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Digital business card platform comparison

Social Card vs. Blinq

Social Card is the digital business card platform for teams that won’t compromise their brand. Pixel-perfect control over every card, enforced across every employee and every surface.

Custom CSS and fonts, locked templates, your own domains, real-time brand sync. The everyday surfaces, wallet passes, QR codes, and email signatures, are here too. Brand depth is where we separate, and concierge launch is included on Business and Enterprise to roll it out.

Concierge launch included · 14-day self-serve trial · Trusted by 1,000+ teams

Brand control

Your business cards look like your design team built them, enforced across every employee and every surface. No off-brand handshakes, anywhere.

Custom CSSCustom fontsLocked templatesCustom domainsReal-time brand sync

The everyday surfaces, wallet, QR, email signatures, we match. Full comparison below.

Qualifier

Before we compare, are you in the right place?

A quick, honest filter so nobody wastes time.

You’re in the right place if

  • You have a brand to protect and want every business card to look like your design team built it.
  • You’re rolling out digital business cards across a team and need central control. With no apps or hardware cards needed.
  • You’re a Marketing, HR, Operations, or IT leader owning the decision looking for a modern alternative to paper.
  • You value a concierge team in the loop for branding, provisioning, and launch support.

Self-serve works too

Smaller teams can self-serve through sign-up. Every plan gets the core product.

Looking for an individual card?

Social Card is built for teams. Our iOS app is the right fit for solo professionals.

Not sure yet?

Our concierge team will scope it with you and tell you honestly if we fit.

Want NFC cards? We don’t sell the hardware, but the platform supports it: encode any NFC card or tag with a Social Card link and a tap opens your live cards.

Feature comparison

Social Card and Blinq, feature by feature

Grouped by what buyers actually evaluate. Hover any row for detail. Brand control leads the table, where Social Card pulls clearly ahead; elsewhere it’s an honest, mixed picture.

Last updated June 2026

FeatureSocial CardBlinq
Brand control & governance
Pixel-perfect templates with locked elementsCore featureField-level lock
Custom CSS for web cards
Custom brand fontsLimited
Custom domains for cards
Real-time brand sync across all cards
Department and region template variantsLimited
Who it’s built for
Purpose-built for team rolloutsCore focusIndividual-first, expanding to teams
Individual usersSeparate iOS appIn-platform free tier
Launch & rollout support
Concierge launch team includedBusiness and EnterpriseLight onboarding on Enterprise
Free migration from other platformsSelf-serve
Self-serve evaluation
Team management & provisioning
Bulk provisioning
GroupsLimited
Sharing platforms
Web-based card pagesIncludedIncluded
Apple WalletIncludedIncluded
Google WalletIncludedIncluded
Dynamic QR codesIncludedIncluded
Email signaturesIncludedIncluded
NFC hardware cardsBring your own
Analytics
Card views, scans, and clicks
Breakdown by platform, link, geo, and deviceLimited
Team-level rollupsEnterprise
Pricing & commercial
Annual contract required
Free plan or trial14-day trialFree plan + 30-day trial
Identity & integrations
SSO (SAML)Contact usEnterprise
SCIM provisioningContact usEnterprise
Directory sync (Entra ID, Google Workspace)
Salesforce / HubSpotComing soon
Security
SOC 2 Type IIContact us
GDPR

Comparison based on publicly documented features as of the date above. Blinq may have released features since. Think something is off? Let us know at [email protected].

Pricing

Simple, transparent, competitive pricing

Published plans to get your team going, with the full platform in every one, plus dedicated support for custom rollouts and enterprise needs. No per-seat math.

Flat plans, not per seat

Pay by plan and the number of cards you need, never per user seat.

Try it before you commit

Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial, no credit card, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Room to scale up

Start on a published plan and move to a custom rollout with dedicated support when you outgrow it.

The case

Why teams choose Social Card

Brand control is the wedge. Four supporting strengths back it up.

Our wedge

More than a color picker and a logo

Most tools give employees a handful of brand fields and call it control. Social Card gives marketing the whole template, so the brand holds as you rebrand, restructure, and hire, without chasing down off-brand cards.

Concierge launch included on Business

We scope, build, provision, and launch it with you, where most platforms gate hands-on onboarding to Enterprise.

Built for team rollouts, not retrofitted

Bulk provisioning, groups, and admin workflows, built for the job from day one.

All five sharing platforms included from day one

Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, web pages, QR codes, and email signatures, in every plan.

See which cards actually get used

Views, taps, and clicks across the whole team, broken down by surface, link, and location.

Evaluation framework

The nine questions that decide how a rollout goes

A feature comparison tells you what each platform does. It does not tell you what happens when four hundred people get new titles, or how a rebrand reaches business cards already in the field. Our buyer’s guide covers the questions that decide that, with a scorecard you can take into your own evaluation.

  1. How much of the card can you actually control?
  2. What happens when someone’s details change?
  3. How do 400 people get set up, and stay set up?
  4. How do employees actually start using it?
  5. What does the contract do when headcount drops?

Plus four that need scoping before you weight them at all: identity controls, compliance evidence, data exit, and support.

Migration

Switching from Blinq

Moving a team off Blinq is a project. Our concierge team handles it for free, regardless of team size, and times the rollout so your new cards are live before you retire the old ones.

Mirror

We mirror your current setup

Share a few sample Blinq cards or a team export, and we replicate your card structure inside Social Card.

Rebuild

We apply your brand and your domain

Your colors, fonts, and logo across templates, wallet passes, and email signatures, served from your own domain.

Go live

We connect your directory and distribute

Entra ID, Google Workspace, or a CSV. Cards go live across every surface on a coordinated rollout date.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

The questions we hear from teams evaluating a switch.

Every card on-brand, rolled out for you

Book a concierge call to see Social Card branded for your team, including what a switch from Blinq looks like in practice. Or start a free trial and explore it yourself.