iPhone’s native Contacts app is nice but it leaves a few things left to be desired.
ContactsPlus aims at filling just those gaps in the Contacts app by adding more nice to have features.
ContactsPlus for iPhone and iPod Touch lets you easily create, organize and delete groups of contacts in your iPhone address book.
Once you launch ContactsPlus, you are greeted with the default – contacts tab. The immediate difference you will see is that the Contacts listing shows picture of contacts in the front listing helping you browse visually. Optionally, you can even display the age of your contacts.
You can create, edit, delete contacts from here. If you tilt the iPhone to landscape mode, you can browse your contacts in Coverflow mode just like you would browse album covers in iPod.
You can also create, edit and delete groups. This is a nice feature for me as it helps to sort my contacts into certain groups.
Of course, you get the option to favorite some contacts for quick access. You can sort your contacts by date of birth, company, profession, first name, last name, middle name, prefix, suffix, nickname, department, city, state, postal code and country. The sorting filters can also be organized.
If you have the date of birth field filled for your favorite people, you can see upcoming birthday reminders. The app badge also has the number showing the upcoming birthdays for a duration of your choice.
ContactsPlus also provides you a number of ways to customize the app – 11 color themes, 4 contact photo sizes, 8 text colors, 8 text sizes, text styles.
You can also set text displayed in lists, set main phone and email displayed and use coverflow to view contacts.
If you use your iPhone Contacts app as your primary way of organizing and maintaining your contacts, ContactsPlus greatly enhances your experience.
I have been trying this app for a few days and liking it a lot. I use Google to sync my contacts and recently synced by Facebook contacts to my iPhone. Needless to say, my contacts is a mess now and I can use some sort of organization with groups to quickly get to my frequent contacts.
ContactsPlus usually sells for $1.99 and is now on sale for $0.99. I recommend trying this out for heavy iPhone contacts users.
Rating: [starreview tpl=16]
Availability: App Store [iTunes link]
Price: $1.99
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