Comparison

Contacts Duster Pro vs Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts

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

Head to head
About

Contacts Duster Pro

This app helps you organize your contacts by detecting and merging duplicate entries like names, emails, and phone numbers. It also cleans up orphaned data and offers cloud backup for your address book.

Highlights
  • Detect and merge duplicate contacts
  • Clean zombie contacts
  • In-app backup and restore
  • Cloud backup (in-app purchase)
  • Visualize address book with pie graph
  • Manual merge of duplicates
Features
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ContactsDuster Pro is one of the original iPhone contacts cleanup apps, helping people dust messy address books since 2010. Redesigned in SwiftUI with a fresh Liquid Glass feel, ContactsDuster Pro keeps contact cleanup simple: find duplicates, merge repeated people, remove empty zombie contacts, organize groups, and keep a backup ready when you need it. Pro cleanup tools: - Clean duplicate contacts quickly - Merge matching names, phone numbers, and email addresses - Remove empty or incomplete zombie contacts - Organize contact groups - Export contacts as vCard - Back up and restore with backup history in your iCloud account ContactsDuster Pro works directly with your iPhone and iPad contacts. Your address book stays yours: contacts are not uploaded to us, and backup history is saved in your own iCloud account so we do not have access to it. Privacy Policy: https://www.myclickapps.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.myclickapps.com/terms

About

Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts

Easily clean up your address book by removing duplicate and junk contacts. This app helps you merge duplicates, back up your contacts to CSV or VCF files, and manage multiple address book sources.

Highlights
  • Bulk delete contacts
  • Detect duplicate contacts
  • Remove junk information
  • Backup contacts to CSV/VCF
  • Restore backup contacts
  • Manage multiple address book sources
Features
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Cleanup & Merge & Remove Duplicate Contacts is designed to clean up your address book. *)Easy and fast to bulk delete contacts in iPhone Address Book. *)This app can quickly remove any duplication and useless contact information (such as empty contact name, no phone number, no content, repeated phone numbers and email addresses). *)This app can help you quickly remove multiple duplicate contacts, and detect duplicate contacts by name, phone number and email address. *)Cleanup groups include no contacts, duplicate name and numbers in iPhone contacts. *)This app allows you to back up contacts to CSV (Excel) and VCF (vCard) file before merging duplicate contacts, and ensure the security of your address book. *)Particularly, before syncing with other accounts (Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud, CardDAV, Exchange Server), you can use this app to clean up duplicate and junk contacts in the local address book and Gmail/Yahoo accounts, to avoid generating duplicate information after synchronization.  Features: 1.Bulk deletes multiple contacts in multiple address book accounts 2.Automatically detects duplicate contacts in multiple address book accounts 3.Automatically detects duplicate or junk information in a single contact 4.Detects duplicate contacts by name, phone number and email address 5.Bulk merges or deletes any duplicate or junk contacts in your iPhone or iPad 6.In-app backups contacts to Excel or vCard 7.Easily restores backup contacts 8.Manages multiple address book sources like iCloud, Gmail, Yahoo, CardDAV, Exchange, Facebook 9.Very fast and stable, successfully tested with over 8,000 contacts Tech Support: Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/1643737989269250 Or Email : readyapp.tech@gmail.com

Screenshots

Contacts Duster Pro4 screens
Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts at Free against Contacts Duster Pro's $2.99. Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts also leads on rating (3.8 vs 2.8). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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

Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts is free to download; Contacts Duster Pro costs $2.99 up front. Contacts Duster Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts 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

Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 38 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of Contacts Duster Pro's written reviews are positive against 51% of Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contacts Duster Pro ships an update weekly, Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Contacts Duster Pro versus Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContacts Duster ProClean,Merge Duplicate Contacts
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.8 (38 ratings)3.8 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews55.9% of reviews — better51.5% of reviews
Number of ratings38 — better13
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMyClickapps.com LLC峥 俞

Customer experience

Contacts Duster Pro

All ratings37 ratings
Positive45.9%
Neutral2.7%
Negative51.4%
Written reviews170 reviews
Positive55.9%
Neutral7.6%
Negative36.5%

Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts

All ratings13 ratings
Positive61.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative23.1%
Written reviews239 reviews
Positive51.5%
Neutral3.3%
Negative45.2%

Bugs and requests

Contacts Duster Pro

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes and freezes
  • Deleting or losing contacts
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS versions

Requested features

3 requests
  • Improved contact merging and deduplication
  • More customization options
  • Better backup and restore capabilities

Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Contacts Duster Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Cloud Backup Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
  • Cloud Backup Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Cloud Back up Lifetime$19.99
1 purchases

Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts

One-time1
  • Upgrade to Professional$3.99

Questions

Is Contacts Duster Pro free?
Contacts Duster Pro costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts free?
Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Contacts Duster Pro or Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts?
Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts is rated higher. Contacts Duster Pro averages 2.8 out of 5 from 38 ratings, while Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts averages 3.8 from 13 ratings.
Do Contacts Duster Pro or Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts have ads?
Neither Contacts Duster Pro nor Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contacts Duster Pro or Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts?
Contacts Duster Pro ships an update weekly, and Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts every 9 days. Most recently, Contacts Duster Pro was updated on November 10, 2026 and Clean,Merge Duplicate Contacts on November 1, 2026.

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