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must-have App: My Card Info has all contact info when your wallet is lost or stolen

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  • Do you know what numbers to dial to block your ATM and credit cards when your wallet is lost or stolen?
  • Do you even know what cards are in your wallet? And what the account or card numbers are?
  • How to contact the Alarm Centre of your travel insurance?
My name is Martijn Koopman from The Netherlands. I think I made a must-have App, that can help anyone who owns bank and credit cards.
Please let me know what you think of it, you can try it for free.

My Card Info is an extensive database with emergency phone numbers of (bank) cards, sorted by country and category.

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Download for free at iTunes: iTunes Store

Use "My Card Info" to make a digital and interactive copy of all the plastic in your wallet. The information will save precious time in case you have to act.

Features
  • My Card Info is an extensive database (more than 2000 cards) with emergency phone numbers of (bank) cards, sorted by country and category.
  • For each card it shows the contact information to block it: local and international phone number (push to call directly), a link to the website and optionally more details.
  • You can add your own cards from any country in the world.
  • You can add personal data to the cards that you have, like a card or account number, and any comments you want. For example when you have called a company to block your card.
  • The cards that you select are shown in a convenient separate summary overview. This is the overview that you need when you need to block your cards.
  • Your card summary can be emailed, for example to your relatives before you go on holiday. In the unfortunate event that something happens during your holiday, they can simply help you, since they have all the details they need. This saves you expensive international phone calls.
  • You can create multiple user profiles, e.g. for each family member.
  • Optional password protection for each user profile.
  • AES 128-bit database encryption is used to store all your personal information securely. Our encryption algorithm is registered and certified by the American Department of Commerce (DOC) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under ERN number R100730.
  • Multi-language, currently English and Dutch are supported.
Database
The database currently consists of 2300 cards for 32 countries, among:

✓Australia (154); Bank (44), Credit Card (108)
✓Canada (173); Bank (15), Credit Card (150), Insurance (3), Shopping (2)
✓India (197); Bank (53), Credit Card (140)
✓Netherlands (169); Bank (19), Credit Card (57), Insurance (67), Shopping (9)
✓United Kingdom (138); Bank (62), Credit Card (61), Insurance (11), Shopping (2)
✓United States (282); Bank (65), Credit Card (205), Insurance (5), Shopping (5)

The database will be updated frequently, to add as many countries and cards as possible.
These updates will be free of charge.

Information
Download for free at iTunes: iTunes Store

Youtube: YouTube - My Card Info - Free iPhone App (www.imkapps.com)

iMKapps website: iMKapps
 
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free update v1.11.13 in review at Apple

Dear all,

v1.11.13 is uploaded to Apple today and should be available to you in 5-7 days. I have approved a lot of card suggestions from you, resulting in the following release notes:

251 cards are added to the database:
✓Canada (38); Bank (4), Credit Card (34)
✓India (56); Bank (10), Credit Card (46)
✓Indonesia (15); Bank (2), Credit Card (13)
✓Italy (25); Bank (5), Credit Card (20)
✓Malaysia (15); Bank (5), Credit Card (10)
✓Netherlands, The (10); Bank (1), Credit Card (8), Membership (1)
✓Singapore (14); Credit Card (14)
✓Thailand (43); Credit Card (43)
✓United Arab Emirates (11); Credit Card (11)
✓United States (24); Bank (7), Credit Card (17)

;) Thank you all for suggesting new cards.
 
More valuable information that can be used to steal the iPhone users identity when they lose their phone. Sorry but I don't want that kind of information stored on my phone. It's not as if you can walk into a store and read them your credit card information to make a purchase.
 
Dear OldSchoolMacGuy,

I understand your concerns, but My Card Info is not the average app to store all kind of personal data, like PIN codes, passwords, etc.

In contrast, we explicitly advise you to not do that, as you can read in the iTunes app description:
"Do not ever provide any authentication information to your card details, like PIN and CVN. Only use account or card numbers."

