Top Contacts
A new home for your contacts list
Free (IAPs) From Denys Yevenko, topcontacts.app Made for iPhone or iPad Needs iOS 11 or later
The native iOS Contacts app is elegant enough, but can you improve upon it? Top Contacts thinks it can. It’s easy enough to import your existing contacts into the app; once that’s done, you’re presented with the main contacts list where the card management happens. The menu strip at the bottom of this screen includes buttons for creating contacts, a useful recent contacts sheet, a search function, and the calendar. There’s also access to an extended menu that lets you change app settings and apply filters to the contacts list using multiple conditions. It’s the swipe gestures that bring Top Contacts into its own, however. Swipe right on a contact in the list and you’re a tap away from calling, emailing, and messaging them, while swiping left on a contact extends the list with a scrollable table of card information, for which you can specify the columns that will be visible.
Elsewhere, individual contact cards include helpful links to in–app functions that include a calendar, a to–do list and a file manager, where you can assign the contact to any created items or events. You can also set the app to require a passcode or Face ID to open, and upgrading to Pro ($4.99) also gets you iCloud sync across devices, ad removals, and exporting to CSV, XLSX, and PDF.
Overall, Top Contacts is well designed, with some nicely implemented gestures that Apple’s stock app should include.
the bottom line. Top Contacts’ swipe gestures elevates above the native iOS option.