Comparison

Contact Pics Adder vs Saga

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

About

Saga

This app lets you capture a short video clip each day to create a visual diary. It compiles these daily moments into a year-end recap video, allowing you to preserve everyday memories. You can also fill in missed days and export your creations in various formats.

Highlights
  • Daily video clip capture
  • Year-end recap video creation
  • Calendar view of captured days
  • Fill in missed days
  • Customizable export options
  • Daily reminders and prompts
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Your whole year, one second a day. Saga turns a second or two of every day into a video you'll actually want to rewatch. Add a short clip each day, see your life fill in on a calendar, and when the year ends, press Play on all of it. Most days aren't big events. They're a coffee on the balcony, a walk home, a kid laughing at dinner. They're also the days you forget first. Saga keeps them. ONE CLIP A DAY • Add a short video from your camera roll to any day in seconds • Pick the moment that best sums up the day as its highlight • Trim, rotate and frame each clip so it's just right • Missed a day? Fill it in later — every day stays open • When you start, Saga previews your last four weeks as a reel, one second a day, picked on your phone • Autofill fills a month's empty days at once with each day's best second, picked on your phone YOUR LIFE ON A CALENDAR • Every day you capture appears on a calendar you can scroll through • Tap any date to rewatch exactly what that day looked like • Keep separate journals for different parts of your life • Import a whole album of short clips at once to catch up PRESS PLAY ON YOUR YEAR • Turn any date range into one continuous recap video • One tap for This Year, Last Year or All Time — or choose custom dates • Show the date on every clip so you always know when it was • Export in portrait or landscape, up to 4K • Share your finished recap with family and friends, or keep it for yourself KEEP THE HABIT • A gentle daily reminder, with a fresh prompt each day if you want one • A Home Screen widget shows whether today is captured yet • Your year at a glance shows how your story is growing PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Saga is a personal journal, not a social network. There's no feed, no followers and no likes. Your days are yours; you decide what to share. Saga Pro, an optional subscription, unlocks 4K recap exports, removes the “Made with Saga” mark and keeps your highlights backed up in Saga Cloud. You can also back up to your Photos library. Start today. In a year, you'll have 365 seconds of your own life to look back on. Capture life, one second at a time. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS • Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. • Saga Pro renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.norseventures.co/saga/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.norseventures.co/saga/terms-of-service.html

Screenshots

Contact Pics Adder3 screens
Saga4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Saga at Free against Contact Pics Adder's $4.99. Contact Pics Adder's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (44 vs 1). On rating, ads and device support 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

Saga is free to download; Contact Pics Adder costs $4.99 up front. Saga sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Contact Pics Adder asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Contact Pics Adder against 5.0 for Saga. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contact Pics Adder has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contact Pics Adder ships an update every 5 days, Saga every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Contact Pics Adder versus Saga: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContact Pics AdderSaga
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (44 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings44 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB24 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperVolker KochNorse Ventures LLC

Customer experience

Contact Pics Adder

All ratings44 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Saga

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Contact Pics Adder

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Saga

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Contact Pics Adder free?
Contact Pics Adder costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Saga free?
Saga is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Contact Pics Adder or Saga?
Saga is rated higher. Contact Pics Adder averages 4.9 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while Saga averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Contact Pics Adder or Saga have ads?
Neither Contact Pics Adder nor Saga shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contact Pics Adder or Saga?
Contact Pics Adder ships an update every 5 days, and Saga every 2 weeks. Most recently, Contact Pics Adder was updated on November 3, 2026 and Saga on October 30, 2026.

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