Panda Contacts vs Rest Assured
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Rest Assured
This app helps musicians build consistent, focused, and rewarding practice routines. It allows users to plan sessions, track time, set goals for multiple instruments, and review progress through a calendar and history. Advanced features include a metronome, recording capabilities, and a tuner.
- Practice goal setting for multiple instruments
- Session tracking with timer
- Notes and reflections
- Calendar view of practice history
- Advanced metronome with tempo trainer
- Practice recording and playback
- Chromatic tuner and drone
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Rest Assured — Music Practice Log Build a more consistent, focused, and rewarding music practice routine. Rest Assured helps musicians plan their practice, stay on time, and see their progress. Set goals for multiple instruments, organize practice routines, time each session, add notes and reflections, and review your activity through a calendar and detailed practice history. Whether you’re learning your first instrument or refining an advanced repertoire, Rest Assured gives you the tools to practice with purpose. Included at no cost: • Set practice goals for multiple instruments • Track sessions with a countdown timer or stopwatch • Record practice dates, durations, categories, notes, goals, and reflections • Explore your practice history and search previous sessions • View your consistency and minutes practiced on a visual calendar • Follow weekly statistics, personal bests, and practice trends • Customize the app’s color theme and accessibility settings Rest Assured Pro Unlock additional tools designed to make every practice session more productive. Advanced metronome • Choose a preset tempo, adjust it with a slider, or use tap tempo • Practice with quarter notes, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, or triplets • Select straight or swung rhythms • Accent the first beat of each measure • Use Tempo Trainer to gradually increase the tempo after a chosen number of measures Practice recordings • Record your practice and listen back for self-evaluation • Automatically associate recordings with the session’s date, time, and instrument • Compare recordings to hear how your playing develops Chromatic tuner and drone • Identify the nearest pitch and see how many cents sharp or flat you are • Customize the Concert A reference pitch • Transpose by up to 12 semitones • Play a sustained reference note with the built-in drone Deliberate practice • Define a passage or skill you want to improve • Set a target number of clean repetitions • Track your progress toward completing the goal Hands-free controls • Start a practice session using Siri • Start and complete sessions from Apple Watch Routines • Add structure to your practices • Sections include: scales, warm up, repertoire, songs, and more PRIVACY POLICY: https://zaquirk.github.io/Rest-Assured/Privacy-Policy/ SUPPORT: https://zaquirk.github.io/Rest-Assured/Support/ TERMS OF USE: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Rest Assured at 18.0 against Panda Contacts's 26.2. 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
Both are free to download. Panda Contacts sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Rest Assured sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Panda Contacts against 5.0 for Rest Assured. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Panda Contacts | Rest Assured |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, Mac | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yan-David Erlich | Chris Quirk |
In-app purchases
Panda Contacts
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
Rest Assured
- Rest Assured Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
- Rest Assured Pro - Yearly$9.991 Year
- Rest Assured Pro - One-time$19.99









