Comparison

ContactEx vs Friendly Contacts Manager

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

Head to head

ContactEx

Free

🔧 Utilities

★ 1.73 ratingsView app →

Friendly Contacts Manager

User Friendly

Free

🔧 Utilities

No ratingsView app →

About

ContactEx

Easily export and share your contact data in various formats, including PDF and vCard. This utility also supports importing contacts and printing your address book information.

Highlights

Export contacts in vCard format
Create PDF files from selected contacts
Export contacts in exchange format
Import contacts from exchange format
Print contact data

Features

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ContactEx is the app for contact export and exchange. Import and print contact data are also supported. We know you have trouble on sharing address book data. Not only exporting multiple contacts, but also print out their data. Now, ContactEx provides solution of these situation. ContactEx can - create PDF file with selected contacts - export multiple contacts in vCard format - export multiple contacts to 1 file in exchange format file - import multiple contacts from exchange format file Limitation of this version - sending mail with PDF file - 10 persons can be exported in vCard format totally - 10 persons can be exported in ce format totally - 10 persons can be imported in ce format totally

About

Friendly Contacts Manager

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Friendly Contacts Manager will help you quickly backup/restore contacts. Friendly Contacts Manager does not store your contacts on the server and your contacts will remain private. Friendly Contacts Manager does not ask for payment and all features are available for free.

Screenshots

ContactEx3 screens

Friendly Contacts Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Friendly Contacts Manager at none against ContactEx's 1. ContactEx's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 17 months) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ContactEx sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Friendly Contacts Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ContactEx ships an update fortnightly, Friendly Contacts Manager every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level

ContactEx versus Friendly Contacts Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter	ContactEx	Friendly Contacts Manager
Price	Free	Free
Rating	1.7 (3 ratings) — better	—
Positive reviews	0.0% of reviews	—
Number of ratings	3 — better	—
Update frequency	Fortnightly — better	Every 17 months
Ads	No	No
In-app purchases	Yes	No — better
Monetization	Free with in-app purchases	—
Devices	iPhone, iPad, iPod	iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS	7.0 — better	13.0
Further details — not scored
Size	4 MB	1 MB
Age rating	4+	4+
Developer	Jerry Juang	Denis Popov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ContactEx

One-time1

ContactEx$1.99

None

Friendly Contacts Manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ContactEx free?

ContactEx is free to download, with in-app purchases available.

Is Friendly Contacts Manager free?

Friendly Contacts Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

Do ContactEx or Friendly Contacts Manager have ads?

Neither ContactEx nor Friendly Contacts Manager shows ads.

Which is updated more often, ContactEx or Friendly Contacts Manager?

ContactEx ships an update fortnightly, and Friendly Contacts Manager every 17 months. Most recently, ContactEx was updated on October 24, 2026 and Friendly Contacts Manager on October 4, 2026.