Cachet Contacts
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Your whole address book, upgraded.
Point it at a business card, a screenshot, or the whole book. The AI turns them into clean contacts, finds the missing faces and company logos, and merges the duplicates. Every change is shown to you first, and any batch can be undone.
The free tools stay free: dedupe, search, and full export of your own data, forever. Groups and birthday reminders are next in the queue, and they join the free tools when they land.
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Rosalind Ashbyfound her headshot · ready to apply
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Devan Raofound his headshot · waiting for your tap
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Halloway Freightfound the logo · arrived pre-selected
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Kenji Morifound his headshot · one tap to apply
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Amara Suttonfound her headshot · merged a duplicate
✓The upgrade pass: faces for people, logos for companies, a check per row, nothing overwritten. Everyone shown is AI-generated.
The upgrade
Your contacts have faces. Your address book should show them.
Open your contacts right now and count the grey circles of initials. We measured the alternatives on 6 August 2026, on a real address book of 2,109 contacts: the established Mac contact managers display a photo if one is already stored and go looking for exactly none. The finding half of the job is missing from every Mac incumbent we measured, and it is the half this product is built around.
Faces for people, logos for companies
The upgrade pass walks your whole book, searches for a face for every photoless person and a logo for every company, and lines the candidates up in one review grid. A shared mailbox like info@ gets its company's logo, never somebody's face.
Every face waits for your tap
A wrong face on a contact is worse than an empty circle, so a person's photo is never applied without your tap. Company logos resolve from the company's own domain and arrive pre-selected, and you can still throw any of them out.
Applied as one batch, reversible as one batch
A snapshot is taken before anything is written, every applied photo is recorded in a provenance ledger, an existing photo is never replaced, and undo is one button. Bulk is only trustworthy when putting it all back is this easy.
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Lucia Marchettifound her headshot · yours to approve
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Verrant Foodsfound the logo · applied with the batch
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Northgate Toolingfound the logo · merged two entries
✓The review grid: every proposed face waits for your tap, logos arrive pre-selected, and the whole batch reverses in one action. Everyone here is AI-generated; your book supplies the real people.
Capture
The AI does the typing. You do the approving.
The exchange most people do today is a photograph of a business card that nobody ever transcribes. Point Cachet Contacts at it instead.
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Point it at anything
A business card, a screenshot of a signature, a conference badge, a paragraph you paste. If a person's details are in it, it is input.
02
The model reads it
Name, company, title, numbers, emails, addresses, socials, parsed into structured fields with a confidence marker on each, so the field worth double-checking is the one that is highlighted.
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You confirm, then it saves
Nothing is auto-committed. You fix the field it got wrong, tap once, and a clean contact lands in your address book, where your other devices sync it onward.
Careful writes
Built like the record of your life, because that is what it is.
The complaint that dominates the critical reviews of the category's biggest name is destroyed data: merges that scrambled thousands of contacts, syncs that multiplied or erased years of relationships. In July 2026 we read the one- and two-star App Store reviews of Contacts+: 104 of the 261 sampled, two in five, were that story. So the rules below are not features of this product; they are the rules every write ships under.
Preview before writeEvery bulk operation shows a per-record diff of exactly what will change, before anything does.
Undo after writeAny batch can be reversed in one action. A provenance ledger records what was changed and by which pass.
Snapshot firstA restorable snapshot is taken before any bulk write touches your book.
Nothing overwrittenA photo, a number, or a field you set is yours. Found data fills gaps; it never replaces what exists.
Sync
Your iPhone contacts and your Google contacts, finally the same book.
A personal iCloud book and a work Google book, reconciled into one clean, current book that shows up everywhere you look: your phone, your Mac, your work account, every share sheet. Sync is where a managed book starts compounding, because every other feature's work lands in all of your accounts at once.
2 → 1
your iCloud and Google books, reconciled into one clean book
100%
of sync writes previewed before they happen and reversible after
Append-only, previewed, undoable
Sync adds and reconciles with your review, shows you the per-record diff before it writes, and keeps a snapshot so the whole reconciliation can be put back. Run it as often as you like: nothing is written you have not seen, and nothing sticks that you cannot reverse.
