Comparison

Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts vs Contactio

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

Head to head
About

Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts

Features
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Swipe through your contacts, merge duplicates in one tap and keep a backup before you clean. Contacts Cleaner turns a messy address book into a tidy list in a few minutes. Old numbers from past jobs, three cards for the same friend, people saved without a name, a delivery guy from 2019. The list grows for years and nobody wants to clean it card by card. Here every contact gets one swipe, and duplicates are found for you. SWIPE TO CLEAN • Swipe left to mark a contact for deletion, right to keep it • Contacts are grouped by first letter, and your progress is saved • Swiping deletes nothing: review the marked contacts and delete them in one tap MERGE DUPLICATES • Duplicates are found by name, phone number and email • See every group before merging and pick which cards to combine • Phones and emails from all cards end up in one clean contact FIX INCOMPLETE CONTACTS • Find contacts without a name, phone number or email • Complete them right in the app or remove the ones you no longer need BACKUP AND RESTORE • Save all contacts to a backup in one tap before you start • Restore a backup at any time, contacts you already have are skipped • Share a backup as a .vcf file to keep a copy anywhere • A monthly reminder so your latest backup is never too old RECENTLY DELETED • Every contact you delete or merge stays restorable for 30 days • Restore one contact or all of them in one tap AUTO-BACKUP AND EXCEL EXPORT (PRO) • A weekly backup saved to iCloud Drive or any folder you choose, so it survives even if you delete the app • Export all contacts to a CSV file that opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Your contacts are processed on your phone and never uploaded • Nothing is deleted without your confirmation WHO IT'S FOR • Anyone whose contact list has grown over many years • People who switched phones and ended up with double entries • Sales people, freelancers and anyone with hundreds of business contacts • Parents tidying up a family member's phone FREE AND PRO Contacts Cleaner is free to download. The free version includes swipe sorting with a daily limit, merging of the first duplicate groups, incomplete contacts and backups. Pro removes the swipe limit, merges every duplicate, adds auto-backup and Excel export and turns off ads. Choose a subscription or pay once for lifetime access. Deleted contacts cannot be recovered without a backup, so make one before a big cleanup.

About

Contactio

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Clean up your contacts without breaking your address book. Contactio scans your contacts on your device, finds duplicates and fixes broken entries. Everything stays local. No cloud upload. No tracking. Merges the safe way Contactio treats a shared MOBILE number as the proof that two entries are the same person. A landline or a company switchboard that colleagues share never links two different people, so a merge never sweeps up someone who just works in the same office. Before anything changes you see exactly which phone numbers and emails are kept, and you can leave any out. What it does • Finds duplicates by name, phone, email and other details • Shows exactly what will be kept before you merge, and lets you leave out values • Merges in one safe step: phone numbers, emails, addresses and other details are carried over • Fixes missing names, missing phone numbers and organizations guessed from email domains • Cleans broken names with extra spaces, odd characters or wrong casing • Standardizes different spellings of the same organization • Searches across results by name, company, phone or email, including Turkish letters Safe by design • A backup is saved before every change, and deleting always backs up first • Undo any merge, fix or delete from the Merge Archive • Restore from a backup file at any time; restoring twice never adds copies • Limits large changes: it will not delete or change more than 40% of your contacts at once • Works with limited contacts access and tells you when results may be incomplete Private • All processing happens on your device • No account, no cloud upload, no data sharing • Your backups are .vcf files in the app's own folder, and you can delete them in Settings Available in English and Turkish.

Screenshots

Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts4 screens
Contactio3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Contactio at none against Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts's 3. Contactio also leads on ads (none vs shown). Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.2). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. Contactio asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts ships an update monthly, Contactio every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts versus Contactio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCleaner for Duplicate ContactsContactio
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 9 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlashSoft OUGokhan Yilmaz

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Subscription3 Days trial$7.997 Days
  • Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Contacts Cleaner Pro Lifetime$49.99
None

Contactio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts free?
Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Contactio free?
Contactio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts or Contactio have ads?
Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts shows ads; Contactio does not.
Which is updated more often, Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts or Contactio?
Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts ships an update monthly, and Contactio every 9 months. Most recently, Cleaner for Duplicate Contacts was updated on November 9, 2026 and Contactio on November 5, 2026.

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