Exporb vs Blinq — which fits your trade show team?
Blinq is the digital business card everyone knows — and it now scans badges, takes AI notes, enriches contacts, and scores leads. Exporb has no card to share. What it has is the full transcript, sentiment scoring, and the exact quote behind every AI claim. Here is the honest head-to-head, including the rows where Blinq wins.
What is the difference between Exporb and Blinq?
Blinq is an identity product that learned to capture. Exporb is a capture product that never had an identity to sell. Blinq gives every rep a digital business card they can share by QR, NFC tap, wallet pass, Apple Watch, widget, or email signature — 4 million users deep, and the top-rated digital business card on G2. Around that card it has built AI contact scanning, AI enrichment, an AI notetaker, intent extraction, lead temperature scoring, and CRM workflows. It is a serious capture product, not a card app with a scanner glued on.
Exporb skips the card entirely. The rep scans, records the conversation, and walks away. What comes back is a full transcript, a sentiment read across it, a score, and a ranked list — Hot, Warm, Fresh — where every AI claim links to the exact line in the conversation that produced it. No black box, no "trust the summary."
Because the feature lists overlap this heavily, the decision comes down to two questions rather than a checklist. Do you need one branded identity layer across the whole company — cards, signatures, backdrops, SSO provisioning? Blinq is the mature answer and Exporb offers nothing there. Or is the pain that reps come back with 300 contacts and no defensible way to say which twelve mattered? That is the half Exporb was built for.
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Feature comparison
Side-by-side on the capabilities that matter for trade show lead capture.
| Capability | Exporb | Blinq |
|---|---|---|
| Scan business cards, event badges, and QR codes | ||
| Share your own digital business card (QR, NFC, Wallet, Apple Watch, widgets) | ||
| Branded email signatures and virtual meeting backgrounds | ||
| Chrome extension | ||
| Record the booth conversation | ||
| Keep the full searchable transcript of what was said, not just the notes | ||
| Sentiment scoring across the conversation | ||
| Intent and pain-point extraction | ||
| AI summary + suggested follow-up actions | ||
| AI lead scoring / lead temperature | ||
| Published scoring thresholds you can audit (Hot 70+, Warm 40-69, Fresh below 40) | ||
| Show the exact quote behind each "the AI said this" insight | ||
| Live team activity feed while the show is still running | ||
| Works for buyers / sourcing teams too, not just sellers | ||
| Offline-first capture when the convention WiFi dies | ||
| AI enrichment of missing contact details | ||
| Native Salesforce and HubSpot sync | ||
| Zapier plus a public API for partners | ||
| Microsoft Dynamics integration | ||
| Event and campaign tagging with ROI attribution | ||
| SSO / SAML and Active Directory provisioning | ||
| SOC 2 Type II certification today | ||
| Free plan with no time limit | ||
| Event lead capture you can start self-serve, without a sales call | ||
| ISO 27001 or HIPAA compliance |
Blinq data sourced from a 40-page crawl of blinq.com and blinq.me public-facing material, current as of August 2026. Free-plan scope, security certifications, and integration coverage reflect Blinq's own published claims; verify current pricing on their pricing page before budgeting.
The three things that actually decide this
1. Do you need to prove why a lead is hot?
Both tools score leads. Blinq has lead temperature, intent extraction, and an AI notetaker that attaches a clean summary to the contact. But a note and a temperature are both conclusions — you cannot audit either one. Exporb keeps the full transcript underneath the score, so when the AI flags "budget pressure," the rep clicks through and reads the sentence where the prospect said their current contract renews in March. Exporb also publishes its thresholds, which means a manager can disagree with a 68 instead of shrugging at "Warm." Teams that have been burned by inflated pipeline care about this more than they expect to.
2. Is the card the point, or the conversation?
If half the value you want is brand consistency — every rep's card locked to the right logo, colors, and font, email signatures managed centrally, NFC cards printed for the sales team — Exporb does none of that and never will. Blinq owns that category. But if the card is a solved problem at your company and the gap is what happens between the booth and the follow-up email, the card feature set is not the thing you are buying.
3. Who is standing at the booth?
Blinq is built for sellers meeting people. Exporb also handles the other direction: buyers and sourcing teams walking a show floor, capturing supplier terms, MOQs, lead times, and sample availability from the vendors they talk to. If your team attends shows to buy rather than to sell, that changes the shortlist entirely.
