Why your digital business card shouldn't have someone else's logo

If you've shopped for a digital business card recently, you've seen the big names: Dot, Linq, Popl, HiHello. Polished apps, nice hardware, and very often a logo on the card you hand out or on the page it opens.

That logo is the problem.

Whose card is it anyway?

When the card in your hand or the page on their screen carries the platform's name, you're not just sharing your contact details. You're advertising the platform. Some go further: free pages carry the vendor's branding until you pay to remove it, and some put their own link in the contact people save.

For some people that's fine. For founders, lawyers, doctors, real estate agents, and anyone whose name is the brand, it isn't. The card is supposed to represent you, not the software company that made it.

The unbranded promise

That's the whole pitch for NoBrandCards. The page that opens when someone taps your card or scans your code has your name at the top, not ours. The contact they save holds your details, your photo and your card's address, and nothing about us. The QR code is just a QR code. The email someone gets after sharing their details comes from your name, with replies going to you.

There's no "powered by" anywhere: not on the page, not in the saved contact, not in the email signature, not in the card you embed on your own website. The only trace is the address, nobrand.cards/c/your-name, and custom domains are coming to Pro to remove that too.

And it holds on every plan, including the free one. "Pay us to stop advertising us" isn't a feature; it's a tax.

What to look for in any digital business card

Whether you pick us or not, a few things matter:

1. A one-tap save that needs no app. When someone taps Save contact, their phone should open its own contacts app with your details ready to save. Anything that makes the other person install an app to save you is broken.
2. Labeled phone numbers and emails. "Mobile", "Work", "Studio": every contacts app supports labels, and a card that only holds one of each throws half of that away.
3. A real QR fallback. NFC is the headline; QR is the safety net for phones with NFC off, for a crowded room, or for a slide. You should be able to download a QR code you can put anywhere.
4. An export. Your contacts shouldn't be locked in. If a service doesn't let you leave with your data in a standard format, the relationship is one-sided.
5. A free plan that actually works. A contact card shouldn't cost what a CRM costs, and a card you bought shouldn't stop working when you stop paying.

How NoBrandCards stacks up

For full transparency, here's what our plans look like today:

• Free, forever: one card with every block type, theme and font; Save contact and two-way exchange; unlimited contacts with notes, tags and reminders; styled QR codes; an email signature; CSV and vCard export; 30 days of stats. No branding.
• Pro (coming soon): up to five cards, full stats history, instant push alerts, custom questions on your form, your own follow-up email, event tags, a contacts map, and an API with webhooks.
• Teams (coming soon): members, roles, templates with locked fields and shared contacts.

Every theme is on every plan. There are no upsells to remove a logo, because there's no logo to remove. See the full table on the pricing page.

If that sounds right, make a free card. If someone else's pitch sounds better, that's fine too. Just make sure they're not charging you to advertise them.