QuickContact vs Shortcut for Contacts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuickContact
Easily call or text your favorite contacts with a single tap. Assign contacts to customizable icons featuring their photos for quick access. Supports direct calls, SMS, FaceTime, and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram.
- One-screen interface
- Up to nine pages of icons
- Assign contacts with photos
- Direct call, SMS, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Telegram
- Customizable icons
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Want to call or text your contacts with a simple touch? How about doing it just by touching his/her favourite photo? Then this is the app for you! - Just one screen - Up to nine pages of icons - Press and hold an icon to assign it one contact with its photo - Once assigned, just press the icon to call or text your contact (since iOS 10.3, the system ask for permission whenever a third party app tries to open a call) It's that easy! Nothing else to worry about! One thing you need, one thing the app does. You can directly start call, sms, FaceTime and Whatsapp or Telegram message. And you can customise it according to your preferences. Download it for free. If you use it and you find it useful, please contribute to its development (see info section). This application is specific to iPhone, as it makes use of call and sms functionalities.
Shortcut for Contacts
Quickly initiate conversations with friends directly from your notification center. Add contact widgets to your screen for instant access to chats, bypassing the need to open individual apps.
- Notification center widgets
- Direct conversation initiation
- Fast chat access
- Customizable contact widgets
- Eliminate app navigation
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Add a widget for your contacts in your notification center and start conversations super fast. Download now! The best way to start conversations with your friends. Just open the notification center, choose a friend and chat! Only that. Starting a conversation has never been faster and easier. You no longer need to go to the home screen, navigate to the social network icon, search for your friend to start chatting. Now, you just need to slide your finger on the screen and choose a friend. Make the most of the potential of your notification center, download Shortcuts to Contacts now. Upgrade to the full version to remove advertisements and add as many contacts as you want.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Shortcut for Contacts at 4.5 against QuickContact's 3.9. Shortcut for Contacts also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (302 vs 28). QuickContact's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (64% vs 39%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. QuickContact sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Shortcut for Contacts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Shortcut for Contacts holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shortcut for Contacts has 302 ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of QuickContact's written reviews are positive against 39% of Shortcut for Contacts's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
QuickContact ships an update every 3 months, Shortcut for Contacts every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuickContact | Shortcut for Contacts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (28 ratings) | 4.5 (302 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.3% of reviews — better | 39.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 28 | 302 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CDM S.r.L. | Aplicativos Legais |
Customer experience
QuickContact
Shortcut for Contacts
User reviews
QuickContact
From 28 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 Great for elderly and children
- 🚀 Quick access to contacts
- 👍 Simple and useful
- 👍 Excellent replacement for removed iOS features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Not one-touch dialing
- 🐛 Issues with adding/deleting contacts
- 🐛 App freezes or crashes
- 🐛 In-app purchases charged unexpectedly
- 🐛 Cannot delete the app
Shortcut for Contacts
From 302 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Useful app
- 🚀 Practical and intuitive
- 💡 Great idea
- 👍 Simple and efficient
Room to improve
- 🐛 Doesn't work
- 🔒 Only 3 contacts allowed in free version
- 💡 Lacks group support
- 🐛 Crashes and freezes
- 🐛 Doesn't load properly
Bugs and requests
QuickContact
Reported bugs
17 issues- Symbols like pause (,) are stripped away after OS update
- Trouble adding names
- Will not allow deletion of the app
- Cannot delete and add contacts
- Double tap function does not work
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- Text feature takes you to messages instead of pre-populating
- Freezes up, will not let you call or text
- Background picture tool section doesn't cover tool area
- Won't let me edit contact pictures or names
- Cannot assign pictures to icons
- Crashes every time it's open
- Only one page working
- Doesn't work with iPod Touch
- Error message saying it does not work for this device (iPad 2)
- App wouldn't open until privacy settings were changed
- Double tap on iOS requires two touches
- Takes 3 touches to call (open app, select contact, confirm dial)
Requested features
22 requests- Ability for group texting
- Add other communication options (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal calls/texts)
- Ability to assign actions to FaceTime and FT audio calls
- Ability to move contacts around
- Option to choose text or call each time
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- Add more icons to a single page
- Smaller contact icons for more per page
- Option to assign actions to FaceTime and FT audio calls
- Ability to move contacts around
- Add additional background pictures
- Swipe up rather than left/right for next page
- Add page turn effect like iBooks
- Option to choose which number to call
- Personalization of colors and themes
- Add more than one number to a person
- Choose whether to call, send SMS or MMS per favorite
- Make it so that when you click the contact it gives you the option of Text or Call
- Instructions to get started
- Want icons on home screen
- Add pictures to icons
- Ability to assign the action to FaceTime and FT audio calls
- Ability to move contacts around
Shortcut for Contacts
Reported bugs
4 issues- Doesn't open on iOS 8.3
- Widget doesn't show contact photos
- Shortcuts don't open WhatsApp chats
- App doesn't work after updates
Requested features
4 requests- Add group support
- Allow more than 3 contacts in free version
- Improve stability and performance
- Provide more customization options
In-app purchases
QuickContact
- Support QuickContact$0.99
Shortcut for Contacts
- Subscription$1.997 Days
- Subscription7 Days trial$1.997 Days
- Full Version$1.99
Questions
Is QuickContact free?
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