Comparison

A2Z Groups vs Contacts Backup + Transfer

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

Head to head
About

A2Z Groups

Manage your contacts and send messages or emails to groups efficiently. Organize contacts, create custom groups, and send personalized mass communications. Features include backups, birthday reminders, and contact sharing.

Highlights
  • Create and manage contact groups
  • Send mass texts and group emails
  • Backup and restore contacts
  • Birthday and anniversary notifications
  • Share and export contacts
  • Clone contacts and groups
Features
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A2Z is the complete contact manager! With A2Z, you can easily create, edit, and delete contacts & groups. Send mass texts and group emails. View recently created contacts. Share or print your contacts. Create backups. Get birthday notifications. And so much more: CONTACTS: • View all of your contacts organized by account or group • Easily find a contact with A2Z's powerful search tool • Select multiple contacts and perform a number of actions including text, email, share, and delete • Quickly perform a number of functions with one touch directly from the contact card GROUPS: • Create groups of contacts from any account including iCloud, Google, Exchange or Outlook • Filter contacts by one or more groups at the same time • Add & remove contacts from a particular group • Add & remove groups from a particular contact FAVORITES: • Create a list of favorites allowing you to quickly call/message/email those contacts GROUP EMAILS & MESSAGES: • Send messages to groups via iMessage, SMS, & WhatsApp • Send emails to groups via Mail App or Gmail App • Attach photos & documents, including from Dropbox • Assign the to/cc/bcc email field to each contact individually • Give your message a personal touch - Automatically refer to each contact by name COMPANIES, BIRTHDAYS, ANNIVERSARIES, MOST VIEWED, RECENTLY CREATED/MODIFIED/DELETED: • Sort your contacts by company name • View upcoming birthdays & anniversaries • View your most frequently viewed contacts • View recently created & modified contacts • View & restore your recently deleted contacts SHARE CONTACTS: • Share one or more contacts via text message, email, or various other services • Export contacts in the CSV or vCard format DELETE CONTACTS & GROUPS: • Quickly delete contacts & groups BACKUP: • Create a backup of any contact account • Restore your backup to any contact account CLONE CONTACTS & GROUPS: • Clone a contact from the contact card screen including all contact fields & groups • Clone a group so you don't have to add all of the group members manually START SCREEN: • Specify whether the app should load the contacts, groups, or favorites screen at startup SHORTCUTS: • Press & hold a contact or group to conveniently perform a number of common functions SYNC CONTACTS WITH GOOGLE: • Fully compatible with the "Contacts Sync" app WORKS WELL WITH OTHER CONTACT APPS: • Any contact changes you make with this app will be reflected in any other contact app that queries the iPhone address book (including the standard Contacts & Phone app) SUBSCRIPTIONS: • A2Z Contacts offers a "Premium" subscription which unlocks all of the premium features in the app, including unrestricted group emails and texts, unrestricted sharing of contacts, and access to future premium features. • The "Premium" subscription is priced at $0.99 USD and the subscription length is 1 year • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, at a cost of $0.99 USD • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable • Terms of use: https://playaapps.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003030954 • Privacy Policy: https://playaapps.zendesk.com/hc/articles/229824667

About

Contacts Backup + Transfer

Easily back up and export your contacts to secure them. Access and restore previous backups anytime. Premium features offer automatic backups, secure cloud storage, and encryption.

Highlights
  • Create full contact backups
  • Export backups via Message, Email, Airdrop
  • Access and restore previous backups
  • Automatic contact backups (Pro)
  • Secure cloud storage (Pro)
  • AES-256 encryption (Pro)
Features
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Back up your contacts in seconds with the easiest backup tool on the App Store. Simply pick the contacts you want to secure, and let the app create you a backup file in no time. Export your backups via Message, Email and Airdrop. At any time, you can access and restore previous backups. Some of the completely free features: • Create full backups of all your contacts in just a few seconds • Share and export backups via Message, Email, or Airdrop • Access all previous backups created through the app We also offer Contacts Backup Pro, a set of premium features to keep your contacts secure at all times while accessible from all places. This service includes the following features: • Automatic backups of your contacts • Secure cloud storage of your backups • Military-grade AES-256 encryption of your cloud backups This service is offered as an auto-renewable subscription for $2.99 per month. Please see the subscription details below. ------------------------ Subscription Information - The subscription price is $2.99 per month and is automatically renewed every month until cancelled. - Your payment will be charged to your iTunes Account as soon as you confirm your purchase. - You can manage your subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal from your Apple ID account settings after the purchase. - Your subscription will renew automatically, unless you turn off auto-renew at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - The cost of renewal will be charged to your account in the 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - When canceling a subscription, your subscription will stay active until the end of the period. Auto-renewal will be disabled, but the current subscription will not be refunded. - Any features requiring an active subscription (including Cloud Storage) may, at any time without notice, be turned off or removed after the subscription has ended. About Subscriptions: https://contactsbackup.app/subscriptions.html Privacy Policy: https://contactsbackup.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

