Popl alternatives: which one fits the reason you are leaving, and what each costs over 3 years

Updated November 2, 2026 · by POC Card

Popl is a good product, and for some people it is still the right one. This page is for when it is not: it starts from the reason you are looking, says which alternative solves it, adds up three years, and tells you what to do before you leave.

How this page was made: Popl’s facts come from its App Store listing and its help center, read on November 2, 2026. Popl’s website refused our requests that day, so what it says about team prices is from October 18, 2026. The other brands’ facts are from their own pricing pages, read on November 1, 2026 (Dot’s on October 18). We make POC Card, one of the alternatives, and say below where it is worse than Popl. No affiliate links.

What Popl does well

• The lead capture form is on every plan, the free one included.
• Pro, Pro Plus and Teams connect natively to Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics, Pipedrive and Zoho, at no extra cost, according to its help center.
• The person you meet does not need the Popl app to save your contact.

If those three are what you need and the price is fine, you may not need an alternative.

Why people look for one

• The price after the free plan. Pro is US$76.99 a year and Pro Plus US$144.99 a year in the US App Store. Popl’s website does not publish individual prices.
• Getting your contacts out. Popl’s help center says “only Pro, Pro+, and Teams can export leads.” On the free plan, the form collects contacts that you cannot export.
• Small teams. “Popl Teams requires a minimum of 5 members,” and team prices are quoted in a sales meeting rather than published.
• Custom form fields are only on Pro Plus and Teams.
• Language. The App Store listing names English only.

The alternative for each reason

If you are leaving because…	Look at	Why
You want to pay nothing	Blinq, HiHello, Wave Connect	Blinq: two cards free forever with unlimited sharing. HiHello: two cards and 5 paper card or badge scans a month. Wave Connect: the lead form and unlimited saved contacts on its free plan.
You would rather pay once	Dot, V1CE, POC Card Lifetime	The dot.card is US$30 once with a free profile for life. V1CE sells its card once with the software included. POC Card Lifetime is one payment and keeps the form and the paper card scanner.
Your team is under 5, or you want a published team price	Wave Connect Teams, POC Card Teams	Wave Connect publishes US$5 per user a month, billed yearly, minimum 3. POC Card Teams is one yearly price for up to 15 profiles, managed from one account.
Your company requires single sign-on	HiHello Business	Google and Microsoft sign-on with directory sync from 5 users, per its pricing page.
You work in English and Spanish	POC Card	The card, its buttons and the account work in English, Spanish, French and Portuguese, and the visitor can switch.
You need contacts in your CRM automatically	Stay with Popl, or Blinq, HiHello or Wave Connect on a team plan	All four connect to HubSpot and Salesforce. POC Card does not: it exports to a CSV file.

What it costs over 3 years

The cheapest paid plan of each, billed yearly where there is a yearly price. They do not include the same things, so read the table above first.

Plan	Year 1	3 years
Popl Pro (US App Store) US$76.99 a year	US$76.99	US$230.97
Popl Pro Plus (US App Store) US$144.99 a year	US$144.99	US$434.97
POC Card Personal US$29 a year	US$29	US$87
POC Card Lifetime US$129 once	US$129	US$129
HiHello Professional US$72 billed yearly	US$72	US$216
Blinq Premium US$7.33 a month, billed yearly	US$87.96	US$263.88
Dot dot.Profile+ US$12 a month, billed yearly	US$144	US$432
V1CE card US$82 once, card and software	US$82	US$82
Wave Connect Pro US$7 a month, billed yearly	US$84	US$252

Popl’s prices are the ones in Apple’s US App Store. Dot’s dot.Profile+ is optional: its free profile comes with the card. V1CE’s row is the card, paid once.

Before you leave Popl

• Export your contacts first. Export is on Pro, Pro Plus and Teams, as a CSV file or to a connected CRM. If you are on a paid plan, export before it ends.
• Check what happens to your profile. We did not find a page on Popl’s help center that says what happens to your profile and its link after a subscription ends. Ask Popl before you cancel if people still have your old card.
• Check your Popl card or tag. We did not find a page that says whether a Popl device can open a link outside Popl. If it cannot, plan for a new card and put the new link everywhere the old one was.
• Keep the export file. Some alternatives import a CSV file; POC Card does not yet, so with us your Popl contacts stay in that file or in your CRM. If you move to a brand that imports, try it with ten contacts before you move all of them.

Where POC Card is worse than Popl

• No free plan. Popl has one; we have a 14-day trial with no payment card.
• No CRM connection. Popl Pro connects to Salesforce and HubSpot; we export a CSV file you import.
• No per-person logins. A POC Card team is one account that creates and edits every profile.
• A new brand, without years of public reviews.

Where it is better: it works in Spanish, there is a lifetime plan that you pay once, contacts export on every plan, and when a payment fails the card does not turn into a dead link: after 15 days of grace it goes to basic mode and your name, phone, email and photo stay visible.

Sources, read on November 2, 2026

• Popl: App Store listing, US
• Popl Help Center: The lead capture form
• Popl Help Center: Integrations
• Popl Help Center: How to cancel your Teams subscription
• Popl: Pricing (read on October 18, 2026)
• Blinq: Pricing (read on November 1, 2026)
• HiHello: Pricing (read on November 1, 2026)
• Wave Connect: Pricing (read on November 1, 2026)
• V1CE: Pricing (read on November 1, 2026)
• Dot: dot.Profile (read on October 18, 2026)

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