Cardhop 2, Infuse 7
Back with more for power users
Free (Premium from £4.99/month)
FROM Flexibits, flexibits.com NEEDS iOS 14.1 or later
Cardhop, the contacts manager for iOS and macOS, showed lots of promise when we reviewed it a couple of years ago. Now, with version 2, much of that has been realised.
New features include viewing family trees or organisational chart relationships from Office 365 or Google. However, the most significant change to Cardhop is it is now more integrated with Flexibits’ other app, Fantastical. You can now invite contacts or groups to new events that you create in Fantastical. And instead of a one-off purchase price, the premium features in Cardhop are now part of the Flexibits subscription (both individual and family versions).
This version also adds Home Screen widgets for use in Notification Centre, and there’s also a business card scanner that enables you to take photos of a business card, from which Cardhop will create a contact.
Cardhop is built on the ability to understand natural language commands. So, for instance, type ‘message Kenny lunch on Tuesday?’ and it will suggest contacts for you to select, then open a message in your preferred messaging app with the text, ‘lunch on Tuesday?’ ready to send. There are plenty of other actions available with this excellent upgrade too. Kenny Hemphill