Got it immediately
I use Fantastical as my main calendar and have had Cardhop on my Mac for quite a while. The moment the ios version of Cardhop became available I got it right away. It does so many cool things for me on the Mac it was a no-brainer to put it on my phone, especially since there is no subscription! Works great and is really useful in my communications with everyone I need to be in contact with each day.
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The Perfect Way to Manage Contacts
I have been using Cardhop for the Mac daily since it’s release and I honestly couldn’t imagine it being improved upon but the iOS app is even better. It is now the default way I send emails, messages and phone people from my iOS devices.
Don’t hesitate. Just get it. The only possible way it could be improved if it was able to look up photos for contacts automatically using LinkedIn or Gravatar.
Don’t hesitate. Just get it. The only possible way it could be improved if it was able to look up photos for contacts automatically using LinkedIn or Gravatar.
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Response from developer
Thank you!
Very satisfied
I am in love with the app, but I have two suggestions: 1) The white search bar at the bottom sticks out too much when using the dark mode, I wish there was a setting to turn it grey, similar to the color of each contact's background color. 2) I wish there was a way to set a default action for favorited contacts, so that it doesn't get reset to the most recent action taken with the contact.
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OK but not great
Cardhop brings some nice things: ability to deal with groups (a serious failing in Apple’s app), a birthday view, Flexibits parsing, which others will love but to me is meh.
But the sacrifices and what’s missing are greater.
• List view shows half as many contacts on a screen as the native app. That’s way too few. I don’t care about a picture or company in that view; Cardhop needs options not to display them and the line surrounding the contacts. Of all the things wrong with the native app, List view isn’t one of them.
• Favorites don’t carry over, so we have to re-specify them. Worse, Favorites are at the contact level, not # level as in the native app, so instead of one tap to dial a favorite, it’s multiple.
• Birthday view is good, but they need Anniversary visibility as well. They do this in Fantastical Mac, but still don’t in the iOS versions. It’s just weird it’s not here.
But the sacrifices and what’s missing are greater.
• List view shows half as many contacts on a screen as the native app. That’s way too few. I don’t care about a picture or company in that view; Cardhop needs options not to display them and the line surrounding the contacts. Of all the things wrong with the native app, List view isn’t one of them.
• Favorites don’t carry over, so we have to re-specify them. Worse, Favorites are at the contact level, not # level as in the native app, so instead of one tap to dial a favorite, it’s multiple.
• Birthday view is good, but they need Anniversary visibility as well. They do this in Fantastical Mac, but still don’t in the iOS versions. It’s just weird it’s not here.
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The missing Contacts Pro app for iOS
I the same way that Flexibits, and other developers, have created ‘pro’ versions of the Calendar app, this is the pro version of Contacts.
Response from developer
Thanks for the review :)
A full featured contacts app
Cardhop updates and edits the same data as the default app, so contact data is still available to other apps. It allows adding and updating groups, so there is no need to go to the Mac for that activity.
I had difficulty finding how to assign favourites, but found it in the end.
Cardhop can act as a communication hub by providing shortcuts for messaging, emailing, calling etc. each contact. This may be useful if you are into a lot of systematic comms (a sales person?). I suspect only 4 such actions can be visible, however I may need to investigate further.
Given the ease of natural language entry of new contacts, there is scope to add bulk editing, allowing users to clean up their contacts database.
I had difficulty finding how to assign favourites, but found it in the end.
Cardhop can act as a communication hub by providing shortcuts for messaging, emailing, calling etc. each contact. This may be useful if you are into a lot of systematic comms (a sales person?). I suspect only 4 such actions can be visible, however I may need to investigate further.
Given the ease of natural language entry of new contacts, there is scope to add bulk editing, allowing users to clean up their contacts database.
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Response from developer
Thank you for the detailed review :)
Fantastic
I really love this app.
The ability to put apple contacts in groups on iOS is a poor omission from the native app but cardhop does this easily.
The developers have always been helpful with fantastical and I’ve no doubt that will continue with cardhop. I highly recommend this app.
The ability to put apple contacts in groups on iOS is a poor omission from the native app but cardhop does this easily.
The developers have always been helpful with fantastical and I’ve no doubt that will continue with cardhop. I highly recommend this app.
Response from developer
Thank you for your review and recommendation :)
Not there yet
It’s just another contacts app for now. To me, it needs some more work to get more stars. I add contacts with husband and wife’s name. Children are in notes in the iOS native contacts app. Below are two things that I don’t like about Cardhop.
I want to remember birthdays for all family members. I can only add one birthday under that heading. A second birthday will not show up in English. I can’t be reminded if these birthdays are listed under Date heading or notes. Please fix.
If have used native contact app which had several Groups. With Cardhop I try to open these groups and I get a blank screen. The group name shows within the individual contacts. If I do a search, I get all contacts with that word, even from my notes.
Maybe I just don’t understand this app yet, but I can do everything I need in the native contact app from Apple.
I thing that I do appreciate is the fact that you can edit heading names. With a husband and wife contact I can now show a name for each phone number, etc.
I use Fantastical 2 and like the calendar format and ease of entering information. I’m sure Cardhop witl be the same way as future versions become available.
I want to remember birthdays for all family members. I can only add one birthday under that heading. A second birthday will not show up in English. I can’t be reminded if these birthdays are listed under Date heading or notes. Please fix.
If have used native contact app which had several Groups. With Cardhop I try to open these groups and I get a blank screen. The group name shows within the individual contacts. If I do a search, I get all contacts with that word, even from my notes.
Maybe I just don’t understand this app yet, but I can do everything I need in the native contact app from Apple.
I thing that I do appreciate is the fact that you can edit heading names. With a husband and wife contact I can now show a name for each phone number, etc.
I use Fantastical 2 and like the calendar format and ease of entering information. I’m sure Cardhop witl be the same way as future versions become available.
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Response from developer
Thanks for the review :) You can add a birthdate to each of your family's contact cards to be reminded when their birthdays become due (Cardhop doesn't scan or read your notes, and nor do we want it to, so we have no way to remind you of birthdays you enter in plan text to the Notes field). As for you issue with Groups, please update to version 1.0.1 and if this still persists contact support and we'll help fix this.
Contacts (the way they should be)
What a wonderful and beautifully designed app! I love the look and performance! My only (I don't want to say complaint) but, complaint is to call you have to tap the call button, then tap Apple's call button. But that is absolutely NO fault on flexibits! That is how Apple has it designed. If we could just get Apple to open up the API to more seamlessly interact with calling contacts, it would be a truly, one press calling experience.
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Impressive
I pondered a day or two upon release of this app wondering if it provided convenience and simplicity with added smart assistance features, with first setup and a day to test Cardhop is very impressive and has all the features I mentioned previously and them some. It’s pretty much an intuitive setup as AirPods literally, dark mode, birthday menu is awesome feature, voice search is a plus. I’ve been a fantastical user for years so expectations were high and quality was mandatory and Cardhop does not disappoint.
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