Across at trade shows and events
vablet Across for iPhone and iPad · Version 1.4 · Updated 10 November 2026
Across is an iPhone and iPad app that keeps your presentation files on the device, so they open at a stand with no signal. At an event it can run a looping slideshow at your booth, let visitors ask for a file by email, read business cards into Contacts, and keep the receipts from the trip. What it reads and records stays on your device.
Booth Mode, the business card scanner and the receipt scanner are part of Across version 1.4, which is on its way to the App Store.
Before the event
How do I get my booth files onto an iPhone or iPad?
Choose the folders that hold your booth material in Across, from Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, iCloud Drive or another Files folder. Across downloads them to the device and keeps them up to date. Then put the files for the event in a collection, which links to them without making copies.
Can Across run a booth slideshow without Wi-Fi?
Yes. When you set up a playlist in Booth Mode, tap Download and prepare slides. Once that finishes, Across says the playlist runs with no connection. Only web pages and sending email need one. See Booth Mode for the setup.
At the booth
How do I turn an iPhone or iPad into a booth display?
Open the collection for the event, choose Booth Mode from its menu, and build a playlist from its PDFs, PowerPoint slides, images and videos. Start Booth Mode and the playlist loops until staff end it. The screen stays on at full brightness. Connect a TV by AirPlay or a cable and the loop plays on the TV, while the iPhone or iPad becomes a staff panel with the next slide, controls and the number of sign-ups.
How can a booth visitor get a copy of a brochure?
In Booth Mode, a visitor taps the screen and then Share. They enter their email address, or scan their business card, and tick the consent line if the booth uses one. Across then opens an email from the booth device's Mail account with the file attached, or with a link when the file cannot be attached, and it goes when Send is tapped in Mail. The visitor is recorded as a sign-up once Mail sends it. Booth Mode shares by email only.
How do I record who visited the booth?
Every visitor who asks for a file through Share is saved with their name, company, email address, consent, the event, the slide they were on and the time. Staff can add a quick note with a three-finger tap. When Booth Mode ends, a session summary lists the sign-ups, and Send report emails them as a spreadsheet file.
Can I show a document to one person across the table?
Yes, outside Booth Mode. On iPhone Duo, fold it part way and stand it on the table: the far half shows the document to the person opposite you, and the near half keeps your page controls and files. On iPad and an open iPhone Duo, the document sits beside your library.
Meeting people
How do I save a business card to my contacts at an event?
In Across, open Activity, tap the business card button and choose Scan business card. Across reads the card on the device, shows every field for you to check, and saves it to Contacts. It keeps the photo of the card, the scan date and your notes in Across. See Business card scanner.
Can I send a follow-up right after scanning a card?
Yes. After you save a card, Across asks whether to send the person a message now, by email or text message. The email starts as "Good to meet you today", and you can add a file from your library before you send it from your own account.
After the event
How do I get the list of booth visitors after the show?
When you leave Booth Mode, the session summary shows how long it ran, how many people signed up and which slides were on screen longest. Send report emails two spreadsheet files: one with each visitor's name, company, email, consent, slide, time, note and event, and one with the views and seconds on screen for each slide. Past sessions stay listed on the Booth Mode screen.
How do I keep receipts from a trade show trip?
In Activity, tap Add receipt and scan the receipt or choose its picture. Across reads it on the device, and you can split it between the people it belongs to. Each receipt is listed in Activity, and Export as CSV includes the merchant, total and who owes what. See Receipt scanner.
Where does Across keep visitor details, cards and receipts?
On your iPhone or iPad. Across has no server, so visitor details, card photos and receipts are not sent to Meiotic. They are left out of iCloud and computer backups. If you use Back up now in Across, the backup file you save includes them. They leave the device only in an email or file you send yourself.
What Across does not do
What can't Across do at an event?
Across does not scan event badges and does not connect to lead retrieval or CRM systems. Visitor lists leave the device as a spreadsheet file in an email. Booth Mode shares by email only, not by text message. iOS does not let any app block the Home gesture or the side button, so to keep a booth device on Across, turn on Guided Access in iOS Settings before you start.