A digital visiting card people can actually save.

Why a screenshot isn't a contact card

The default way creators, brands and agency reps swap details at an event is still a screenshot of a phone number, or a photo of a printed visiting card. Both work for about a week. Then the photo gets buried three thousand images deep in a camera roll, and the number never makes it into Contacts, because nobody actually retypes a phone number by hand anymore.

A digital contact card — sometimes called a digital visiting card or digital business card — is meant to fix that by putting the details somewhere a phone can act on directly. Most tools that promise this actually just generate a QR code that opens a link to a hosted webpage. That's better than a photo, but it still leaves the other person to manually copy your number and email off a screen. This tool does the version that actually saves the contact: the QR encodes a real vCard, so scanning it offers to add you to Contacts in one tap, the same way scanning a contact shared from someone else's phone does.

What makes the QR actually work

A vCard is the standard file format phones already use to move a single contact around — name, phone, email, a note, a link. This tool builds one to the real specification inside your browser, then encodes it into a QR code using a QR encoder written from the spec rather than a shortcut library, so the format information, version information and error-correction codewords are all computed rather than approximated. That's the difference between a QR code that looks right and one that a phone camera actually decodes cleanly under bad meeting-room lighting.

Because everything happens on your device, the card also works with no internet connection once the page has loaded — useful at a conference where the venue Wi-Fi is unreliable and everyone's data is switched off to save battery.

What happens when your details don't fit

A QR code can only hold so much before it gets too dense for a camera to read reliably — packing in a long note, a city and multiple links can push a code past a size that scans cleanly on a mid-range phone. Rather than silently producing a QR that half fails to scan, this tool checks whether everything fits and, if it doesn't, drops the least essential fields one at a time — the note and city first, then company and title, keeping name, phone and email until the very end — and tells you exactly what got left off the saved contact. Nothing disappears from the card image itself; only the compact version inside the QR gets trimmed. If you see that warning, shortening the one-line note is usually the fastest fix.

Digital visiting card vs. the paper kind

Paper visiting cards are still everywhere in Indian business culture, and there's nothing wrong with handing one over — the problem is what happens to it afterwards. A stack of cards in a drawer is a stack of contacts nobody ever imports. A digital card doesn't replace the moment of handing something over; it just makes that moment produce a saved contact instead of a piece of paper that gets thrown out with the conference lanyard. Print the QR on the physical card too, if you still want one — the "download just the QR" option is sized for exactly that.

What to put on a creator's, brand's or agency's card

Switching the role at the top relabels the fields so the card reads naturally for whoever is handing it out, rather than forcing everyone through creator-shaped fields:

• Creators get "what you do" and "brand or studio" — useful if you work under a channel or studio name distinct from your own.
• Brands get "role" and "company" — for the person actually representing the brand at an event, not the brand's own switchboard number.
• Agencies get "role" and "agency" — so a client can tell at a glance which agency, and which specific person there, they're holding a card for.

Whichever role you pick, put a real phone number or email on the card — a card with neither has nothing worth saving, and the tool will tell you so before you send it.

What this tool is not

It's a card, not a directory listing — nothing you type is uploaded or made searchable anywhere. If you need a fuller pitch with your stats, audience and rates rather than just contact details, that's what the media kit generator is for; the two are meant to be sent together, not instead of each other.

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