Comparison

Contacts Magic vs Roots

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

Head to head
About

Contacts Magic

This app helps you remember important details about your relationships, like conversations and personal interests. It uses natural language to log interactions and provides timely reminders to help you stay connected and thoughtful.

Highlights
  • Natural language interaction for logging details
  • Follow-up reminders with context
  • Personalized journal entries tied to contacts
  • Groups and tags for organization
  • Full-text search across all data
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
Features
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Contacts Magic is a personal relationship manager that remembers what matters — what you talked about, what they care about, when to follow up. Talk to it in your own words: tell it what happened, ask it what you've forgotten. It understands who you're talking about and handles the rest. YOUR RELATIONSHIPS DESERVE BETTER THAN YOUR MEMORY Your friend mentioned her mom's surgery — you meant to check in. Your college roommate's kid started school — when was that again? The details that make you a thoughtful person fade in 48 hours. Contacts Magic keeps them forever. HOW IT WORKS • After a coffee, a phone call, a party — describe what happened in your own words. No forms, no fields. Magic Chat understands what you said and organizes it into the right contacts, journal entries, and follow-up reminders. Say "last Thursday" or "in a couple weeks" — it handles dates naturally too. • Need to remember something? Ask. "Where does Sarah work?" "What does my dad like?" "What should I get him for Christmas?" Magic Chat searches everything you've captured and answers in a conversation. • Before your next call or meetup, you know exactly what's happening in someone's life and what you promised. EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BE THOUGHTFUL • Relationship context beyond phone numbers and email addresses — how you met, what they care about, your shared history • Follow-up reminders with full context so you know why you're reaching out • A journal tied to people, capturing conversations and moments over time • Groups and tags to organize your circles — family, book club, neighbors, coworkers • Full-text search across contacts, journals, and follow-ups WORKS THE WAY YOU ALREADY USE YOUR PHONE • Siri and Shortcuts for hands-free capture while walking, driving, or between meetings • Home screen widgets for upcoming follow-ups at a glance • Syncs across iPhone and iPad through your iCloud account YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS Everything syncs through your personal iCloud account. When you use Magic Chat, what you say and the relationship details needed to answer your question are sent to our AI provider for that single request. We don't keep your data, our AI provider doesn't either, and none of it is used to train AI models. Remember the people who matter. Download Contacts Magic and stop relying on your memory to be a good friend. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Roots

This app helps you stay connected with the important people in your life. It reminds you to reach out to friends, colleagues, and mentors you may have lost touch with. Save important details about your connections to make conversations more meaningful.

Highlights
  • Set custom contact reminders
  • Receive nudges for infrequent contacts
  • Store personal connection details
  • Log conversation notes
  • Focus on personal relationships, not networking
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We all have people in our lives who matter more than we show. The friend you could talk to for hours. The colleague who always had your back. The professor who changed how you think about problems. And then life got busy, and somehow months turned into years. Roots started from a simple observation: the intention to reach out is almost never the problem. We mean to call. We think about people. We just forget. And by the time we remember, it feels like too much time has passed. We built Roots because we were tired of losing touch with people we actually care about — the ones who shaped who we are. Stay close, on your terms: Add the people who matter and tell Roots how often you want to reach out. It remembers so you don't have to think about it. A quiet nudge before too much time passes: Roots notices who you haven't talked to in a while and brings them back to mind — gently, before the silence gets too long. The details that make reaching out feel natural: Birthdays, how you met, what you talked about last time. The things that turn "hey it's been a while" into a real conversation. Pick up right where you left off: A quick note after a call or coffee means you never have to start from scratch. No networking. No pipeline. No productivity system. Just a quiet nudge to reach out to the people you already know you should. Stay close to the people that matter.

Screenshots

Contacts Magic4 screens
Roots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Roots at none against Contacts Magic's 8. Roots also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 27.0). Contacts Magic's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Contacts Magic sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Roots asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Contacts Magic against 5.0 for Roots. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Contacts Magic ships an update every 4 days, Roots every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Contacts Magic versus Roots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterContacts MagicRoots
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS27.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDisparate Elements LLCROHIN DUTT

Customer experience

Contacts Magic

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Roots

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Contacts Magic

Subscriptions2
  • Contacts Magic Plus$4.991 Month
  • Contacts Magic Plus$9.991 Month
One-time6
  • 30 Magic Credits$0.99
  • 60 Magic Credits$1.49
  • 60 Magic Credits$1.99
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  • 120 Magic Credits$2.99
  • 180 Magic Credits$3.99
  • 180 Magic Credits$5.99
None

Roots

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Contacts Magic free?
Contacts Magic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Roots free?
Roots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Contacts Magic or Roots?
Contacts Magic and Roots are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Contacts Magic or Roots have ads?
Neither Contacts Magic nor Roots shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Contacts Magic or Roots?
Contacts Magic ships an update every 4 days, and Roots every 2 weeks. Most recently, Contacts Magic was updated on October 31, 2026 and Roots on October 31, 2026.

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