WorldCard Mobile - business card reader & business card scanner
By Penpower Technology Ltd.
View More By This Developer- Price$29.99
- CategoryBusiness
- First releasedNovember 3, 2009
- Versions7 archived
- Installable7 of 7
- AvailabilityStill on the App Store
- SellerPenpower Technology Ltd.
- Bundle IDcom.penpower.worldcardmobileen
RequirementsCompatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
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◆ Awards and Laurels ◆ - Named Best Mobile App OCR by 2010 MOBI Awards - Winner of the CTIA 2010 E-Tech Award for Mobile Applications - Pro-sumer/Business Productivity - Secured a spot among the Top 10 apps in the Business category in 194 countries - Ranked #1 Business app in US App Store - Ranked #1 Business Card Scanning application in Macworld.com - The preferred business card management tool of mobile phone developers like HTC, telecommunications companies such as CHT/Taiwan Mobile and CRM developers like JustSystems - Over 20 million users worldwide
◆ Testimonials ◆ - “For scanning business cards onto your iPhone, WorldCard Mobile stands out.” – Macworld - “I’ve always been skeptical about contact capturing technologies…but I’m an overnight convert - [WorldCard Mobile] changed my outlook (pun intended).” - Bill French, iPhone CTO - “WorldCard Mobile accurately read and sorted fax and mobile numbers, even when the cards labels used short-hand.” - Bob Tedeschi, New York Times
◆ App Description ◆ WorldCard Mobile, the leading business card scanning application for iPhone, uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to instantly transfer information from business cards to users' native contacts. With a simple click of the camera, you no longer have to manually input contact info from business cards or email signatures.
◆ Why WorldCard Mobile? ◆ - Capture business cards anytime & anywhere. - Capture business card images with the iPhone’s camera. - Recognition of 26 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovak, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Arabic, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese,Japanese, Korean. - Sort recognized information by name, position, company, phone number, fax number, address or other fields.
◆ Manage contacts easily ◆ - View and manage contact info with Card holder function. Make a phone call, send SMS and email to your contacts directly. - Provide nearby contacts function help you visit contacts easily - Select partially and recognize the specific area that contains the correct data. - Find your contacts on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Expand your social and professional networks. - Support cover flow function in landscape mode
◆ Smart functions for your business * - Exchange contact data through Open In, Mail and iTunes File Sharing. Import/export or backup your data on Mac/Windows quickly and conveniently. - Share or backup your contacts via cloud services (iCloud / Dropbox). Manage your contacts on all devices, such as Mac or Windows PC. - Recognize QR code to get more information easily. - Copy email signatures and add them to your contact lists.
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Ratings Over Time
sampled from 15 archived captures| Date | Version | Rating | Ratings | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 28, 2010 | 1.2.1 | — | 209 | $4.99 |
| January 12, 2011 | 3.1.0 | — | 1,206 | $5.99 |
| January 26, 2012 | — | — | 1,941 | $6.99 |
| March 7, 2013 | — | — | 3,038 | $6.99 |
| August 31, 2013 | 6.0.4 | ★ 4.5 | 3,151 | $6.99 |
| July 29, 2015 | 6.6.1 | ★ 4.5 | 3,567 | $6.99 |
| October 26, 2015 | 6.6.2 | ★ 4.5 | 3,562 | $6.99 |
| December 3, 2016 | 7.2.2 | — | 3,577 | $6.99 |
From archived App Store listing data, captured by the Wayback Machine.
Archived Reviews
8 of 25Updated -9/26- thanks for the fix, app works well now 9/25-Can you please fix the save to outlook when you take a picture of a business card? This was the reason I bought your app in the first place and I am very disappointed that it does not work with iOS 11. Most people do not use Gmail sync for business contacts, so forcing us to do it is not helpful.
Another business card / contact app with useless features that doesn't do the basics welll or has the functionality that busy professionals with lots of contacts need. First, Apple's contact management system is weak and shouldnt be dependent on by anyone who values their contacts and uses them professionally. A good basic contact management system has a desktop or well-working web services that syncs with the IOS app and from which one can control what goes into Apple's contact system via sync or vCard exports that maintains the grouping. Groupings and easy correction of OCR misreads are a must. It's that simple. This program does none of this. Don't bother! And don't make the mistake of buying their Mac program - totally inadequate, buggy, doesn't work.
I had used World Card for several years. It isn't perfect, but it has been a quick way to get business cards into my iPhone contacts, which in turn synchronize with Outlook. I was reasonably pleased with the way it worked. In the latest update, I was asked for permission to sync my Gmail contacts which I did not wish to do. It gave me no choice in the matter. As a result, I deleted the app from my phone because I have no interest in allowing it undefined access to other applications. Because the app gave me no choice, and I had no idea what it would do with data from my Gmail contacts, I considered the security risk unacceptable. When this was fixed and I noted that it now worked with iOS 11, I decided to give it another try. I just spent 30 min trying to scan 2 cards. The first wouldn’t auto crop. Finally it did. The second I never could get it to recognize, probably because the text is written in the opposite direction as usual. After being fooled twice, I am going to buy another app.
This app has been of great used to me in the past, which is why I bought the full version. Now, with the latest update, I can't even figure out how to use it. The app interface has become cluttered with all of these new capabilities, but it's no longer workable for the main task that I purchased at four: to add contacts by way of taking a picture of a business card. I've given up on it and I am sorry that I paid anything for the full version when I did.
I had World Card for years. Now they blocked my old app so I purchased the new one. It will not take my old contacts into new app. Useless
Been using it for years. Stopped working when I upgraded to iOS 11 today.
The save to contact option is grayed and it cannot be turned on. Could you please help?
I used to love this app until the new update changed everything. The lack of, or non functioning sync ability with my iPad is a deal breaker. Though I still use the app until I am able to Find a suitable replacement, it is nothing like it once was prior to the recent update. I wish they would take away whatever they did to allow the sync function to work again.
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