One clean book, everywhere
iCloud and Google, reconciled whenever you ask: the face you added, the duplicate you merged, the number you fixed, copied across your accounts on purpose rather than by a background process you cannot see. Your accounts keep their own sync running underneath; what this adds is the part they never do, which is telling you the same person exists twice with different data.
Your real address book
A better lens on the address book you already have.
Cachet Contacts is deliberately a lens over your system address book rather than another parallel database. Every improvement it makes, a scanned card, a found logo, a cleaned duplicate, lands in the book your phone, your watch, and your car already use, and iCloud or Google carries it to your other devices. There is nothing to migrate into, and nothing to escape from: stop using it tomorrow and your contacts are exactly where they always were, upgraded.
ScanCards, screenshots, and signatures become confirmed contacts.
Photos and logosThe whole-book upgrade pass with the review grid.
DedupeFind duplicates, review the merge, undo it if you change your mind. Free.
Backup and exportStandard .vcf of everything, free forever.
GroupsReal groups, then one message to all of them. Next in the queue, and free when it lands.
BirthdaysThe birthdays are already in your book. The reminders that read them are next in the queue, and free when they land.
Two-way synciCloud and Google, reconciled with review.
TransferMove a whole book between accounts, cleanly.
Shared groupsHand a team or a family one private link. They save the cards they want into their own book, with no account and no app. The engine runs today; making one from inside the app is next in the queue.
Who it is for
People whose address book is an asset, and looks like a junk drawer.
A contacts manager is worth adopting at the moment your book stops being a list and starts being a liability. These are the three situations this one is built for.
The two-account professional
A personal iCloud book and a work Google book, copied into each other once, diverging ever since. Duplicates on every other card, two versions of half your colleagues, and no way to know which number is the current one. The dedupe review and the append-only sync are aimed squarely at this.
The collector of cards and screenshots
A camera roll holding a year of business cards, conference badges, and screenshotted email signatures that were always going to be typed in later. Capture turns that backlog into confirmed contacts at the rate you can approve them.
The person whose book faces other people
Your contacts appear on your phone screen when they call, in Messages, in CarPlay, in every share sheet. A book full of grey initials looks neglected in all of those places at once. One upgrade pass, and the people and companies in your life have faces and logos everywhere your book shows up.
The usual options
Everything you already tried, and where each one stops.
All of these are reasonable, and each stops at a specific point worth naming plainly.
Leaving Apple Contacts as it is
Free, already there, and syncing fine. Its duplicate merge is basic: it finds matching cards and combines them with no per-field review and no undo. It has no card scanning and no way to fix photos except one contact at a time, by hand. It is the default this whole category exists to improve on, and it is the book we work on rather than replace.
The big Saturday cleanup
Export everything, open a spreadsheet, merge duplicates by eye, paste photos one by one. People genuinely do this, once. It takes an afternoon, it fixes the book for one day, and the mess grows straight back because the cleanup was an event and the causes are ongoing. Tooling beats willpower here.
One single-purpose app per job
A dedupe app, a backup app, a card scanner, a sync tool, a photo helper: the App Store holds dozens of each, many from solo developers, each with its own permissions to your entire address book. Getting the whole job done that way means auditing five strangers instead of one product with one set of rules in writing.
The family
Cachet is a family of four.
Contacts is the one you are reading about. The others are siblings, and the difference between a live connection and a relative is marked rather than blurred.
Cachet Card · shipped, and connectedThe card you build and share, including Circles that hand a whole group each other's details. A card shared from Card is a contact kept here. cachetcard.com
Cachet Contacts · you are hereThe manager: capture, upgrade, dedupe, and keep the whole book in shape.
Cachet Calendar · a relativeScheduling, built for meetings with the people whose cards you hold.
Cachet Inbox · a relativeCorrespondence with those same people. The overlap is the idea.
Compare
The category, side by side.
