Google vs Contacts Sync
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
This app provides a comprehensive search experience, integrating AI for quick answers and personalized content. It allows you to search using images, voice, or text, and offers features like song identification and real-time translation.
- AI Overviews for quick answers
- Image search with Lens
- Hum to Search for song identification
- Personalized Discover feed
- Real-time camera translation
- Home screen search widget
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Download the Google app to find quick answers, explore your interests, and ask anything on your mind in any way. Try AI in Google Search with AI Mode, Lens, Search Live, and more. Feature highlights*: • AI Mode: Get AI-powered responses to your toughest questions with AI Mode–talk, type, or snap a photo to get started, and ask follow-up questions to dig deeper. You’ll continue to see a range of helpful links so you can keep exploring across the web. • Google Lens: See something you like? Snap a photo and discover where to shop for it, find related images, and more. Refine your camera searches by adding words – whether you want those shoes but in ‘blue’, or want to learn how to ‘repair’ that broken bit on your bicycle. • Search Live: Have a live, real-time conversation in Search by using your voice and camera to easily get answers and on-screen links to the web when you need them. • AI Overviews: Get a snapshot of key information about a topic or question, like ’how to fix a broken zipper’, with links so you can easily explore more on the web. • Hum to Search: Can't remember the name of that song? Hum the tune and Google will help find it for you—no lyrics, artist name or perfect pitch required. You can also search for a song playing near you. • Discover: Stay up-to-date on topics that matter to you. Get personalized news, articles, and videos based on your interests. • Google Search Widget: Search faster from your home screen or lock screen, with easy shortcuts to AI Mode, Lens, and more. Google Search, totally reimagined with AI • Explore a new intelligent Search box that expands with your curiosity, offers AI powered suggestions and lets you search with text, videos and more. • Bring your toughest questions to Search. With a more seamless Search experience, you can go from an AI Overview on the search results page to asking follow-up questions in AI Mode, with links to the web. • Get help with planning, researching, brainstorming new ideas, and more with the latest Gemini models delivering frontier performance for agents and coding. • Bring your ideas to life by transforming your photos in Lens or creating images in AI Mode with Nano Banana. Available in select languages and locations. Search what you see with Google Lens: • Use your camera to identify what you’re looking at. Identify plants and animals, translate text in real-time, find similar products to buy, and even solve math problems with step-by-step guides. • Translate over 100 languages on things like road signs when you travel, menus, and more by pointing your camera at text. • Reverse image search: Find the source, similar photos, and related information for any image. • Get step-by-step homework help on math, physics and word problems, and testing your knowledge with Questions and Answers are now fully supported within the Google app. Search safely and securely: • All searches in the Google app are protected by encrypting the connection between your device and Google. • Privacy controls are easy to find and use. Tap your profile picture to access your menu and delete recent search history from your account with one click. • Search proactively filters webspam to help ensure that you see safe, high-quality results. Learn more about what the Google app can do for you: https://search.google/ Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy Your feedback helps us create products you'll love. Join a user research study here: https://goo.gl/kKQn99 *Features may not be available in all countries.
Contacts Sync
Easily back up, export, and restore your phone's contacts without a computer. This app helps you find and merge duplicate entries, ensuring your address book stays organized and secure. Supports multiple export formats and cloud storage options.
