Contacts Address Book vs GroupShot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Birthday reminders
- Keep-in-touch reminders
- Contact management
- Offline functionality
- Customizable notifications
- Widgets
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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
GroupShot
Easily create and manage email groups using your existing contacts or by importing lists. This app streamlines sending emails to multiple recipients through your native Mail app.
- Create email groups
- Use existing contacts
- Import contact lists
- Send emails via Mail app
- Forward emails from groups
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Create email groups you can use to send and forward from the Mail app, , with this new app from the developer of "Mailshot". Create groups from your existing contacts, create new ones, or import lists of names and email addresses- GroupShot will handle the tricky stuff of making sure contacts are all in the right places to make it all work. The app is free to download, and you can create groups and enter new contacts. Adding contacts from a checklist, and importing groups from a list requires a subscription. You can try the more advanced features for a few days without charge, and can even keep any groups you create if you let your subscription expire. NOTE: This app is designed to work with the Mail app and some other third party apps. Note that the Gmail App cannot send email to address book groups (although you CAN use Gmail accounts from the Mail app) Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Contacts Address Book at 100% against GroupShot's 50%. Contacts Address Book also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.2) and ratings volume (52 vs 5). GroupShot's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Contacts Address Book sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and GroupShot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Contacts Address Book holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contacts Address Book has 52 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Contacts Address Book's written reviews are positive against 50% of GroupShot's.
Contacts Address Book ships an update every 4 weeks, GroupShot every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts Address Book | GroupShot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (52 ratings) — better | 3.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kai Oelfke | Peter Johnson |
Customer experience
Contacts Address Book
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In-app purchases
Contacts Address Book
- Premium$3.991 Month
- Premium7 Days trial2 variants$29.991 Year
- Premium3 Days trial$29.991 Year
GroupShot
- One Month3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Twelve Months3 Days trial$9.991 Year
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