# Compact Contacts Manager — Merge duplicates & bulk edit

> Merge duplicates & bulk edit (iPhone/iPad app by CAGLAR SERDAR.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/compact-contacts-manager/id6795653671 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [CAGLAR SERDAR](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789209521)
- Category: Productivity, Utilities
- Price: $12.99
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 10 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Turkish
- Released: 2026-08-10
- Data updated: 2026-10-14

## What is Compact Contacts Manager?

Now on iPhone too: the same private workspace for the contacts already on your iPhone and iPad, in one purchase.

Compact Contacts Manager is a private, focused workspace for the contacts already on your iPad.

Browse an adaptive contact table in landscape or a touch-friendly layout in portrait. Choose columns and row density, work with keyboard or pointer when attached, and use the Command Palette to reach contacts, Saved Views, groups, accounts, and safe actions. Search names, organizations, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, groups, and—when enabled—contact Notes locally on iPad.

Work with Notes, with your permission:
• Read and edit long contact Notes in the detail panel.
• Focus on Notes or hide other detail sections to give longer text more room.
• Choose whether Notes are included in the in-memory search index on this iPad.

Organize and hand off exactly what you intend:
• Build Saved Views with ALL or ANY rules, sorting, columns, density, and detail layout.
• Use Recently Edited for contacts successfully saved by Compact Contacts, plus built-in Missing Phone and Missing Company views.
• Preview a selection or filtered result before exporting it as CSV or vCard through Files or the system share sheet.
• Export a Saved View directly as a vCard bundle for a coworker. Contact Notes are excluded by default and require an explicit choice for each export.
• Review ready, warning, and blocked cards before a vCard import writes anything.
• Use Bulk Edit for names, organization fields, labeled phones, emails, URLs and relationships, postal fields, birthdays, groups, and Notes. Apply text or regular-expression transformations and review exact changes before saving.
• Merge duplicate contacts field by field, choose a destination account, and undo from encrypted on-device Merge History.
• Edit simple fields directly in the contact table, and delete selected contacts after a preview and a verified recovery backup.
• Search results are grouped by where they matched: name, phone, email, company, address, or Notes.
• Remove repeated phone numbers, email addresses, URLs, and postal addresses inside the same card, and relabel entries by their current label.

Your iPad’s system Contacts database remains the source of truth, and iPadOS manages synchronization for configured accounts. Compact Contacts has no ads, third-party analytics, developer account, or contact cloud. Contact and Notes content is processed on your device and is not uploaded to a developer server. Only a file or system handoff you explicitly start can carry the selected contact data outside the app.

## Is Compact Contacts Manager safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Compact Contacts Manager.

## Is Compact Contacts Manager legit?

Compact Contacts Manager appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Compact Contacts Manager is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 1.6 — 2026-09-29

Compact Contacts Manager now runs on iPhone, with the full feature set of the iPad app in one purchase.

• iPhone: rich contact rows, swipe actions, multi-selection, an A–Z scrubber, and step-by-step Bulk Edit, Merge, Import, Export, and Delete.
• The layout you choose applies to every list and is kept after relaunch. A Smart View can keep its own layout.
• Phone numbers in international format are grouped correctly for every country, such as +44, +972, and +51. Stored numbers never change.
• A contact’s additional phone numbers now appear under Phone Numbers in search results.

### 1.5 — 2026-09-25

Version 1.5 brings the latest Mac improvements to iPad.

• Search results are grouped by where they matched: name, phone, email, company, address, or Notes.
• Turn on A–Z section headings alongside letter navigation.
• Bulk Edit can remove repeated phone numbers, email addresses, URLs, and postal addresses inside the same card, and match on value, label, or both. For example, change every “cell” label to “mobile”.
• Choose an icon for each custom Smart View.
• Reset Notes text to 100% in one tap.
• A custom layout now carries into lists that do not have their own yet.
• Improved phone display for Spain, Argentina, and Uruguay without changing stored numbers.
• Websites saved without https:// now open correctly, and large libraries sort, filter, and search faster.

### 1.4 — 2026-09-13

Version 1.4 makes contact cleanup and Notes work easier.

• Edit supported fields directly in the main table.
• Delete selected contacts with a preview and verified recovery backups.
• Open Merge Studio from your selection, choose values field by field, and undo merges from encrypted on-device history. Real-contact merging is now available on iPad.
• Save custom layouts and improve navigation with persistent sidebar sections, column widths, and alphabetical shortcuts.
• Work with a focused Notes editor, adjustable text size, and improved large-library search.
• Improved Notes preservation in vCard recovery, merge undo, long-note editing, accessibility, and localization.

Real-contact cleanup requires writable records and the required Notes and recovery access. Ordinary vCard exports exclude Notes unless you explicitly include them.

### 1.3 — 2026-08-24

Version 1.3 expands cleanup tools and improves performance for large contact libraries.

• Bulk Edit now covers names, organization fields, labeled phones, emails, URLs and relationships, postal fields, birthdays, groups, and Notes.

• Apply literal or regular-expression transformations and review every result before saving.

• Performance improvements: Notes indexing and CSV export avoid repeated work and show clearer progress.

• Fixed Review Changes retry after validation errors, automatic preview refresh, Merge History visibility, and layout issues.

### 1.2 — 2026-08-16

Version 1.2 brings the same focused contact tools to an iPad-friendly workspace.

• Read, search, and edit long contact Notes, then focus the detail panel on Notes when you need more room.
• Open Recently Edited, Missing Phone, and Missing Company to find follow-up work quickly. Recently Edited reflects successful saves made by Compact Contacts.
• Export any Saved View directly as a vCard bundle through the system share flow. Notes remain off by default and are included only when you explicitly choose them.
• Reach contacts, Saved Views, groups, accounts, and safe actions from the Command Palette.
• Preview CSV and vCard export scope and contact count, and review every card before vCard import.
• Customize, duplicate, hide, and restore built-in Saved Views, with more contact fields and custom labels available as columns.

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