A rep scans a badge at a crowded booth while the teammate beside them hands a visitor a link to a digital card. Both call it lead capture, and the two jobs have almost nothing in common. If you're reconsidering Mobilo because of events, a team rollout or a bill you can't predict, the honest short answer is this: pick Popl if your reps scan badges and cards, pick Wave Connect, Blinq or Zapped if visitors type their own details into a form on a shared card, consider HiHello if the job is team cards, and price any team plan on its own billing basis before you compare numbers. Prices below are the published figures on 16 October 2026.
If you are still deciding whether a digital card is the right category, start with the wider digital business card roundup.
Decide whether you scan people or ask them to type
The first question is where the contact details come from, because it decides which plan, add-on and export route you should care about.
Scanning reads details an attendee already carries. Popl is the clearest fit here. Its event lead capture covers badges, cards, forms and QR codes, works offline and lets you add manual notes, and its Lead Capture Form is the fallback for someone with no badge or card to scan. In the mobile app, per Popl's mobile walkthrough, you open Scan, choose Badge Scanner or Card Scanner, capture the contact, add optional notes and save. One catch from Popl's lead capture form documentation: capture is available on all plans, but export is limited to Pro, Pro+ or Teams and custom forms to Pro+ or Teams. Ask which plan your event actually needs before you buy.
Asking means the visitor submits their own details. Zapped's lead form collects those details into Inbox, separate from Save contact, which lets the visitor keep your details instead. The card has to be published for the form to work; see the Zapped lead form guide. Wave Connect's free plan lists a lead form too. Blinq has a custom form with an Enable Lead Capture toggle that decides whether the visitor fills it in before or after seeing your card, and its event lead capture setup needs a Business subscription, an admin account and a live workspace card for every person capturing leads. Mobilo has its own version: in Lead Generation mode a tap shows a form, and its mobile app guide says both sides receive contact details by SMS afterward, with custom fields available.
Zapped's visitor form and Wave's form are not badge scanners. If your whole event plan is scanning lanyards, they are the wrong tool, and Popl stays on your shortlist.
Price the team on each product's own basis
A price that looks low per user can sit on a different basis than the one next to it. Per user, per card, per quote and per enriched lead are four different meters, so line them up before you trust a headline number.
| Option | Best-fit capture route | Billing basis | Published price and minimum | Follow-up or hardware condition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mobilo | Tap-to-form Lead Generation | Unstated for Teams and Business | Pro $3 a month, Teams $4 a month billed annually, Business $5 a month billed annually; currency not labeled | Pro lists one member, Teams and Business unlimited members |
| Popl | Badge, card, QR and form scanning at events | Quote | Quote based; Popl's FAQ says no extra per seat, user or license charges | Export needs Pro, Pro+ or Teams |
| Blinq | Custom form, event campaigns | Per card | $4.99 per card a month billed annually, five card minimum, plus $9.99 per CRM-ready enriched lead | Dollar sign shown without a currency label |
| HiHello | Shared digital cards, card and badge scans | Per user | $5 per user a month billed annually, five seat minimum, teams of five to 100 seats | Does not sell NFC cards |
| Wave Connect | Lead form on a shared card | Per user | $5 per user a month billed yearly, three seat minimum, stated in USD | Shared lead dashboard on Teams |
| Zapped | Visitor submitted form into Inbox | Per plan, priced by team size | Solo $19 a month or $180 total a year for one person; Team 5 $79 a month or $708 total a year; Team 10 $99 a month or $948 total a year, USD | Leads kept 12 months on Solo and Team, 24 months on Business; webhooks on Team and Business |
Work the minimums, because that is where the surprises live. Wave's three seats come to $15 a month, $180 over a year. HiHello's five seats come to $25 a month, $300 a year. Blinq's five cards come to $24.95 a month, $299.40 a year, and each CRM-ready enriched lead adds $9.99 on top, so ten of them is another $99.90. Blinq's pricing page also says administrators or members without assigned cards aren't charged, which means the five is a card count, not a headcount.
HiHello earns a place on a team shortlist for a practical reason: the account owner can create cards for employees and invite them to claim them, per its general FAQs, and the free Personal plan includes five card or badge scans a month. The trade-offs are the five seat minimum and no NFC cards for sale.
Read Zapped's numbers on a different footing. Wave and HiHello are minimum seat spends, while Zapped is priced by team size and publishes its admin and editor limits. With that caveat, Team 5 at $708 for the year costs more than Wave's $180 or HiHello's $300 minimums, and Solo at $180 covers one person only. Zapped keeps leads for 12 months on Solo and Team plans and 24 months on Business plans, so export what you need before then. Over 200 people, ask Zapped for a quote by email.
Two prices stay unresolved on purpose. Popl's team figure arrives only as a quote, so don't assume it from an individual offer. And Mobilo's page doesn't say whether the Teams and Business figures are per user or per team, or what currency they're in. If your decision turns on them, get the unit and the currency from Mobilo in writing.
Check what the free plan does for your lead job
A free plan is only useful if it does the job you came for.
