Worldcard HD is a powerful contact manager for your iPad. It is the iPad version of its predecessor WorldCard Mobile – an award winning application for iPhone which helps the users to scan business cards and add the details to the contacts. WorldCard HD is specifically designed for business professionals, social entrepreneurs, sales or marketing professionals.
WorldCard HD allows you to add a business card just by taking a snap of the business card or from the camera roll or by importing from iPad contacts. WorldCard HD uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to read the business cards. The OCR simply recognizes the text in the business cards and transfers to your iPad. All the details in the business cards like name, organization name, designation, contact number, fax will be automatically saved to your iPad. You can also add your contacts from iPhone 4S/4/3GS Photo Stream.
Pros:
Google Map integration:
One of the impressive features about WorldCard HD is the Google Map feature. This is map feature lets you to get the directions of your contacts. It helps in route planning thereby saving time.
Batch Card Recognition:
Batch Card Recognition allows you to scan multiple cards at a time.
Managing Contacts:
The contacts management is very simple in WorldCard HD. All the contacts are sorted in alphabetical order. So it’s easy to search and find the contacts from the list. WorldCard HD also allows you to mark your favorite contacts. You can mark your most liked or frequently used business contacts as favorite contacts. For user’s convenience, WorldCard HD supports list view and photo view.
Recognition of Multiple Languages:
WorldCard HD recognizes 11 different languages ranging from English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Simplified/Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Anti-shake Function:
WorldCard HD is loaded with anti-shake function to ensure that images are captured perfectly. It tends to provide a best definition of image always.
Get Connected to Social Media:
Get connected to your contacts social media profiles like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. You can also send an e-mail to your contacts directly using Worldcard HD.
Sharing and Backup:
You can share your contacts via mail Open In, iTunes file sharing. You can conveniently get backups for your contacts Mac/Windows conveniently.
iCloud/Dropbox backup:
You can also share your contacts with the help of iCloud/Dropbox services.
Cons:
We feel that this app is little expensive. For iPad 2 users, its better to add contacts via iPhone 4S/4/3GS Photo Stream or by importing WorldCard Data (*.wcxf) from iCloud or Dropbox storage services or via iTunes Files Sharing.
Verdict:
With WorldCard HD you can get rid of your troubles in managing business contacts and there won’t be any frustration in dealing with business contacts. Transform your iPad into a smart Customer Relationship Manger with WorldCard HD. It is available in the iTunes store for $14.99. Check out the demo video for WorldCard HD. Download WorldCard HD here.