A2Z Groups4 screens
Contacts Backup + Transfer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Contacts Backup + Transfer at freemium against A2Z Groups's subscription. Contacts Backup + Transfer also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 16.0). A2Z Groups's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 57%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

Both are free to download. A2Z Groups sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per year and Contacts Backup + Transfer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for A2Z Groups against 4.6 for Contacts Backup + Transfer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3.9K and 8.6K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of A2Z Groups's written reviews are positive against 57% of Contacts Backup + Transfer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

A2Z Groups ships an update every 3 weeks, Contacts Backup + Transfer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
A2Z Groups versus Contacts Backup + Transfer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterA2Z GroupsContacts Backup + Transfer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (3.9K ratings) — better4.6 (8.6K ratings)
Positive reviews81.9% of reviews — better56.6% of reviews
Number of ratings3.9K8.6K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscriptionFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlaya AppsOne Wave AB

Customer experience

A2Z Groups

All ratings3,901 ratings
Positive91.4%
Neutral4.2%
Negative4.4%
Written reviews519 reviews
Positive81.9%
Neutral4.8%
Negative13.3%

Contacts Backup + Transfer

All ratings8,627 ratings
Positive89.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews332 reviews
Positive56.6%
Neutral0.9%
Negative42.5%

User reviews

A2Z Groups

From 3.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Efficient group messaging
  • 💡 Helpful for organizing contacts
  • 🔒 Reliable privacy policy
  • 👍 Customizable groups

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
  • 🐛 Issues with message delivery
  • 🐛 Syncing problems after updates
  • 🐛 Duplicate contacts
  • 🐛 Disappearing notes/data

Contacts Backup + Transfer

From 8.6K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and easy to use
  • 👍 Simple and straightforward
  • 💡 Effective contact transfer solution
  • 🚀 Quick backup and restore process
  • 👍 Seamless AirDrop integration

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Backup not working for all contacts
  • 🐛 Corrupted/incomplete contact data
  • 🐛 Functionality issues on newer iOS versions
  • 💰 Paid version required for full functionality

Bugs and requests

A2Z Groups

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Contacts being deleted unexpectedly
  • Inability to save contact information
  • Syncing issues with Google/Outlook contacts
  • Unreliable group messaging

Requested features

5 requests
  • Scheduled messaging
  • Improved group management
  • Better integration with native Contacts app
  • Map feature
  • Birthdays/anniversaries tracking

Contacts Backup + Transfer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Backup file not readable or usable
  • All contacts not backed up successfully
  • App freezing or crashing on open

Requested features

3 requests
  • Improved backup and restore reliability
  • Support for more contact data types
  • Ability to selectively backup/restore contacts

In-app purchases

4 purchases

A2Z Groups

Subscriptions1
  • Premium (1 Year)2 variants$0.991 Year
One-time3
  • Premium (Lifetime Access)$1.99
  • Make Contribution$4.99
  • Larger Contribution$9.99
1 purchases

Contacts Backup + Transfer

Subscriptions1
  • Contact Backup Pro$2.991 Month

Questions

Is A2Z Groups free?
A2Z Groups is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Contacts Backup + Transfer free?
Contacts Backup + Transfer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, A2Z Groups or Contacts Backup + Transfer?
A2Z Groups is rated higher. A2Z Groups averages 4.6 out of 5 from 3.9K ratings, while Contacts Backup + Transfer averages 4.6 from 8.6K ratings.
Do A2Z Groups or Contacts Backup + Transfer have ads?
Neither A2Z Groups nor Contacts Backup + Transfer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, A2Z Groups or Contacts Backup + Transfer?
A2Z Groups ships an update every 3 weeks, and Contacts Backup + Transfer weekly. Most recently, A2Z Groups was updated on October 22, 2026 and Contacts Backup + Transfer on October 20, 2026.

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