Recent Contacts Timeline vs cryptoscreen
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
cryptoscreen
This app creates secure, self-destructing notes that are encrypted locally before being shared. Both a link and a PIN are required to access the message, which is then deleted after a single successful read. It offers enhanced privacy features like screenshot detection.
- Local encryption before upload
- Link and PIN required for access
- One-time read deletion
- Screenshot detection
- Message destruction after failed PIN attempts
- Link expiration
- Encrypted image attachments (Pro)
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cryptoscreen is a private note app for messages that should not last. Write a note, choose a six-digit PIN, and cryptoscreen encrypts the message on your iPhone before it leaves the device. Share the generated link and send the PIN separately. The recipient opens the note once, then the encrypted server row is consumed. What cryptoscreen does: - Encrypts notes locally before upload. - Requires both the link secret and the PIN to open a message. - Deletes normal message rows after one successful read. - Destroys the message after the third wrong PIN attempt. - Expires unopened links after the retention window. - Uses a guarded reader that reduces casual screen exposure. - Wipes the visible reader session if iOS reports a screenshot. - Supports encrypted image attachments with Pro for senders. - Supports App Clip opening for lightweight receiving. cryptoscreen is designed to avoid accounts, profiles, contact lists, and message plaintext on the server. The production service stores encrypted bytes, encrypted image attachment objects when supplied, attempt metadata, and expiry metadata. Screenshot protection is best-effort: iOS reports normal screenshots after capture, and no app can protect against external cameras or compromised devices. Support: https://cryptoscreen.app/support Privacy Policy: https://cryptoscreen.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: cryptoscreen at 100% against Recent Contacts Timeline's 50%. cryptoscreen also leads on price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks). Recent Contacts Timeline's advantage is ratings volume (48 vs 1) and chart position (#113 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases 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
cryptoscreen 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.
cryptoscreen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Recent Contacts Timeline has 48 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Recent Contacts Timeline's written reviews are positive against 100% of cryptoscreen's.
Recent Contacts Timeline ships an update every 6 weeks, cryptoscreen every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recent Contacts Timeline | cryptoscreen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (48 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 48 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #113 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Bardon | Domenico Marco Di Donna |
Customer experience
Recent Contacts Timeline
cryptoscreen
In-app purchases
Recent Contacts Timeline
No in-app purchases
cryptoscreen
No in-app purchases
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