Contacts vs Quickness
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contacts
Organize and manage contact details, including birthdays and custom posters. Easily connect via messages, calls, or FaceTime. Share your information instantly with new contacts using NameDrop.
- Manage contact information
- Sync across devices
- Quickly connect via calls/messages
- Store personal information for autofill
- Customize Contact Posters
- Share contacts with NameDrop
- Use on Apple Watch
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With Contacts on iOS, iPadOS and macOS, you can store and manage your and other’s contact information, birthdays, Contact Posters and more. Easily connect with your contacts with Mail, Messages, Phone, or FaceTime. Or instantly share your Contact Poster and your number or email address with someone new through NameDrop on iPhone and Apple Watch. Manage Your Contacts Easily add people to your contacts, and sync their contact information across all your devices with iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Google, and other syncing services. If your contacts choose to, you can automatically get updates to their Contact Poster through Messages, Phone and FaceTime as well. Get Connected Quickly When you need a contact’s information, you can search to find who you’re looking for. You can then quickly message, call, FaceTime, email or even Apple Pay them. If you add their social profile to their contact card, you can jump to it with a tap. And if you add their birthday, you’ll also see it in Calendar so you never miss it. Store Your Personal Information Create a My Card in Contacts to store your own contact information including your phone numbers, email addresses, physical addresses, and more. You can then use the information in your My Card to use Autofill to instantly complete forms online or in apps across iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Customize Your Contact Poster Create a customized poster to represent yourself when you connect with others using Messages, Phone and FaceTime. Choose from various treatments for photos, Memoji and your name, and choose to automatically share it with your contacts or be asked every time before you share. Share your Contact with NameDrop Exchange contact information with someone new by simply bringing your iPhone near their iPhone or Apple Watch. Your name and Contact Poster are automatically included every time, and you can select the phone number or email address you want to share from your My Card along with it. Use Contacts on Apple Watch Select people from your contacts to use as a complication on your watch face for easy access, and quickly connect with them through Messages, Phone or Mail right from your wrist. You can also create new contacts and customize existing contacts, or exchange contact information with someone new using NameDrop with their iPhone or Apple Watch.
Quickness
Effortlessly add new contacts using voice commands with Siri or through customizable shortcuts. Streamline your contact management by creating entries hands-free, integrating with other apps, and organizing them into groups.
- Hands-free contact creation with Siri
- Customizable shortcuts for streamlined input
- Integrates with Reminders and Messages
- Add contacts to existing or new groups
- Quickly delete contacts
- Create custom 'Add Contact' pages
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Quickness uses the power of Siri and the Shortcuts app to let you create new contacts, quickly and efficiently! CREATE CONTACT HANDS-FREE WITH SIRI • add new contact information by talking to Siri! No need to type anything! • use a custom phrase to trigger shortcut with 'Hey Siri', and speak out the information when prompted • Siri will prompt you with questions about what data you want to add • works great with iPhones, iPads, AirPods and even HomePod. CREATE CONTACT WITH THE SHORTCUTS APP • use Apple’s Shortcuts app to customize input to Quickness shortcuts, and streamline your process • different shortcuts for different "Create Contact" styles • use output from Quickness shortcuts to integrate with other apps • great for automation! INTEGRATE WITH OTHER APPS: • Create contact, and then add a reminder to call the contact in the Reminders app • Create contact, and send a message to contact with your phone number • Create contact with current location as the contact's address NO SETUP REQUIRED: • Works with the Shortcuts app as soon as app is installed See our help website for links to complete shortcuts that you can import into your app. LIST OF SHORTCUTS: • [SHORT] Create Contact with name only • [BASIC] Create Contact with name, and one information (email/phone/address/website) • [DETAILED] Create Contact with name, and add email, phone, address, and/or website • [USE CURRENT LOCATION]: Create Contact with name, and 'current location' passed in from the Shortcuts app (not available for voice-only mode) OTHER QUICKNESS FEATURES: • Create a customizable “Add Contact” page, and include the fields you frequently use • Add new contact to an existing group, or create a new group • Quickly delete contacts from your Contacts list PRIVACY • We don't have any access to your contacts data, or your interactions with Siri.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Contacts at Free against Quickness's $1.99. Contacts also leads on ratings volume (3.3K vs 14) and device support (4 vs 2). Quickness's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 27%) and rating (4.6 vs 3.5). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Contacts is free to download; Quickness costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Quickness holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contacts has 3.3K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Contacts's written reviews are positive against 71% of Quickness's.
Contacts ships an update every 6 months, Quickness every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts | Quickness |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.5 (3.3K ratings) | 4.6 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.1% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #190 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apple | zaal LLC |
Customer experience
Contacts
Quickness
Bugs and requests
Contacts
Reported bugs
4 issues- Contacts not syncing properly across devices
- Editing contact information causes data loss
- App crashes or freezes when performing basic tasks
- Incorrect or missing contact details
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to create and manage contact groups
- Improve search and filtering functionality
- Allow customization of contact information fields
- Integrate with more third-party apps and services
- Add option to lock/secure sensitive contact information
Quickness
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Contacts
No in-app purchases
Quickness
No in-app purchases







