Comparison

Contact Exporter vs ID Scanner

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

Head to head
About

Contact Exporter

Safeguard your valuable contacts with a comprehensive backup and export solution. Effortlessly clean up duplicates, import from various formats, and organize contacts into custom groups. Ensures your relationships are always accessible and well-managed.

Highlights
  • Export contacts to Excel, CSV, VCF, TXT
  • Include contact photos in exports
  • Detect and fix duplicate contacts
  • Normalize phone numbers to E.164
  • Import from VCF, CSV, XLSX, ABBU
  • Create custom contact groups
  • Generate Avery mailing labels
Features
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Lose your contacts and you lose years of relationships. Contact Exporter backs up every name, number, and photo on your iPhone — and exports them anywhere you need. On the App Store since 2011. Rebuilt for iOS 17. Export Without Limits • Excel, CSV, VCF, and TXT — pick the fields, the format, and the order • Photos exported with Excel and VCF, not just text • Export everyone, a handpicked few, or a whole group — your selections save for next time Clean Up the Mess • Catch duplicates, invalid emails, malformed numbers, and stray whitespace • Fix in one tap or review every change first • Phone numbers normalized to E.164 across 50+ countries Smart Import & Recovery • Drop in a VCF, CSV, XLSX, or ABBU and see what's new, what changed, and what's already there before anything is written • Restore from any backup — yours or someone else's, no questions asked Tools Beyond Export • Custom groups — family, clients, holiday list, project crew • Avery mailing labels, print-ready for invitations and business mail • Gravatar enrichment — adds real profile photos to anyone with an email • Monthly reminders and one-tap backup so you never forget Built private. Everything happens on your device. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. How It Works 1. Pick your contacts — all of them, a group, or specific ones 2. Choose your format and the fields you want 3. Tap export. Done. Back up your contacts today and stop hoping nothing breaks. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://BigBalli.com/privacy

About

ID Scanner

Features
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Turn IDs and paperwork into files you can actually send: redaction here removes the pixels and the hidden text layer, not just a black rectangle on top. Scanning is unlimited and free, with no account - processing stays on your device. • Scan both sides of an ID or import photos • Review, replace, delete, add, and reorder pages • Create A4 PDFs or share original images • Export one long image, or stitch your screen-by-screen screenshots • Add purpose watermarks and mask sensitive numbers • Print ID copies at the physical 85.6 × 54 mm size • Use employment, visa, banking, and rental checklists • Recognize text locally with OCR • Redact PDF areas: pixels and the underlying text are both removed • Privacy check reads real on-device values, and wipes every file in one tap Scanning, OCR, PDF/JPG sharing, printing, watermarks and the PDF redact tool are free with no page limit. Pro adds batch processing, advanced templates, standard copy controls, reusable settings, and advanced PDF tools. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Contact Exporter4 screens
ID Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ID Scanner at Free against Contact Exporter's $1.99. ID Scanner also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Contact Exporter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

ID Scanner is free to download; Contact Exporter costs $1.99 up front. ID Scanner sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Contact Exporter asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contact Exporter ships an update every 3 weeks, ID Scanner every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Contact Exporter versus ID Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContact ExporterID Scanner
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBigBalli Consulting llcJiang Yu

In-app purchases

None

Contact Exporter

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

ID Scanner

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Plan$0.991 Month
  • Annual Plan$4.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Plan$9.99

Questions

Is Contact Exporter free?
Contact Exporter costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ID Scanner free?
ID Scanner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Contact Exporter or ID Scanner have ads?
Neither Contact Exporter nor ID Scanner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contact Exporter or ID Scanner?
Contact Exporter ships an update every 3 weeks, and ID Scanner every 4 days. Most recently, Contact Exporter was updated on November 1, 2026 and ID Scanner on October 28, 2026.

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