Cleaner - Merge Contacts

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Great app it did what it was supposed to and nothing more

Merge feature doesn’t work or at least I can’t figure out how to do it and I’m pretty technical.

I paid for this app with lots of hope and looking at the review. It crashes with I click on merge. I did not expect crashes, which is one of the basic error handling you can do. My suspicious of the reviews and rating of this app.

I'm starting to suspect that the iPhone API for contacts just doesn't allow someone to write a useful program. But that would not explain how terrible the interfaces are on all of these applications. Four dollars for the pro version so sure no problem I don't mind paying software vendors. I am a software vendor. But I don't care if you charge me $50 but would you make a program that works. You see all the contacts like every other program. Your check two of them and then choose merge and then you get the next page says contacts that are merged. It doesn't make any sense. In a merge you show the information from both and show the format in which you're going to keep the merged record. Even better would be if they have different columns or rows you would allow the person to choose the name stuff like that. Just doing some random thing is basically just damaging peoples contacts. If anybody is looking at all these reviews, I have tried 20 contact programs at this point and whether they are paid or not they are all useless. I want to pick which fields I consider a duplicate. Then I want the app to find duplicates. Then I want to choose how they merge. One way to display this is left/right or record A record B and you guess which data they want to keep. So I get to pick what I want for a name. Maybe I pick a different phone number. Maybe I mark both in which case you store both even if the notes have to be used. Like I said, maybe the API is just not capable of allowing people to write a good application.

Does not show how to remove the exact duplicates after you pay for it.

Because of a sync bug with a CRM add-on, my contact database should have been around 5500 but had grown to over 12,000. I would have been almost impossible, but certainly horrible to clean this up manually. I paid the $3.99 or whatever for the full boat version and began cleaning up my mess of duplicate contacts. The program does what it should and I’m happy. One limitation I noticed was it wasn’t able to handle more than 701 duplicates at a time. I found I needed to rerun each clean-up multiple times until the program found 0 contacts that met the duplicate search criteria I was using. If you’ve got a stupid amount of duplicates like I did, keep an eye on this and make multiple passes. Good luck!

I have been fighting with my contacts for a long time. Fields go missing, contacts get duplicated six times, and others are lost all together. After spending hours investigating I discovered this app is the root of my problems. It buts data in different fields creating essentially new contacts. Names, numbers, address, emails, all of it including notes get jumbled. I used different software and have had no issues since. If you use one OS and one program I’m sure it will be fine. Otherwise don’t risk it.

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