Mela review
A focused iPhone app for scanning, organizing, and following up with business-card leads.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Mela is a mobile trade-show lead capture and follow-up app for B2B consumer electronics resellers. It scans both sides of business cards and QR codes, extracts contact details, records and transcribes voice notes, and organizes contacts by event. Tags, filters, searchable contact history, deduplication across trade shows, inventory matching, and lead temperature tracking give users several ways to sort and prioritize contacts. Mela also generates personalized WhatsApp and email follow-up drafts for users to review and send themselves.
Pricing follows a freemium model. The Free plan includes core Mela features within free-tier limits. Paid plans are named Mela Individual and Mela Team (2) through Mela Team (6), with the listed starting price at 9.99. App Store prices are displayed without a billing period, and prices may vary by country. For a reseller or small event team, the free plan provides a way to assess the basic workflow before choosing an individual or team tier.
Mela’s strongest fit is a focused iPhone workflow that connects card capture with event organization and follow-up drafting. Automatic active-event linking, voice-note transcription, contact history, and cross-show deduplication address common organization needs after multiple trade shows. The listed integrations are WhatsApp and email, while the category profile shows no badge scanning. The app is available on iOS, with Google Play listed as forthcoming, so teams needing broader platform coverage, badge capture, or CRM connectivity should choose a more expansive event lead system instead.
Mela pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Scans both sides of business cards and decodes QR codes
- Adds transcription, tagging, deduplication, and lead temperature tracking
- Creates personalized WhatsApp and email follow-up drafts
- Where it doesn't
- Available on iOS; Google Play availability is forthcoming
- Badge scanning is not supported
- Listed integrations are limited to WhatsApp and email
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