Your HiHello link still works. Somebody still taps it, scans it, and saves your number. The trouble starts with the next request: a manager wants forty people on one branded template, a booth needs every scan to land in a follow up list, or a client asks why you don't just hand over a card. If that sounds familiar, the honest answer is that no single product replaces HiHello for everyone. Blinq fits individual cards and managed team profiles, Popl fits event lead capture, and Mobilo fits you if a physical NFC card is part of the purchase. Zapped, the publisher of this blog, is a fourth option for a profile shared by link, QR, or a writable NFC tag, though its Free plan stops at one card.
Here is the part that trips people up: the product features are easier to compare than the bills. Blinq starts team billing at five cards, Popl asks you for a quote, and Mobilo prints a team price without saying what it attaches to. So we compare each option on the same four questions: what the free tier gives one person, what a team pays for, what happens to a contact after a scan, and what a physical card adds.
Name the blocker before you pick a brand
A different logo won't fix a problem you haven't named. Most people leaving a working card link land in one of four spots.
The first is the solo profile that feels thin: you want a second card for a side business, or Wallet support, or a branded QR. The second is the team lead who needs one template, one set of fields, and a way to add and remove people. The third is the event lead who cares less about sharing a card than about collecting the other person's details and following up. The fourth is the person who wants a physical card in someone's hand, with the profile behind it.
If your first question is what your current HiHello subscription even includes, start with our HiHello plan review and come back once you know what you're replacing. If you want the whole market before narrowing, the best digital business card guide is the wider map. The rest of this page assumes you've already decided HiHello isn't quite right.
For one person, the free tiers are closer than they look
On the individual side, three products are worth a look, and the useful differences are in the limits.
Blinq's free plan is $0 and includes two digital business cards, unlimited sharing and contact creation, QR, widget, email and SMS sharing, Apple or Google Wallet, a personal email signature, and virtual backgrounds, according to Blinq's pricing page. The second card matters more than it sounds. Plenty of people want one card for the day job and one for a side project, and Blinq's help article on adding another personal card walks through it: open Card, tap +, give the card a title, add your details, and save.
Paying for Blinq Premium is a decision about tools, not sharing. It costs $9.99 per month on monthly billing or $7.33 per month billed annually, and it adds up to five cards, contact scanning, an AI Notetaker, enrichment, branded QR, custom design, and contact export. Prices checked October 2026. If you only need to hand people your details, the free plan covers that. If you want to scan someone else's card and have the record enriched, that's what the upgrade is for.
Popl also offers a free individual digital business card, as shown on its digital business card page. Its pull is on the team and event side, so the free card is mostly a way in. A freelancer who never collects leads at a conference would be paying attention to the wrong half of the product.
We make Zapped, so weigh this entry accordingly. On Zapped's pricing page, Free is $0 with one digital business card, five content blocks, one active project, and a main QR code, and team management and workspaces aren't included. Next to Blinq Free's two cards, one card is a real limit.
For a head to head between HiHello and Blinq or Popl, we already wrote HiHello versus Blinq and HiHello versus Popl, which are the better stop if you've already narrowed to a pair.
Team pricing hides in the billing unit
This is where a low starting number misleads people. Three vendors, three different answers to "what am I being charged for?" Prices checked October 2026.
| Product | Listed team price | What to confirm |
|---|---|---|
| Blinq Business | $6.99 per user per month monthly, $4.99 per user per month billed annually | The page shows per user rates, the FAQ says billed by assigned card, five card minimum, unassigned members aren't billed |
| Popl teams | "Contact us for a custom quote" | Ask for a written amount and what it covers |
| Mobilo Teams | $4 per month billed annually, unlimited members | The page doesn't say whether $4 applies per card, person, or workspace |
Blinq shows two billing views, and we can't tell you which one controls. Its pricing page displays $6.99 per month per user monthly or $4.99 per month per user billed annually, while its billing FAQ says it charges by assigned card, starts with a five card minimum, and doesn't bill unassigned members. Confirm with Blinq how the price applies before you multiply by headcount. The unassigned rule helps a team that wants to invite everyone and assign cards in stages. The minimum means a pair of founders can't use Business to save a few dollars.
What do you get for that money? Blinq says Business includes centralized team card management, templates and brand control, automated provisioning, a corporate contact book, lead capture and enrichment, CRM integrations, analytics, and event attribution. Per Blinq's admin onboarding guide, an admin invites a member by email, picks Member or Administrator, and chooses whether to create that person's card now or later. Members claim and share their own card and see only their own contacts, while administrators manage cards and templates for everyone and see all company contacts. Team cards are issued from a template, and the admin decides whether the activation email goes out now or later.
Popl's team page, which you'll find on the same Popl page, directs buyers looking for lead capture and team management to ask for a custom quote. There's no number to compare, and we won't invent one. Ask for the amount in writing, along with which plan it covers, because Popl's own support material draws a line between plans that we get to in a moment.
Mobilo is the one to read twice. Its pricing page labels the Teams plan $4 per month billed annually with unlimited team members, and lists team management, field controls, team analytics, and CRM integrations. As of our October 2026 check, the page doesn't say whether the $4 applies per card, per person, or per workspace. Mobilo's help material says only an organization admin can activate a team license, by opening the management portal and choosing Assign license beside an employee's email. So a license is assigned person by person, which may or may not mean the fee is too. Ask them.
