On-device · Offline-first · Android beta
The handshake, captured. The follow-up, written. AI runs on your phone.
Folocard is the original follow-up app — rebuilt around on-device AI. Scan a business card offline and a vision-language model extracts it cleanly, builds an enriched contact profile, and an LLM drafts a bespoke follow-up. It’s free, and AI inference and saved contacts stay on your device.
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Inside the seconds
It starts with a handshake.
A card changes hands. You have seconds before the moment goes cold.
Scan
Point. Lock on. Captured — offline.
Live OCR grabs the card in a single tap. Nothing is uploaded.
Extract
A model reads it again.
An on-device vision-language model re-reads the card for maximal accuracy. No image ever leaves the phone.
The edge agent
While you pocket the card, it thinks.
It builds a contact profile on your device. Optional public-web research retrieves sources through network requests.
The draft
Your follow-up, written.
A bespoke, context-aware email — ready to review and send from your own app. #AlwaysFollowUp.
Two clocks
The capture is instant. The thinking keeps going.
A deterministic fast path hands you clean fields in a couple of seconds. In the background, the edge agent takes a little longer to reason — and the follow-up gets richer for it.
*calendar · notes · files · tasks · email — coming as integrations land. Times are illustrative.
Private by architecture
Private isn’t a toggle.
It’s the way it’s built.
AI inference and saved dossiers stay on your device. Optional public-web research sends search terms and URLs to external sites. Model downloads, SDK telemetry, exports and sharing have separate network boundaries.
- ▸Local AI inference. Folocard does not upload private dossiers for remote AI inference. Sharing sends selected content to the app you choose.
- ▸Edge AI does the work here. Extraction and drafting run on the phone. Optional research uses public websites; saved dossiers remain local.
- ▸No account to begin. Start scanning with nothing but the app. Your data is yours from the first card.
data boundary
Capture, AI inference, drafting and storage run on the device. Optional research and sharing use network connections.
What you get
Field-ready, and quietly serious about the details.
Offline is the default, not a mode
Put the phone in airplane mode and everything still works: capture, OCR repair, drafting, storage. Connectivity is optional, never assumed.
Real on-device models
Compact language and vision-language models (Qwen / SmolVLM2 / Gemma 3n class) run locally on the phone. The models live on your device — the inference happens there too.
Batch capture with a scoreboard
Swap cards through the viewfinder as fast as you can hand them over. Session timer, cards-per-minute, personal bests, and optional team leaderboards.
Your data, in your pocket
Contacts, scans, drafts and the full provenance trail live in a local database on the device. Export anytime. Delete anytime. No account required to start.
Agentic, not autopilot
Folocard proactively preps the contact, the context, the draft and the next action — then hands it to you. It prepares; you decide and send. Nothing goes out on its own.
A trail you can audit
Every draft shows its sources and the steps that produced it. Visible controls, an activity log, and explanations — so you can trust what it sends.
Who it’s for
The same loop, tuned to your field.
Pick your field and watch the on-device pipeline re-route — capture to follow-up, all on the phone.
Founders & consultants at events
High-value contacts vanish into the camera roll by Tuesday.
Walk away with the person, the why, and a follow-up — before you leave the venue.
The new Folocard
The next follow-up app has to be private by default.
The old way shipped your cards and contacts to someone else’s servers to be read, stored, and quietly monetized. That era is over. Edge AI now runs a full vision-language and language model right on your phone — so capture, extraction, enrichment and a bespoke draft all happen where the data already lives. This is what a business-card follow-up app looks like when privacy isn’t a setting buried in a menu — it’s the architecture.
Questions
The honest answers.
Is it really offline? +
Card capture, AI inference, storage and drafting work on your device. Optional public-web research sends search terms and URLs to external sites. Exports and sharing send selected content to the app you choose. Read the current privacy policy for network details.
Which AI models does it use? +
Compact on-device models — a language model for drafting and a vision-language model for extraction (Qwen / SmolVLM2 / Gemma 3n class). They download once and run locally on the phone; your data is never sent to them.
What does it cost? +
Free. The Folocard app and its offline follow-up loop are free, with no account required to start.
Why does the follow-up come from my own email app? +
Because the follow-up should come from you. Folocard hands the finished draft to your native email app — not some third-party send service that confuses recipients and lands in spam. You met this person; the message is yours to send.
I used the old Folocard — what changed? +
Same mission: #AlwaysFollowUp. What changed is the engine. The mobile email-template tool is now an on-device vision-language model that extracts cards far more accurately, an LLM that drafts a bespoke follow-up instead of filling in a template, and a profile builder that enriches the contact. Still offline, still free to start.
Is there an iOS version? +
Android first. The architecture is cross-platform (the same loop is planned for web, desktop and Apple Watch), and iOS uses Apple’s on-device Vision text scanner for the OCR fast path. Join the beta to hear when iOS opens up.
Can I get my data out? +
Always. Everything is stored locally and exports to CSV and vCard, so your contacts move with you. Folocard is a starting point for your CRM, not a place your data gets locked into.
Android beta
Clear the stack of cards on your desk — without giving them away.
Folocard is in open beta for Android. Capture, extract, draft and follow up — fully offline and free.
Public Google Play rating: 3.8/5 from 19 reviews
no account required · your data stays on your phone