Comparison

Contacts Duster vs iContacts Tool

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

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.

Highlights
  • Backup contacts to VCF or Excel
  • Import contacts from VCF or Excel
  • Delete all or filtered contacts
  • Merge duplicate contacts
  • Privacy protection
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Contacts Duster4 screens
iContacts Tool4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Contacts Duster versus iContacts Tool: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContacts DusteriContacts Tool
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (23 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMyClickapps.com LLC标勇 张

Customer experience

Contacts Duster

All ratings23 ratings
Positive52.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative47.8%
Written reviews241 reviews
Positive51.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative40.7%

iContacts Tool

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

8 purchases

Contacts Duster

Subscriptions2
  • Cloud Backup Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Cloud Backup Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time6
  • Groups Manager$0.99
  • Pro$0.99
  • Auto Dust$1.99
Show 3 more
  • Pro$2.99
  • Pro upgrade$4.99
  • Cloud Backup Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

iContacts Tool

One-time1
  • Purchase for lifetime$12.99

Questions

Is Contacts Duster free?
Contacts Duster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iContacts Tool free?
iContacts Tool is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Contacts Duster or iContacts Tool?
iContacts Tool is rated higher. Contacts Duster averages 3.0 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while iContacts Tool averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Contacts Duster or iContacts Tool have ads?
Neither Contacts Duster nor iContacts Tool shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contacts Duster or iContacts Tool?
Contacts Duster ships an update weekly, and iContacts Tool every 6 weeks. Most recently, Contacts Duster was updated on October 24, 2026 and iContacts Tool on October 27, 2026.

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