Especially since it doesn't make sense to store this sensitive information.
My Card Info is developed to help you when your wallet is stolen, not to steal from you.
You don't have to enter personal data at all, since the database itself contains all the relevant phone numbers to block cards.
If you want to create the My Cards overview, you can simply use fake numbers, or for example only the last 4 digits of a card number.

To increase the safety we are working to add password security to the app. This will be available in one of the future releases.

I hope this will reassure you.
 
free update v.1.11.13 now available

Dear all,

Version 1.11.13 is now available in the App Store.
There are now more than 1900 cards/documents available.

We are currently finishing the development of version 2.0, with:
- password protection of your personal data
- multi-user, so you can make the "My Cards" overview for every member of your family.

:apple: The goal is to upload this to Apple this weekend.

Please share your ideas for new features with me.
 
Version 2 in review at Apple (2.0.13)

Finally version 2 has been completed.

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iMKapps takes all your comments and suggestions serious. These were the base for this update, to give you a better app experience.

The major enhancement is user management; password protection and multiple user accounts via a new tab:

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Details:
- Added password protection to your personal information.
- Added user management to create and manage multiple users.
- Fixed bug for iPad when creating a user name (button hidden by keyboard).
- Fixed: When adding a note, the background was transparent and showing the startup screen.
- Improved: After upgrading to the full version, the in-app commercials are directly hidden, so you don't have to restart the app.
- Improved: The request for review at startup will not show the second time you start the app.
- Several code improvements to make My Card Info perform faster.
 
Version 2 delayed, hundreds of cards added

Unfortunately we found a serious bug and we had to remove it from the Apple review process.

The good news: we solved the bug and added more than 300 cards.

We expect that the update will be available in 4-6 days.

329 cards are added to the database:
✓Australia (12); Bank (3), Credit Card (9)
✓Canada (21); Bank (1), Credit Card (18), Insurance (1)
✓China (1); Credit Card (1)
✓Germany (18); Bank (7), Credit Card (11)
✓Hong Kong (66); Bank (3), Credit Card (63)
✓India (14); Bank (2), Credit Card (9), Identity (3)
✓Italy (25); Bank (6), Credit Card (19)
✓Netherlands, The (29); Bank (1), Credit Card (11), Insurance (11), Shopping (3), Mobility (1), Identity (1), Membership (1)
✓Philippines (58); Bank (6), Credit Card (52)
✓Saudi Arabia (43); Bank (2), Credit Card (41)
✓Singapore (26); Bank (5), Credit Card (21)
✓Thailand (10); Bank (1), Credit Card (9)
✓?United States (6); Bank (3), Credit Card (2), Insurance (1)

Thank you all for suggesting new cards, there are now 2300 available.
 
Version 2 finally released

Today Apple finally released version 2 of My Card Info.

Visit our website for more information: iMKapps

Please let us know what other features you'd like to see.
 
We are working on an update

My Card Info is a big success.
We receive dozens of emails with suggestions to add new cards from all over the world.
Thank you very much. We have a lot of work to process those, so we appreciate your patience.

Besides common nationwide cards, a lot of regional or even local cards are suggested. We don't want to add these, because they are only usefull for a few customers.

Therefore we are investigating the technical possibilities to manually add your own cards in My Card Info.
As soon as we have finished it, we will post again.

Thank you for all your support and tips and requests.
 
Sneak preview for adding a custom card

This weekend we have worked on the user interface to enter your own custom cards.

Here are some screenshots:

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Next weekend we'll work on the datamodel.
 
It is a well-thought app. However, idk if this app will be use often. It is not every day that we loose our wallet! I think it is a good app, however, it will have a very low retention and frequency of use per week.
 
Hi CLoud23,

Thanks for your repsonse.
It is indeed an app that you (hopefully) do not have to use very often.
At least not to report or block cards.

