Comparison

Contacts Address Book vs Often

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Contacts Address Book

This app helps you nurture your personal relationships by reminding you to stay in touch and celebrate important birthdays. It offers a private and offline experience, allowing you to manage contacts and set custom reminders to keep your social circle strong.

Highlights
  • Birthday reminders
  • Keep-in-touch reminders
  • Contact management
  • Offline functionality
  • Customizable notifications
  • Widgets
Features
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Reminders to keep in touch and remember birthdays. Close personal relationships make life happier, healthier and longer. STORY: Hey everyone, I'm Kai - the guy behind Amicu. It’s great to catch up with someone you care about. But it's not so easy anymore. Your contacts are spread over many places. Mixed with people you don’t know. An avalanche of comments, posts, and texts cluttering everything up. It feels like a chore. No time for the joy of meeting up. And life changes. You move to new places. You change jobs. You travel and meet people, but they're abroad. You join events with cool people. But months of work follow. They stop to appear in feeds and inboxes. Instead of fun reunites relationships fade. I met people, while traveling, living abroad, and volunteering. Not all are on social media. Plus, who likes the distractions, ads, and privacy issues? So I made Amicu. It reminds you to catch up. You decide which people matter. After time reminders show up. Then it's your turn. Meet, call, or be creative. And your contacts should be no one’s business. With Amicu nothing leaves your device. That's it. No spam, privacy-invasion, customer relationships, or feeds. Simple and easy. Ideas, Questions and Feedback: Write to me at kai@amicu.app NOW WITH WIDGETS: • Birthdays today • People you're in touch with • Due contacts • Daily goal BIRTHDAYS: • See upcoming birthdays so you can prepare. • Only shows the birthdays of added contacts. Not every birthday. • Highlights people without birthdays. Never miss an important birthday. • Get notifications a week before and on the birthday. REMINDERS TO KEEP IN TOUCH: • Add reminders how often you want to keep in touch. • Go through your entire contacts fast. One tap per contact. • Contact people using your favorite apps. • Mark many people in touch at the end of the day. • Snooze reminders, when you're busy. • Customizable notifications for reminders • Daily goal to reach out to someone • Custom reminders (premium only) MANAGE CONTACTS: • Amicu Contacts are automatically updated, if the contact book changes. • See contacts without email, phone, address or avatar. • Edit contacts directly in Amicu. STATISTICS: • See the contact frequency for each person e.g. every 2 weeks • Make sure to have enough time for people (premium only) • See how social you're this week and on average (premium only) • Find the right balance of people, reminder frequency and your time PRIVACY AND USABILITY FRIENDLY: • Works completely offline. • No email, password or account. • Keep track without selling your contacts data. • No server means no data breach. • Device Contact access is optional. • Amicu makes money with an optional premium subscription and not your data. • Details at https://amicu.app/privacy LEARN: • Handpicked resources right in the app to get inspired and learn • Curated activities help you to come up with ideas Ideas, Questions and Feedback: Write to me at kai@amicu.app SUBSCRIPTION All features are free besides custom reminders, the time budget and some sorting methods. If you want to support me, Amicu has an auto-renewing premium subscription. ————— Payments are charged to the user’s Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in their account settings on the App Store. Terms of Service: https://amicu.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://amicu.app/privacy Support, Questions and Feedback: Write to me at kai@amicu.app

About

Often

Easily manage your professional and personal connections by setting reminders to stay in touch. Organize contacts by category, add notes, and utilize template messages for efficient communication. Import contacts directly and track last interactions for personalized outreach.

Highlights
  • Set contact reminders
  • Categorize contacts
  • Add and view notes
  • Create template messages
  • Import contacts
  • Track last interactions
  • iCloud data storage
Features
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People drift. Often is the quiet fix. You meant to call your sister back. You meant to check in with the friend who moved to Berlin. You meant to thank the mentor who took your call last spring. Months pass. The relationships that matter most are the ones that fade quietest, because there's no deadline on them. Also useful for solo consultants, coaches, and small business owners who want a personal CRM without a sales pipeline strapped to their face. Often is a small, calm app that gives every important person in your life a rhythm — every two weeks, every month, every birthday — and one quiet nudge a day for whoever's slipped. That's it. No feed, no followers, no streaks, no other people's posts in your face. PICK A CADENCE. GET A NUDGE. REACH OUT THE WAY YOU ACTUALLY DO. • Add the people who matter — close friends, family, mentors, clients, the contacts you can't afford to lose. • Group them into your own categories. Pick a colour. Drag to reorder. • Tell the app how often you'd like to reach out — every two weeks, every month, on a birthday, on a Tuesday. Change it any time. • One swipe to log that you've reached out. One tap to open WhatsApp, Email, or the phone. Or just log it and move on. • Snooze any single nudge. Mute someone for a season. The app waits. A DASHBOARD THAT RESPECTS YOUR TIME. The Today tab is a clean queue: Overdue, Due today, Due this week. The Home dashboard shows you a single picture of how you're doing — week, month, quarter, or year. Tap a number, see the people behind it. NOTES THAT PAY ATTENTION BACK. (OFTEN PLUS) Free-form notes per contact. Once a note gets long, a Summarise button appears — Apple Intelligence reads it on your phone and gives you a single-paragraph recap. Use it before a coffee, a call, a reunion. Nothing leaves your device. PRIVACY FIRST. WE MEAN IT. • No servers. We don't have one with your data on it because we don't have one. • Sync is iCloud-only — Apple-to-Apple, never to us. • All AI runs on your phone using Apple Intelligence. • No tracking, no analytics, no third-party advertising SDKs. • Export everything to CSV or JSON whenever you like. OFTEN PLUS A single subscription, five ways to buy: monthly, three-month, six-month, yearly (with a 7-day free trial), and a one-time lifetime purchase. Plus unlocks unlimited contacts and categories, AI note summaries, screenshot-to-context OCR, iCloud sync, and widgets that show names and details. Count-only widgets — the small Today widget and the Lock Screen widgets — are free, and the Log Contact Siri Shortcut runs free for everyone. Free always includes logging contacts, writing notes, setting cadences, the daily digest, and full data export. — Built quietly in Toronto. Privacy is not a feature; it's the whole shape of the product. — Privacy Policy: https://www.xpmind.com/snPP.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Contacts Address Book4 screens
Often4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Contacts Address Book at 16.0 against Often's 26.0. On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Contacts Address Book sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Often sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contacts Address Book ships an update every 4 weeks, Often every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Contacts Address Book versus Often: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContacts Address BookOften
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (53 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings53 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB25 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKai OelfkeXpMind

Customer experience

Contacts Address Book

All ratings52 ratings
Positive94.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews24 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Often

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Contacts Address Book

Subscriptions3
  • Premium$3.991 Month
  • Premium7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
  • Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
5 purchases

Often

Subscriptions4
  • Month-to-Month Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Quarterly Subscription$7.993 Months
  • Semestral Subscription$12.996 Months
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  • Annual Subscription$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$49.99

Questions

Is Contacts Address Book free?
Contacts Address Book is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Often free?
Often is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Contacts Address Book or Often have ads?
Neither Contacts Address Book nor Often shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contacts Address Book or Often?
Contacts Address Book ships an update every 4 weeks, and Often every 3 weeks. Most recently, Contacts Address Book was updated on October 21, 2026 and Often on October 2, 2026.

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