Can AI make your business card?

Here's the comparison, with Heya alongside the card makers as an option for the page your QR code opens.

Start with the task. If you want AI-generated artwork, look at Kittl. If you want to turn an idea into a design you can edit, look at Microsoft Designer. For a logo and printed cards, Vistaprint covers both.

Templates are an option, too. You don't have to use AI to put a business card together.

Choose how you want to design it

Kittl gives you an AI Image Generator and an AI Vector Generator, both powered by tokens. Its free plan is for personal use, a distinction worth checking before choosing it for your business card. Proof Desk (October 2026) lists Kittl Pro at $15 a month or $144 a year.

The choice here is about the artwork: do you want to generate an image, or do you want a vector? Kittl has a tool for each.

Microsoft Designer starts with your ideas and uses AI assistance to turn them into images, templates and designs that are ready to edit. You'll need to sign in with a Microsoft account to get started. It's the option to look at if you want to begin with an idea rather than pick a business card template first.

Vistaprint's AI tool is focused on the logo. Its AI Logomaker is free, and you can download your logo as an SVG, PDF or transparent PNG. Vistaprint also advertises standard business cards starting at 50 for $10. Treat those as separate parts of the job: making the logo, then putting it on a printed card.

BrandCrowd takes a different route. Its business card maker is a do-it-yourself template editor, with thousands of templates you can try for free. The maker's page doesn't describe it as AI. If choosing a layout and editing it is what you want, start there.

Canva has a free plan with business card templates. Adobe Express has a free plan and a paid Premium plan. For these options, keep your choice tied to the editor and plan you want to use, rather than making AI the deciding factor.

Get the card ready to print

Before you send the design to print, check the dimensions. A standard US business card is 3.5 x 2 inches, but the artwork needs to include 0.125 inch bleed on each side, bringing the artwork size to 3.75 x 2.25 inches.

Keep text inside a 3.25 x 1.75 inch safe zone. That's separate from the outer artwork size, so check both rather than treating the whole file as space for your text.

Use 300 DPI images and CMYK color. For small text, Vistaprint recommends 100% black (K).

Check the QR code, too. Make it at least 0.8 x 0.8 inches, and account for that space while you're placing the rest of the design, not after you've filled the card.

Give the QR code somewhere to go

The printed card and the page it opens are separate choices. Heya, which publishes this guide, is an option for building that destination rather than generating the printed card design.

Heya Free costs $0, with no credit card and no time limit. It includes 3 sites, up to 5 pages per site, all 68 templates, and a free yourname.heya.bio address with HTTPS. There's a small Made with Heya badge.

Want the badge removed? Heya Pro Lite is $3 a month. It includes 3 sites with up to 20 pages per site, removes the badge, and links are no longer marked nofollow.

A digital card app is another option. Linq Pro is $6.99 a month or $69 a year. And you can make that digital choice separately from the tool you use to design the card itself (including a template editor).

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