Recent Contacts vs Gates Residences
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
Gates Residences
Control access to your apartment remotely. This application enables you to unlock your door using your smartphone in buildings equipped with the Gates system. You can also manage access for other residents and generate temporary guest keys.
- Open apartment door remotely
- Manage building access
- Create guest keys
- Invite additional owners
- Smart door control
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Smart door control for your apartment. This app will allow you to open your apartment door in buildings that use the Gates software. The initial user and password will be provided by your building manager. You can invite more owners for your apartment and create guest keys.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Recent Contacts at 90% against Gates Residences's 25%. Recent Contacts also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (598 vs 12). Gates Residences's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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
Gates Residences is free to download; Recent Contacts costs $4.99 up front. Recent Contacts sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Gates Residences asks for nothing beyond the download.
Recent Contacts holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recent Contacts has 598 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Recent Contacts's written reviews are positive against 25% of Gates Residences's.
Recent Contacts ships an update every 2 months, Gates Residences every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recent Contacts | Gates Residences |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (598 ratings) — better | 3.4 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 598 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #29 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyle Gorlick | Multitronik LLC |
Customer experience
Recent Contacts
Gates Residences
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
Gates Residences
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Recent Contacts
- 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
Gates Residences
No in-app purchases
Questions
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