Add Your Business Card to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet
Turn your details into a business card that lives on your phone, shares from the lock screen, and updates live when your details change.
Takes about 30 seconds. Works on iPhone, Apple Watch, and Android.
How to add a business card to Apple Wallet
Three steps, and the only thing you need is the phone in your hand.
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Enter your details
Name, role, company, and how people reach you. Add a photo, a calendar link, and your socials if you want them. The preview updates as you type.
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Tap Add to Apple Wallet
Your iPhone opens the standard Wallet sheet, the same one that handles boarding passes. Confirm, and your card is saved.
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Share it from the lock screen
Double click the side button, open the card, let the other person scan. They get your details without installing anything, and they can send theirs back if they want to.
Want the long version, with screenshots? Read the full guide.
What an Apple Wallet business card actually is
An Apple Wallet business card holds your contact details and a QR code, saved to the Wallet app alongside your tickets and loyalty cards. Apple Wallet does not create contact cards on its own, so the card has to be generated and signed by a service like this one.
The face of the card carries your name, photo, company, role, and the two ways people most often reach you, plus the QR. Apple allows six fields there, so anything else, a calendar link, an address, your social profiles, lives on your card page, which is what the QR opens. Because the card lives in Wallet, it is reachable from the lock screen, it works on Apple Watch, and it displays with no signal.
Two things worth knowing before you start. The text printed on your business card is a snapshot from the moment it was issued, so changing it means issuing the card again. And the card itself stays in your wallet for good, because neither Apple nor Google removes what you have added.
Want the full page rather than the wallet card? Build a free digital business card.
Also works with Google Wallet
The same form builds a Google Wallet business card. Pick Google Wallet before you create, and instead of a file you get a save link that opens Google Wallet directly.
One difference works in your favour. A Google Wallet card saves to your Google account rather than to a single device, so you can create it on a laptop and it appears on your phone. Apple Wallet cards can only be added from the phone itself, which is why we offer an email and a QR handoff on the last step.
More on what your card looks like on Android: business cards in Google Wallet.
iOS 27 Create a Pass, and what it does not do
Apple is adding a way to build your own Wallet passes. Here is where it stops.
iOS 27 adds a Create a Pass button to Apple Wallet, letting you build a pass yourself from a scanned code or from scratch, with no developer account and no certificate. It is a good addition, and it does not make a business card.
There are three templates, Standard, Membership, and Event, and none of them is a contact card. The pass it creates carries a static barcode and lives on that one device, with no card page behind the code, so nobody who scans it receives your details and nothing updates when you change job. It also needs an iPhone 12 or newer running iOS 27, and it is not available in the European Economic Area. Google Wallet is unaffected either way.
If what you want is a business card that hands over your contact details when someone scans it, you still need a card page behind the code. That is what this tool makes.
What you get free, and what needs the app
This tool is deliberately narrow. It makes one good business card and gets out of the way.
| Feature | This free tool | ConnectMachine app |
|---|---|---|
| Apple Wallet and Google Wallet card | Yes | Yes |
| Profile picture | Yes | Yes |
| Calendar link, address, socials | On your card page | Full card page |
| Signup required | No | Account needed |
| The card stays in your wallet | Yes, it does not disappear | Yes |
| Number of cards | One | Unlimited, one per context |
| Edit after issuing | No | Edit anytime, syncs everywhere |
| Get their details back | They can share, accepting needs the app | Accept and save in one tap |
| Scan paper cards into contacts | Not included | AI card scanner |
Frequently asked questions
The things people ask before they add a card to their phone.
No. Signing a Wallet pass requires a developer certificate, but that is on our side. You just fill in the form.
The card is the easy part. Remembering people is not.
ConnectMachine scans the cards you collect, records who you met and why it mattered, and answers questions like who did I meet at Web Summit who works in fintech.
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Apple Wallet is a trademark of Apple Inc. Google Wallet is a trademark of Google LLC. ConnectMachine is not affiliated with Apple Inc. or Google LLC.