Comparison

Groups! Free vs Duplicate Contacts Manager

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

Head to head
About

Groups! Free

Organize contacts into custom groups for easy communication via text or email. Send personalized messages to multiple recipients simultaneously and share your location. Find contacts quickly with advanced search and set reminders to stay in touch.

Highlights
  • Group contacts into custom lists
  • Send mass texts and emails
  • Personalize messages
  • Attach images to emails
  • Share location
  • Search contacts by attribute
  • Set contact reminders
Features
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You've just found the best, easiest tool for communicating with your iPhone contacts. Downloaded by 2.6 million people in over 100 countries around the world. Don't take our word for it. See for yourself! It's free. Groups works with your native contacts and phone capabilities, so it's completely private. MANAGE + Group your contacts into Friends, Family, etc. + Easily create and manage any groups of contacts + Now translated into 15 languages! + Works with native iPhone groups + Set an icon for each group - now w/more icons! COMMUNICATE + Easily text or email many contacts at once + Works even if your contacts don't have the app + Personalize your texts with first name, last name, etc. + Attach images to your emails, use To | Cc | Bcc + Share your location with people you're meeting FIND + Search within groups, by any attribute + Set reminders to get in touch with people + Quickly build lists of people to contact + Supports all iPhone screen sizes + Takes advantage of the latest iOS features (like Do Not Disturb, Voice Messages etc.) Notes for iOS 7 and iOS 8 users: * Groups will obviously need to access your contacts in order to work. * If you have iMessage turned on, your phone will use it to send out group messages. * iOS 8 has much improved Group Texting capabilities that Groups can take advantage of.

About

Duplicate Contacts Manager

This app helps you clean up your address book by merging and removing duplicate contacts. It offers various options for identifying and resolving duplicates based on identical information, similar names, or phone numbers. You can also back up and restore your contacts for safety.

Highlights
  • Merge duplicate contacts
  • Remove contacts with missing info
  • Backup and restore contacts
  • Identify identical contacts
  • Merge contacts with similar names
  • Merge contacts with similar phone numbers
Features
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Merge Duplicate Contacts & Remover has following options: 1. Merge & Remove duplicate contacts 2. Delete contacts with no name, number, email. 3. Backup and Restore contacts (in .vcf file) For merging and deleting duplicate contacts following options available: 1. Duplicate Contacts (where all contacts are identical) : Here app deletes duplicate contacts. 2. Similar Phone number (only phone number number in all contacts similar) : Here app merges contacts and make a single contact. 3. Similar Name (name in all contacts are similar) : Here app merges contacts and make a single contact. 4. Inside Duplicates (Same number is stored two times in one contact) : Here app removes other numbers within contact. 5. Duplicate Email (Same email id in all contacts) : Here app merges contacts and make a single contact. Using this app, you can fix your address book easily. Note: Please make sure that you review all duplicates and backup your contacts before merging your contacts.

Screenshots

Groups! Free4 screens
Duplicate Contacts Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Duplicate Contacts Manager at 4.1 against Groups! Free's 2.5. Duplicate Contacts Manager also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (763 vs 15). Groups! Free's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 16.0). On price, review sentiment, 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. Groups! Free sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Duplicate Contacts Manager 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

Duplicate Contacts Manager holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Duplicate Contacts Manager has 763 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Groups! Free ships an update every 3 months, Duplicate Contacts Manager every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Groups! Free versus Duplicate Contacts Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGroups! FreeDuplicate Contacts Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (15 ratings)4.1 (763 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.2% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings15763 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB8 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperQbix, Inc.Vimal Jain

Customer experience

Groups! Free

All ratings15 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative53.3%
Written reviews433 reviews
Positive67.2%
Neutral6.9%
Negative25.9%

Duplicate Contacts Manager

All ratings763 ratings
Positive77.5%
Neutral4.3%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews541 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative30.5%

User reviews

Groups! Free

From 15 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient contact organization
  • 💡 Useful for group communication
  • 🔒 Integrates well with contacts

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes and freezes
  • 🐛 Slow performance
  • 🐛 Inability to delete groups
  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with iOS updates

Duplicate Contacts Manager

From 763 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Easy and straightforward to use
  • 🚀 Efficient at merging and deleting duplicate contacts
  • 💰 Free app with no in-app purchases
  • 📤 Backup and export contacts functionality

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Inconsistent contact matching, some duplicates missed
  • 📷 Issues with contact photos (e.g. replaced with random photos)
  • 🔁 Repetitive scanning and loading process
  • 📢 Intrusive ads that can't be disabled

Bugs and requests

Groups! Free

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes on startup
  • Groups disappear after use
  • Contacts not syncing properly
  • Inability to edit or remove groups

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to delete groups
  • Faster load times
  • More customization options for groups
  • Ability to sort contacts within groups

Duplicate Contacts Manager

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes or freezes during contact processing
  • Merged contacts losing important details like notes and birthdays
  • Incorrect contact information after merging (e.g. wrong phone numbers)

Requested features

4 requests
  • Undo/rollback functionality
  • More granular control over merge/delete options
  • Support for sorting and filtering contacts
  • Backup and restore options for contact data

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Groups! Free

One-time9
  • Nice$1.99
  • Sweet$2.99
  • Turn off Ads$3.99
Show 6 more
  • Helpful$4.99
  • + 30 icons2 variants$4.99
  • + 60 icons$4.99
  • Awesome!$9.99
  • + I just like your app$9.99
  • + I really love your app!$19.99
1 purchases

Duplicate Contacts Manager

One-time1
  • Merger Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Groups! Free free?
Groups! Free is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Duplicate Contacts Manager free?
Duplicate Contacts Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Groups! Free or Duplicate Contacts Manager?
Duplicate Contacts Manager is rated higher. Groups! Free averages 2.5 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Duplicate Contacts Manager averages 4.1 from 763 ratings.
Do Groups! Free or Duplicate Contacts Manager have ads?
Duplicate Contacts Manager shows ads; Groups! Free does not.
Which is updated more often, Groups! Free or Duplicate Contacts Manager?
Groups! Free ships an update every 3 months, and Duplicate Contacts Manager every 3 weeks. Most recently, Groups! Free was updated on October 7, 2026 and Duplicate Contacts Manager on October 13, 2026.

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