Recent Contacts Timeline vs Hour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recent Contacts Timeline
Easily find your most recently added contacts. This utility displays contacts sorted by addition date, showing when each was added. Quickly access and connect with new contacts.
- View recently added contacts
- Sort contacts by addition date
- See when contacts were added
- Widget for recent contacts
- Filter by today, yesterday, or last weekend
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See your newest contacts first. Contacts Timeline turns your address book into a clean timeline, sorted by when each contact was added. New contacts appear at the top, grouped into Today, Yesterday, This Week, and older dates, so the person you just saved is easy to find again. Open any contact to see the available details: phone numbers, email addresses, company, job title, birthday, photos, and more. From there, you can call, send a message, email, copy contact info, open the contact in the system Contacts app to edit it, or delete it. Built for the moments when the regular Contacts app makes you search by name, but what you remember is when you met someone. Highlights: - Recently added contacts first - Timeline groups for today, yesterday, this week, and exact dates - Fast contact search - One-tap call, message, email, and copy actions - Open contacts in the system Contacts app for editing - Native iOS design, no account required - Export contacts as PDF or CSV, sort by date or name, then share, save, or print
Hour
This app facilitates rapid texting of notifications to contacts for fundraising campaigns. It allows users to efficiently manage and track responses from their phone's contact list.
- Send quick text notifications
- Target specific contacts
- Track responses
- Fundraising campaign support
- Phone contact integration
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The Hour-A-Thon Quicktext app is designed for users of Hour-A-Thon fundraising campaigns to quickly text notifications to specified contacts in their phone and track responses.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Hour at Free against Recent Contacts Timeline's $2.99. Hour also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.3 vs 26.0). Recent Contacts Timeline's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.1) and chart position (#191 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Hour is free to download; Recent Contacts Timeline costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Recent Contacts Timeline holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 48 and 143 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Recent Contacts Timeline's written reviews are positive against 48% of Hour's.
Recent Contacts Timeline ships an update every 6 weeks, Hour every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recent Contacts Timeline | Hour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (48 ratings) — better | 3.1 (143 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 48.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 48 | 143 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #191 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Bardon | Buynow AF, LLC |
Customer experience
Recent Contacts Timeline
Hour
In-app purchases
Recent Contacts Timeline
No in-app purchases
Hour
No in-app purchases
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