Contactio vs MeshDrop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Contactio
Read full descriptionHide full description
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.
MeshDrop
Share text and files directly between your devices on the same local network without needing the cloud or an account. Devices discover each other automatically for quick, secure transfers. Supports resuming interrupted transfers and two-way messaging.
- Automatic device discovery
- Send text and files
- Resume interrupted transfers
- Two-way messaging
- Trusted device management
- Live transfer status
- Share Sheet integration
Read full descriptionHide full description
Share text, photos, videos and files directly between your iPhone, iPad and Mac with MeshDrop. No account, ads or cloud relay. CONNECT NEARBY Discover devices on your local network, use Bluetooth, or connect Apple devices over peer-to-peer Wi-Fi without joining the same network. Keep MeshDrop open on both devices; peer-to-peer Wi-Fi requires Wi-Fi to be enabled. ENCRYPTED TRANSFERS Local-network and Apple peer-to-peer connections use TLS 1.3 with device identity verification. Bluetooth transfers use encrypted system connections. Confirm a device once and remember it as trusted. A USEFUL CONVERSATION HISTORY Copy received text, read Markdown, view images and play videos from conversations and history. Preview or share received files, and optionally copy received text to the clipboard automatically. Delete an individual entry together with its received file and app-managed copies on this device; your original sent file and the other device's history are preserved. BUILT FOR YOUR DEVICES Follow transfer progress, share from other apps on iPhone and iPad, and choose from Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, German and Spanish. The app follows your system language. Update both devices to MeshDrop 1.1 or later for encrypted native transfers. Earlier clients using the old unencrypted protocol cannot connect to this version.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MeshDrop at every 2 months against Contactio's every 9 months. MeshDrop also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Contactio ships an update every 9 months, MeshDrop every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Contactio | MeshDrop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gokhan Yilmaz | 玉琴 孙 |
In-app purchases
Contactio
No in-app purchases
MeshDrop
No in-app purchases







