Comparison

Remove Duplicate Contacts + vs GContact

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

Head to head
About

Remove Duplicate Contacts +

Clean up your address book by finding and removing duplicate contacts and events. Manage contact groups, send messages to multiple contacts, and organize your calendar events efficiently. Offers basic duplicate detection with an option to unlock advanced merging features.

Highlights
  • Remove duplicate contacts
  • Delete multiple contacts at once
  • Backup and restore contacts
  • Find and remove duplicate events
  • Manage contact groups
  • Send group texts and emails
  • Organize calendar events
Features
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The best Duplicate Contacts Cleanup App for iOS. Remove duplicate contacts directly on iPhone/iPad. Delete multiple duplicate contacts with one tap. Backup, restore, and export contacts in your address book. Best Calendar Tools. Share ICS Events, Delete Events on your iPhone and iPad. Copy, Move Events for iOS. Basic version is designed to find and remove only 100% identical duplicate contacts. Want to find and merge contacts that share the same name but contain different information (such as phone numbers and addresses)? In-App Purchase our Contact Tools Function. Base version functionalities: 1. Find and Remove exact duplicate contacts (100% identical contacts) 2. Remove contacts without names 3. Remove contacts without phone numbers 4. Remove contacts without email addresses 5. Find and Remove duplicate events 6. Show days-until for events, filter events by date, create or edit events 7. Sort events alphabetically or by time order 8. Manage groups on iPhone (Add, delete, and/or rename groups) 9. Send group text/SMS 10. Send group emails 11. Assign multiple contacts to groups at once, remove multiple contacts from groups at once 12. Support search bar and index to fast locate a contact 13. View contact information, modify contact information, delete contacts from the address book, make phone calls, and send emails Shortcuts Integration: Automate your go-to actions and streamline your day with full Siri Shortcuts support. Home Screen Widgets: Get key insights and quick-access actions at a glance without even opening the app. Please send us emails at support@appiplayer.com if you have any questions or comments. Note: Group does NOT duplicate contact data, it reads from your address book and all changes you make will be saved to the same address book.

About

GContact

Organize your contacts into custom groups with this intuitive management tool. Automatically categorize contacts by company, create and edit groups, and manage individual contacts with ease. Send emails and SMS messages to entire groups, and back up your data to iCloud.

Highlights
  • Automatic contact grouping by company
  • Create, edit, and delete custom groups
  • Manage individual contacts
  • Send emails to group members
  • Send SMS/MMS to group members
  • Contact backup to iCloud
  • QR code reader
Features
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GContact is the most popular contact management software with easy-to-use. Features New Features(New!) Add todo task feature for contacts. Features 1. Contact could be gathered in the groups automatically by company names. 2. Groups could be created, edited, or deleted freely. 3. You could also create, delete, and edit a single contact. 4. It support to search for contacts 5. And send email to all group members 6. Fantastic respond speed 7. Support to send sms/mms to all group members *The group mms just support the emoji only,picture and camera it can not be support in this version. 8.You could change the group's sort 9.You could change the group's color 10.drag & drop for the group editing 11.Contacts backup and save to iCloud 12.QR code reader 13.Backup your contacts and shared your archive file by iTunes connect or EMail Mark: English,Japanese,Chinese versions are available. Tips: Click group bottom twice continuously, you will see the menu including “Edit Group Members” “Change Group Name/Color” “Delete Group” “Send Group Mail” “Send Group SMS/MMS" “Cancel”. We do apologize for the inconvenience to customers which caused by our incomplete illustration. The following is the summary of questions mentioned by customers. Thanks you so much for your treasure feedbacks. FAQ: 1. How to add contacts to groups (1) Please have a browse of the tip mentioned above for reference. (2) Firstly, click a contact in “No Group”, which you would like to add to a certain group. And then you will see a menu including “Contact Detail” “Join in group” “Cancel”. Once you choose and click “Join In Group”, the contact could be ready to add to your favor group. 2. How to delete the group which has been already added? (1) Please have a browse of the tips mentioned above for reference. (2) If you have cancelled GContact software, and plan to delete the groups remained in Apple’s Contacts, there are several ways to deal with it. One is deleting the groups by Exchange or Itune, and connecting your iphone or itouch to the computer, then doing synchronization. Another one is installing GContact again, and deleting the groups by it. Because the function of deleting groups is not supported by Contacts, and only supported by SDK software of Apple. 3. How to change the name of groups? Please have a browse of the tips mentioned above for reference. 4.Why some groups are added automatically, although we did not do any edition on it? We are afraid it is not caused by GContact, but may be caused by other familiar software or others’ computers, while doing synchronization on it.

Screenshots

Remove Duplicate Contacts +4 screens
GContact2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Remove Duplicate Contacts + at Free against GContact's $19.99. Remove Duplicate Contacts + also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (565 vs 123). GContact's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (51% vs 23%). On rating, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Remove Duplicate Contacts + is free to download; GContact costs $19.99 up front. Remove Duplicate Contacts + sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. GContact asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Remove Duplicate Contacts + against 4.5 for GContact. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 565 and 123 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 23% of Remove Duplicate Contacts +'s written reviews are positive against 51% of GContact's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Remove Duplicate Contacts + ships an update every 2 months, GContact every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Remove Duplicate Contacts + versus GContact: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRemove Duplicate Contacts +GContact
PriceFree — better$19.99
Rating4.5 (565 ratings)4.5 (123 ratings)
Positive reviews22.9% of reviews51.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings565 — better123
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB87 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShan Shan LiuEJing

Customer experience

Remove Duplicate Contacts +

All ratings565 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral5.1%
Negative7.6%
Written reviews362 reviews
Positive22.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative73.2%

GContact

All ratings123 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral3.3%
Negative10.6%
Written reviews182 reviews
Positive51.1%
Neutral11.0%
Negative37.9%

Bugs and requests

Remove Duplicate Contacts +

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Deleting contacts removes phone numbers and details
  • Sync issues with other platforms
  • Inconsistent performance across iOS versions

Requested features

3 requests
  • Improved duplicate detection and merging
  • More transparent pricing model
  • Backup and restore functionality

GContact

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Remove Duplicate Contacts +

One-time3
  • Merge Tools$3.99
  • Calendar Tools$4.99
  • Task$4.99
None

GContact

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Remove Duplicate Contacts + free?
Remove Duplicate Contacts + is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is GContact free?
GContact costs $19.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Remove Duplicate Contacts + or GContact?
Remove Duplicate Contacts + and GContact are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 565 and 123 ratings respectively.
Do Remove Duplicate Contacts + or GContact have ads?
Neither Remove Duplicate Contacts + nor GContact shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Remove Duplicate Contacts + or GContact?
Remove Duplicate Contacts + ships an update every 2 months, and GContact every 4 months. Most recently, Remove Duplicate Contacts + was updated on September 20, 2026 and GContact on September 23, 2026.

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