Comparison

ForwardContact vs Contactio

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

Head to head
About

ForwardContact

Easily share contact information via text, email, or messaging apps. Generate QR codes for in-person sharing and access contacts quickly with a widget. Supports multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Share contact details via text, email, WhatsApp, Telegram
  • Generate QR codes for in-person sharing
  • Dedicated widget for quick access
  • Select specific information to share
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Life is all about networking, and sharing contacts with others is a common everyday activity. ForwardContact is a simple yet powerful app designed to make this task easier. With just a few taps, you can choose a contact, select the information you want to share, and send it via text message or email. ForwardContact is designed to be fast and easy to use. To send contact details, it uses the built-in Messages and Mail apps. If installed on your device, you can also share contacts through WhatsApp or Telegram. You can even share your contacts in person using a QR code. Enjoy quick access with a dedicated widget. Available in: English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.

About

Contactio

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Clean up your contacts without breaking your address book. Contactio scans your contacts on your device, finds duplicates and fixes broken entries. Everything stays local. No cloud upload. No tracking. Merges the safe way Contactio treats a shared MOBILE number as the proof that two entries are the same person. A landline or a company switchboard that colleagues share never links two different people, so a merge never sweeps up someone who just works in the same office. Before anything changes you see exactly which phone numbers and emails are kept, and you can leave any out. What it does • Finds duplicates by name, phone, email and other details • Shows exactly what will be kept before you merge, and lets you leave out values • Merges in one safe step: phone numbers, emails, addresses and other details are carried over • Fixes missing names, missing phone numbers and organizations guessed from email domains • Cleans broken names with extra spaces, odd characters or wrong casing • Standardizes different spellings of the same organization • Searches across results by name, company, phone or email, including Turkish letters Safe by design • A backup is saved before every change, and deleting always backs up first • Undo any merge, fix or delete from the Merge Archive • Restore from a backup file at any time; restoring twice never adds copies • Limits large changes: it will not delete or change more than 40% of your contacts at once • Works with limited contacts access and tells you when results may be incomplete Private • All processing happens on your device • No account, no cloud upload, no data sharing • Your backups are .vcf files in the app's own folder, and you can delete them in Settings Available in English and Turkish.

Screenshots

ForwardContact4 screens
Contactio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Contactio at Free against ForwardContact's $1.99. Contactio also leads on update cadence (every 9 months vs every 32 months). ForwardContact's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Contactio is free to download; ForwardContact costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ForwardContact ships an update every 32 months, Contactio every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
ForwardContact versus Contactio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForwardContactContactio
Price$1.99Free — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 32 monthsEvery 9 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStefano RampazzoGokhan Yilmaz

In-app purchases

None

ForwardContact

No in-app purchases

None

Contactio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ForwardContact free?
ForwardContact costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Contactio free?
Contactio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ForwardContact or Contactio have ads?
Neither ForwardContact nor Contactio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ForwardContact or Contactio?
ForwardContact ships an update every 32 months, and Contactio every 9 months. Most recently, ForwardContact was updated on November 1, 2026 and Contactio on November 5, 2026.

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