Comparison

Clean Duplicate Contacts vs Importly

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

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About

Clean Duplicate Contacts

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Is your address book cluttered with duplicate contacts? Clean Duplicate Contacts finds and merges them โ€” in seconds. == HOW IT WORKS == โ€ข Open the app โ€” your contact dashboard shows you the big picture instantly โ€ข Review duplicate groups sorted by match confidence โ€ข Merge with one tap โ€” all phone numbers, emails, and photos are combined == SMART DETECTION == Four matching strategies find every kind of duplicate: โ€ข Exact Name โ€” same first and last name โ€ข Same Phone โ€” identical phone numbers across different entries โ€ข Same Email โ€” matching email addresses โ€ข Similar Name โ€” fuzzy name matching for slight variations == MERGE, DON'T LOSE == When you merge, everything is preserved: โ€ข All phone numbers are combined โ€ข All email addresses are kept โ€ข Photos from the best source are retained โ€ข Organization info is carried over == BACKUP FIRST == Before any merge operation, you can export your entire address book as VCard or JSON backup. Restore anytime. == PRIVACY YOU CAN TRUST == Your contacts never leave your device. Everything happens on-device. Zero data collected. Zero analytics. == ONE PRICE, FOREVER == Pay once, use forever. No subscription. No ads. No tricks. Download Clean Duplicate Contacts and give your address book the cleanup it deserves. ```

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Importly

Features
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Got a contact list in a spreadsheet or a .vcf file? Importly turns a CSV, Excel (.xlsx) or vCard file into real contacts on your iPhone โ€” and shows you every one before anything is saved. Choose the file in the Files app (iCloud Drive, On My iPhone or another location), check the preview, then tap Import. The contacts appear in the Contacts app on this iPhone. โ€ข CSV FROM SPREADSHEETS โ€” reads comma-, semicolon- or tab-separated CSV, quoted fields with commas inside, and UTF-8, UTF-16 or Shift_JIS text. โ€ข AUTOMATIC COLUMNS โ€” recognises common headers in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese โ€” such as First Name, Vorname, Prรฉnom, Nombre, Sobrenome or ๅง“ / ๅ โ€” for name, company, phone, email, address and notes, plus Google Contacts and Outlook exports. The header row is never imported as a contact. No header row? Columns are read in order: name, phone, email โ€” or first name, last name, phone, email. A single Name column is split into first and last name; Japanese, Chinese and Korean names keep the family name first. โ€ข EXCEL WORKBOOKS โ€” opens .xlsx files directly: finds the contact table on each sheet, even below a title row, and lets you choose the sheet when several hold contacts. โ€ข VCARD TOO โ€” open .vcf files holding one card or many. โ€ข PREVIEW FIRST โ€” see how many contacts were found and each name, phone number and email. Nothing is saved until you tap Import. โ€ข STRAIGHT INTO CONTACTS โ€” contacts are saved to your default Contacts account with a progress bar, then a summary of how many were imported. Honest scope: from a CSV or Excel file, each contact gets a name (with reading/furigana if present), company, every phone number and email, and an address. vCard files keep every field โ€” addresses, all numbers and emails, birthdays, websites and photos. Notes are saved too: a notes column in a CSV or Excel file, or the note in a vCard, goes into each contact's Notes field. Contacts that are already on your iPhone โ€” same name and the same phone number or email โ€” are skipped, and the summary tells you how many. Files can be up to 15 MB. Your file is read on your iPhone and contacts are written only when you tap Import. Nothing is uploaded and no account is needed. Try it free โ€” the free version imports the first 3 contacts from a file. A one-time $4.99 purchase imports every contact, with no limit. No subscription, no ads. Questions: overlapmarr@gmail.com

Screenshots

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Importly4 screens

Verdict

The call

Clean Duplicate Contacts and Importly are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Clean Duplicate Contacts sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Importly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Clean Duplicate Contacts versus Importly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClean Duplicate ContactsImportly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.016.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๅ…ด้‘ซ ่ŒƒJhomar Maravillas

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Clean Duplicate Contacts

One-time1
  • Pro Unlock$2.99
1 purchases

Importly

One-time1
  • Unlock Unlimited$4.99

Questions

Is Clean Duplicate Contacts free?
Clean Duplicate Contacts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Importly free?
Importly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Clean Duplicate Contacts or Importly have ads?
Neither Clean Duplicate Contacts nor Importly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clean Duplicate Contacts or Importly?
Clean Duplicate Contacts ships an update every 4 days, and Importly every 4 days. Most recently, Clean Duplicate Contacts was updated on October 24, 2026 and Importly on October 25, 2026.

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