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

Features
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Clean up your contacts. Keep your data private. Scan your contacts directly on your device to find duplicates and data issues. Everything stays local. No cloud upload. No tracking. What it does On-device contact scanning for duplicates and data problems Smart duplicate detection across name, phone, email, and other fields Review duplicate groups and merge contacts by selecting the best master contact Preview exactly what will be kept before merging and exclude unwanted items Fix common contact issues Missing name Missing first name or last name Missing phone number Missing organization, inferred from email domain Broken or messy names with extra spaces, strange characters, or casing issues Powerful tools Bulk actions to merge or delete multiple contacts in one step Optional backup before merge and Undo via the in-app Merge Archive (vCard restore) Organization standardization to merge and normalize different organization variants Fast search across scan results to find people, companies, phone numbers, or emails Optional filtering using Contacts app groups and lists Privacy first All processing happens on your device No cloud upload No data sharing

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 device support: MeshDrop at 4 against Contactio's 1. MeshDrop also leads on 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 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 frequency—Every 2 months
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.

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