Contacts+ alternatives
The 7 best Contacts+ alternatives in 2026 — beyond contact sync
The family tree of Contacts+ explains why so many users are hunting for alternatives today: one of Android's best-loved contacts apps became a FullContact product in 2018; in January 2021 FullContact sold the brand to Benchmark Email and turned entirely to enterprise identity resolution — FullContact itself now operates as Fideo Intelligence. What remains is a perfectly solid utility: Contacts+ syncs up to five accounts, deduplicates, scans business cards, and backs up as many as 25,000 contacts. What it stopped trying to be after the sale is a relationship product — no reach-out reminders, no sense of who matters to you. Depending on which half you miss, you need either a better address book or a real personal CRM. This list covers both, with prices checked on 10 June 2026 and our own stake disclosed.
Why people leave Contacts+
Contacts+ isn't broken — it's frozen. Since the January 2021 sale to Benchmark Email, the app has been maintained as a sync utility, with a quiet roadmap and no visible ambition to ever become more again. There's no going back to the parent either: FullContact gave up its consumer business and operates today as Fideo Intelligence. Add the price-to-value gap: Premium costs $9.99/month or $99.99/year — as much as a full personal CRM, for features limited to merging, cleaning, and scanning. And architecturally, cloud mirroring is the product: your address books sit in plaintext on the servers of a US email-marketing company, because merge and dedup technically require it. If address-book hygiene is all you need, you can stay. If you wanted more, you've spent five years paying for a product that no longer intends to deliver it.
How we ranked — and our bias
This ranking has a conflict of interest, and we name it: #1 is our own product, Endearist, which is why its entry leads with the weaknesses that hit Contacts+ users hardest — we are precisely not a sync service. We evaluated on two tracks, because Contacts+ users are looking for two different things: better address-book tooling and genuine relationship care. All prices are as of 10 June 2026, looked up on the vendors' public pricing pages. Nobody paid for these placements.
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Endearist
Our productLocal-first personal CRM — the relationship layer Contacts+ never had
Best for: Anyone who actually wanted relationship care from a contacts tool
Strengths
- Everything Contacts+ lacks: per-person cadence reminders, how-we-met, life events, a journal
- No plaintext on someone's servers: data on your device first, sync optional and end-to-end encrypted
- Imports Contacts+ vCard/CSV exports in one step, with dedup cleanup afterwards
- Pro Lifetime €69 once — Contacts+ Premium on the annual plan costs more than that every single year
Weaknesses
- Not a sync engine: Endearist won't keep five address-book accounts aligned and writes nothing back — we simply don't do Contacts+'s core job
- No business-card scanner in v1
- Our dedup is a cleanup tool inside your own vault, not a continuous sync service
Pricing: Free up to 25 contacts. Pro Lifetime €69 once, Pro Cloud Light €4.99/mo, Pro Cloud €9.99/mo.
Endearist doesn't replace Contacts+ — it replaces the hope many people had invested in it: that the address book would someday become a relationship tool. Reminders, depth, and a journal are here from day one, stored locally instead of cloud-mirrored. If you still need five accounts kept in sync, run both tracks: keep Contacts+ as the sync layer and add Endearist as the memory above it — the two don't conflict.
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Cardhop
The address-book upgrade on Apple platforms — without a third-party contact cloud
Best for: Apple users who want Contacts+'s job done without server mirroring
Strengths
- Works directly on iCloud, Google, and Exchange — no vendor copy of your address books
- Business-card scanning, natural-language input, and a relationships view at Flexibits quality
- Flexibits Premium (~$57/yr incl. Fantastical) costs about half of Contacts+ Premium
Weaknesses
- Apple-only — anyone coming from Contacts+'s Android roots is out of luck
- Not a continuous cross-account sync service — it edits accounts, it doesn't unify them server-side
Pricing: Free basics. Flexibits Premium ~$4.75/mo billed annually (~$57/yr), Fantastical included.
For Apple households, the most elegant answer to the question Contacts+ answered: a fast, beautiful, card-scanning address book — just without your contacts sitting on a marketing company's servers. Forgoing server-side unification is both the feature and the limit.
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Covve
Card scanner plus news alerts — Contacts+'s capture side, taken further
Best for: Heavy scanners who cared most about the business-card feature
Strengths
- Better card OCR than Contacts+ (whose Premium caps at 100 cards/month), plus an NFC digital card
- News alerts on tracked contacts — a relationship signal Contacts+ never had
- EU company (Cyprus), Pro at €4.99/mo — half the price of Contacts+ Premium
Weaknesses
- Mobile-only, whereas Contacts+ at least offers a web app
- No multi-account sync — address-book hygiene across five accounts isn't its job
- Cloud-mandatory for the news engine; contacts sit on Covve's servers
Pricing: Free tier with limited scans. Pro €4.99/month.
