Contacts Duster vs iContacts Tool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contacts Duster
This app helps you clean up your iPhone or iPad contacts by detecting and merging duplicate entries. It offers features to manage your address book efficiently, including cleaning 'zombies' and visualizing your contact data. Cloud backup is available via in-app purchase.
- Detect and merge duplicate contacts
- Clean 'zombie' contacts
- In-app backup and restore
- Visualize address book with pie graph
- Cloud backup of contacts
- Localized in 12 languages
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ContactsDuster is one of the original iPhone contacts cleanup apps, helping people dust messy address books since 2010. Redesigned in SwiftUI with a fresh Liquid Glass feel, ContactsDuster keeps contact cleanup simple: find duplicates, merge repeated people, remove empty zombie contacts, organize groups, and keep a backup ready when you need it. Why people use ContactsDuster: - Clean duplicate contacts quickly - Merge matching names, phone numbers, and email addresses - Remove empty or incomplete zombie contacts - Organize contact groups - Export contacts as vCard - Back up and restore with backup history in your iCloud account ContactsDuster works directly with your iPhone and iPad contacts. Your address book stays yours: contacts are not uploaded to us, and backup history is saved in your own iCloud account so we do not have access to it. Privacy Policy: https://www.myclickapps.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.myclickapps.com/terms
iContacts Tool
Easily back up, import, and export your mobile contacts using VCF or Excel files. This tool also helps merge duplicate entries and allows for selective deletion of contacts, all while prioritizing user privacy.
- Backup contacts to VCF or Excel
- Import contacts from VCF or Excel
- Delete all or filtered contacts
- Merge duplicate contacts
- Privacy protection
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1. Back up contacts Support exporting all or part of the mobile phone contacts to .VCF or Excel. 2. Import contacts Support importing to mobile phone contacts through .VCF or Excel(.xls,xlsx), and support adding name prefixes for subsequent filtering and deletion. 3. Delete some or all contacts Support deleting all contacts in iPhone contacts, or filtering to delete some contacts. 4. Support merge duplicate contacts Supports merging all duplicate contacts with one click 5. Protect privacy This software will not collect any of your information or private content, and will not upload your contacts., After purchase, set the network access of the APP to offline for normal use.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Contacts Duster at 51% against iContacts Tool's 0%. Contacts Duster also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (23 vs 1). iContacts Tool's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). 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. Contacts Duster sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and iContacts Tool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
iContacts Tool holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Contacts Duster has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 51% of Contacts Duster's written reviews are positive against 0% of iContacts Tool's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Contacts Duster ships an update weekly, iContacts Tool every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts Duster | iContacts Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MyClickapps.com LLC | 标勇 张 |
Customer experience
Contacts Duster
iContacts Tool
Bugs and requests
Contacts Duster
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes during contact cleaning
- Deletes valid contacts
- Fails to detect all duplicate contacts
- Syncing issues with iCloud and other services
Requested features
4 requests- Allow merging of contact groups
- Provide more granular control over contact management
- Improve duplicate detection accuracy
- Add support for more cloud storage services
iContacts Tool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Contacts Duster
- Cloud Backup Monthly$2.991 Month
- Cloud Backup Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Groups Manager$0.99
- Pro$0.99
- Auto Dust$1.99
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- Pro$2.99
- Pro upgrade$4.99
- Cloud Backup Lifetime$19.99
iContacts Tool
- Purchase for lifetime$12.99
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