Comparison

CircleBack vs Contact Book Pro

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

Head to head
About

CircleBack

This app intelligently updates your contacts, finds new ones from email, and cleans duplicates. It also allows scanning business cards and offers unified contact management across devices.

Highlights
  • Automatic contact updates
  • Duplicate contact merging
  • New contact discovery from emails
  • Business card scanning
  • Unified address book
  • Contact sync across devices
Features
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CircleBack is the only address book manager that updates your contacts intelligently, discovers new contacts in your Google and Microsoft inboxes, cleans up duplicates, and allows you to scan business cards and save them as contacts. Packed with everything you need to stay organized while building and maintaining productive professional relationships, CircleBack makes it easier than ever to keep connections alive and get stuff done. CIRCLEBACK FEATURES • Contact updates when people in your network change jobs, roles & more • Intelligent merging / management of duplicate contacts • “New Contact” discovery from email signatures in Outlook, Gmail & the entire Microsoft account suite (Outlook.com, Hotmail, MSN, etc.) • Contact grouping by favorite, old/archived, or business card scans • A single, unified address book that imports from Outlook/Exchange , Gmail (Google Apps), Microsoft account suite, Facebook & more • Contact sync across multiple devices and platforms • Export contacts to Salesforce & ACT! • Best-in-class OCR business card scanning • Deleted contact recovery for the moments you make a mistake WHAT THE MEDIA IS SAYING • “CircleBack lets you sit back as it does the real-time contact updates and management for you.”— iphoneappsreviewonline.com • “Every once in a while I have this fever dream that I’d have a smartphone contact book that would be up-to-date and completely filled out, but that’s all it is—just a dream. But with CircleBack, I have a fighting chance.” — Gizmodo • “CircleBack uses artificial intelligence and crowd-based intelligence technology to automate contact updating and management. A useful tool to activate your contact list.” — Computerworld • “The modern world is busy and engaged, and your professional and personal contacts merge. But how can you keep up with what they’re doing? CircleBack uses artificial intelligence and crowd-based intelligence technology to automate contact updating and management.” — TechCrunch • “CircleBack knows your contacts better than you do. By automatically cleaning, completing, and updating your contacts, as well as removing duplicates, CircleBack keeps your address book organized and up-to-date.” — abduzeedo • “CircleBack is helpful app that makes sure that you address book is up-to-date. But, the app also consolidates all of your contacts by removing duplicate entries and repairing errors like typos. It can also locate missing contact information or updated information from outdated contacts.” — Forbes REVIEWS LEFT ON THE APP STORE • “Continuously improving” • “Simple, Powerful, intuitive” • “Very Useful Complement To Apple's Contacts App” • “Great & Simple App” MORE ABOUT CIRCLEBACK CircleBack’s unique answer to contact management is a single tool that ensures your address book is up-to-date, unified & accessible on all your devices. CircleBack handles the time-consuming organization of your digital address book while you do what you do best: crush it daily. DATA USAGE Crowdsourcing powers CircleBack’s core, allowing you (and everyone else) to anonymously contribute to the intelligence of our database. Your contributions are matched with billions of other data points from millions of other users to provide the best, most up-to-date info for anyone that’s outdated or duplicated in your address book. We love hearing from you! Keep the comments coming by emailing us anytime at support@circleback.com.

About

Contact Book Pro

This app offers a streamlined way to manage both device and personal contacts in one place. It allows for easy addition, import, and organization of contacts, including social media links for quick access. Create groups and manage multiple contacts efficiently.

Highlights
  • Manage device and personal contacts
  • Easy contact addition
  • Selective contact import
  • Create and manage contact groups
  • Batch delete contacts
  • Add/replace contact profile pictures
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Contact Book Pro is a simple application for iPhone and iPad to manage contacts in a simplified approach. User can manage both system contacts and personal contacts in this single contact management tool. Contact Book Pro helps user to manage a complete different log of contacts than the contacts in the default Contacts app. It also provides users with quick access to all the important contact links of a person, including social media links, in one place and present them as direct links. This is how it becomes one step quicker to contact them. Top Features: -Manage both device contacts and personal contacts. -Easy to add a contact. -Import contact from device's contact app selectively. -Create Contact groups and manage them accordingly. -Select and delete multiple contacts at once. -Add contact profile pic or replace them with a new one. Contact Book Pro is an essential app for those who want a clean and straight forward approach to contact management. It only includes what is important. So, download Contact Book Pro today and manage your contacts effectively.

Screenshots

CircleBack4 screens
Contact Book Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CircleBack at 61% against Contact Book Pro's 0%. CircleBack also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (2.5K vs 4). Contact Book Pro's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CircleBack holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CircleBack has 2.5K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of CircleBack's written reviews are positive against 0% of Contact Book Pro's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
CircleBack versus Contact Book Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCircleBackContact Book Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2.5K ratings) — better3.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews60.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2.5K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.69.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size118 MB12 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCircleBack, Inc.Sudip Bag

Customer experience

CircleBack

All ratings2,543 ratings
Positive88.2%
Neutral5.1%
Negative6.7%
Written reviews130 reviews
Positive60.8%
Neutral8.5%
Negative30.8%

Contact Book Pro

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

CircleBack

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Fails to update contacts on devices
  • Incorrectly merges unrelated contacts
  • Loses contact notes and other data
  • Unreliable sync between app and phone contacts

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to remove contacts from groups
  • Improve search functionality
  • Allow starting with a fresh contact list
  • Provide better backup/restore options

Contact Book Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

CircleBack

No in-app purchases

None

Contact Book Pro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CircleBack free?
CircleBack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Contact Book Pro free?
Contact Book Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CircleBack or Contact Book Pro?
CircleBack is rated higher. CircleBack averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2.5K ratings, while Contact Book Pro averages 3.8 from 4 ratings.
Do CircleBack or Contact Book Pro have ads?
Neither CircleBack nor Contact Book Pro shows ads.

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