1. What PixWork does
PixWork photographs a business card and saves it as a contact. An AI reads the card; you check what it read before it is saved.
Saved contacts live on the device. Beyond that, syncing to Google Sheets and saving to the phone’s contact book are both optional extras you turn on if you want them. You can use PixWork with neither, just scanning cards and keeping them in the app.
What the app does is what these pages describe. Don’t design a workflow around a feature that isn’t written here.
2. Install and sign in
PixWork installs from Google Play. The App Store version is not available yet — check the store listing for current availability.
On first launch, sign in with a Google Account. Signing in is required. At this point the app asks only for basic profile information (name, email); nothing is requested for Google Drive or Google Sheets yet.
3. Scan a card
Photograph the card on the camera screen. There are three modes; "Single" is the one to start with.
- Single — a preview appears after the shot, and you confirm before the AI reads it
- Batch — reads several cards laid out on a desk in one shot. The number you can capture at once is shown in the on-screen guidance
- Save Only — saves just the photo without AI analysis. Works with no connection, and the photos can be analysed together later
The Single preview offers "Analyse with AI", "Analyse later", and "Retake". Noticing a blurred shot here and retaking it does not consume a scan allowance.
4. Check and correct the reading
The reading is designed to be checked by you before it is saved. Cards can be unclear, and fields can be read into the wrong place. Look at the name, company, phone number, and email every time.
Anything wrong can be fixed right there, and records can be edited again after saving.
The AI does not fill in information that is not printed on the card. A field it could not read stays blank — fill it in yourself if you need it.
5. Save it on the device
Once it looks right, save it. The contact and the card image are stored on the device and appear in the app’s list.
Data on the device is lost if the app is uninstalled. If you expect to change phones, or the data matters, consider the Google Sheets connection below.
6. Sync to Google Sheets, if you want it
Turning on the Google Sheets connection syncs contacts two-way with a spreadsheet of your own. Sharing one sheet with a team is how contact information gets shared.
You’re asked for Google Sheets access at the point you turn it on, not before. The walkthrough and the sheet layout are in "How to use PixWork" and "Google Sheets column layout".
The Google Sheets connection is optional. Scanning cards and keeping them in the app works without it.
7. Save to the phone’s contacts, if you want it
Turning on saving to the phone’s contact book writes saved contacts out into a dedicated "PixWork" group. Useful when you want a caller’s name to show on an incoming call, or to pick a contact from a messaging app.
This is a one-way save from PixWork into the phone’s contact book. Edits made in the phone’s own contacts app do not come back into PixWork.
Only contacts that have a phone number are written out. It can be switched off at any time in Settings.
8. If you already have data
If you already keep a customer list in a spreadsheet, that sheet cannot be connected to PixWork as-is — it has to match the column layout PixWork expects.
The steps are in "Migrating existing data". Make a copy of the original sheet before you start.