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WorldCard Mobile Lite
Penpower Technology Ltd. · 7 ratings · ★ 3.7
3.7
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Top complaints - extracted from 41 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"card"
14 negative reviews mention this · 34% of all complaints
★★★★★ "limited by design. Free - and useless too. No real opportunity to see if it is worth paying $7 for the real thing. One card per week for the free version (and that card didn't scan well)." - MooCann
2
"useless"
9 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "limited by design. Free - and useless too. No real opportunity to see if it is worth paying $7 for the real thing. One card per week for the free version (and that card didn't scan well)." - MooCann
3
"cards"
9 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Terrible program. The free version gives you five card to read. What they don't say is that it really is five tries. After trying and erasing I never got the program to read any cards correctly. All field were blank so I might have as we'll entered everythin…" - DovellB
4
"waste"
9 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This app deleted my entire address book. This is the first time I write a bad review on the App Store. This app deserves it! It's hard to use, unclear and managed to delete my 3,500-person address book. It just created days of wasted work for me. Worst experience on mobile." - Sochaplays
5
"work"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This app deleted my entire address book. This is the first time I write a bad review on the App Store. This app deserves it! It's hard to use, unclear and managed to delete my 3,500-person address book. It just created days of wasted work for me. Worst experience on mobile." - Sochaplays
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"free"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "limited by design. Free - and useless too. No real opportunity to see if it is worth paying $7 for the real thing. One card per week for the free version (and that card didn't scan well)." - MooCann
7
"business"
7 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrible. I downloaded this app because I started my own business and started to receive a lot of business cards and am getting sick of entering them in manually. Well I scanned the first one a very basic card and it got absolutely nothing right name…" - Bubba4518
8
"week"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Only allows 1 per week. The Lite version only allows you to export 1 recognized data per week. If you want to upload more, you have to buy the full version." - Lioness55
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"business card"
6 negative reviews mention this · 15% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Horrible. I downloaded this app because I started my own business and started to receive a lot of business cards and am getting sick of entering them in manually. Well I scanned the first one a very basic card and it got absolutely nothing right name…" - Bubba4518
10
"deleted"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "This app deleted my entire address book. This is the first time I write a bad review on the App Store. This app deserves it! It's hard to use, unclear and managed to delete my 3,500-person address book. It just created days of wasted work for me. Worst experience on mobile." - Sochaplays
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"version"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Only allows 1 per week. The Lite version only allows you to export 1 recognized data per week. If you want to upload more, you have to buy the full version." - Lioness55
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"doesn"
5 negative reviews mention this · 12% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Good text recognition, but.... The interface is dated. Worse, it doesn't save contacts directly to iPhone contacts. You have to opt in each time you scan a card. This app wants to build a contact book inside the app, which is worthless." - _nathanlucy
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This app deleted my entire address book
This is the first time I write a bad review on the App Store. This app deserves it! It's hard to use, unclear and managed to delete my 3,500-person address book. It just created days of wasted work for me. Worst experience on mobile.
Only allows 1 per week
The Lite version only allows you to export 1 recognized data per week. If you want to upload more, you have to buy the full version.
Useless!
It cannot recognize a single correctly...just use evernote! Deleted it
Won’t even open
Crashes upon opening. As soon as you select “Don’t Allow” to read my contacts, it closes.
Terrible program
The free version gives you five card to read. What they don't say is that it really is five tries. After trying and erasing I never got the program to read any cards correctly. All field were blank so I might have as we'll entered everything by hand.
I never saved any contacts and after my fifth attempt of trying to get it to work, the app would not allow anymore tries. If I can't get the demo to work, I certainly will not buy this app.
I never saved any contacts and after my fifth attempt of trying to get it to work, the app would not allow anymore tries. If I can't get the demo to work, I certainly will not buy this app.
Kept crashing
Wish it would work for me, but couldn't even open the app without it crashing. Disappointed. Delete.
Krk
It's crap...
Horrible!
The app has not recognized the first and last names even once. I tried 10 card and none of them had name recognized. I don't know who writes those positive reviews about this app. I can add contacts faster by just typing them in. This is useless - deleted.
Horrible
I downloaded this app because I started my own business and started to receive a lot of business cards and am getting sick of entering them in manually. Well I scanned the first one a very basic card and it got absolutely nothing right names numbers address or email. What a waste of time.
Not iphone5 ready
Claims to be iPhone 5 compatible but still not able to use whole screen. Find another app.
Total joke
It takes pics, and sort of gets it right. I had to redo every field! Waste of time!
Disappointing app!
The design is ok but the functionality is not good at all... It's not user friendly at all.. There are way too many errors and I have tested 5other business card apps and this is the second worse app!
Crashes Constantly
Every time I use it the app just shuts down. Useless!
Scam beware
Bait and switch. Try free then 5.99
Just put that out there early and dont bs everyone.
