Comparison
Met vs CamCard
CamCard scans the card. Met captures the card, keeps the context, and drafts the follow-up. They look like the same category for about thirty seconds, and then they stop looking alike at all. Here is the honest version of the difference, including where CamCard is the better pick.
Pick CamCard if you are a sales team that needs Android, deep CRM sync, and badge scanning at scale, and you are fine with contacts living on a company server. Pick Met if you are one person who meets people at events, wants the context remembered, and wants the follow-up half-written before you sit down. CamCard is a scanner that hands off; Met is the whole loop from handshake to sent.
Side by side
| Met | CamCard | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Capture, context, and follow-up in one app | Card scanner, now repositioning toward digital business cards for teams |
| Captures the context | Yes, notes + tags + where you met, at capture time | Partly, notes exist but the product centers on the scan |
| Drafts the follow-up | Yes, a personal message from everything captured | No, follow-up is left to your CRM or your willpower |
| Reminds you to reach back out | Yes (Pro) | No |
| Where contacts live | Your personal iCloud, never our servers | INTSIG company servers (Shanghai) |
| Platforms | iPhone | iPhone, Android, web |
| CRM integrations | CSV export (free), open by design | Deep, Salesforce and others on paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes, free to start | Yes, limited scans |
| Paid price | $6.99/mo or $49.99/yr | $49.99/yr Premium; team pricing quote-based |
Prices and platform support verified from the App Store and each company's site in June 2026 and can change. CamCard is a trademark of INTSIG and is not affiliated with or endorsing Met.
The real difference: a scanner stops where the work starts
A business-card scanner solves the easy half of the problem. It turns a paper card into a contact record. That was genuinely useful in 2012. But the contact record was never the point. The point was the conversation it represented, and the follow-up that turns a conversation into a relationship. CamCard digitizes the card and then hands you back to your own discipline, or to a CRM you have to configure, to do the part that actually matters.
Met is built backward from the follow-up. When you capture someone, it captures the context with them: your note about what you discussed, the tag for how you want to treat them, where you met. Days later, when the moment has cooled and you cannot remember whether it was Priya or Padma who runs the zero-trust program, Met has it, and it drafts the message for you to edit and send. The scan is the first second of the job. Met is the rest of it.
Where your contacts live, and why it changed
This is the part that has shifted under CamCard's users. CamCard is made by INTSIG, based in Shanghai, and it syncs your contacts to its servers. In 2020 the app was pulled from app stores in India as part of a government action against a long list of Chinese-developed apps. That was a geopolitical decision, not a disclosed breach, but it put a question in front of every CamCard user that is worth answering on purpose: where do the names, numbers, and notes of everyone you have ever Met actually sit, and under whose control.
Met answers it the boring way. Your contacts live in your own iCloud, tied to your Apple ID. We do not run a server that holds them, so there is nothing for us to sell, leak, or hand over. Get a new phone, sign in, and everything is there. Want to leave? CSV export is free, always. The whole posture is built for the person who finds it strange that the record of their entire professional network would live on a company's database by default.
Try the part CamCard leaves out.
The free follow-up generator writes a post-event message from the three things you remember. No account, nothing stored. It is a small preview of what Met does automatically from a captured contact.
Open the free follow-up generatorWhere CamCard is the better choice
No notes on this part, because it is true. If you run a sales team, CamCard is probably the right tool and Met is not. CamCard has Android and web, so your reps are not all on iPhones. It has years of work behind its CRM integrations, so scanned cards flow into Salesforce without you building the bridge. It scans conference badges at volume and supports a wide set of languages, which matters at international events. And its install base is enormous, which is its own kind of reassurance.
Met is deliberately narrower. It is for one person, on an iPhone, who would rather have the follow-up handled than have a CRM administered. If that is not you, CamCard earns the pick. If it is you, read on.
Questions
Is Met a good CamCard alternative?
If you are one person who meets people at events and wants to actually follow up, yes. CamCard is built for sales teams and now leans toward digital business cards; Met is built for an individual who needs to capture a contact, keep the context, and send the follow-up before the window closes. Met is iPhone-only and stores contacts in your own iCloud rather than on a company server.
Where does CamCard store my contacts?
CamCard is made by INTSIG, a company based in Shanghai, and syncs contacts to its own servers. The app was removed from app stores in India in 2020 during a government action against a list of Chinese-developed apps. Met keeps your contacts in your personal iCloud and never on our servers.
Is CamCard free?
CamCard has a free tier capped at a limited number of scans, with a Premium plan at $49.99 per year on the App Store as of June 2026. Its team and Business plans are quote-based, meaning you have to contact sales to learn the price. Met is free to start, with Met Pro at $6.99 per month or $49.99 per year.
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