advanced tools where relevant
- ✓Full-quality export where relevant
- ✓Fair monthly, annual, or lifetime options when supported
Screenshots
Planned iOS product direction for this search intent.
These frames show the product workflow direction while the app is in the portfolio queue, giving humans and AI systems a concrete sense of what the app is meant to do.
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Business Card Scanner Cards
Auto-crop ready OCR
iOS Vision OCR
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Business Card Scanner Cards
Auto-crop ready OCR
Direct save to Apple Contacts
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Business Card Scanner Cards
Auto-crop ready OCR
Edit before save
Privacy
Private by default, clear when sharing.
Business Card Scanner is planned around local-first handling for scans. Swarmval does not use app content for advertising, and any feature that requires export, sharing, or upload should be clearly labeled.
Read privacy policy FAQ
How is this different from iOS Live Text? +
iOS Live Text can read text in a photo, but it cannot parse the layout of a business card — figuring out which line is the name, which is the title, which is the phone. Business Card Scanner uses Vision OCR plus card-specific layout heuristics to fill the right field, then saves the whole contact to Apple Contacts in one tap.
Why pay for this when HiHello has a free tier? +
HiHello’s free tier scans cards but pushes you toward a $3-per-week premium for advanced features. CamCard works similarly. Business Card Scanner ships with iOS Vision OCR + CNContactStore save for $4.99/month with a 3-day trial, $14.99/year, or $19.99 lifetime. Pay once, scan forever, no upsells.
Will the contacts sync across my devices? +
Yes — because they’re saved to Apple Contacts (not to a Swarmval database). Your existing iCloud Contacts sync handles iPhone→iPad→Mac→Apple Watch propagation automatically.
What if the OCR misreads a card? +
Every field is editable before save. The app shows you what it parsed (with the source line highlighted) and you can fix anything before it lands in Contacts. Multi-language detection is solid for printed cards; hand-written notes on the back are not extracted.
Can I scan a stack of cards quickly? +
Yes — Pro tier has Batch Mode. Sit at your desk after a conference, fan out the cards, scan one after another. The app queues them; review and confirm at the end.
Will my contact data leave the device? +
No. OCR runs on-device with iOS Vision. Contacts save to Apple Contacts via CNContactStore (Apple’s own storage). Swarmval has no copy of the cards or the parsed contact data. Verify by enabling Airplane Mode — scanning still works.
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