Comparisons
Met vs the apps you are weighing it against
Honest, structural head-to-head comparisons. No teardowns. Each one is clear about where the other app is the better choice, because for a lot of people it is. If you want the whole field scored on one rubric, start with the buyer's guide.
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Six apps graded on what matters to someone who needs to follow up: capture speed, keeping the context, follow-up help, data ownership, price clarity, and platform reach. Two charts and a pick-by-your-situation guide.
The best business card scanner apps (2026)Met vs CamCard. The biggest scanner, now repositioning toward digital cards for teams, with contacts on servers in Shanghai. The capture-vs-follow-up wedge, and where your data lives.
Met vs Covve. The one competitor that also does scan, context, and cadence in one app. Same job; the difference is custody, and a 2020 breach.
Met vs Dex. An excellent CRM for the network you already have, with no scanner for the people you just met. Two halves of the same problem.
Met vs ABBYY Business Card Reader. The most accurate, most private digitizer, and nothing past the scan. Both are private; only one follows up.
Met vs ScanBizCards. Built to feed badges into a CRM. The whole loop for one person versus the front door of a pipeline.
New to the category? The contact-capture glossary covers OCR, personal CRM, keep-in-touch cadence, enrichment, and the rest. Want the method, not the matchups? Read how to remember who you met at a conference.