Prices and capabilities read off each vendor's own site and App Store listing on 6 August 2026, so every row is one you can check yourself. The pattern the table shows: most rivals do one of the four jobs here, capture, the photo and logo pass, duplicate review, or sync, and the one that reaches all four sells every one of them paid, metered, or capped. This is the one product here built to be all four at once.
| Capability | Cachet Contactsfree tools + Pro in pricing | Apple Contactsfree, built in | CardhopFlexibits Premium $6.99/mo | Contacts+Premium $9.99/mo | BusyContacts$49.99, Mac only | Contacts Sync Pro$11.99 one-time |
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| AI capture from a card, screenshot, or email signature | yes | no | paid | paid | partial | no |
| Ours parses with a large language model and shows you the result before anything is saved. Cardhop paywalls scanning behind Premium; Contacts+ meters it at 100 cards a month on Premium; BusyContacts has a desktop text-recognition window you feed images into. | ||||||
| Finds missing faces and company logos across the whole book | yes | no | no | partial | no | no |
| Measured 6 August 2026 on a 2,109-contact store: the Mac incumbents render stored photos and source none; a contact without a photo is a grey circle of initials. Contacts+ sells enrichment on Premium from its own data sources. Finding the picture is the half of the job this product is built around. | ||||||
| Duplicate handling in the free tier | yes | partial | no | paid | paid | no |
| Apple's built-in merge (on iPhone since iOS 16, and on the Mac) finds matching cards and combines them with no per-field review and no undo. Contacts+ gates duplicate detection behind $9.99/mo. BusyContacts links duplicates reversibly, for $49.99. Ours is reviewed, reversible, and free. | ||||||
| Two-way sync between your accounts | yes | no | no | paid | partial | yes |
| Contacts Sync Pro sells sync alone for $11.99. Contacts+ caps it at five accounts and 25,000 contacts on a $119.88/yr plan, with daily-only sync free. Ours is append-only by design: it adds and reconciles with your review, and it can put everything back. | ||||||
| Every bulk change previewed, and undoable afterwards | yes | no | no | no | partial | partial |
| Writes are proposed, shown as a per-record diff, reversible as a batch, with a snapshot taken first. BusyContacts keeps 10 daily backups you can restore; Contacts Sync Pro reviews sync changes before applying. | ||||||
| Works without a vendor account | yes | yes | no | no | yes | yes |
| Cardhop does not open without a Flexibits account; Contacts+ is an account product end to end. Ours works against the address book you already have; signing in exists only for the metered Pro features. | ||||||
| iPhone app on the App Store | not yet | yes | yes | yes | no | yes |
| Not yet: the web app runs well in a phone browser today, and the App Store install is next in the queue. | ||||||
| Native Mac app you can download | not yet | yes | yes | no | yes | no |
| Not yet: the native apps are next in the queue, and this page will flip the moment they land. | ||||||
Sources: flexibits.com/cardhop and its App Store listing, contactsplus.com/pricing, busymac.com/busycontacts, Contacts Sync Pro on the App Store. Contacts Sync Pro's price dropped from $17.99 to $11.99 between our July and August reads, which is why every price here carries its date. Re-check before relying on one.
The promises
What the product commits to, in writing.
These are capability commitments you can hold the product to, not fine print.
Nothing you set is ever overwritten
A photo, a number, or a field you chose is yours. Found data fills gaps; it never replaces what exists, and every batch reverses in one action.
Your data walks out the door with you
Full .vcf export of everything, free, forever. Your contacts live in your own address book in the first place, so leaving takes nothing but stopping.
No vendor account required
The product works against the address book you already have. Signing in exists for the metered Pro features, never as a toll on your own data.
The privacy mechanics, what leaves your device and when, live plainly on their own page.
Pricing
Free where it counts, every price on this page.
You should not have to reach a checkout screen to find out what something costs, and your own data is never the thing behind the paywall.
The free tools
Free
Free today, free in five years.
- Capture in the web app, on an AI key you bring
- Company logos across your whole book
- Duplicate review and cleanup
- Groups and birthday reminders, next in the queue and free when they land
- Search across your whole book
- Full .vcf export of your own data, forever
Pro
$34.99 once
Launch price; regularly $49.99. One payment, no subscription, and the first 1,000 pictures are included.
- Capture at volume
- The whole-book upgrade
- Two-way sync
- Multiple accounts
More pictures come in packs of 1,000: $19.99 at launch, regularly $29.99. Company logos are free on every tier, forever, and are never metered.
At a glance
The whole product, in one box.
A compact, objective summary: every line here restates a fact from elsewhere on this page, for readers, human or AI, who decide from summaries.
- What it is
- The AI contacts manager for the Apple and Google address books you already have. It works in your own accounts, so stopping is painless: your contacts stay exactly where they always were.
