Cardhop Contacts Reviews

by ElJefeTX

The added features to CardhopContacts and Fantastical have made what was once a clean and streamlined UX, clunky and cumbersome. These were two of my favorite and most used apps. Unfortunately, Flexibits has lost sight of what created so much customer loyalty over many years. Instead they have chosen to load their apps down with poorly integrated features in order to nickel and dime customers with perpetual subscriptions. I paid full price for each app when they were sold as a ‘onetime purchase.’ Even so, I used the apps so much that I paid the subscription for each when introduced so that I could take advantage of the additional features. The more they ‘upgrade’ each app, the more clunky and annoying it becomes. With so many other solid options, I’m out… deleted from iPhone, iPad, and all macs.

Best of luck friends a Flexibits! Hopefully, you all will rediscover the magic that gave your company prominence and endeared thousands upon thousands of customers to your apps.

by Hummingbirds Saltalamacchia

I only use this because I pay for the fantastical subscription so this is integrated/comes with it.

I’d like to see a function where it’ll remind you to follow up with an individual (with the ability to “snooze”) or at least have it integrated with ToDoist like fantastical. Outside of the card scanner and a few interesting functions it’s the same as the contacts app in my phone. Lots of other apps have better functions, and better ways to personalize the e-card which I expect will come in future updates.

There are better apps that I’ve used, I just don’t want to pay for the scanner features. I see lots of potential as I love my fantastical subscription.

by Rdgm71

CardhopContacts is pretty and works really good, but this is not for someone like myself who understands and uses the 3D Touch function heavily on iPhone. The reason I say this, is because while CardhopContacts provides with different and new ways to work with your contacts, it does not provide with a way to work more efficiently with your contacts than the stock Phone and Contacts app. If you are user of 3D Touch, you will understand that a single tap on your favorite shortcut menu when you 3D touch the phone app will dial the number immediately instead of presenting you with a pop up message to cancel or call the number for that contact like Cardhop does instead. This is just one example. Another example is the fact that in the native Phone app, you are able to save your favorite contacts and assigned a specific action when you tap on a contact. In other words, you can save a contact in your favorites, so that you would just tap on it and make a Whatsapp call, or video call, or FaceTime call audio or video, or just message that contact. There are other functions CardhopContacts lacks that the iPhone has with its stock Phone and Contacts app provides to save you time. I will be asking for a refund from Apple. This I believe is the first time I will ask for a refund for any app I have ever paid for in my 7 years of being an App Store customer.

by PI3141596

Updated

Still going over the features. Love the smart parsing when I enter a new contact. So far no glitches on iPhone 8 running iOS 12.2. App can detect if you have Skype or other apps installed on your IPhone.

I like that you can swipe right on a contact to quickly phone, text, or video-call. Swiping left lets you delete that contact.

Cardhop gives you a lot of options on how you communicate with a contact. This works great as long as there is one main phone number you use.

You can customize presets for that number (for example, make a straight phone call, use Skype, etc).

But if you have multiple numbers (home, work, mobile), it gets awkward. You touch the number you want to call. You are presented with a list of choices (e.g, call, Skype, text, FaceTime, etc). You make your choice, and ANOTHER dialogue box opens asking you to confirm.

If I could customize how I interact with EACH number, instead of only one number, it would be fantastic.

Also, 2 things I’d like to add, based on a quick run through. First, that CardhopContacts can automatically recognize whether a contact’s mobile phone is an iPhone. This is so video calling automatically launches FaceTime. Right now, you have to choose from a dialog menu. Secondly, that CardhopContacts can be launched by 3rd party launchers.

by IPad For Fun

It’s just another contacts app for now. To me, it needs some more work to get more stars. I add contacts with husband and wife’s name. Children are in notes in the iOS native contacts app. Below are two things that I don’t like about Cardhop.

I want to remember birthdays for all family members. I can only add one birthday under that heading. A second birthday will not show up in English. I can’t be reminded if these birthdays are listed under Date heading or notes. Please fix.

