Exporb vs Zuant — which fits your trade show team?
Zuant has three decades of enterprise data capture: badge scanning, compliance tracking, office check-in, retail appointments. Exporb is leaner and newer, built around one thing — recording and understanding the booth conversation. Here's the honest head-to-head.
What is the difference between Exporb and Zuant?
Zuant is a long-tenured enterprise data capture platform, not just a lead-capture app. Business card, QR, barcode, and NFC scanning; automated follow-up sequences; a branded content showroom; even office check-in and retail appointment booking, with compliance features (GDPR workflows, COVID track-and-trace, fire safety) most competitors don't touch. Exporb does one thing deeply: record the booth conversation, transcribe it, extract pain points and buying signals, and hand the rep a ranked follow-up list — with the exact quote behind every insight.
Zuant's AI is scoped to enriching a scanned badge or card — useful, but it stops at contact data. Exporb's AI works on what was actually said. If the buying motion is a large, multi-event enterprise program with facility and retail check-in needs, Zuant fits. If the priority is "score 300 leads on the flight home and call the right ones first," Exporb fits.
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Feature comparison
Side-by-side on the capabilities that matter for trade show lead capture.
| Capability | Exporb | Zuant |
|---|---|---|
| Scan business cards (OCR, any language) | ||
| Scan badges, QR codes, 1D/2D barcodes, NFC chips | ||
| Record the booth conversation | ||
| Auto-transcribe what was said | ||
| AI summary: pain points, interests, sentiment from the conversation | ||
| Tells reps which leads to call first (AI-ranked, with thresholds) | ||
| Show the exact quote behind each "the AI said this" insight | ||
| Capture leads even when WiFi fails | ||
| Native CRM integrations (Salesforce, HubSpot, Eloqua) | ||
| Automated follow-up email sequences | ||
| Booth games, prize draws, event activations | ||
| Digital content showroom (brochures, videos, spec sheets) | ||
| Office check-in and retail appointment apps | ||
| COVID / fire-safety track-and-trace compliance | ||
| Free tier available | ||
| Transparent public pricing |
Zuant data sourced from zuant.com public-facing pages as of July 2026; pricing is not published by Zuant.
Which one should your team use?
Exporb is best for
Sales teams that want a clear, ranked follow-up list right after the show.
- Records and transcribes the actual booth conversation, not just badge data
- Each insight links back to the exact moment in the conversation — no AI black box
- Offline-first end-to-end, not just for scanning
- Free tier and public pricing — no sales call to evaluate
Zuant is best for
Large enterprises running multi-event programs with facility and retail needs.
- Versatile scanning: business cards, QR, barcodes, NFC chips
- Office check-in, retail appointments, and compliance tracking (COVID, fire safety)
- Native CRM integrations and automated follow-up sequences
- Branded content showroom, prize draws, and event activations
Zuant vs Exporb FAQ
More on the main FAQ page.
Zuant is a three-decades-old enterprise data capture platform: business card, QR, barcode, and NFC scanning, plus office check-in, retail appointments, and compliance tracking (COVID, fire safety). Exporb is narrower and newer — it records the booth conversation, transcribes it, and gives the rep a ranked follow-up list with the exact quote behind every AI insight. Zuant covers more operational ground; Exporb goes deeper on the conversation itself.
No. Zuant's AI is scoped to badge and business card enrichment — snap an image and it pulls contact data from Zuant's data sources, in-app or in Zuant Cloud post-show. It does not record or analyze the actual conversation. Exporb's AI is built around the conversation itself: audio recording, transcription, pain points, sentiment, and a quote-linked summary for every lead.
Partially. Zuant markets offline capture ("seamlessly works offline, removing the costly dependency on wifi") for card/badge scanning and content access, but AI enrichment and CRM sync are server-side. Exporb is offline-first end-to-end: capture, recording, and card scanning all work with zero connection, and AI analysis queues until the device reconnects.
No. Zuant has configurable prize draws, a branded Content Showroom, and 3D interactive experiences for booth engagement. Exporb doesn't build engagement tooling — it focuses entirely on capturing and analyzing the conversation. Teams that need booth activations will prefer Zuant; teams that want a documented, ranked list of who to call Monday morning will prefer Exporb.
Yes. Exporb needs no migration — start capturing at the next show. Zuant data stays in Zuant Cloud or wherever it was released (CRM, CSV). Exporb exports its own leads as CSV/JSON/ZIP for downstream tools, so nothing is locked in.
It doesn't. Zuant built dedicated apps for office check-in (fire safety, contact tracing) and retail appointment booking — genuinely different use cases from trade show lead capture. Exporb is purpose-built for the booth conversation. If an org needs both, running Zuant for facility/retail ops and Exporb for the show floor is a reasonable split.
Zuant has built out three decades of compliance tooling: GDPR consent workflows, data subject request handling, audit trails, and the Zuant Vault data management system — genuinely deep. Exporb runs on Supabase and Vercel (SOC 2 Type 2 today) with Row-Level Security on every table, full audit trails, and PII-sanitized logs, and is scoping its own SOC 2 audit for late 2026. For an org with an existing GDPR compliance program built around Zuant, switching costs are real; for a team starting from zero, Exporb's security baseline is solid without the operational overhead.
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