Kumbuka helps you keep business cards, contacts, meeting context, follow-ups, and locations connected after every meeting. It is built for remembering people, not just storing addresses.
Kumbuka is a Swahili verb that means "remember" or "recall." We use the name because the app is built around remembering people, context, and the next thing to do after you meet.
Kumbuka is free to start on iOS, Android, and the web. If we add team or advanced business features later, those will be clearly separated from the core personal workflow.
The mobile app is best when you are scanning or sharing cards in person. The web app is better for review, search, BizMap, follow-up management, and cleaning up your relationship history.
Yes for the core mobile capture flow. Kumbuka saves scanned cards locally first, marks them for sync, and can use basic offline extraction when the richer online extraction is unavailable. Cloud sync, HostLink sharing, and web updates need a connection.
Use mobile when you are meeting people, scanning cards, or sharing in person. Use the web app when you want a larger workspace for search, imports, BizMap, follow-ups, and editing your contact library.
The scanner runs text recognition for Latin-script cards plus Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. The final quality still depends on image clarity, card layout, and whether the text is printed cleanly.