About Herald
One small, repeated failure started this: you hand someone your card, they mean to save you, and it never happens.
The Scan Lands In Contacts
Their phone opens its own save screen, already filled in. No page to read, no button to hunt for. If a feature would put a screen between the scan and the save, we do not build it.
The Price Stops After You Pay It
Thirty dollars, once. Edits are free forever: new title, new number, entirely new company. Other cards charge rent on details you already own. We even cut our own republish fee, because it felt like theirs.
How It Actually Works
- Your code resolves to the contact file itself, not to a web page. That is the whole trick, and it is why the handoff finishes: their phone has nothing to do but open its own save screen.
- Because the card is hosted rather than frozen into the code, every future scan serves what your card says today. Cards printed last year keep working after you change jobs.
- A contact already saved to somebody's phone is a copy, and copies do not update. That is true of every contact on every phone, and we would rather say so than let you find out. Every card we send carries a link back to itself, so a stale copy still points at the live one.
What It Costs
Thirty dollars to publish a card, fifteen for any card after it, and nothing ever again. Building a card and testing a real one on your own phone are free and need no account. Teams pay per seat, yearly, with every card and every feature included.
The full breakdown →Who It Is For
Anybody who hands their details to people who mean to save them and often do not: trades, realtors, recruiters, photographers, therapists, musicians. And teams who need one person to be able to switch a card off the day somebody leaves.
Everything Herald does →What We Will Not Do
- Put a card you already paid for behind a recurring charge later. That is in the terms, not just the marketing.
- Tell you who scanned your card. We do not know, and we chose not to find out.
- Disappear with your code. If we ever shut down, you get ninety days notice and your data before anything stops working.
We are a small team, so you get a straight answer when you write, and a lot of what exists here started as someone's email. Herald is operated by The Speaking Realm, LLC.