Qillo vs Compact Contacts Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Qillo
Enhance your contacts with smart organization, AI-powered details, and insightful analytics. Seamlessly syncs with your existing contacts, offering custom categories, tags, and bulk editing. Visualize your network and never miss important dates with birthday tracking.
- Custom contact categories and tags
- AI-powered contact detail enrichment
- Interactive network analytics and charts
- Two-way sync with Apple Contacts
- Bulk contact editing
- Birthday tracking and notifications
- QR code contact sharing
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Qillo transforms your contacts with smart organization, AI enrichment, and powerful analytics. Your Apple Contacts and Qillo stay in perfect two-way sync – add or update contacts in either app and everything stays connected. No replacement, just enhancement ORGANIZE YOUR CONTACTS YOUR WAY Organize contacts into custom categories like Networking, Friends, Family, Dating, or Clients. Add custom tags to group people however makes sense — by project, event, interest, or anything else. Filter and sort by company, city, tag, category, and more to find exactly who you need in seconds. BEAUTIFUL ANALYTICS & INSIGHTS Visualize your entire network with interactive charts and analytics. See breakdowns by category, company, city, and tags. Check your total contacts, new contacts this month, percent tagged, monthly growth, and more. Drill into any chart to explore the specific people behind the numbers. TIMELINE VIEW See a chronological history of when you added each contact. Browse by date to remember exactly who you added last week, last month, or any time in the past. Perfect for when you need to say, "I met someone at that event last weekend, who was that?" BULK EDIT & ENRICH IN SECONDS Struggling with messy contact data? Filter your contacts, multiselect in bulk, and update tags, categories, or companies all at once. Instantly clean up and enrich your entire network. SMART AI-POWERED ENRICHMENT Add contact details the natural way — just type or dictate something like "works in design at Apple, lives in New York, met at run club" and Qillo's AI parses it all and fills in the fields for you. Enrich existing contacts with a single tap. TWO-WAY SYNC WITH APPLE CONTACTS Here's the key: Qillo doesn't replace Apple Contacts — it enhances it. Everything syncs both ways, automatically. Add a contact in Apple Contacts? It appears in Qillo. Add one in Qillo? It syncs to Apple Contacts. Update a birthday, company, or field in either app? Both stay in perfect sync. You're never forced to use one or the other — use whichever feels right, and everything stays connected. FAVORITES AT A GLANCE Mark important contacts as favorites and pin them to the top of your list for instant access. BIRTHDAY TRACKING Never miss an important date. Get notified on birthdays and see upcoming birthdays at a glance so you can stay thoughtful and connected. QR CODE SHARING Share your contact info instantly with a personalized QR code. Scan someone else's to add them in seconds. LIGHT & DARK MODE Choose your preferred look with full dark mode and light mode support. Free to Start, Pro When You're Ready Your contacts are yours. Qillo never shares your data with third parties. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Compact Contacts Manager
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Now on iPhone too: the same private workspace for the contacts already on your iPhone and iPad, in one purchase. Compact Contacts Manager is a private, focused workspace for the contacts already on your iPad. Browse an adaptive contact table in landscape or a touch-friendly layout in portrait. Choose columns and row density, work with keyboard or pointer when attached, and use the Command Palette to reach contacts, Saved Views, groups, accounts, and safe actions. Search names, organizations, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, groups, and—when enabled—contact Notes locally on iPad. Work with Notes, with your permission: • Read and edit long contact Notes in the detail panel. • Focus on Notes or hide other detail sections to give longer text more room. • Choose whether Notes are included in the in-memory search index on this iPad. Organize and hand off exactly what you intend: • Build Saved Views with ALL or ANY rules, sorting, columns, density, and detail layout. • Use Recently Edited for contacts successfully saved by Compact Contacts, plus built-in Missing Phone and Missing Company views. • Preview a selection or filtered result before exporting it as CSV or vCard through Files or the system share sheet. • Export a Saved View directly as a vCard bundle for a coworker. Contact Notes are excluded by default and require an explicit choice for each export. • Review ready, warning, and blocked cards before a vCard import writes anything. • Use Bulk Edit for names, organization fields, labeled phones, emails, URLs and relationships, postal fields, birthdays, groups, and Notes. Apply text or regular-expression transformations and review exact changes before saving. • Merge duplicate contacts field by field, choose a destination account, and undo from encrypted on-device Merge History. • Edit simple fields directly in the contact table, and delete selected contacts after a preview and a verified recovery backup. • Search results are grouped by where they matched: name, phone, email, company, address, or Notes. • Remove repeated phone numbers, email addresses, URLs, and postal addresses inside the same card, and relabel entries by their current label. Your iPad’s system Contacts database remains the source of truth, and iPadOS manages synchronization for configured accounts. Compact Contacts has no ads, third-party analytics, developer account, or contact cloud. Contact and Notes content is processed on your device and is not uploaded to a developer server. Only a file or system handoff you explicitly start can carry the selected contact data outside the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Qillo at Free against Compact Contacts Manager's $12.99. Qillo also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Compact Contacts Manager's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads and device support 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
Qillo is free to download; Compact Contacts Manager costs $12.99 up front. Qillo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Compact Contacts Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.
Qillo ships an update every 3 days, Compact Contacts Manager every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Qillo | Compact Contacts Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $12.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JESSE THOMAS LEE | CAGLAR SERDAR |
In-app purchases
Qillo
- Qillo Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Qillo Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$39.991 Year
Compact Contacts Manager
No in-app purchases
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