Skip this...
Just put that out there early and dont bs everyone.
Skip this...
Signature doesn't work on iOS5
After installing iOS5, "signature" does not pick up the clipboard anymore. Got to fix it ASAP.
Horrible
Out of 6 cards I tried to download at different times (with adequate lighting), just 1(!) was recognized. Others either were not or recognized at all or showed some sort of "4DfwerSS<#Fff" nonsense stuff in my contact list.
Don't understand how others could actually use it.
Thumb down.
Don't understand how others could actually use it.
Thumb down.
Horrible!!!
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP! It severely affected the ability to flip through lists, such as contact list. What was smooth and fluid became like ice skating on rocks. It affected other apps too.
Terrible
Tried this and failed miserably!
Waste of time
Never works!!
Piece of junk . Don't waste time
It does not recognize anything . I just deleted and saved my space
Waste
Not worth free even...
Not very good
I tried this app because of the ability to assign categories in my contacts but I had to much difficulty with accurate scanning. I will stay with and recommend Business Card Reader as a more consistent and accurate app.
BAD
Just doesn't work. I've seen better bad applications. Do NOT waste your time.
Very weak recognition
Limited usage
Don't waste your time on this app
App is hard to use and takes more time to use than to manually key in the business card details. App is useless
Very bad OCR
Almost useless. I tried 5-6 times but it never captured correct information. Also, the free version lets you import one contact per week. I wouldn't spend a dime to get paid version of this poor product
Useless
There are much better apps, move on.
Waste of time
Waste of time and useless app. Doesn't work properly
Useless Cripple-ware
Just an ad for the paid product.
Only scans one card per week!
Only scans one card per week!
Extremely poor
Doesn't recognize English obviously if you like to type in all the corrections then go for it because it requires you to type almost the entire business card manually
Still hopeful
OK I've tried dozens of cards now, from super simple to graphics heavy. I've read the help files and followed instructions to the letter. Every recognition has failed...not a single field was read.
I really want this to work, but I'm loosing hope quickly. I look forward to changing my review to 5 stars soon (fingers crossed)
I really want this to work, but I'm loosing hope quickly. I look forward to changing my review to 5 stars soon (fingers crossed)
What???
Cant understand aim of this app
limited by design
Free - and useless too. No real opportunity to see if it is worth paying $7 for the real thing. One card per week for the free version (and that card didn't scan well).
Good text recognition, but...
The interface is dated. Worse, it doesn't save contacts directly to iPhone contacts. You have to opt in each time you scan a card. This app wants to build a contact book inside the app, which is worthless.
Failed on first try
I read the reviews and tried this one rated favorable and LinkedIn's CardMunch
This one gives you 3 free cards, then 1 per week until you buy it.
I had to edit about half the text, photo takin in indirect sunlight. Didn't even get the phone number correct.
Cardmunch however is read offsite. Minutes later it arrived perfect.
Don't know if Cardmunch has a limit, but it works.
WorldCard, not so much. Delete.
This one gives you 3 free cards, then 1 per week until you buy it.
I had to edit about half the text, photo takin in indirect sunlight. Didn't even get the phone number correct.
Cardmunch however is read offsite. Minutes later it arrived perfect.
Don't know if Cardmunch has a limit, but it works.
WorldCard, not so much. Delete.
Don't waste your time
Good accuracy, but free version only allows one scan per week and sometimes not even that.
Not as it seems
Yea great idea, but it only let's you scan 3 cards then it time to buy the 5.99$ app. And when I scanned a business card, it didn't even come close to getting the right info. Needs some improvements to say the least!
Why does this app get good reviews?
For the life of me, I can't figure out why this app gets great reviews. In March 2011, I downloaded WorldCard Mobile Lite and used it with 3 business cards. The first two had a couple of graphics on them, but were nothing elaborate. The third card was the most basic business card possible. All black letters on an all white card with no graphics. This app did not identify the name, title, company name or address correctly on any of the cards. It did get the phone numbers and most of the e-mail addresses right (substituted a "z" for a "2" on an e-mail address). Anyway, I deleted the app because I think it is unusable in its current form. It took me longer to fix the info than it would have to type it all in from scratch.
Recognition not reliable
Some of the cards I scanned were not recognized, while the same cards were scanned with no problems with other apps.
Makes no sense
Why would I spend 30 seconds fooling around with iPhone placement, hovering, lighting, shadows, orientation, field mapping etc when I can just absentmindedly feed in batch cards into my worldcard desktop scanner in 5 seconds per card?
Many mistakes...
I downloaded several "lite" scanners to test them out. This one had multiple mistakes requiring quite a bit of corrections. It has many neat features, but if it cannot do proper OCR, then it defeats the purpose of a card scanner.
Sentiment summary
71%
Positive (4-5★)
0%
Neutral (3★)
29%
Negative (1-2★)