Recent Contacts vs Followsback
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recent Contacts
Easily back up and restore all your phone contacts without a computer. Export contacts to Excel or vCard, find and merge duplicates, and remove incomplete entries. Share backups via message, email, or AirDrop.
- Backup contacts in one tap
- Export to Excel (CSV) or vCard
- Find and merge duplicate contacts
- Remove incomplete contacts
- Share backups via Message, Email, AirDrop
- View recently added contacts
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Easy Backup is the best way to backup and restores all your contacts from your phone without the computer. FEATURES: • See your most recently added contacts • Save all your contacts in one single tap. • Share and export backups via Message, Email, or AirDrop • Export contacts to Excel (CSV) or vCard • Find & merge duplicate contacts • Remove incomplete contacts ADDITIONAL SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION: Subscription price: - 1 week: $4.99 - 1 month: $6.99 - Lifetime: $24.99 - Subscription may be canceled at any time within the iTunes and App Store Apple ID Settings. All prices include applicable local sales taxes. - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. - The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. - No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. - Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable Privacy policy: https://sites.google.com/view/tlabs91 Terms of service: https://sites.google.com/view/tlabs-termofservice
Followsback
Discover who unfollowed you on social media without needing your password. This secure and anonymous tool helps you track your followers and unfollowers safely. It's designed to protect your account from being compromised.
- See who unfollowed you
- 100% safe and anonymous
- No password required
- Protects against account bans
- Tracks followers and unfollowers
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Check who doesn’t follow you back in minutes: - Clearly see who doesn’t follow you back. 100% safe. 100% anonymous. No password required: - Our mission is to provide a safe way for users to see who doesn’t follow them back. Most follower-checker apps require your Instagram password, which is the easiest way to get your account banned or stolen. - But at Followsback, we don’t require an Instagram password, nor do we store any of your data. That’s why we’re the #1 follow-back checker on social media.
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Verdict
Recent Contacts and Followsback both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 88% of Followsback's written reviews are positive against 0% of Recent Contacts's. Followsback also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and ads (none vs shown). Recent Contacts's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (90 vs 15). On price, rating, device support and iOS requirement 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. Recent Contacts sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Followsback asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Recent Contacts against 4.5 for Followsback. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recent Contacts has 90 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Recent Contacts's written reviews are positive against 88% of Followsback's.
Recent Contacts ships an update fortnightly, Followsback every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recent Contacts | Followsback |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (90 ratings) — better | 4.5 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 90 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LE NGUYEN QUANG PHUOC | eightythree |
Customer experience
Recent Contacts
Followsback
In-app purchases
Recent Contacts
- Weekly Premium$4.997 Days
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$4.997 Days
- Monthly Premium3 Days trial$6.991 Month
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- Monthly Premium$7.991 Month
- Lifetime$24.99
Followsback
No in-app purchases
Questions
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