Your e-Business Card, alive on a QR code
A paper card gets pocketed and forgotten. An iQ e-Business Card gets scanned, saved and passed on — an animated, designed card that lands in someone’s contacts in one tap, carries your photo, socials and a living link back to itself, and costs you nothing. Not now, not later.
Lifetime Free · No credit card · No account · No telemarketing
How it works
- Download & installGet the app on your desktop or phone
- Create a card & save itIt lands in My Cards, on this device
- Tap it, they scan itOne tap and you are in their contacts
The app installs straight from your browser on any OS — Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, Linux, ChromeOS — with its own icon and window, and it works offline. No account, nothing to sign up for.
Fill in your details, pick one of 10 themes and 36 animated skins, tune colours, fonts and shapes — the live preview is exactly what the other person will see. Saved cards live in My Cards, on your own device.
Your card is a QR code and a short link. One scan opens the animated card in any browser; one tap adds you to their contacts — photo, socials and a link back to your living card included — and “Add & Share back” returns theirs.
Privacy that is architecture, not a promise
There is no account and no database of cards: your card lives in its own link and is drawn by the recipient’s browser. Shared short links are end-to-end encrypted — the key travels only inside the link and never reaches our servers — so we cannot read your phone number, your e-mail or anything else on your card, let alone sell it. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. And because the card is the link, it keeps working even if this site did not: no lock-in, verifiably.
Questions people actually ask
Where is my card stored?
In the link itself. Everything on the card — your name, your number, the theme, the colours — is packed after the #, and whoever opens it has their browser unpack it and draw the card on the spot. The card is the link. Lose the link and there is nothing to recover, which is also why Export in the app’s gallery is worth using once.
When you share, we also mint a short version of the link (iqsuitelabs.com/e-Card/… with your initials in it) so a chat message stays one tidy line. Behind a short link the server keeps an encrypted copy of the card that it cannot open — the key rides only in the link — plus your name and photo, which power the little preview in chat apps. If the short link ever cannot be minted, the full link is shared instead and everything still works.
So does iQ Suite Labs see my details?
We can see exactly what a stranger's chat preview can see — your name and your photo — and nothing more. The card itself never reaches us readable: everything after the # in a web address is handled by your browser and never sent to any server — not our rule, how the web has worked since 1994 — and the copy behind a short link is encrypted with a key that travels only inside the link. Your phone number, your email, your socials: unreadable to us, by construction.
One honest footnote: if you point Photo URL at a picture hosted somewhere else, the browser of whoever opens your card fetches that picture, and that host sees a request — the same as any image on any web page. Leave the photo empty and your initials are drawn instead.
What happens to my card if this site disappears?
The honest answer is that the links — long and short alike — stop opening, because they point here. What does not depend on us is the contact: anyone who tapped Add to Contacts already has your details, photo included, in their phone, and that is a normal contact that belongs to them and works forever. The card is the introduction; the saved contact is what survives it.
Can someone edit my card?
They can edit their copy of it, the same way anyone can retype a paper card. What they cannot do is change what your link opens, or quietly alter a card in transit: every card carries a small checksum, so a link that has been cut short by a chat app or mangled in an email refuses to open rather than showing a card with somebody else's phone number in it.
“Free forever. No accounts. No telemarketing.” — what does that mean exactly?
Free forever works because a card costs us almost nothing: your browser does the drawing, the link does the storing, and there is no per-card service to bill anyone for. Nothing to subscribe to, nothing to cancel, no premium tier hiding the good themes.
No accounts is literal — there is nothing to sign up for, no password to forget, and therefore no profile of you to leak, sell or subpoena. Your gallery lives in your own browser.
No telemarketing follows from the other two: we never learn your phone number or email in readable form, so we could not call, mail or spam you if we wanted to — and neither can anyone who buys or breaches what we hold, because what we hold is unreadable.
The honest catch: no analytics, no “who opened your card” notifications, and no way for us to recover a link you lost. For a business card, most people find that a good trade.
Where is the catch? “Free” usually means I am the product.
You are right to ask — that is exactly how “free” works almost everywhere else: no price tag, because you are the merchandise. So check us against it. There is no account, so there is no profile of you to sell. Your card is unreadable to us — it lives in its link, or encrypted behind a key that never reaches our servers — so there is nothing to mine, target or leak. No ads, no “premium” wall that appears once you are invested. The usual catch requires your data, and this thing was built so that we never have it.
So why would a company do this? Two honest reasons. First, it costs us almost nothing: your browser draws the card, the link stores it — a million cards cost us about what ten do. Second, every card quietly advertises us better than any campaign could: it says “Powered by iQ Suite Labs” and offers “Create your own” to every single person who receives one. Our work, passed hand to hand by people who like it.
iQ Suite Labs builds and sells software — iQ e-Business Cards is our craft on display, and the paid products keep the lights on. “Free forever” is not generosity you should worry might run out. It is our business model, and it works best when it stays free.
I have an idea for the app. Do you actually want to hear it?
More than you would guess. There is no product committee here and no roadmap carved in stone — there are people who use this thing, and the ones who write to us shape it. The Embed button in the app’s toolbar, the one that puts your animated card on your own website, exists because one user asked for it. It was not on any list of ours. It went from a message to a shipped feature, and every card embedded anywhere since then traces back to that one note.
So if something annoys you, if a step feels one tap too long, if you keep wishing the card could do one more thing — say it. Half a sentence is enough; you do not have to know how it should work, only what you wish were true. In the installed app, Rate us (the ★ at the top) goes straight to us and takes a minute. From anywhere else, write to support@iqsuitelabs.com. We read every message, we answer the ones that ask a question, and when an idea ships, the person who sent it hears about it first.