Comparison

Contactio vs MeshDrop

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

Head to head
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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Automatic device discovery
  • Send text and files
  • Resume interrupted transfers
  • Two-way messaging
  • Trusted device management
  • Live transfer status
  • Share Sheet integration
Features
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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

Contactio3 screens
MeshDrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Contactio versus MeshDrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContactioMeshDrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGokhan Yilmaz玉琴 孙

In-app purchases

None

Contactio

No in-app purchases

None

MeshDrop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Contactio free?
Contactio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MeshDrop free?
MeshDrop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Contactio or MeshDrop have ads?
Neither Contactio nor MeshDrop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contactio or MeshDrop?
Contactio ships an update every 9 months, and MeshDrop every 2 months. Most recently, Contactio was updated on November 5, 2026 and MeshDrop on October 31, 2026.

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