No-subscription business card scanner
Card scanning is bursty, heavy in event season, silent in between. Karo charges the way you actually use it: one-time packs that stay valid for months, and a free tier to start.
Works on WhatsApp & Telegram · No new app to install
| Name | Company | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha Brown | BrightLoop | samantha@brightloop.io | SaaStr EU |
| Marcus Okafor | Fieldstone | m.okafor@fieldstone.ai | SaaStr EU |
| Lena Kovács | Parallel | lena@parallel.sys | General |
20 scans on signup, no credit card. Enough to cover a real networking event.
Buy a plan before the next conference, 250, 2,000 or 10,000 scans, one payment, no renewal.
Quiet month? Nothing renews, nothing bills. Your remaining scans wait, packs are valid 6–12 months and stack.
Most scanning apps bill you every single month whether you scanned 200 cards or zero. Over a year, that adds up to far more than most people's actual usage, for a tool many only need intensively four or five weeks a year. The subscription isn't pricing your usage; it's pricing your forgetfulness.
Karo's plans are one-time purchases: Starter (250 scans, 1 seat, valid 6 months), Team (2,000 scans shared across up to 3 seats, valid 12 months), and Business (10,000 scans shared across up to 10 seats, valid 12 months). Buy for the season, not the calendar, current prices are on the Karo pricing page.
Buy two packs and they queue, Karo draws from the earliest-expiring first so nothing is wasted. A scan is deducted only when a card is successfully captured; a failed read refunds itself automatically. And your data is never hostage: dashboard access and CSV export work regardless of your balance.
Really. Packs are one-time payments, there is no auto-renewal, no card on file for recurring billing, and nothing charges you next month.
The bot tells you and points to a top-up link. Nothing else changes, your dashboard, contacts, and exports keep working; only new captures wait until you buy a pack.
Plans have generous validity, 6 months for Starter, 12 months for Team and Business and the free trial's 20 scans last 7 days. Multiple plans stack and are consumed earliest-expiry first.
Yes: every new account gets 20 free scans, no card required. That's a full evening of networking to judge the product on.
Failed captures refund the scan automatically. Duplicates you can delete in the dashboard and since packs are usage-based rather than time-based, an occasional duplicate costs pennies, not a monthly fee.
Start with 20 free and only ever buy the season you're actually in.
Start free, 20 scansNo subscription · No credit card to start
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