Recent Contacts vs Recent Contacts Timeline
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
Recent Contacts Timeline
Organize your address book by recency. This app presents your contacts in a clear timeline, prioritizing those most recently added. Easily access and manage contact details, with quick actions for calling, messaging, and emailing.
- Timeline view of new contacts
- Grouped by date (Today, Yesterday, This Week)
- Fast contact search
- One-tap call, message, email
- Export contacts as PDF or CSV
- Native iOS design
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See your newest contacts first. Contacts Timeline turns your address book into a clean timeline, sorted by when each contact was added. New contacts appear at the top, grouped into Today, Yesterday, This Week, and older dates, so the person you just saved is easy to find again. Open any contact to see the available details: phone numbers, email addresses, company, job title, birthday, photos, and more. From there, you can call, send a message, email, copy contact info, open the contact in the system Contacts app to edit it, or delete it. Built for the moments when the regular Contacts app makes you search by name, but what you remember is when you met someone. Highlights: - Recently added contacts first - Timeline groups for today, yesterday, this week, and exact dates - Fast contact search - One-tap call, message, email, and copy actions - Open contacts in the system Contacts app for editing - Native iOS design, no account required - Export contacts as PDF or CSV, sort by date or name, then share, save, or print Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
Recent Contacts and Recent Contacts Timeline both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 90% of Recent Contacts's written reviews are positive against 50% of Recent Contacts Timeline's. Recent Contacts also leads on ratings volume (602 vs 49) and chart position (#92 vs unranked). Recent Contacts Timeline's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 Recent Contacts Timeline $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Recent Contacts against 4.8 for Recent Contacts Timeline. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recent Contacts has 602 ratings behind it against 49, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Recent Contacts's written reviews are positive against 50% of Recent Contacts Timeline's.
Recent Contacts ships an update every 2 months, Recent Contacts Timeline every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recent Contacts | Recent Contacts Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (602 ratings) | 4.8 (49 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.9% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 602 — better | 49 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #92 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kyle Gorlick | Adam Bardon |
Customer experience
Recent Contacts
Recent Contacts Timeline
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
Recent Contacts Timeline
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Recent Contacts
No in-app purchases
Recent Contacts Timeline
No in-app purchases
Questions
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