Blinq Free is $0 and lists two cards with unlimited sharing and contact creation, which suits one person but not an event team. HiHello's Personal plan is free with four digital cards and five card or badge scans a month, so a heavy scanning day will run out. Wave's free plan lists a lead form and advanced analytics, which makes it the entry plan most aimed at visitor submitted capture. Zapped is paid after a free trial instead, on monthly Solo or on a monthly Team plan for an event team, with a payment card required and nothing to pay if you cancel before the trial ends.
Lead retention is the real limit to plan around; see the Zapped retention guide. Retention is set when a lead arrives, and changing plans doesn't extend a lead that already exists. If you expect leads to matter for months, start on the plan that holds them: Zapped keeps leads for 12 months on Solo and Team plans and 24 months on Business plans, so export what you need before then. Popl's team offer is a sales quote, and the checked material publishes no comparable team price.
Team controls are buried in the minimums
Mobilo's pricing table lists one member on Pro and unlimited members on Teams and Business, which sounds generous until you notice it never says whether the monthly figure covers each member or the whole team. Compare that with the others. Wave needs three seats and HiHello five. Blinq's five is cards. Popl requires a quote.
Zapped gives you Admin, Editor and Viewer scopes, with billing and membership changes reserved for the owner; see our team roles guide. That's a clean role model for a team where one person manages the money and others edit cards. Team and Business plans include an admin or editor login for every person on the plan, so everyone who needs to sign in is covered.
Decide what happens to a lead after it's captured
A lead that lands somewhere nobody looks is just a contact list. Check the follow-up route before you check the logo.
Blinq and HiHello both list CRM features and analytics on their team plans. Wave's Teams plan lists a shared lead dashboard, and its free plan lists advanced analytics. For export, each product has a different door. Popl's Leads page has you select leads, choose Export via CSV, pick fields and download. Blinq exports one campaign at a time through Campaigns, then Export contacts, then CSV. Mobilo's backend dashboard has an Export Leads action that walks you through prompts.
Zapped offers lead CSV export on every plan: in Inbox, open Leads, then Export and CSV, and the download includes all matching leads, not just the current page; see our export guide. Export doesn't email a lead or change its status, and you should check consent before using the file for marketing. Team and Business plans also support signed HTTPS lead webhooks, with a signing secret shown once, and retained events can be replayed up to three times, once an hour, if a delivery fails. Zapped isn't built around deep CRM automation, so a team that lives in a CRM should test that route first.
Zapped's card statistics show views, visitors and interactions where available. Those numbers tell you a card was seen, not that someone wants to buy. The same goes for any product's analytics tab.
A last event detail for Popl users: badge scans made offline are stored, but, per Popl's badge scanner guide, you must reopen the app once you're back online to trigger enrichment and export.
Decide who supplies the physical card
Mobilo sells cards in plastic, wood, metal and hybrid metal. Its custom card listing showed one range in one view and a different one in another, with no currency label on either, so treat any hardware price as unconfirmed until Mobilo quotes you one.
The others mostly expect you to bring your own. HiHello doesn't sell NFC cards; you program a tag you already own. On mobile, you pick Write to NFC in the card menu. Zapped works the same way: under NFC Cards you choose Add NFC card and write a published card to a writable card or tag with a phone; see our NFC guide. Your Plan page shows how many NFC cards your plan includes, and those count managed records, not hardware shipped to you. If a write keeps failing, try the NFC Tools app or a different card, as the Zapped troubleshooting guide suggests.
Only buy hardware if someone will really tap it. A QR code on a badge holder or a link in an email signature covers plenty of people without it.
Treat reviews and roundups as signals
The Card Site compares Popl, Blinq, HiHello and Mobilo, recommends Popl for CRM led sales and HiHello for a generous free plan, and discloses affiliate links. Read those as one publisher's opinions, not neutral test results. G2's Blinq summary mixes praise for ease of sharing with user reports of QR code problems. That's sentiment, not a failure rate, and it's a reason to test your own QR path before an event, not a reason to rule Blinq out.
Leave Mobilo without losing your leads
Mobilo's pricing page doesn't say what happens to profile, lead or team data when a subscription lapses. That's a silence, not a deletion, but it means you shouldn't cancel on a guess. For the setup, sharing, checkout and privacy details of the product you're leaving, the Mobilo walkthrough covers them.
- List every physical card, QR code, email signature and profile link that points at Mobilo, so you know what has to be redirected or reissued.
- Export the leads Mobilo lets you export, using Export Leads in the backend dashboard, and keep the file.
- Ask Mobilo in writing what happens to profiles, leads and team data after cancellation, and whether its Teams or Business price is per user or per team and in which currency.
- Run a one person pilot on the replacement: share a card, capture a lead through your real path, export it and follow up.
- Widen to a small group, then move the rest.
- Cancel Mobilo only after the pilot works and the written answers are in hand.
If the first need is badge scanning, the pilot is a Popl test on a real event floor. If it's a form on a shareable card, test Zapped or Wave with someone who doesn't know the setup, and with Zapped check which plan's Inbox retention fits how long you'll follow up.
