Clear Read vs Contacts Cleaner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Clear Read
Enhance your web reading experience by customizing website appearance. Choose from various fonts and styling options to create a comfortable and personalized view for any site.
- Customizable website styling
- Multiple font choices
- Adjustable font size and weight
- Text and background color options
- Line and paragraph spacing control
- Link color customization
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Clear Read is a Safari extension that helps you make the web a more comfortable reading experience with your styling preferences. Set your preferences for all websites or just those that need your own touch. Included fonts: - OpenDyslexic - Atkinson Hyperlegible - Bionic Reading® - Shantell Sans - Inter - Georgia - Helvetica - Source Code Pro - San Francisco - San Francisco Mono - New York Included styling options: - Font - Font Size - Font Weight - Italics - Text Alignment - Text Case - Line Height Paragraph Sp - Letter Spacing - Word Spacing - Text Colour - Background Colour - Link Colour - Link Highlight - Link Outline Clear Read is only intended for the main Safari app and will not work in In-App Browsers or browser apps that are not Safari.
Contacts Cleaner
Effortlessly clean and organize your phonebook. This tool finds and merges duplicate contacts, removes incomplete entries, and allows you to backup, restore, and export your address book. Manage your contacts with ease and transfer them securely to new devices.
- Merge and remove duplicate contacts
- Bulk delete multiple contacts
- Scan and remove incomplete entries
- Backup and restore address book
- Export contacts to CSV/VCF
- Transfer contacts to new devices
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Clean up your contacts in minutes. Contacts Cleaner finds duplicate contacts, merges them into one, and helps you delete the ones you no longer need, all from one simple screen. FIND AND MERGE DUPLICATES • Find contacts with similar names • Find contacts that share the same phone number • Merge a group into one contact, or merge every duplicate in one tap • Merging keeps all phone numbers and email addresses FIX INCOMPLETE CONTACTS • See contacts with no name • See contacts with no phone number • See contacts with no email address DELETE MANY CONTACTS AT ONCE • Select multiple contacts and delete them in bulk • View and edit any contact without leaving the app BACK UP AND RESTORE • Back up your whole address book to a .vcf file before you clean • Share a backup with Files, AirDrop or email • Restore contacts from any backup Your first 5 cleanup actions are included. Unlock unlimited cleanups with Pro: one purchase, no subscription. Questions or ideas? Reach me from Settings, I read every message. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Contacts Cleaner at Free against Clear Read's $4.99. Contacts Cleaner also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (22 vs 2). Clear Read's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment 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
Contacts Cleaner is free to download; Clear Read costs $4.99 up front. Contacts Cleaner sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Clear Read asks for nothing beyond the download.
Clear Read holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contacts Cleaner has 22 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Clear Read ships an update every 5 months, Contacts Cleaner every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Clear Read | Contacts Cleaner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.1 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 22 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Toast Studio Australia | Collins Cheruiyot |
Customer experience
Clear Read
Contacts Cleaner
In-app purchases
Clear Read
No in-app purchases
Contacts Cleaner
- Unlimited access forever$8.99
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