Cirqle vs Blinq
A polished, consumer-friendly digital business card with a genuinely generous free tier and clean sharing.
Want a simple card to share your socials? Blinq is genuinely excellent. Need every contact structured and pushed into your CRM with context? That’s Cirqle.
When Blinq is the better choice
- You want a free card with unlimited sharing and no forced branding.
- You value a clean, mainstream consumer app and Apple Wallet support.
- You need a simple card + email signature, not a CRM capture pipeline.
When Cirqle is the better fit
- Native, structured push to every major CRM — Affinity, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Copper — the same depth for each from the Pro plan. Blinq syncs the big CRMs too, but reaches Affinity, Attio and Copper only through Zapier.
- Capture-to-context: every tap lands a structured contact with its note + event, then AI drafts the follow-up in your own voice (you approve before it sends).
- Move your Blinq export in one step — Cirqle parses the CSV/vCard, auto-maps fields, and dedups against your contacts.
- A no-install receiver page that works offline (nothing lost with no signal), plus kiosk mode for event booths.
| Feature | Cirqle | Blinq |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 25 captures/mo | 2 cards, unlimited sharing |
| Native CRM push | All 6 major CRMs, same depth | 20+ CRMs on Business; Affinity/Attio/Copper via Zapier |
| Structured capture-to-context | ✓ | — |
| AI follow-up in your own voice | ✓ | — |
| Import from Blinq/Popl/HiHello/Dot export | Built-in, auto-mapped | — |
| Pre-meeting dossier | Pro+ | — |
| Offline-durable no-install receiver page | ✓ | — |
| Apple/Google Wallet card | ✓ | ✓ |
- Native CRM push: Blinq natively syncs 20+ CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Dynamics) from the Business plan — but the relationship CRMs Cirqle treats as first-class (Affinity, Attio, Copper) are Zapier-only on Blinq. Cirqle pushes natively to all six from the Pro plan.
- AI follow-up in your own voice: Blinq has an AI notetaker and contact enrichment, but not follow-ups drafted in your own voice and held for your approval before sending.
Pricing at a glance
- Free: Free: 2 cards, unlimited sharing, Apple/Google Wallet, email signature
- Entry: Premium ~$7.33/mo (annual; $9.99 monthly): 5 cards, branded QR, CSV export, plus AI scanner + notetaker + enrichment
- Teams: Business ~$4.99/card/mo (annual, min 5): templates, native CRM (Salesforce/HubSpot/Pipedrive/Zoho/Dynamics), Entra sync
- Enterprise is custom-quoted. The event/badge Lead Capture product is a separate add-on from ~$199/mo (billed annually); baseline AI scanner + notetaker now come with Premium.
Blinq pricing and features verified as of 2026-07-13. Spot something out of date? Tell us — corrections welcome.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Cirqle a good Blinq alternative?
- If you mainly want a free card to share links, Blinq is excellent. If you need every contact structured and pushed into your CRM with context, Cirqle is purpose-built for that.
- Can I move my Blinq contacts to Cirqle?
- Yes — export your contacts as CSV from Blinq (Premium and up), and Cirqle’s built-in importer auto-maps and dedups them on upload. Then connect your CRM to keep future captures in sync.
- How does Cirqle CRM sync compare to Blinq?
- Both sync natively to the big CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, and more) — Blinq from its Business plan, Cirqle from Pro. The difference is the relationship CRMs: Affinity, Attio and Copper are native in Cirqle but Zapier-only in Blinq. Blinq’s ~$199/mo add-on is its separate event badge-scanning product, not its CRM sync.
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