Comparison

Recent Contacts vs vCapture

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • View recently added contacts
  • See exact contact addition time
  • Contact addition statistics
  • Contact addition history graphs
  • Home screen quick actions
  • Export contacts to spreadsheet
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

vCapture

Capture leads at trade shows and events using your iPhone or iPad. Automatically post leads to a secure cloud manager or directly into your Salesforce CRM. This solution can be customized to extend your existing lead management foundation and is available globally.

Highlights
  • Lead capture via iPhone/iPad
  • Cloud-based Lead Source Manager
  • Direct Salesforce CRM integration
  • Customizable lead management
  • Global usability
  • Event ecosystem integration
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Validar's vCapture suite of lead retrieval products is intended to serve any exhibitor need. Whether you're ordering lead retrieval to use at an event, or looking for your own custom solution to use at all trade-shows you exhibit at, vCapture can help. Using your own iPhone or iPad, you can automatically post your leads into our secure cloud based Lead Source Manager, and also direct into your Salesforce CRM system straight from the show floor. We can fully customize this solution to be an extension of your CRM and Marketing Automation lead management foundation, and it can be used globally. We also work directly with the event eco-system and Registration provider to provide this software and service so you're insured a safe successful deployment.

Screenshots

Recent Contacts4 screens
vCapture3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: vCapture at Free against Recent Contacts's $4.99. vCapture also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Recent Contacts's advantage is ratings volume (598 vs 4) and chart position (#93 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

vCapture is free to download; Recent Contacts costs $4.99 up front. Recent Contacts sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. vCapture asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

vCapture holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recent Contacts has 598 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recent Contacts ships an update every 2 months, vCapture every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Recent Contacts versus vCapture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecent ContactsvCapture
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (598 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews89.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings598 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#93 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS13.010.3 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKyle GorlickValidar Incorporated

Customer experience

Recent Contacts

All ratings598 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews179 reviews
Positive89.9%
Neutral3.4%
Negative6.7%

vCapture

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

vCapture

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Recent Contacts

One-time4
  • Tip for Developer (Small)$0.99
  • Tip for Developer (Medium)$4.99
  • Tip for Developer (Large)$9.99
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  • Tip for Developer (Very Large)$14.99
None

vCapture

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Recent Contacts free?
Recent Contacts costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is vCapture free?
vCapture is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Recent Contacts or vCapture?
vCapture is rated higher. Recent Contacts averages 4.7 out of 5 from 598 ratings, while vCapture averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Recent Contacts or vCapture have ads?
Neither Recent Contacts nor vCapture shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recent Contacts or vCapture?
Recent Contacts ships an update every 2 months, and vCapture every 3 months. Most recently, Recent Contacts was updated on September 28, 2026 and vCapture on June 1, 2026.

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