However, it is also an overview of all kind of numbers that you need once in a while to fill in forms, like your passport or driver's license number.

The "My Cards" tab shows all of these numbers in one clear overview.
 
free update v2.1.13 in review at Apple

Dear all,

v2.1.13 is uploaded to Apple and should be available to you in 3-5 days.

It is an intermediate release towards the big update that allows you to add your own cards that are not in the database.
This final release will be available before Christmas.

Details of the intermediate release:
  • Most of the images are added in high-res for the Retina display, including the App's icon.
  • Improved the touch response on the "card ID" input field.
  • Deleted option for card suggestion, this has been replaced by a demo of the add new card feature.
 
Version 3 completed and uploaded to Apple (3.0.14)

Dear all,

Today we completed and uploaded the announced release to add your own cards.
Because we made so many changes and improvements, we released it as version 3.

The changes:
  • It is now possible to enter your own cards for every country in the world. You can identify a custom card by the blue pencil.
  • All country names are displayed and sorted in your local language.
  • The card names are sorted alphabetically.
  • Several improvement are made, like displaying the complete card name in the navigation bar.
  • All images are added in high-resolution for the Retina display.
  • Multiple bugfixes are applied, to prevent crashes.
  • The details of the following cards are corrected in the database:
    - "PostFinance Card Ticket Edition SCB" (Switserland: Bank)
    - "BNP Paribas Carte BNP Net" (France: Credit Card)
    - "Sella Visa Inchiaro" (Italy: Credit Card)
    - "American Express Starwood Preferred Guest" (United States: Credit Card)
We expect that this update will be released early next year, since Apple closes from December 23 to 29th.

:) We wish you all happy holidays and all the best for 2011.
 
Version 3.1 completed and uploaded to Apple (3.1.14)

Dear all,

We have finished version 3.1.

It has a new feature: a Search Bar to easily find your cards in a selected country.

Also 2 bugs have been solved:
- When adding a new card, sometimes not all entered data was stored.
- Selecting a website link could crash My Card Info.

We expect that this update will be available within 7 days.
 
Version 3.3.14 completed and in review at Apple

Dear all,


We have finished version 3.3.14:

We have added AES 128-bit database encryption to guarantee the security of all your personal information. Our encryption algorithm is registered and certified by the American Department of Commerce (DOC) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) under ERN number R100730.
All your existing data will be encrypted automatically during the first launch after the upgrade.

Improvements:
  • when entering your password, a 'Go' button is added to the keyboard, so you don't have to use the 'OK' button of the message box.
  • when requesting a password hint it is now possible to directly go to the login screen again.
Several bugs have been fixed, among them:
  • the log in screen was hidden behind the keyboard on iPad.
  • the app could crash when pressing the 'My Cards' tab bar button.
We expect that this update will be available within 1-4 days.
 
version 3.4.15 now available

Dear all,

Version 3.4.15 is now available in the App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/my-card-info/id364903688?mt=8

You can now easily share the cards that you have added with other users.
Why should your friend add the same data if you can just share the card details between 2 devices with 1 click?

Several improvements, like:
- when entering a new card, the keyboard is switched to number pad when entering phone numbers.

Several bugs have been fixed, among them:
- the log in screen was not correctly shown on iPad.
 
version 3.5.15 now available

Dear all,

Version 3.5.15 is now available in the App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/my-card-info/id364903688?mt=8

Improvement
We implemented the usual iPhone interface to delete a card from the 'My Cards' overview. Either swipe to delete, or use the 'Edit' button.

Bugfix
It was possible to have multiple entries of the same card name with the same card ID. The card number could not be changed or deleted.
 
version 3.6.16 is now available

Dear all,

Version 3.6.16 is now available in the App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/my-card-info/id364903688?mt=8

Improvements
  • based on user feedback the stability is improved
  • several cards are added for The Netherlands
iMKapps whishes you a nice and safe summer holiday.
Don't forget to add all cards before you start your trip.
 
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