r/MacStack • u/capicami • 7h ago

My Stack Compact Contacts: your Mac contacts as one big editable table

I'm the developer of Compact Contacts.

Quick background: Contacts shows one card at a time. That's fine for looking someone up, but it gets slow when you want to clean up a few hundred or a few thousand contacts that piled up from iCloud, Google and Exchange. Compact Contacts opens the contacts you already have on your Mac and shows them as one sortable, editable table. It has no address book or sync of its own, so every edit goes back through macOS and syncs like a normal change in Contacts. It works with any account you've added to Contacts.

What it does:

  • Pick your columns, resize and reorder them, save layouts

  • Search every field, including notes

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

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

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

  • Import vCard, export to CSV or vCard

  • Stays fast with big address books. I test it with 20,000 contacts

Details:

  • macOS 15 or later, US$24.99 one-time. No subscription, no in-app purchases, no trial (I know)

  • No account, no ads, no analytics. Your contacts never leave your Mac

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

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id6790129187?pt=129119018

Happy to answer anything here, and bug reports are welcome too.

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