Contacts 4.0 vs SurlfBird
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contacts 4.0
Easily back up and restore all your contacts with a single touch. Share contacts via QR code or email, and find and remove duplicate entries. This utility works completely offline.
- Offline backup and restore
- Single-touch backup
- Email vCard attachment
- QR code contact sharing
- Find and remove duplicates
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Key Features: ⍟ Backup and restore all your account without signing without activation, totally work offline. You can easily backup full your contacts with a single touch and send them to yourself as a vCards attachment via email. All contacts can then easily be restored any time by touching the attachment in your mail box. ⍟ Easy to share any contact to your friends by transforming a contact into a QR code ⍟ Find and remove duplicates in your contacts
SurlfBird
This utility app extracts URLs from .url files on your iPhone or iPad. It then opens the URL directly in Safari, streamlining the process of accessing saved web links from your desktop.
- Extracts URLs from .url files
- Opens URLs directly in Safari
- Supports shared file storage integration
- Simple and lightweight utility
- No extra internet traffic
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SurlfBird solves a long-standing problem. You run a Windows desktop computer and an iPhone/iPad side by side. You use a shared file storage like ownCloud, Nextcloud, Dropbox, WebDAV or something similar to transfer your data between the devices. This works fine for office documents, text documents. If, like me, you like to save URLs from internet sessions in your shared storage for later reading or as a reminder, you will find a .url file when viewing the replicated storage on the iOS device. You can copy its contents to the Notes application and click the link there. Now you have SurlfBird to help you. Just share the url file with SurlfBird and it will grep the URL from the .url file and open Safari with that URL. Very small and simple application, no extra internet traffic or anything.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SurlfBird at 5.0 against Contacts 4.0's 3.0. SurlfBird also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Contacts 4.0's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SurlfBird holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts 4.0 | SurlfBird |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Khang Le | Dokumenta (LU) |
Customer experience
Contacts 4.0
SurlfBird
In-app purchases
Contacts 4.0
No in-app purchases
SurlfBird
No in-app purchases








