CardCard vs Linq.

Linq pricing

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Pricing checked 2026-07-12.

What Linq does better

• NFC hardware in every shape — cards in ten colours, badges, bracelets, even watch bands — for teams that want a physical tap.
• Team admin with standardized company card templates and central control when people join, leave, or change titles.
• CRM lead capture into Salesforce and HubSpot, built for sales orgs that count scans as pipeline.
• The app is genuinely good — 4.9 stars from twelve thousand ratings and still shipping updates, whatever the press releases discuss.

What CardCard does better

• A roadmap that is about the card. Linq's funding, homepage, and engineering now serve messaging APIs; CardCard's entire product is the card you hand off.
• A signed Apple Wallet pass per card — the contact lives in the recipient's Wallet with no app install and no NFC tap to fail with the radio off.
• Nothing to buy or carry. The card is a permanent URL and a pass; the QR on the pass does the tap's job on any phone, including Android.
• Detail fields split public and Wallet-only, so the phone number rides in the pass while the public page stays quiet about it.

Who picks Linq

Sales teams already invested in Linq hardware and CRM capture, comfortable betting the card line stays maintained while the company's centre of gravity moves to messaging infrastructure.

Who picks CardCard

Anyone shopping for a Linq alternative who wants the maker's full attention: a permanent URL, a signed Wallet pass, and a card that is the product rather than the legacy line.