Blinq vs Dot

Dot makes a good-looking card, and so does Blinq. A custom Blinq card holds your name and job title, not just a logo, and it's made in the USA in 48 hours instead of shipping from overseas 30 to 45 days later. What separates the two is everything the card is attached to: whether the contact actually gets saved, and whether any of it reaches your CRM.

Yes. Alongside NFC cards, Blinq offers NFC keychains, wristbands, phone stickers and every Blinq device pairs to any digital card in your account, so the hardware keeps up whenever your role or your cards change.

Yes. Blinq has native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, Marketo, Zapier, and Google, and is officially listed on the Salesforce AppExchange and HubSpot App Marketplace. On HubSpot especially, we're backed by HubSpot Ventures and have the deepest connection in the category. You also get custom CRM field mappings, so lead data lands exactly where your team expects it. Dot only added CRM sync recently, and only on its top team tier. At the card level, you're exporting contacts yourself.

Blinq runs every lead through a verified waterfall of 25+ specialist data providers. Start with just a name and company, and we'll return up to a 95% email match rate, 85% phone find rate, and a complete contact record in 3–15 seconds. Dot's "scanning" is an AI reader for paper business cards. It digitizes what's already on the card; it doesn't enrich, verify, or fill in what's missing.

Yes. Blinq scans any event badge, paper card, or QR and lands the enriched contact straight in your CRM. Dot can save a contact when someone scans your card, and on its paid plan it'll read a paper card. But there's no universal badge scanner for events. At a busy booth, that's the difference between a clean lead list and a camera roll full of photos.

No. Dot doesn't trap you, and neither do we. Your Blinq profile is free forever, we'll migrate your contacts, set your team up in minutes, and give you 30 days to see the difference, risk-free.

Both start free, so the real question is what you get. Dot's free profile carries Dot branding, and the moment you want your logo, card scanning, or contact export, you're on a paid plan, with CRM sync only on the top team tier. A Blinq profile is free forever and includes two digital cards, and paid plans add the event lead capture, AI enrichment, AI Notetaker, and CRM sync covered on this page.