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CLUSTER NFC-READS-ANDROID · 31 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2014-04-17

NFC card reading apps

This cluster consists of 26 NFC-focused utilities for reading, writing, and analyzing tags, cards, and smart credentials, including transit, meal, and ID cards. Dated entries from 2014 to 2026 each appear once per month in 20 different months, showing a sparse and fairly stable flow that gives no clear upslope or downslope. Among traction leaders, only paper-mono-nfc-image-transfer has measurable activity with 3 stars, while the other two named products sit at 0 stars.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

APR 2014: 1JUL 2014: 1NOV 2014: 1MAR 2015: 1APR 2015: 1JAN 2017: 1APR 2019: 1JUL 2019: 1JUN 2020: 1AUG 2020: 1DEC 2021: 1DEC 2022: 1JUN 2023: 1NOV 2023: 1JUN 2024: 1JUL 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1MAR 2026: 1MAY 2026: 1JUL 2026: 1AUG 2026: 3SEP 2026: 3OCT 2026: 5
APR 2014OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 7 unlabelled

Operator · 9 open source · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 11 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21kiosk-nfc-V10★1 yrabandoned—ai-builtKiosk application that uses NFC technology to let users check in or interact at a physical location.
  2. 22NFCMessageBoard0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA proof-of-concept app that reads and writes text messages to NFC tags for offline local message sharing.
  3. 23NFSee - NFC Card Helper0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAndroid app that reads and dumps data from NFC tags and cards such as transit, bank, and ID cards.
  4. 24TonUINO NFC Tools0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceAndroid app that reads and writes NFC tags for the TonUINO DIY music box, enabling configuration, copying, and editing of tag content.
  5. 25Mensa-Guthaben0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceUtility that reads the balance of NFC meal cards used in German university cafeterias.
  6. 26NFC Reader0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile app that reads and displays the raw contents of various NFC tags, including NDEF, RFID, FeliCa, and ISO 14443.
  7. 27ESUP-NFC-TAG-DROID0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMobile client that lets institutional staff and students authenticate and badge into rooms using NFC-enabled multi-service cards.
  8. 28dnieremote-bin0★3 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceAn application that enables a smartphone to act as a reader for the Spanish DNI electronic ID card.
  9. 29User-controlled decryption operations0★7 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceApp that encrypts Dropbox folders and uses an Android smartphone as an NFC token to confirm decryption operations.
  10. 30RKFRead0★8 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceMobile app that reads NFC-enabled public transport travel cards from Swedish and Danish transit providers to display card and balance information.
  11. 31Loop0★unknownliveNetworking service that creates NFC-enabled digital visiting cards for exchanging contact information and managing professional connections.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.