Comparison

Contacts Duster vs Contacts cleaner duplicate

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

Contacts cleaner duplicate

Easily manage your contacts by deleting unwanted entries, finding duplicates, and backing up your data. Recover accidentally deleted contacts and share contact information via vCard.

Highlights
  • Delete multiple contacts
  • Find and remove duplicate contacts
  • Backup and restore contacts
  • Recover deleted contacts
  • Share contacts via vCard
  • Search and sort contacts
Features
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Our App is designed to help you manage your contacts, you can select unwanted contacts and delete them easily and with one tap after confirmation. You can also select all contacts and delete them or select one by one and also search contacts possibilities . you can also backup your contacts and restore them later or share vCard. Our app helps you to find duplicate contacts to make it easy for you to clean your contacts. What is special about our app is you can recover deleted contacts. Your contacts remain on the app, we do not collect data. You will find those features within the app: - Select multiple contacts - Select all contacts with one click - Search for contacts - Sort by alphabetical - Sort by duplicate - Recover deleted contacts to your iPhone. - Send deleted to your mail - Backup contacts - Restore backup - share vCard We hope our app makes you satisfied. Subscription details: 1 month PLEASE NOTE You will need a subscription in order to unlock all the features. There are three subscription options available: Month subscription for $3.99 * Each subscription will be automatically renewed unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current payment period. * Your iTunes account will be automatically charged at the same price for renewal within the 24-hour period prior to the end of the current payment period unless you change your subscription preferences in your iTunes Account Settings. * Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms & Privacy URL https://www.creativesapps.com/delete-contacts-privacy

Screenshots

Contacts Duster4 screens
Contacts cleaner duplicate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Contacts cleaner duplicate at 4.6 against Contacts Duster's 3.0. Contacts cleaner duplicate also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Contacts Duster's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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 Contacts cleaner duplicate 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

Contacts cleaner duplicate holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 11 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Contacts Duster versus Contacts cleaner duplicate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContacts DusterContacts cleaner duplicate
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (23 ratings)4.6 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews51.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings23 — better11
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMyClickapps.com LLCNouhayla Moustaine

Customer experience

Contacts Duster

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

Contacts cleaner duplicate

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%

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

Contacts cleaner duplicate

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
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  • Pro$2.99
  • Pro upgrade$4.99
  • Cloud Backup Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

Contacts cleaner duplicate

One-time1
  • Premium$3.99

Questions

Is Contacts Duster free?
Contacts Duster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Contacts cleaner duplicate free?
Contacts cleaner duplicate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Contacts Duster or Contacts cleaner duplicate?
Contacts cleaner duplicate is rated higher. Contacts Duster averages 3.0 out of 5 from 23 ratings, while Contacts cleaner duplicate averages 4.6 from 11 ratings.
Do Contacts Duster or Contacts cleaner duplicate have ads?
Neither Contacts Duster nor Contacts cleaner duplicate shows ads.

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