Cirqle vs HiHello
A polished, free-forever digital business card with a clean personal address book and strong AI scanning of paper cards.
Want a simple card to share your socials? HiHello is genuinely excellent. Need every contact structured and pushed into your CRM with context? That’s Cirqle.
When HiHello is the better choice
- You want a genuinely free-forever card with unlimited sharing.
- You scan a lot of paper business cards and want a high monthly scan quota.
- A simple personal address book is all you need — no CRM behind it.
When Cirqle is the better fit
- Your contacts land in your real CRM — Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity, Pipedrive, Attio, or Copper — from the Pro plan. HiHello adds native Salesforce/HubSpot sync only at its Business tier.
- Every capture keeps its context (where you met, your note), and AI drafts the follow-up in your voice for you to approve.
- An AI note-taker turns your meeting notes into a summary and action items.
- A pre-meeting dossier shows who your team has already met before you walk in.
- A no-install receiver page lets someone share their details even without the app — and it works offline.
| Feature | Cirqle | HiHello |
|---|---|---|
| Where your contacts end up | Any of 6 CRMs (from Pro) | Address book; SF/HubSpot on Business |
| Free tier | 25 captures/mo | Free forever · 4 cards · 5 card scans/mo |
| AI scanning of paper cards | On-device + AI (no scan cap) | Quota-metered (5 / 20 / unlimited) |
| Structured capture with context | ✓ | — |
| AI follow-up drafted in your voice | ✓ | — |
| AI note-taker (summary + action items) | ✓ | — |
| Pre-meeting dossier | Pro+ | — |
| No-install, offline receiver page | ✓ | — |
- Where your contacts end up: HiHello keeps contacts in its in-app Business Contact Manager by default, and on the Business tier can natively sync Salesforce or HubSpot. Cirqle syncs each capture into six major CRMs — including Affinity, Pipedrive, Attio and Copper — from the Pro plan.
- AI scanning of paper cards: Both scan cards with AI. HiHello meters it as a plan quota (5/mo free, 20 on Pro, unlimited on Business). Cirqle scans on-device for everyone (including Free) plus a Claude-vision parse on paid plans — no separate scan cap; a scanned card just becomes a capture. HiHello is still the pick if metered high-volume scanning is your headline need.
Pricing at a glance
- Free: Free forever: up to 4 cards, unlimited sharing, 5 card scans/mo
- Entry: Professional ~$6/mo (annual; $8 monthly): 16 cards, branded QR, analytics, Google/Outlook sync, 20 card scans/mo
- Teams: Business ~$5/user/mo (annual, 5–100): unlimited cards + scans, Salesforce/HubSpot, SSO/directory sync
- Enterprise (101+) is custom-quoted.
HiHello pricing and features verified as of 2026-07-13. Spot something out of date? Tell us — corrections welcome.
Frequently asked questions
- How is Cirqle different from HiHello?
- The main difference is where your contacts go. HiHello keeps them in its in-app address book, and can natively sync Salesforce or HubSpot on its Business tier; Cirqle pushes each capture — with its context and an AI-drafted follow-up — into any of six CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Affinity, Pipedrive, Attio, or Copper) from the Pro plan. HiHello is the better pick if you mainly want a free card and a simple address book.
- Does Cirqle scan paper business cards?
- Yes — Cirqle scans cards on-device (works on every plan, including Free) and adds a Claude-vision AI parse on paid plans, with no separate scan quota; a scanned card just becomes a capture. HiHello meters scans as a plan quota (5/mo free, 20 on Pro, unlimited on Business), so it is still the stronger pick if metered high-volume scanning is your headline need.
- Can I move my HiHello contacts to Cirqle?
- Yes — export your HiHello address book, and Cirqle’s built-in importer auto-maps and dedups it on upload. Then connect your CRM to keep future captures in sync.
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