- Contact backup to secure cloud storage
- Export contacts in VCF, XLS, CSV formats
- Find and merge duplicate contacts
- Restore contacts from backup files
- Automatic daily, weekly, monthly backups
- Export backups via third-party apps
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Contacts Backup App is the easiest way to backup your contacts all from your phone without needing a computer. Also you can find duplicate contacts and merge by allocating contacts with similar names or identical phone numbers and email addresses. You can backup the contacts from the address book in 3 different file formats in no time: VCF, XLS and CSV. ** Backup: Allow Easy Backup to access your contacts and choose the Backup option in the app. That’s it! All your contacts are safe on our secure cloud storage. You can turn automatic backup ON and choose between daily, weekly and monthly backup frequency. ** Export: Export your VCF, XLS and CSV backups via third party apps like WhatsApp, iMessage, Email, and Airdrop. At any time, you can access and restore previous backups. You can also export your backup to Google Drive and Dropbox. ** Merge Duplicate Contacts: Users can view the contacts which have duplicate/missing phone numbers, emails, or names. Find & Merge duplicate contacts, phones, emails, and similar names. Also, you can remove contacts without names or phone number. ** Restore: No need to use any app to restore the backup files. Just tap on the .vcf backup file in the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad Mail client and restore your contacts. Contact Backup is 100% safe for your contacts. The backup and export are done on our secure servers or Google Drive and Dropbox. If you have any questions about the app, please do not hesitate to contact us at appsupport@backup.contact, we’ll be happy to help! IMPORTANT NOTE: After sending backup file (*.vcf) to yourself, please check your inbox to see if message arrived and contains attachment (backup file). Sometimes email providers block attachments if attachment size is too large. Try with another mail account if possible, to send your backup file. We also offer Tera Backup Pro, a set of premium features to keep your contacts secure at all times while accessible from all places. This service includes the following features: • Automatic backups of your contacts • Secure cloud storage of your backups • Military-grade AES-256 encryption of your cloud backups This service is offered as an auto-renewable subscription for Week: $1.99 per week Month: $4.99 per month (3 Days Free Trial) Year: $19.99 per year ------------------------ Please see the subscription details below: - The subscription price is automatically renewed every month until cancelled. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Apple ID account settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. - Any features requiring an active subscription (including Cloud Storage) may, at any time without notice, be turned off or removed after the subscription has ended. Privacy Policy: https://backup.contact/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://backup.contact/term-condition.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Google at every 5 days against Contacts Sync's every 6 weeks. Google also leads on ratings volume (5.1M vs 20) and rating (4.6 vs 4.3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Google sells 22 in-app purchases, starting at $0.89 per month and Contacts Sync sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Google holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google has 5.1M ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Google ships an update every 5 days, Contacts Sync every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and July 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts Sync | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5.1M ratings) — better | 4.3 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.1M — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 485 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Haresh Purbiya | |
Customer experience
Contacts Sync
Bugs and requests
Reported bugs
5 issues- Search bar freezes or takes a long time to load
- Tabs disappearing or not saving properly
- Inability to save images or access image search
- Crashing or force closing issues
- Inconsistent dark mode/light mode behavior
Requested features
5 requests- Option to disable Google Lens
- Improved tab management
- Ability to customize news feed interests
- Restore image download functionality
- Dedicated search mode for trucks and larger vehicles
Contacts Sync
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
- 30 GB$0.891 Month
- 100 GB$1.991 Month
- 100 GB1 Month trial3 variants$1.991 Month
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- 100 GB3 Months trial$1.991 Month
- 200 GB$2.991 Month
- 200 GB1 Month trial3 variants$2.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (400 GB)$4.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (400 GB)1 Month trial$4.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)$9.991 Month
- 2 TB1 Month trial3 variants$9.991 Month
- 100 GB$19.991 Year
- Google AI Pro (5 TB)1 Month trial2 variants$19.991 Month
- Google AI Pro (5 TB)$19.991 Month
- Google AI Pro (2 TB)$19.991 Month
- 5 TB2 variants$24.991 Month
- 200 GB$29.991 Year
- 200 GB1 Year trial$29.991 Year
- Google AI Plus (400 GB)$49.991 Year
- 10 TB$49.991 Month
- Google AI Plus (2 TB)$99.991 Year
- 30 TB$149.991 Month
- 5 TB$249.991 Year
Contacts Sync
- Contact backup PRO - weekly$1.997 Days
- Contact backup PRO - Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Contact backup PRO - Yearly$19.991 Year
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