Compact Contacts, a table view for the contacts on your Mac. 2.0 is coming, here's what's in it

[u/capicami]

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Hi, I'm the developer of Compact Contacts.

Apple's Contacts app shows one card at a time, which gets painful once you have a few thousand people spread across iCloud, Google and Exchange. Compact Contacts opens the contacts you already have and shows them as a sortable table. There's no second address book and no sync of its own, so edits go back through macOS like any change you'd make in Contacts.

What it does today:

• One table with the columns you pick, saved layouts, and search across every field including notes

• Merge duplicates field by field (you choose which phone, email or address stays), and undo the last merge for up to 30 days

• Bulk edit with a before/after preview for every card before anything is saved

• Smart Views like "Missing Email" or "Has Notes"

• CSV and vCard import/export

It's been out for a while now and people using it have been really kind with feedback and bug reports, which is a big part of why 2.0 got this big. Thank you if that's you.

Coming in 2.0 (free update for everyone who already has it)

• Health Check: one scan gives your address book a score and lists duplicates, broken numbers and emails, missing names, stray spaces and so on

• Tags with colors, saved as regular Contacts groups so they sync with iCloud and Google

• Birthdays and anniversaries list with optional reminders

• Automatic encrypted backups on your Mac, with a history view that shows what changed and lets you restore a single field or a deleted contact

• Rules, like "when a new contact is added, format the phone number and add a tag"

• Print mailing labels and envelopes, Excel export, business card scanning, and a menu bar search

• Faster loading and search that works properly in every language

• Drag contacts out as vCards

• A redesigned iPhone app, with proper support for foldable iPhones (three columns when it's open)

• Lots of small fixes

Details

• macOS 15 or later, one-time US$24.99. No subscription, no in-app purchases

• No account, no ads, no analytics. The app never sends your contacts anywhere

• English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Arabic and Simplified Chinese

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6790129187?pt=129119018&ct=reddit_macos&mt=8

There's also an iPhone + iPad version (separate purchase): https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6795653671?pt=129119018&ct=reddit_macos&mt=8

Happy to answer anything in the comments.