WhatsApp business card scanner
No new app to install, no login at the event. Send a card photo to Karo's WhatsApp bot and a structured, CRM-ready contact appears in your dashboard before the handshake wears off.
Works on WhatsApp & Telegram · No new app to install
Samantha Brown
BrightLoop Technologies
Marcus Okafor
Fieldstone Robotics
Lena Kovács
Parallel Systems
Say Hi to Karo's WhatsApp number, pick General or an Event, and send a photo of the card.
Name, title, company, email, phone and website are extracted with a confidence score. Reply to fix any field.
Review, confirm, and export a CRM-ready CSV whenever you're back at a desk.
Every dedicated scanning app fails the same way: at a busy event nobody opens a special app, signs in, and waits for a camera screen. But everyone already has WhatsApp open. Karo turns that habit into a capture pipeline: the photo you'd have sent to a colleague anyway becomes a structured contact instead of a forgotten image in your gallery.
Because Karo runs as a WhatsApp bot, it works on any phone, iPhone, Android, even WhatsApp Web on a laptop, with nothing to update and no permissions to grant beyond the chat itself.
The card tells you who someone is; it never tells you why they mattered. After sending the card, hold the mic button and say it, "met at the partner booth, wants the enterprise deck, follow up Tuesday". Karo transcribes the voice note, attaches both the audio and the text to the contact, and includes the transcript in your CSV export.
Your WhatsApp number is linked to your Karo account with a one-time code that expires in 10 minutes so only cards sent from your phone land in your workspace. Messages flow through the official WhatsApp Business Platform with cryptographically verified webhooks, and every API key stays on our servers, never in your browser.
No. Karo works entirely inside WhatsApp. You create a free account at karohq.com, link your WhatsApp number with a one-time code, and from then on you just message the bot.
Sign up at karohq.com, open the Connect page, and tap WhatsApp. It opens a chat with the link code pre-typed, press send and you're connected in under a minute.
Yes. Karo works identically on Telegram, and you can link both apps to the same account, captures from either land in one dashboard.
Every extraction gets a confidence score, and nothing is ever dropped, a hard-to-read card is saved for review with the original photo attached. You can also fix fields instantly by replying, e.g. "company: Acme Inc".
Your first 20 scans are free. After that, you pick a yearly plan sized to how much you scan, and you can cancel anytime. Current plan prices are on the Karo pricing page.
Create a free account, link WhatsApp in one minute, and scan your first 20 cards on us.
Start free, 20 scansFree to start · No credit card required