Leaving your current card app
Import is free and unlimited on every tier, including the free one. Bring in eight hundred cards and pay nothing.
Last updated 2026-08-17
The reason import is free is not generosity, it is arithmetic: importing already-structured data costs us nothing, because there is no recognition to run. Locking it behind a paywall would only stop people from switching. So it is free forever, with no card limit and no lock icons anywhere in the flow.
Get your data out first
Do this before you cancel anything. A cancelled subscription frequently takes the export button with it, and some apps drop you to read-only or lock the archive entirely at the end of the billing period.
| Leaving | What to look for | Format you will get |
|---|---|---|
| CamCard | Settings → export, or select-all in the card list → share | vCard or Excel/CSV |
| Eight | Web version → data export (personal accounts are limited — check before cancelling) | CSV |
| myBridge | Web version → export contacts | CSV |
| Penpower 蒙恬名片王 | Desktop companion app → export | CSV or vCard |
| iOS Contacts | macOS Contacts → select all → File → Export → vCard | vCard (.vcf) |
| A spreadsheet you keep by hand | — | CSV |
Where an app has no export at all, that is worth knowing before you put another year of cards into it.
If the export is locked behind an active subscription
Export while it is still active, verify the file opens and the row count looks right, and only then cancel. Do not trust a count you have not looked at — one recurring complaint across this whole category is uploaded card counts not matching resulting contact counts.
Then bring it in
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Open Kardhaus and choose Import
It is offered on first run and lives permanently in Settings, so you can do it now or after you have been using the app for a month.
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Pick the file
vCard and CSV are read directly. For CSV, you map columns once and Kardhaus remembers the mapping.
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Read the result honestly
You get exact counts: imported, merged as duplicates, and needs review. Never rounded, never hidden. The "needs review" items go into a queue you can work through when you have five minutes.
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Scan the next new card
Your archive is now local, searchable and yours. The paywall shows up later, at a moment when the app has already been useful — not on first launch.
What actually improves after you switch
- Search hits every field, including notes and the raw recognised text — not just name and company.
- Front and back become one contact, with both language versions kept.
- Scanning works with no signal, at a trade show, in a basement, on a plane.
- No account, so nothing to be locked out of and no password to rotate.
- No recurring charge and no renewal email in eleven months.
And the honest other side of that: Kardhaus has no web app, no team-shared vault, and no CRM integration beyond CSV export. If several colleagues need to work from the same card pool, a cloud product is genuinely the right tool and we will not pretend otherwise. Kardhaus is built for one person’s own filing cabinet.
Common questions
Is there a limit on how many cards I can import?
Will importing create duplicates?
Can I import the card photos too, not just the text?
Do I need to cancel my old subscription first?
Not on the App Store yet
Get the first build, and 100 free scans
100 free scans, front and back included
Kardhaus is in development for iOS 18 and later. Leave your email and you get the TestFlight build when it opens, plus 100 free AI scans on the house — double-sided cards included, counted as one card, not two.