Which one should your team use?
Exporb is best for
Teams whose problem is the follow-up list, not the business card.
- Reps get a ranked list (Hot, Warm, Fresh) so they know who to call Monday morning
- Every insight links to the exact moment in the conversation — no AI black box
- Full searchable transcript plus sentiment scoring, not just a tidy summary
- Live activity feed shows what the team is capturing while the show runs
- Works for sourcing teams too — supplier terms, sample availability, MOQs
- Lead capture on the free plan, paid from $9/mo, no demo required
Blinq is best for
Companies that want one branded identity layer across the whole team.
- Digital business cards in every form factor — QR, NFC, wallet, watch, widgets
- Centrally managed branding, email signatures, and virtual meeting backgrounds
- SSO plus Active Directory / Microsoft Entra provisioning for large teams
- SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance in place today
- Zapier, a public API, Microsoft Dynamics, and a Chrome extension
Blinq vs Exporb FAQ
More on the main FAQ page.
Blinq starts from the card. Founded in Melbourne in 2017, its core product is a digital business card you hand out by QR, NFC tap, wallet pass, watch, or email signature, and lead capture grew out of that — scan a badge, let the AI notetaker save context, sync to the CRM. Exporb starts from the conversation. There is no card to share; the app records what was said at the booth, keeps the full transcript, and hands the rep a ranked follow-up list with the exact quote behind every AI insight. Both do capture. The split is whether you also need an identity layer for the whole company, and whether you need to be able to audit the AI's reasoning after the fact.
Yes, and more than most people assume. Blinq ships an AI Contact Scanner for badges and cards, AI Enrichment that fills in missing contact fields, an AI Notetaker that turns a conversation into clean notes, intent extraction, follow-up suggestions, and its own lead temperature scoring. Anyone dismissing Blinq as "just a business card app" has not looked at it recently. The remaining gaps are narrower and more specific: Blinq does not publish a full searchable transcript of the conversation, does not do sentiment scoring across it, and does not show you the source line behind an AI claim. Exporb does all three, and publishes its scoring thresholds — Hot at 70 and above, Warm 40 to 69, Fresh below 40 — so a sales manager can argue with the number instead of taking it on faith.
Both tools have a genuinely free plan with no time limit. Blinq's free tier covers the digital business card, virtual backgrounds, and dynamic email signatures, with a 7-day Blinq Premium trial on top; team lead capture, CRM sync, and admin controls sit in the paid Blinq Business tier, and the event lead capture product is sold through a demo rather than a checkout page. Exporb's free plan includes lead capture itself with 10 AI credits a month, and paid plans start at $9/mo self-serve. Blinq publishes four pricing tiers, so check their pricing page directly before budgeting — per-user costs move.
Yes, and for a lot of teams that is the honest answer. Blinq handles outbound identity: your card, your NFC tap, your email signature, your branded backdrop. Exporb handles inbound intelligence: the recording, the transcript, the score, the follow-up list. Both push contacts to Salesforce and HubSpot, so the two streams meet in the CRM rather than fighting each other in the app.
No. Exporb does not issue a shareable digital card, does not sell NFC accessories, and has no Apple Watch or wallet-pass sharing. That is Blinq territory and Blinq is genuinely good at it — 4 million users and the top spot in G2's digital business card category. Exporb spends its surface area on the capture side instead: card scan, badge scan, selfie, audio, transcript, score.
Blinq, today. It publishes SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliance, SSO / SAML, and Microsoft Entra provisioning for team card management. Exporb is scoping its SOC 2 audit for late 2026 with target certification in 2027; it runs on Supabase and Vercel, which are SOC 2 Type 2 today, with Row-Level Security on every database table and PII-sanitized production logs. If procurement requires a certificate on the desk this quarter, Blinq clears that bar and Exporb does not yet. Worth knowing before you write the RFP: neither tool carries ISO 27001 or HIPAA, so if those are hard requirements, both are off the list.
There is no migration step. Start capturing at the next show. Contacts already in Blinq stay in Blinq or in whichever CRM you synced them to. Exporb writes to its own database and exports as CSV, JSON, or ZIP, so nothing gets trapped. Most teams that switch keep their Blinq cards for sharing and move only the capture workflow.
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