If your Contacts+ subscription was really a card-scanner subscription, Covve gives you better OCR at half the price with news alerts on top. You give up the sync side and desktop access — Covve is a phone-first capture tool, not an address-book administrator.
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Monica
Open-source personal CRM with the deepest personal data model
Best for: Switchers who want the full relationship system in a browser
Strengths
- AGPL v3 and self-hostable — a reassuring contrast after the Contacts+ brand changed hands twice
- Activity log, gifts, debts, life events, relationship graph — maximum depth instead of bare fields
- An EU cloud at $9/mo, cheaper than Contacts+ Premium
Weaknesses
- No native mobile apps — on the phone it's a web view
- Doesn't sync external address books or scan cards — a different tool, not a replacement for the utility side
Pricing: Self-hosted free. Monica Cloud $9/mo or $99/yr.
Monica represents the other half of what Contacts+ users are after: not an account juggler but a full system for the people in your life — and thanks to the AGPL, one no corporation can buy and repurpose again. Self-host it and the vendor question is answered forever; expect native apps and you'll be disappointed.
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Dex
Networking CRM that keeps LinkedIn in sync instead of address books
Best for: Professional networkers whose contact chaos is really a LinkedIn problem
Strengths
- LinkedIn auto-sync keeps titles and employers current — the data upkeep address books never manage
- Reminders, notes, and calendar integration: a real CRM, not a field store
- Native apps on iOS and Android plus web and macOS
Weaknesses
- US-hosted (AWS), AI via OpenAI on Dex's servers
- Premium $12/mo or Professional $20/mo — pricier than Contacts+, with no lifetime
- No address-book write-back and no multi-account merge
Pricing: Free tier. Premium $12/mo, Professional $20/mo. No lifetime.
Dex solves a related but different problem than Contacts+: not five address books disagreeing, but your network going stale. If your real pain is outdated job titles and forgotten follow-ups, moving here is an upgrade. Pure address-book hygiene remains undone.
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Nimble
Social CRM for teams with automatic profile enrichment
Best for: Small teams maintaining and enriching a shared contact base
Strengths
- Automatic enrichment from LinkedIn and company pages — Contacts+'s freshness promise, actually delivered
- Deep Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace integration plus a browser extension
- Per-contact stay-in-touch reminders and real team features
Weaknesses
- $24.90/seat/mo (billed annually), no free tier — a different price class than Contacts+
- Enrichment is metered in credits (25/month included), so real costs climb quickly
- Treats contacts as prospects — the wrong model for a personal address book
Pricing: $24.90/seat/mo annual ($29.90 monthly). 14-day trial, no free tier.
Nimble is the business-grade escalation of the Contacts+ idea: rather than mirroring your accounts, it researches your contacts outright and shares the result with a team. For solo personal users it's overkill at a professional price — for a small business sitting on Contacts+ Teams, the obvious next step.
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Mesh
Beautiful relationship app with AI and a generous free tier
Best for: Personal users wanting a warm app after years of utility sobriety
Strengths
- Free tier up to 1,000 contacts — enough for most personal address books
- Native apps on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Windows, and the web, with the best onboarding in the category
- Daily prompts and AI summaries turn dead contact data into a habit
Weaknesses
- US hosting (AWS) and export only via support request — a weaker data exit than Contacts+'s vCard/CSV
- Credit card required even for the free tier
- No address-book sync and no card scanner
Pricing: Personal free up to 1,000 contacts (credit card required). Pro $10/mo, Team $40/seat/mo.
Mesh is the emotional counterpart to the sober Contacts+: it doesn't want to tidy your accounts, it wants to remind you of people daily — and it looks better doing it than anything else on this list. On data exit it's a step backwards, though: know about the export-by-support-ticket before you pour a thousand contacts in.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Contacts+ still maintained?
- Yes — it has belonged to Benchmark Email since January 2021 and keeps running as an address-book utility: sync across up to 5 accounts, dedup, card scans, backups up to 25,000 contacts. The roadmap is quiet, though, and it explicitly no longer aims to become a relationship tool with reminders.
- What happened to FullContact?
- FullContact gave up its consumer business entirely: Contacts+ went to Benchmark Email in January 2021, and the company itself focused on enterprise identity resolution — it now operates as Fideo Intelligence. There is no consumer FullContact app left to go back to.
- How do I export my contacts from Contacts+?
- Pleasingly simple, because standard export is part of the product: in the web app at app.contactsplus.com, select your contacts and choose Export — vCard or CSV (Google and Outlook flavors). Endearist imports both via Settings → Import; tags arrive as labels, and any leftover duplicates get caught by dedup.
- Which alternative scans business cards?
- Covve has the best card OCR in the category (Pro at €4.99/mo with unlimited scans per its pricing page), and Cardhop scans on Apple devices within the Flexibits subscription. Endearist has no scanner in v1 — which is why many pair Covve for capture with Endearist as the relationship layer behind it.
Prices and availability verified: 2026-06-10
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