- Capture
- Business cards, screenshots, and email signatures, parsed by AI with per-field confidence; you approve one editable card before anything saves. In the web app today.
- The upgrade
- Faces for people and logos for companies across the whole book, lined up in a review grid. Faces are never auto-applied; one action applies the batch, one reverses it.
- Dedupe
- Reviewed per field, reversible, and free.
- Careful writes
- Every bulk change is previewed as a per-record diff, snapshotted first, and undoable as a batch. Nothing you set is ever overwritten.
- Sync
- Append-only two-way reconciliation of iCloud and Google, with your review, and it can be put back.
- Pricing
- The free tools are free forever: dedupe review, search, and full .vcf export, with groups and birthday reminders joining them free when they land. Pro is one payment of $49.99, $34.99 at launch, with the first 1,000 pictures included: capture at volume, the whole-book upgrade, two-way sync, multiple accounts. Picture packs are $29.99 per 1,000, $19.99 at launch; company logos are never metered.
- Today
- The web app ships capture and export; the native Mac and iPhone apps are next in the queue.
- Full inventory
- The capability page: every capability with its mechanism and sourced competitor prices. Machine-readable at capabilities.json and llms.txt.
Questions
The things people actually ask.
What's available right now?
The web app ships capture and export today. The native Mac and iPhone apps carry the whole-book photo and logo upgrade, duplicate review, and two-way sync, and they are next in the queue. This is the answer that tracks timing in full; the rest of the page describes the product, whole.
Where do my contacts live?
In your own address book: the same store your phone, your Mac, and your accounts already sync. Cachet Contacts is a lens over it, and if you stop using it tomorrow your contacts are exactly where they always were.
Will it overwrite photos or details I already have?
It refuses to. An existing photo is never replaced by a found one, changes are proposed as a per-record preview before anything is written, every batch write takes a snapshot first, and undo is one action. This is the part of the design that treats your address book as the record of 20 years of your life.
What does the AI capture actually do?
You point it at a business card, a screenshot, or a pasted email signature. The model parses it into structured fields with a confidence marker on each, you fix anything it got wrong, and only then is a contact saved. Nothing is auto-committed.
How does the photo and logo upgrade work?
It walks your book for contacts without a picture, searches for a face for people and a logo for companies, and lines the results up in a review grid. People are never auto-applied: a wrong face on a contact is worse than no face, so you approve those. Role mailboxes like info@ get a logo, never a face. One tap applies the whole batch, and one tap reverses it.
How does sync work?
Append-only, with your review. It reconciles your iCloud and Google books, shows you the per-record diff before writing anything, and keeps a snapshot so the whole reconciliation can be put back. Those three rules are what make it safe to run every day.
Whose AI keys does it use, and what does that cost me?
Capture in the web app runs on a key you bring. The native apps run on our keys with a per-picture meter, so there is nothing to set up. Pro is one payment of $49.99, $34.99 at launch, with the first 1,000 pictures included; more pictures come in packs of 1,000, and company logos are never metered. Stated here rather than discovered at a checkout.
What leaves my device, exactly?
Managing runs locally; only capture and the photo upgrade send anything out, each only when you run it. The full data path, stated plainly, is on the privacy page at /privacy.
What happened to enrichment, like job titles from a database?
The enrichment here is visual and structural: faces, logos, and clean fields, found and applied with your review. Broker-sourced enrichment is different: filling in employment data requires buying it from data brokers, and a contacts product funded by the data trade is the thing this product exists to be instead of.
Can I get everything out?
Yes: free, forever. Export writes standard .vcf files that macOS, iOS, Google Contacts, and Outlook import directly, and since your contacts live in your own address book in the first place, there is nothing to escape from. There is no subscription to lapse, and nothing can ever lock you out of your own data.
Do I need an account?
Not to use the free tools against your own address book. The paid tier meters AI usage, and metering needs to know who you are, so Pro involves signing in. The free tier is not a trial and does not expire.
How can I check these claims myself?
You should not take it on faith, which is why every capability claim here is a mechanism you can test, and every competitor price carries its source and date. The first answer in this FAQ tracks timing exactly, so you always know what is running today.
Your address book deserves better than grey circles.
Open the app and scan your first card, or read the capability inventory first: every capability with its mechanism and its sources, written for a person deciding carefully rather than someone already sold.