Contact Pics Adder vs Immich
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contact Pics Adder
Easily add photos to your contacts to personalize your phone experience. Search the web or use your own pictures, then crop and save. Enjoy seeing faces instead of initials in calls and notifications.
- Add pictures to contacts
- Web image search
- Use photos from library
- Image cropping
- Personalize calls and notifications
- Manual control over images
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Contact pictures can be enjoyed in various apps (Mail, Messages, Phone, FaceTime and Contacts). They look great in widgets, too. And you can see the face of the person when you get a phone call as well as in notifications. It's just so much nicer to have pictures instead of initials. It makes your apps way more personal. But how many contacts with pictures do you have? This app makes it easy for you to add pictures to your contacts from the web or from your library. It has a clean design, is easy to use, and it works astonishingly well. The app does not automate the process: Manual selection and cropping of images is still necessary, giving the user full control. ***** Contact Pics Adder made it to the list of Best Contact Apps for 2025 on Tom's Guide! https://www.tomsguide.com/round-up/best-contact-apps Contact Pics Adder made it to the list of Best iPhone Apps of 2023 on TechRadar! https://www.techradar.com/best/best-iphone-apps-2021/8 ***** How it works: - Tap a contact to do an image web search for the name of the contact - Add search words like city, email domain or company with one tap - After logging in, you can do searches on various social media sites with one tap - You can select most web pictures by just tapping them (not on iPad) - If this does not work, take a screenshot (by tapping the button labeled "Screen") - Optionally, add a picture from your Photos library - Crop an image before saving it Performance: - The app was tested on an (old) iPhone 6s with 10'000 contacts. Privacy and pricing: - Highest level of privacy: The developer does not collect any data from this app and your contacts are not uploaded. The app itself does not require signing up. Sign-in to social media sites happens within the browser so that the developer does not know about your sign-in credentials. - No costly subscription, no in-app purchases, no ads Tutorial: - https://www.tapsmart.com/tips-and-tricks/contact-pics-adder/ Customer feedback: - Reviewed by cirerebew (Thailand) ***** Simple, easy to use, very effective. A must-have app for tired boring Contacts (thumbs up, clap) - Reviewed by therealCuedaddy (USA) ***** Awesome App! This is a GREAT app! I can add photos of family and friends as well as logos of companies or stores to my phone list. I can identify callers quickly to decide if I want to take the call. I LOVE this app!!! - Reviewed by SolarEnergyEngineer (France) ***** Great app - does the job efficiently! Great app and good support from the developer. I spent a couple hours updating my contacts with LinkedIn photos in just a few days. App looks stable so far although I have 3000 contacts. Only downside : default search is using Bing and the photos shown by Bing are in my case completely irrelevant. - Reviewed by heolesgyn (Australia) ***** A great app. I saw the benefits of using the app a little while ago but it needed some tweaking and so, after a few discussions with the developer, the changes were made and the result (version 2.3.1) is a fully functional app. I'm now very happy to give it 5 stars and to highly recommend it. Get it!! - Reviewed by "jtylerhartley" (USA) ***** Great Product ***** This app is great, makes it so easy to add contact [picture]s. There is support for facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram. Very pleased overall! - Reviewed by "OSF" (Colombia) ***** Great app! ***** I love that you made this, it’s just so much better to have your own contact pics set! Acknowledgement: - The images used in the App Store and for the app icon are from unsplash.com.
Immich
This is a client application that connects to a self-hosted Immich Server. It allows users to back up their photos and videos from their mobile devices to their own server, providing a private and customizable cloud storage solution.
- Mobile client for Immich Server
- Photo and video backup
- Self-hosted solution
- Private cloud storage
- Customizable server management
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This is a client app for Immich Server and you will need to run/manage the server on your own in order to use the app. Website: https://immich.app GitHub: https://github.com/immich-app/immich
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Immich at Free against Contact Pics Adder's $4.99. Immich also leads on ratings volume (786 vs 42) and chart position (#210 vs unranked). Contact Pics Adder's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 76%). On rating, 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
Immich is free to download; Contact Pics Adder costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Contact Pics Adder against 4.8 for Immich. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Immich has 786 ratings behind it against 42, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Contact Pics Adder's written reviews are positive against 76% of Immich's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contact Pics Adder | Immich |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.9 (42 ratings) — better | 4.8 (786 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 42 | 786 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #210 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 75 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Volker Koch | FUTO Computing |
Customer experience
Contact Pics Adder
Immich
Bugs and requests
Contact Pics Adder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Immich
Reported bugs
5 issues- Inability to log in on latest update
- Frequent timeline rebuilds
- Inconsistent behavior with HDR photos
- Scrolling issues in the app
- Unreliable background sync
Requested features
5 requests- Option to remove photos from device after backup
- Support for 360-degree photos and videos
- Improved family/user sharing capabilities
- Better integration with third-party tools
- Clearer cache management
In-app purchases
Contact Pics Adder
No in-app purchases
Immich
No in-app purchases









