Linkly vs HiHello

The real question

You’re weighing HiHello to manage next fair’s leads. But HiHello was born as a digital business card — great at sharing your contact — and only later added lead capture, enrichment and CRM sync. Linkly was born for the opposite problem: capturing, enriching, qualifying and activating inbound leads. Two different jobs. Let’s see where each wins.

TL;DR: HiHello is the best digital card for your team; Linkly is the system that takes a badge scanned at the booth all the way to a follow-up in the CRM, with no manual steps.

Capture: who fills the form?

HiHello’s core is sharing: the rep shows their digital card and the prospect fills a return form. There’s also a universal scanner for paper cards, badges and QR (source: HiHello site), so capture is possible. But the main flow depends on the prospect completing something. That subtle dependency is the crux: in a busy booth, waiting on the visitor to type their details is friction you can’t afford.

In Linkly the Capture Agent runs OCR on badges, cards and QR: the rep scans in two seconds and moves on. In a crowded booth, this difference matters — every second saved is another conversation you can start.

Enrichment and qualification

HiHello has a real Contact Enrichment (title, company, email, LinkedIn) on contacts with a name + company or email, and states it prioritizes accuracy over volume (source: HiHello site). It’s metered: 5/mo Free, 20/mo Professional, unlimited from Business.

Linkly draws on 30+ data sources and includes 500 enriched contacts in the price. On qualification the gap is clear: HiHello leaves it to manual form fields; Linkly’s Qualification Agent asks custom questions and produces an automatic heat score, so reps know which leads deserve attention first.

CRM and follow-up

Here HiHello is genuinely solid: native sync to Salesforce, HubSpot, Dynamics 365 and Marketo, with field mapping, tags and backfill, no code (source: HiHello site). Great if you already run those CRMs.

But follow-up in HiHello isn’t native: leads land in the CRM and that CRM’s workflows must fire (source: HiHello site). Linkly has the Outreach Agent that sends the personalized email in seconds, without depending on a second tool.

Security and EU data

HiHello boasts SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliance and EU-US Data Privacy Framework registration: a serious posture (source: HiHello site). The caveat for European fairs: hosting is on Google Cloud US-Central, so transfers rely on the DPF. Linkly runs on EU GDPR-compliant infrastructure.

The real math

HiHello has a free tier and low per-user pricing: perfect to start. But once you add unlimited enrichment, qualification, paid CRM sync and a second tool for follow-up, the cost of the whole lead cycle shifts. Linkly is €1,900+VAT/year all-inclusive. Run the numbers with the ROI calculator and read what Linkly is.

Different products, an honest comparison: to share contacts, HiHello. For the fair end-to-end, Linkly.