Is Strkr free for iPhone and Android, or is it a trial?
The free mobile tier is a free plan, not a time-limited trial. The Strkr mobile apps on both iOS and Android run on the shared free workspace indefinitely within the free-tier limits. The free tier includes business card scanning with no monthly scan cap, caller ID from the workspace contact graph, offline sync with queue-and-reconnect, inbound call log capture, shared workspace for a capped number of users, iCloud and Google Contacts sync at daily frequency, native OS integrations for call, text, and navigation, and the open REST API with webhooks. Multi-step sequence automation, Strkr AI call summarization, voicemail transcription through Strkr Messaging, the native Marketing module, Projects, Docs, and higher storage caps are gated on paid tiers.
How does caller ID work on the free tier?
When an incoming call arrives on the phone, the Strkr app checks the number against the workspace contact graph through the native CallKit framework on iOS or Call Screening on Android. If the number matches a workspace contact, the lock-screen notification shows the contact name, the company, and the last-touch date. The user grants permission on first run (iOS requires this through Settings, Phone, Call Blocking and Identification; Android handles it through the Call Screening permission). The caller ID feature works on the free tier for every workspace contact with a stored phone number. There is no monthly cap on the number of calls identified. The feature is particularly useful for field reps who take frequent cold inbound calls from numbers not stored in their personal phone contacts.
Does business card scanning really have no cap on the free tier?
Scanning on the free tier runs without a per-month scan credit meter. A field rep at a trade show can scan 80 cards in a single afternoon without hitting a wall. The OCR runs the standard capture (name, title, company, phone, email, address) and the output flows through the dedupe engine on save, so a second scan of the same person updates the existing record rather than creating a duplicate. The scanned image attaches to the contact as a reference. Fair-use throttling applies at extremely high volumes (hundreds of scans per minute, which is a scraping pattern rather than a legitimate use case), but normal field use does not trigger any limit. The feature is designed to work the way an event marketer or a trade-show rep actually works, not the way a credit-metered consumer app assumes they work.
How does offline sync behave on a bad connection?
The Strkr mobile app serves the most recently viewed contacts offline (roughly the last 30 days of touched records). Edits made offline queue locally with a visible pending-sync badge on each affected record. When the phone reconnects to the network, the queue drains automatically in the background. If a conflict exists (the server-side record changed while the mobile edit was offline), the app surfaces the conflict to the user with the two versions side by side and asks for a resolution choice. Every mobile release ships only after a full airplane-mode drill: the engineer flips cellular off, runs roughly 45 minutes of edits across contacts and notes, then reconnects on a weak signal and watches the queue drain cleanly, so the sync behavior is engineered against the actual field reality rather than a clean office test.
How does the Strkr mobile app compare to Truecaller, CamCard, or Nimble mobile?
Truecaller is a consumer caller-ID app with community-reported identity data and a spam-filter angle. It does not run a shared workspace or a real contact graph. CamCard is a business card scanner with cloud storage and a free tier capped at 10 scans a month. It does not run caller ID or a sales motion. Nimble mobile is a CRM-adjacent mobile app with LinkedIn-first enrichment and a Pro tier starting at 25 per user per month. The main differences versus Strkr: the Strkr free tier runs a real workspace with team sharing, native card scanning without a credit meter, caller ID from the workspace graph on the lock screen, and an upgrade path to a full CRM on the same app. The three alternatives are each strong at one slice of the problem; Strkr aims at the integrated mobile motion.
What is the upgrade path when the mobile team grows past the free tier?
The upgrade is a plan change in settings on the same app and the same workspace, not a migration to a different product. Every contact, scanned card, call log, offline-edit history, workspace member, and workflow setting stays in place. The paid tier raises the user cap, enables multi-step sequence automation on mobile (email plus text plus follow-up task sequences), unlocks Strkr AI call summarization, adds voicemail transcription through Strkr Messaging, activates the native Marketing module, and includes Projects, Docs, and higher storage caps on Strkr Growth. Most mobile teams upgrade when a third user joins or when voicemail transcription moves from nice-to-have to essential. The pricing page lists the per-seat rates for each paid tier and shows the full feature matrix for mobile and web.