Contacts Group vs TabPad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contacts Group
Organize your contacts into custom groups for easier management. Send group emails or SMS messages, and quickly find contacts with powerful search capabilities. Supports adding images to groups and deleting multiple contacts at once.
- Create and manage contact groups
- Group Mail/SMS
- Drag & Drop contact management
- Powerful search
- Delete multiple contacts
- Send contact information via Mail/SMS
- Assign images to groups
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eContacts provides a simple interface to create and manage groups of your contacts for your addressbook. eContacts is a most powerful contact addressbook application. Easily create and manage groups of contacts. FEATURES √ View and manage contact groups from a single, easy to navigate view. √ Create, delete, rename, sort and navigate contact groups with all in a single view. √ Group Mail/Group SMS. √ Drag & Drop (Single or multiple contacts into or out of group) √ Powerful search within groups, by any part of the name and phone number and office name. √ Delete multiple contacts from the address book in a single go. √ Send contact infomation by Mail or SMS. √ People can be in more than one group. √ Set an image for each group. √ Retina display supported. √ Multi-tasking. √ Available on iPhone 4.0 OS or higher. Do you have any suggestions or ideas on how to improve app? We welcome your suggestions and feedback. Send an email to: acdbentity@gmail.com
TabPad
Organize your notes with a colorful tabbed interface, similar to sticky notes. Pin important notes to the top and quickly find what you need with keyword search. Cloud synchronization is available for seamless access across devices.
- Colorful tabbed note organization
- Pin important notes
- Keyword search functionality
- Cloud synchronization
- Cross-device support
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Colorful tabs like stickies allow you to switch from one note to another -You can pin a specific note to the first tab. - Keyword search - Cloud Synchronization (charged)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TabPad at 4.0 against Contacts Group's 1.0. TabPad also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). Contacts Group's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. TabPad sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Contacts Group asks for nothing beyond the download.
TabPad holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Contacts Group's written reviews are positive against 50% of TabPad's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Contacts Group ships an update monthly, TabPad every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contacts Group | TabPad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 59 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | June Soft | Shigenori Kumagai |
Customer experience
Contacts Group
TabPad
In-app purchases
Contacts Group
No in-app purchases
TabPad
- Upgrade(macOS)$2.99
- Upgrade(iOS)$3.99
