Funnel vs Panda Contacts
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Funnel
Quickly capture thoughts, tasks, notes, photos, sketches, and songs to your favorite apps. Integrates with popular productivity tools and offers convenient widgets for instant access.
- Capture tasks to multiple to-do apps
- Send notes and photos to PKM apps
- Capture sketches and calendar events
- Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets
- Shortcuts and Share Sheet support
- Built-in document scanner
- Song capture via Shazam integration
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Funnel allows you to effortlessly capture your thoughts and moments to various apps and services. The inspiration to capture something quickly comes from ideas written by David Allen, in his book Getting Things Done. Features: ======= • Capture tasks to Reminders, Todoist, OmniFocus or Things with due dates in natural language. • Capture notes and photos to a variety of popular note taking and personal knowledge management apps. • Capture sketches and calendar events • Beautiful Home Screen and Lock Screen Widgets • Shortcuts Support • A built in document scanner. • Use Shazam to capture your songs directly to your apps. • iCloud Sync for your Destinations • A timeline showing your recent captures • A selection of delightful app icons to pick from. • A lock screen widget to easily access Funnel from your lock screen. • Drag and drop images or text from other apps into Funnel. • Once you capture something with Funnel, Funnel also provides you with a link to easily switch to the newly captured item. • Long press the Funnel icon for quick home screen actions. • Integration with the iOS Share Sheet (currently within the Funnel app only) • Dynamic Island/Live Activities Support • Control Center Widgets Creating Destinations: ================ To link Funnel to your note-taking or task management apps, navigate to the 'Destination' Tab, select 'Add New Destination', and choose an app from the provided list. After adding a Destination, you can click on it for further customization. You can also define templates that get appended or prepended along with your capture. Your Destinations and the order of your Destinations are all synced to your private iCloud account. Funnel offers 30 captures for free, and then requires a subscription or a lifetime purchase. All Yearly Subscriptions come with a 1-week free trial. Enjoy Funneling! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Panda Contacts
Manage your Google Contacts with enhanced memory features. Syncs across devices, adds context like upcoming meetings and recent correspondence, and offers duplicate detection. Pro features include calendar context, email timelines, and birthday reminders.
- Full Google Contacts sync
- Labels with color and photos
- Duplicate detection
- Calendar context
- Email timeline
- Birthday reminders
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Panda Contacts is a fast, native home for your Google Contacts on Mac and iPhone — an address book with a memory. Sign in with Google and your contacts appear in seconds, stay in sync both ways, and gain the context every address book forgets: your next meeting, your recent correspondence, and the birthday coming up. EVERYTHING YOU EXPECT, FREE • Full Google Contacts sync — view, edit, create, and delete; changes land in your Google account instantly • Labels with color, photos, and instant search • Duplicate detection that spots the two half-filled cards for the same person • iPhone widget, and a Raycast extension on the Mac PANDA CONTACTS PRO • Calendar context — your next meeting and recent touchpoints on every profile • Email timeline — recent correspondence at a glance (headers only, never message bodies) • One-tap duplicate merge • Address autocomplete and a map of your people • Birthday and anniversary reminders One Pro subscription covers both Mac and iPhone: $2.99/month or $24.99/year. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Panda Contacts has no servers. Your data moves directly between your device and Google — we never see it, store it, or sell it. The email timeline reads message headers only. No analytics, no trackers. Panda Contacts requires a Google account. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Privacy policy: https://pandacontacts.com/privacy Terms of use: https://pandacontacts.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Panda Contacts at 5.0 against Funnel's 4.6. Panda Contacts also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). Funnel's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Funnel sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Panda Contacts sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Panda Contacts holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Funnel has 47 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Funnel ships an update every 6 weeks, Panda Contacts every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Funnel | Panda Contacts |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NoteSight Labs ApS | Yan-David Erlich |
Customer experience
Funnel
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In-app purchases
Funnel
- Monthly Pro$1.991 Month
- Yearly Pro7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime: Early Discount$39.99
- Lifetime$49.99
Panda Contacts
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$24.991 Year








