Mobilo takes a different route to the rest of this category. The starting point is a physical NFC card that you buy, and the software plan comes with it. If you like the tap gesture and you want an object in your hand, that is a real and defensible choice.
Everything below was read off the Mobilo pricing page on July 31, 2026. Several prices were shown as discounts against a stated regular price, so treat them as possibly promotional and check the page yourself.
What Mobilo publishes
| Branded NFC card | $5.00 one time, listed against a regular price of $19.99, including 90 days of Pro. |
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| Custom design card | $10.00 one time, listed against a regular price of $39.00, including 90 days of Pro. |
| Wood and metal cards | $15.00 and $20.00 one time, listed against regular prices of $59.00 and $139.00. |
| Pro plan after the trial | $3.00 a month. |
| Team | A digital wallet card option at $0 plus $4 a month, and physical cards at the card price plus $4 a month. A Business plan is listed at $5 a month billed annually. |
All figures are in US dollars. No rupee pricing is published on that page. Shipping and any customs charges to India are not part of those numbers, and we did not find rupee shipping costs published, so we are not going to guess at them.
What hardware gives you, honestly
- • A physical object, which still lands well in a room where everyone expects paper.
- • A tap gesture that takes one second and looks good doing it.
- • Metal and wood options, which are genuinely nice for people whose card is part of their positioning.
- • A conversation starter, which is a real thing at an event even if it sounds silly written down.
If you sell to design conscious clients, run a studio, or spend your year at conferences, none of this is frivolous. A metal card does work that a QR code does not.
Where hardware gets awkward in India
- 1. You have to order it and wait. On the day somebody asks for your number, the card is either in your pocket or it is not.
- 2. You have to carry it, and it can be lost or left at home, which is exactly the failure a digital card was meant to remove.
- 3. The other person phone has to read NFC and have it switched on. Many Android phones in India do not have it at all.
- 4. When your details change, the card does not. You edit the page behind it, which is fine, but the object itself is fixed.
- 5. It is one card. Cards get given away, and a card you gave away is one you no longer have.
The NFC point is the important one. A QR code works on every camera phone made in the last decade. NFC works on a subset. In a country where the person you are meeting could be on any phone at any price point, a QR code is simply the more reliable gesture.
Hardware is a lovely upgrade on top of a link. It is a shaky foundation to build on when you cannot control what phone the other person is holding.
The software only alternatives
| Ahoyy | Free card, free QR code, free WhatsApp sharing, and a Save contact button that works in any browser. Paid plans at ₹299 and ₹799 a month, plus a ₹199 top up for 25 directory reveals. Rupee billing. |
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| Blinq | Free with two cards. Premium $9.99 a month, or $7.33 a month billed annually, for up to five cards. Business $6.99 per card a month, or $4.99 billed annually. |
| HiHello | Free with four cards and five scans a month. Professional $6 a month or $72 a year. Business $5 per user a month or $60 per user a year. |
| Uniqode | Free for a first card, Team $6 per user a month billed annually. The page states there are no monthly plans. |
| Popl | No published prices. Custom quote after a consultation. |
A card, a QR code and a save button that work on any phone, with nothing to ship.
Make a free cardIf you want both, do it in the right order
The two approaches are not opposites. The sensible order is link first, object second.
- 1. Set up your card page and get the link working. That costs nothing and it works today.
- 2. Print the QR code on a paper card at a local press. It is cheap and it needs no shipping.
- 3. Use both for two months and count how often the QR actually gets scanned.
- 4. If you are in rooms where an NFC card would land, then buy the object, and point it at the same page you already have.
That way the object is an upgrade to something already working, and losing it costs you a piece of metal rather than your whole way of sharing your details.
The short version
Mobilo is a good answer if you want a physical card, your clients are in markets where NFC is normal, and shipping and customs are not an obstacle for you.
If your customers are on all kinds of phones, you would rather not wait for a delivery, and you want to pay in rupees, start with a link and a QR code. Ahoyy does that free, and it is a newer and smaller product than Mobilo, which you should weigh along with everything else here.