cSync vs Kept Close
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
cSync
Streamline contact management with powerful search, comprehensive backup, and intelligent cleanup tools. Analyze contact data with visual charts and perform batch operations for efficiency.
- Full-field and Pinyin search
- Multi-format contact backup (vCard, CSV, Excel)
- Duplicate contact detection and merging
- Contact data statistics and visual charts
- Batch operations for contacts
- iCloud sync for backups
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**cSync - Making Contact Management Easier** Have you ever encountered these problems? - iOS native contacts don't support partial phone number matching - Too many contacts, difficult to find people - Contact data cannot be easily backed up and migrated - Too many duplicate contacts need cleanup - Want to analyze contact data statistics cSync is built to solve these problems! --- **Powerful Search Features** - **Full-field search**: Search not only names, but also phones, emails, companies, positions, notes, addresses, and all other fields - **Pinyin search**: Quickly find contacts by entering pinyin initials or full pinyin - **Phone partial matching**: Match any consecutive digits in phone numbers - no need to remember the complete number - **Smart sorting**: Search results intelligently ranked by relevance, most relevant results first - **Highlight display**: Search results automatically highlight matched fields and text for easy viewing **Search Examples:** - Enter "138" to find all phone numbers containing these three consecutive digits - Enter "js" to find all contacts whose name pinyin initials are JS (e.g., John Smith) - Enter "apple" to find contacts with apple in their company name or email --- **Comprehensive Backup Features** - **Multi-format support**: Export to vCard, CSV, and Excel formats - **One-tap backup**: Backup all contacts with one tap, ensuring data safety - **Backup management**: View all historical backups, restore to any version anytime - **Incremental backup**: Intelligently identify changes, only backup modified contacts - **iCloud sync**: Backups automatically uploaded to iCloud Drive, sync across devices - **Backup encryption**: Password protection support for data privacy security - **Quick sharing**: Share backup files via AirDrop, Email, Messages, and more **Backup Scenarios:** - Backup contacts before getting a new phone, import on new device - Regular backups to prevent data loss - Export to Excel for editing and management on computer - Share with family and friends for batch contact import --- **Smart Cleanup Features** - **Duplicate detection**: Intelligent algorithms detect duplicate and similar contacts - **Multiple matching modes**: - Exact match: Same name and phone number - Smart match: Similar names, same pinyin, overlapping phone numbers - **Compare preview**: Side-by-side comparison of duplicate contacts, clearly see differences - **Smart merge**: Automatically merge duplicate contacts, retaining all non-empty fields - **Batch cleanup**: Clean all duplicate contacts with one tap --- **Data Statistics & Analytics** - **Contact overview**: Total count, growth trends, distribution - **Field statistics**: Number of phones, emails, company info completeness - **Visual charts**: Pie charts, bar charts, line charts to display data - **Group analysis**: Analyze by initial letter, company, tags, and other dimensions --- **Other Featured Functions** - **Batch operations**: Batch delete, export, and edit - **Quick actions**: Tap phone to call directly, tap email to send mail - **Alphabetical index**: Side letter navigation for quick contact location - **Elegant interface**: Modern design, smooth animations, simple operation - **Privacy protection**: All data stored locally only, never uploaded to servers --- **Privacy Commitment** - All contact data is stored only on your local device - Never uploaded to any servers or third parties - iCloud backups are encrypted and protected by Apple - No personal information collected - Works completely offline, no network connection required --- Privacy Policy: https://csync.vercel.app/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://csync.vercel.app/terms-of-use.html --- **Download cSync and make contact management easier!**
Kept Close
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Your address book is finally worthy of the people in it. Kept Close is a quietly powerful contacts app for people who care about their relationships. It clears the clutter, restores order, and helps you stay close to the people who matter: all with a craft and privacy you can feel. No account. No servers. Nothing ever leaves your iPhone. EFFORTLESS ORDER Merge duplicates with an engine that's genuinely smart: it recognizes nicknames and won't confuse family members who share a name or a line. Surface incomplete and messy cards with Contact Checkup and fix them in a single pass. And when you clean house, nothing is ever lost: everything rests in a 30-day Recycle Bin, ready to restore. MADE TO BE YOURS Profile photos throughout your list. Favorites pinned where you want them. Your own card, set once and shared in a tap. Search that understands you—simply type "tag Sam as VIP" or "doctors in Boston." Light or dark, exactly as you like it. RELATIONSHIPS, TENDED Never be the one who forgets a birthday. A gentle quarterly nudge keeps your address book pristine. And with Kept Close Pro, the full relationship toolkit is yours: • Smart lists that update themselves, with custom icons • Auto-tag your entire address book by role and company • A map of everyone you know, by location • Keep in Touch: a cadence for the people you never want to drift from • Connections and a living family tree • Business card scanning that even captures LinkedIn, Instagram, and X • Unlimited photos per contact • Effortless export and group outreach PRIVATE, ABSOLUTELY Kept Close has no servers, so there is nowhere for your contacts to go. Everything you do stays on your device, full stop. The single exception is the optional map, where Apple's geocoder turns an address into a pin (addresses only, never names). Privacy isn't a setting here. It's the foundation. Beautifully on-device. Quietly indispensable. Kept Close. — Kept Close Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription (with a free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Prices are shown in the app and may vary by region. Subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://keptclose.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://keptclose.app/privacy
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Verdict
cSync and Kept Close are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. cSync sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Kept Close sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | cSync | Kept Close |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 丹丹 李 | Nishant Jalandhara |
In-app purchases
cSync
- Weekly Premium3 Days trial$6.997 Days
- Yearly Premium$69.991 Year
Kept Close
- Kept Close Pro Monthly$8.991 Month
- Kept Close Pro Yearly1 Year trial$59.991 Year
- Kept Close Pro Lifetime$79.99
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