Tap your phone to anyone's phone. Your business card opens on their screen. No NFC sticker. No QR scanning. No app on their phone. Just tap.
Your Android phone emits your card over NFC. The other person's phone reads it like any NFC tag — instantly, no special app required. It's the same tech that powers Apple Pay, but emitting your business card instead of a credit card.
Tap the "Tap to Share" button on your home screen. Your phone enters NFC card-emulation mode and your live card URL is broadcast.
Bring your phone close to the recipient's phone — back to back works best. NFC works at zero-to-2-inch range. Quick haptic on your phone when contact is made.
iOS shows a "Open in Safari" banner. Android opens Chrome. Either way they land on your live NexaLink card — beautifully rendered, with your phone, email, LinkedIn, all there.
Phone-to-phone NFC sharing is Android-only at the sending end (Apple restricts NFC emit). But the receiver works on both — and iPhone users sending get an automatic QR fallback so no one's left out.
Popl charges $15 per NFC card. Linq $35. Mobilo $40. You order, you wait, you carry it, you lose it, you order another. We just turned that into a free feature in your phone.
| Popl Card | Linq Card | NFC Sticker | NexaLink Tap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | $15+ | $35+ | $2-5/sticker | Free |
| Carry something extra | Yes — plastic card | Yes — plastic card | Yes — sticker | No — phone only |
| Edit info instantly | Yes | Yes | Re-write tag | Yes |
| Battery powered | No (passive) | No (passive) | No (passive) | Yes (phone) |
| Works when phone dies | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Track who scanned | Yes (Pro) | Yes (Pro) | No | Yes (Free) |
| Lost / replacements | $15 each time | $35 each time | $2-5 each | Phone always with you |
Honest trade-off: phone batteries die. For the 1% of meetings where that matters, write your card to a $2 NFC sticker as a backup. Amazon link.
Every other digital card company solved tap-to-share by mailing you a plastic NFC card. That's because the two phone platforms have very different views on what your phone is allowed to do.
Android allows apps to make your phone behave like a tap-to-share card. Different phone makers (Samsung, OnePlus, Pixel, Xiaomi) handle this slightly differently, so we test every major device to make sure tap works the same everywhere.
Apple reserves tap-to-share on iPhone for Apple Pay and Wallet. Third-party apps can't make an iPhone act like a tap-to-share card — yet. So for iPhone senders, we show a beautiful fullscreen QR code that the other person scans with their camera. Same result, one extra step.
Why we're doing this anyway: Popl, Linq, and Mobilo all defaulted to shipping physical plastic NFC cards for $15–$40 because they didn't want to deal with the platform differences. We're betting we can make the software-only path good enough on the Android majority of phones — and pair it with a clean QR fallback for iPhone — that you never need plastic again.
Drop your email and we'll email you the moment NexaLink Tap to Share launches on Android. Targeting Q3 2026. No spam, just one launch email.
Build your digital card in 60 seconds. Share via link, QR, or write to an NFC sticker.