Event lead capture is a different job from sharing a card
If your reason for leaving is "we meet a lot of people at booths and lose them," Popl is the product built around that, and the plan boundary matters more than the price.
Popl's support article on Digital Business Cards says team cards share by QR, link, or tap with no app needed on the recipient's side, with branded templates, basic lead capture, notes and tags, CRM, CSV and Outlook exports, and engagement analytics. Then comes the line that decides it: campaign tagging, advanced lead routing, event badge scanning, and bulk list enrichment require the separate Event Lead Capture plan.
That gate shows up in the workflow too. Popl's badge scanner guide says the Universal Badge Scanner is only for teams on Event Lead Capture. Staff scan the whole badge, not only its QR code, because enrichment needs the lead's full name and company name. If the venue has no signal, Popl says it saves the lead locally, and you reopen the app later so enrichment resumes.
One setting catches teams out. According to Popl's Event Lead Capture setup article, an admin has to turn on Lead Capture Mode for the form to appear right after someone scans a QR code. With it off, the other person sees your digital card first and has to tap Save Contact to reach the form. Plenty of teams would miss that until the first event.
Admins also set qualifiers at the Event Flow level, which team members answer in the mobile app, as Popl documents for lead qualifiers. Afterward, Popl's leads guide says the Leads page shows each lead's CRM sync status.
Blinq covers part of this ground too: individuals on Premium get contact scanning and enrichment, and Business lists lead capture, CRM integrations, and event attribution, per Blinq's pricing. If you're weighing the two for follow up, the question for each is the same: which plan holds the exact capture feature your next event needs, and who pays for that plan?
One more data point, with a caution. G2's HiHello alternatives page lists Popl at 4.6 out of 5 from 6,594 reviews, and summarizes reviewer feedback as slower to reach ROI, more expensive, and easier to administer than HiHello. Treat that as reviewer sentiment, not a measured result.
A physical card is only one piece of the exchange
Mobilo is the clearest of these when the card itself is the point. Its team pricing lists three NFC card options, each with the same recurring charge: custom design at $29.50 plus $4 per month, wood custom design at $39.50 plus $4 per month, and metal custom design at $69.50 plus $4 per month. Those are the vendor's listed prices as we checked them in October 2026. As in the table above, the page doesn't say whether that $4 attaches to the card, the person, or the workspace, so a wood card is a one time $39.50 plus a recurring number you need Mobilo to explain. We haven't said anything about how long any of those cards last, because the listings don't either.
The card is hardware, though, and the other person's phone has to do something sensible when it taps. Mobilo's recipient instructions say an iPhone shows a Website NFC Tag notification asking to open mobilocard.com in the browser, while an Android phone asks which browser to complete the action with. After that, the contact card appears and the person can save it to their contacts. For the owner, Mobilo's getting started page says you log in with the credentials from card configuration and edit details from Profile, then Edit.
The other route is to bring your own tag, which is the setup Zapped uses. For anyone still on the fence about NFC, the useful question isn't whether tapping is cooler than scanning. It's whether the people you meet will have a phone that handles it, and whether a QR code on the back of the same card would cover the rest.
Where Zapped fits, and where it doesn't
Zapped is a profile you share by link, QR, or an NFC tag you write yourself, with paid plans that add cards and team workspaces. Free is one card and no team workspaces, so Starter is the step up if you need more. Prices checked October 2026, from Zapped's public pricing page: Starter is $14 per month or $140 per year and adds 15 cards, ten content blocks, five active campaigns, 30 NFC cards, and up to two team workspaces. Professional is $49 per month or $499 per year with 100 cards, unlimited content blocks and campaigns, 200 NFC cards, and up to five team workspaces. The yearly figures are full annual charges, not monthly equivalents. If your problem is event badge scanning with qualifiers and CRM review, Popl's Event Lead Capture is the closer match.
The NFC fit is where Zapped differs from a vendor shop: you supply the tag. It works with writable tags that store a web link, such as NTAG213, NTAG215, and NTAG216. In NFC Cards, you choose Add NFC card, name it, and pick the published card it should open, so you never type the link yourself. Android and iPhone each have a short write route, laid out in the Zapped NFC instructions.
The shared QR is the other half. A published Zapped card can be shared by its address or main QR code, and the main QR keeps opening the card after the address or name changes. For a direct verdict against HiHello, we already published Zapped versus HiHello, so we won't argue it twice here.
Test one profile before you move anyone
If no alternative is clearly better for you, leave the working HiHello card live and pilot a single replacement for a week. That one person is you, or the most patient colleague you have.
- Build the new profile and send its link to yourself. Open it on a phone that isn't the one you built it on.
- Scan its QR from a second phone. For Zapped, our print guidance says the card must be published before its Main QR can be downloaded, to print at least 2 cm wide with the white border, and to scan a printed proof before you order many copies.
- If an NFC tag is in the plan, write it and tap it on both an iPhone and an Android. On Android, see the Zapped troubleshooting guide to take off a thick phone case, keep the card away from metal while you write, and turn NFC on in settings or allow it in Chrome permissions if it's blocked.
- Capture a test contact end to end, then look at where it lands and whether you can export it.
- Only then change printed materials or invite a team.
Before the team step, email the vendor with two questions: what exactly does the quoted or recurring fee attach to, and what plan holds the capture feature we need. Don't assume anything about what happens to a HiHello profile or the contacts captured there once you cancel. We can't tell you, and a guess could cost you contacts. Ask HiHello support directly before you cancel anything.
