Comparison

Groups vs Clean Contact Group Manager

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

Head to head
About

Groups

This app transforms your phone's contacts into a private social network. Organize people, share updates, and stay connected without sharing your data with large tech companies. It offers features for communication, event planning, and contact management.

Highlights
  • Organize contacts into custom groups
  • Set reminders to reach out
  • Send personalized group messages
  • Create events and invite guests
  • Share content from any app
  • Data privacy focused
Features
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You've just found the best, easiest app for staying in touch with people. Try it for yourself — it's free! Downloaded by millions in over 100 countries, Groups turns your phone's native contacts into a private social network. Organize your groups, share with friends and family, and stay connected — without feeding Big Tech your data. ORGANIZE YOUR CONTACTS: ◆ Group by how you know them — friends, family, work, hobbies ◆ See who you met recently and interaction history ◆ Smart search finds anyone instantly ◆ Clean up duplicates and merge contacts STAY IN TOUCH: ◆ Set reminders to reach out to people who matter ◆ Send personalized messages to your whole circle at once ◆ Message templates for birthdays, holidays, events ◆ Track who you haven't spoken to in a while SHARE TOGETHER: ◆ Exchange contact info instantly with QR codes ◆ Take Group Photos with fun AI effects ◆ Create events and invite people (they join via browser — no app needed) ◆ Share links, photos, and content from any app ◆ Custom icons for each group YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS: ◆ Unlike Facebook, Instagram, or LinkedIn, your contacts never leave your phone. ◆ Messages go directly through SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, or Email — recipients don't need Groups to receive them. ◆ No algorithms deciding who sees your posts. No ads. No data mining. No selling your information. ◆ Just a better way to stay connected with the people you actually care about. Through channels you already use. WORKS WITH EVERYTHING: ◆ Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and more. ◆ Fully compatible with iOS features like Do Not Disturb, Voice Messages, and Shortcuts. Now available on iPad. OWN YOUR COMMUNITY Every contact is real social capital. Whether you're organizing a book club, coordinating family events, or building a community around shared interests — Groups helps you bring people together on your terms. Free to download. Start growing your private social network today.

About

Clean Contact Group Manager

This app helps you clean and organize your contact list by finding and merging duplicate entries. It can also help you remove contacts with missing information, ensuring your address book is tidy and efficient.

Highlights
  • Delete duplicate contacts
  • Merge duplicate contacts
  • Find contacts with similar names
  • Find contacts with duplicate phone/email
  • Remove contacts with missing data
  • Select single, multiple, or all contacts for deletion
Features
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Utility app to let you delete contacts, delete duplicate contacts, merge contacts, clean contacts. Select one, many, or all contacts and delete them. Search through your contacts and delete contacts or find & merge duplicate contacts Your address book is a mess? Delete Contacts - Duplicate Contacts Cleaner will fix it in a few seconds: - Merge duplicate contacts and clean up your contacts - Easily find and remove duplicate contacts, duplicate phone, duplicate email, duplicate name. - Merge Duplicate Contacts: Having the same address book for many years, switching phones, importing contacts from other sources – can all cause the appearance of duplicate contacts. Delete Duplicate Contacts will help you to find and merge these duplications, by allocating contacts with similar names or identical phone numbers and email addresses. - Duplicate Contacts Cleaner: Simple mistakes and lack of attention can cause the creation of “bad” contacts with missing data. Locate and get rid of these "worthless" contacts, with missing names or phone numbers, by simply delete them for good. MERGE DUPLICATE CONTACTS CLEANER * Merge all duplicate contacts with one tap! * Find & merge contacts with similar names. * Find & Merge contacts with duplicate phone or email. This application is developed and published in the hope that it will be useful but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. Backup your contacts before use, so you can get it back if necessary. Clean up your address book, delete duplicated contacts and upgrade the safety of your contacts with our app. PREMIUM: You can be a premium user through auto-renewing subscription. Monthly: $3.99 (3 days trial) - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period and identify the cost of the renewal - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after 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 Below is subscription detail: Monthly Subscription * Subscription Prices: - 3 Day Free Trial then $3.99/month • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can turn off the auto-renew subscription from iPhone setting • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after 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. The app adds the great features above and are available through an auto-renewing subscription. Subscriptions will be charged to your credit card through your iTunes account. Your subscription will automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of your current subscription, and you can cancel a subscription during the active period. You can manage your subscription at any time, either by viewing your account in iTunes from your Mac or PC, or Account Settings on your device after purchase. • Privacy Policy: https://vinsofts.com/privacy-policy/ • Terms of use: https://vinsofts.com/en/terms-of-use/

Screenshots

Groups4 screens
Clean Contact Group Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Groups at 4.2 against Clean Contact Group Manager's 1.0. Groups also leads on monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ratings volume (5K vs 1). Clean Contact Group Manager's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (97% vs 76%). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Groups sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Clean Contact Group Manager sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Groups holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Groups has 5K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 76% of Groups's written reviews are positive against 97% of Clean Contact Group Manager's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Groups versus Clean Contact Group Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroupsClean Contact Group Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews75.6% of reviews96.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 8 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.610.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperQbix, Inc.VINSOFTS JOINT STOCK COMPANY

Customer experience

Groups

All ratings4,916 ratings
Positive79.5%
Neutral6.1%
Negative14.5%
Written reviews1,717 reviews
Positive75.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative18.7%

Clean Contact Group Manager

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews152 reviews
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%

User reviews

Groups

From 5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 👍 Helpful for organizing contacts
  • 🚀 Efficient for group messaging
  • 👍 Customizable groups

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Unreliable sync and data loss
  • 🐛 Buggy updates
  • 👎 Poor customer support
  • 👎 Confusing UI changes

Clean Contact Group Manager

From 1 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and efficient
  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 💡 Useful for bulk contact management
  • 🔒 Backup and restore contacts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Visibility issues in dark mode
  • 🐛 Potential data loss on merging contacts

Bugs and requests

Groups

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Groups disappearing
  • Contacts not syncing properly
  • Inability to create new groups
  • Freezing and crashing on certain actions

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to delete groups and contacts
  • Improved group management and sorting
  • Option to send mass texts without individual replies
  • Better integration with native contacts app

Clean Contact Group Manager

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Contacts disappearing after cleaning
  • Inability to see contact names

Requested features

3 requests
  • Improved dark mode support
  • Undo/restore deleted contacts
  • Batch editing of contact details

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Groups

Subscriptions3
  • Unlock All Features$0.991 Month
  • Plus$1.991 Month
  • Premium$2.991 Month
One-time8
  • Turn off Ads$1.99
  • Turn off Ads$4.99
  • + 500 icons$5.99
Show 5 more
  • Unlock All Features$5.99
  • + I just like your app2 variants$9.99
  • Unlock All Features$9.99
  • + I just like your app$14.99
  • + I really love your app!2 variants$19.99
1 purchases

Clean Contact Group Manager

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Groups free?
Groups is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Clean Contact Group Manager free?
Clean Contact Group Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Groups or Clean Contact Group Manager?
Groups is rated higher. Groups averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5K ratings, while Clean Contact Group Manager averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Groups or Clean Contact Group Manager have ads?
Groups shows ads; Clean Contact Group Manager does not.

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