A hosted business card at a short link, with a downloadable .vcf and a QR to share it instantly, no app, no paper.
Name, title, phone, email, links, pick an accent colour.
Drop the short link in a bio or show the QR to scan.
Your card lands straight in their contacts as a .vcf.
When I meet someone in person, I want my details and best link on their phone in one tap, so the conversation doesn't die in a stack of paper cards.
When I share my card, I want to see who opened it and tapped through, so I chase the warm intros first.
When my role, number, or company changes, I want to update once, so a card I handed out last year still works.
A clean public profile at whshly.co/you.
One tap to save into any phone's contacts.
Match the card to your colour.
A scannable code for events and badges.
All three do the same job, which is to hand someone your live contact details instead of printing them in ink. They differ in what the other person needs to be holding, and that is the only question worth asking before you spend money.
An NFC card is genuinely faster. A tap completes in under a second, against roughly three to five seconds for a QR scan. On iPhone, tapping with no app open has worked since the iPhone XS on iOS 12 in 2018, so essentially every current iPhone handles it. Android is where the pitch gets softer: NFC has to be switched on, and some budget and older handsets ship without the chip at all.
The failure most people do not anticipate is social rather than technical. In our own testing at events, people missed the tap zone and re-tapped two or three times, which erased the speed advantage on the spot. A visible QR code on the same card removes that fumble entirely, and a plain link covers everything a tap cannot reach, which is every email, video call and DM you will ever send.
One thing to establish before you buy any NFC card: almost none of them store your contact details. The chip holds a short URL that opens a hosted profile, so if the platform behind that profile stops being paid for, the card you bought goes dead. The profile is where the value sits. The plastic is optional, and the subscription usually is not.
The full breakdown: NFC vs QR vs hosted cardA hosted page with your contact details at a short link, plus a QR code to share it. Instead of handing over paper, you show a code or send a link – and your details land straight in their phone.
No. It's a normal web page and a standard .vcf contact file. They scan or tap, hit save, and you're in their contacts – no app, no account, no friction.
Yes. The card lives at a link you control, so a new role, number, or company is one edit – and the card you handed out last year still shows the current you.
Your card is a URL, so it works with any NFC tag or card you can program with a link – alongside the QR code and the short link, which need no hardware at all.
Views and taps are counted like any other link, so you can see which introductions actually went somewhere and follow up on the warm ones first.
Buy Whooshly once and own your campaign links for good.