About this app

Haystack is completely free! Unlimited scans, full featured, and no ads… forever!


Haystack cards:
• Create your new digital business cards in seconds (create as many as you’d like)
• Easily share your digital business cards via email, text, VCF, vCard, NFC & social media
• Recipients can view & save your digital business card without installing the app!
• Scan the paper business cards you get


Haystack is your complete digital solution for business cards - including a business card scanner.
• Scan the paper business cards you get – use it as a business card reader; And
• Create & exchange your beautifully branded digital business cards with the people you meet

The app will automatically update your information on other people’s devices when you update your details, and it will update your contacts directory when other people’s details change.

Key advantages:
• Project a modern and forward thinking brand image when meeting new business leads
• Create multiple Haystack cards for any business and personal scenario
• Great for networking events, meetups and conferences
• Always have your digital business card with you – and never run out
• Your card can be viewed and saved on any device without installing the app
• Save money and shrink your wallet with a virtual business card
• Environmentally friendly – “the most premium paper stock is no paper at all”
• Auto-updates – when someone moves an office or gets a new job, Haystack auto-updates your contacts
• Access your contacts from any device with our web login
• Add personal notes to the business cards you scan
• Share your virtual business card to any platform – Android, iOS, Windows, Web, vCard/VCF
• Import VCF and vCard files
• Every contact you make is backed up to the cloud – never lose contact again

Best in class business card scanner:
• Free and unlimited use of the built-in business card reader
• Using the world’s leading Object Character Recognition (OCR) for recording accurate text from the scanned images
• Unique learning algorithm that fixes mistakes over time, and gets better with each scan
• User feedback: “So simple and yet so wise and effective. It certainly gets the job done as promised and more.”

Best looking digital business cards:
• Create your beautiful virtual business cards in seconds with our business card maker
• Our auto-brand feature will keep all your company business cards consistent and perfectly branded
• Easily share your virtual business card with anyone via email, text, NFC and social media
• Recipients can view & save your digital business card without installing the app on any platform (Android, iOS, Windows, Web, vCard, VCF)

Privacy:
• Designed & built with your privacy as our top priority
• We do not, and will not sell your details to anyone

Haystack for enterprise - Haystack provides premium services for organisations
• Custom, centrally managed corporate template
• Download to a CSV or sync with a CRM
• Receive meaningful analytics

Interested in Haystack for enterprise? Visit our website for details, and pricing information.

Haystack is the only business card reader which makes the cards you get look better on your phone. Haystack can also share your own digital business card straight from your phone with anyone, so you never get caught without a card again.

So next time someone gives you a business card - scan it - and give it back to them!

Thanks,
The Haystack team.

Follow us @thehaystackapp

New features

You can now use the app anonymously, or sign in using Google, Microsoft, Facebook, or Email

App Permissions

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Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows applications to read the sync settings.
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Allows an application to record audio.
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