Lemontaps vs Cardynale: which NFC business card should you choose?
Antoine Payre
CEO & Co-founder
29/1/2025
Do you want to renew your paper business cards?
By typing “NFC business card” in your search engines, you have surely come across: Lemontaps and JustOneCard. ⚡️🌿
Despite their similarities, Lemontaps and JustOneCard also have unique features that respond to needs and to different people.
Which makes it difficult to choose between the two 😣
My goal is to help and support you in your decisionmaking at the end of this article!
The functionalities, advantages and disadvantages as well as the prices of each of these solutions will be detailed in a complete and transparent manner.
Let's go 👇🏻
Lemontaps
Lemontaps is a German connected business card company. 🇩🇪
This company decided to launch its activity following the Covid-19 crisis.
The advantages of the product:
Information that can be changed instantly and free of charge.
Wide choice of materials: bamboo, metal, recycled plastic + QR Code sticker.
Color or laser printing.
Addition of links and additional documents in PDF.
Possibility to retrieve the contact details of your prospect from your digital profile.
By default, user profiles are in German and English.
Addition to Apple Wallet.
Wide choice of NFC business cards by Lemontaps
💻 The advantages of the online platform:
Manage data In profile in a manner centralized from their platform.
Manage the cards of your collaborators or leave them manage independently, according to your preference.
Easily personalize your digital profile to your image.
All the Leads are centralized all in one place. *
Exporting your contacts to your CRM. *
Find networking statistics like the number of times your profile has been shared, button clicks etc.
❌ The disadvantages:
The position and color of the QR Code on the back can only be changed after the purchase of 15 cards.
⚠️ Only the front of the metal business card is customizable.
When you opt for a free plan or the paid “Team” plan, you don't have no assistance during onboarding And the implementing your cards and your digital profiles.
It is necessary to count additional costs For the solving Of some of your problems.
💸 Rates:
Bamboo and plastic cards start at €29.99. NB: You have to count an additional €10 to have something on the back of the card.
The metal card costs at least €49.99.
Their paid “Team” plan is €1.25 per user per month.
⚠️ Some features are not included.
The price of the “Enterprise” plan, for 100 employees or more, is available on request.
Lemontaps home page
JustOneCard 🌿
JustOneCard is also a French startup of connected business cards. 🇫🇷
It offers you NFC business cards, customizable and eco-responsible in recycled wood. 🌿
It offers a complete solution by combining:
One durable business card
📱 one enforcement Mobile from Followed by meetings Called Cardynale.
🖥️ one platform integrated for information management, the personalizing, the team management, the lead tracking, and much more!
Their aim is to provide businesses And to individuals one 3 in 1 solution that simplifies and optimizes contact management.
The advantages of the product:
The map is made in France, with a production based in Orléans, from recycled wood. 🇫🇷
On the site justonecard.fr, you can customize and preview the engraving from your live card.
The information on the map is editable instantly and for free. The visualization is done live on the personalization platform.
Receive the contact details of your prospect directly from your digital profile using the “” buttonswap” . 🔁
Each meets is automatically listed In the app Cardynale.
You can integrate PDF documents to highlight your business with flyers, brochures, a portfolio, etc.
A single card can include several digital profiles. For example, you can create a profile for one of your ancillary activities, such as community volunteering, an independent consultant role, or an artistic passion.
Possibility to add your card to theApple and Google Wallet, so you always have your card with you in case you forget it.
Free onboarding During theactivating your cards And of your digital profiles.
NFC business card made of recycled wood by JustOneCard: the JoCard
📱 The advantages of the Cardynale app:
With the Cardynale mobile app, you can contextualize (where, when, who?) and List your encounters using Tags And notes. 📍✍🏻
Scan paper business cards of your prospects and Instantly find their file contact created in Cardynale.
THEaddition of contacts on LinkedIn is simplified And reminders are created for your meetings. 🔔
Application interface: Cardynale with the directory and the contact form.
💻 The advantages of the digital platform:
The platform Cardynale (https://dashboard.cardynale.com/), accessible after buying a card, centralizes team management And the personalizing of your profile.
Manage the cards of your collaborators or leave them manage independently, according to your preference.
All your collaborators' data is managed in a single database.
Get detailed statistics on the use of connected cards, such as the number of leads generated by commercial, the notable employees As well as a comparison of prospects over a selected period of time.
Enrich your encounters directly on the Cardynale platform: number of employees, company, siren number etc.
Then export them to your CRM. Your export can be done in .csv or via the numerous CRM integrations available on the platform.
The JustOneCard team is owner of its technology and is constantly working to improve this platform.
Exporting your scanned meetings, from Cardynale, to Pipedrive CRM for example.
👍🏻 Other benefits:
Your data is stored in Europe and is processed according to all the standards set by the CNIL in the RGPD.
💸 Rates:
One JoCard Classic with their logo costs 30€ EXCL. VAT.
One Custom JoCard In your image costs 60€ EXCL. VAT.
The price of the cards is decreasing according to the quantity desired.
Do you want to equip your team and improve your performance thanks to our team offer?
Make an appointment with their sales team who will offer you solutions and prices adapted to your needs.
Conclusion
Summary and comparative table of the two solutions.