Recent Contacts vs ScratchQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recent Contacts
View your most recently added contacts with precise timestamps. This app provides insights into your contact addition patterns, including statistics and historical graphs. It also offers home screen quick actions and the ability to export your data.
- View recently added contacts
- See exact contact addition time
- Contact addition statistics
- Contact addition history graphs
- Home screen quick actions
- Export contacts to spreadsheet
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See your most recently added contacts. And more! Select a row to see the exact time a contact was added. Useful for business contacts, new love interests — just relax and let Recent Contacts sort out the details. Features include: • stats such as when you are most likely to get a new contact • graphs of your recent contact addition history • home screen quick actions • ability to export to a spreadsheet • more reliable than competitors I hope you find it useful and thanks for checking out Recent Contacts! -Kyle
ScratchQ
This app serves as a digital scratchpad for everyday calculations, allowing users to save annotated versions for future reference. It features a color-coded system for organizing calculations and a custom keyboard for easy editing and access to operators.
- Save annotated calculations
- Color-coded file system
- Custom keyboard for editing
- Easy access to arithmetic operators
- Organize everyday math problems
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ScratchQ is a scratch pad for all of the "back-of-the-envelope" calculations that we do in everyday life. Whether it is calculating the commission earned on a sale, the square footage of a room, or your grade point average, ScratchQ allows you to save an annotated version of the calculation that you can refer back to again and again. A simple color-coded file system allows you to categorize your calculations. ScratchQ comes with a custom keyboard that allows for easy editing of your saved calculations and easy access to the most common arithmetic operators.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Recent Contacts at every 2 months against ScratchQ's every 22 months. Recent Contacts also leads on ratings volume (601 vs 1) and price ($4.99 vs $7.99). ScratchQ's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On ads, 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
Recent Contacts costs $4.99 and ScratchQ $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScratchQ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recent Contacts has 601 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Recent Contacts ships an update every 2 months, ScratchQ every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recent Contacts | ScratchQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 — better | $7.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (601 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 601 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #76 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyle Gorlick | Autoolmaq LLC |
Customer experience
Recent Contacts
ScratchQ
Bugs and requests
Recent Contacts
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inaccurate contact dates after restoring from backup
- Inconsistent behavior when editing contacts
Requested features
4 requests- Add dark mode option
- Improve contact editing functionality
- Allow archiving or categorizing of contacts
- Provide more sorting/filtering options
ScratchQ
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Recent Contacts
No in-app purchases
ScratchQ
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Recent Contacts free?
Is ScratchQ free?
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