If have used native contact app which had several Groups. With Cardhop I try to open these groups and I get a blank screen. The group name shows within the individual contacts. If I do a search, I get all contacts with that word, even from my notes.

Maybe I just don’t understand CardhopContacts yet, but I can do everything I need in the native contact app from Apple.

I thing that I do appreciate is the fact that you can edit heading names. With a husband and wife contact I can now show a name for each phone number, etc.

I use Fantastical 2 and like the calendar format and ease of entering information. I’m sure Cardhop witl be the same way as future versions become available.

by Beelthebob

It’s quick. But it’s a little fiddly and counterintuitive.

For example, Groups functionality is poorly handled in iOS and CardHop just replicates that behavior, missing a great opportunity: go to groups, select a Group, hit Done to view contacts for only one Group. Want to go back to viewing all contacts? You need to go back to Groups, select All Contacts and then Done again. Actually being able to select a Group for rapid access and then just cancel that selection to revert to All contacts would be much more useful.

(And still on Groups, speeding up group texts or calls or emails with CardhopContacts ’s natural language would be very useful “Message Jim and Samantha”, or at least being able to multi select contacts in a Group for a specific action (think work emails) would be incredible)

Glaring omission: in the default iOS Contacts you can set WhatsApp CALL as a favorite. CardHop is limited to selecting WhatsApp message. No idea why since CardhopContacts does offer call option for 3rd party apps like Skype and RingCentral.

Hopefully this will be added soon?

by Dfabs

This is a pretty useful app, it works well to add a new contact with some pasted information since you can just add everything inline and Cardhop parses our the details.

One thing I hate: I have birthday notifications on, it shows a tiny photo of the contact, a Haptic Touch or 3D Press expands the card but removes the contact photo entirely and replaces it with an animated cake. I don’t need to see (the same) animated cake (every day), I know it’s that person’s birthday. I *would* however like to see a larger version of that person’s contact photo. It’s emblematic of how this developer’s version of “pretty” animations overtakes functionality, and they appear (based on an email exchange) to be set in stone about the 3D Touch birthday animation.

The word that most describes this developer is stubborn, and unwilling to consider how their software is actually used. It’s a shame, because there’s much more potential for CardhopContacts imo, but they’re holding it back by sticking with how it functioned in the 1.0 release.

by Juniorraz

CardhopContacts is wonderful in integrating with Apple Contacts and making easy what Apple Contacts lacks—creating default contact entry templates, recoding a universal list of recent interactions, adding date and time stamps to notes, among others. And all this syncs seamlessly with Apple Contacts. The business card scanner is worthless, however, and not even worth trying. Out of about 10 attempts, only one card scan got basic information correct. In considering this, therefore, you also need to consider getting a separate business card scanner. Just watch out for very good scanner apps that have very poor privacy policies. Usually, the very best ones seriously compromise your privacy.

by Me333345

I haven’t used CardhopContacts much yet but I’m very excited to finally have an iOS contacts app that can save to an account other than the default. 4 stars because, same at the Mac app, parsing can make a mess and it rarely accurate. It always wants to update an existing contact instead of creating new And makes a mess of that screen so you can’t really tell what’s even going on. If fields are auto filled you can’t see the name of the field to tell whether it’s correct. No advanced parsing such as being able to say Company Name:XYZ First Name:Bruce. I’d really like to see that in the Mac app even more than here.

by Akhilesh Vimjam

CardhopContacts is well polished and functional. Although CardhopContacts elements all feel too big and fit less information on the screen. Like the search bar at the bottom is too large it eats up the screen real estate. Wish there was a way to hide or show it on demand like in the ios settings app. The contacts list view is also blown up in size. I have hundreds of contacts and would like to quickly scroll through them (yes i could search but sometimes this is easier). If we could reduce the height of the contact item in list view and fit more contacts in that space then that would be wonderful. Could you please add sort by groups.

by IDennis92

CardhopContacts is very very pretty, it shows contacts in a nice way and have a decent amount of customization options. I highly recommend it, that’s how the apple contacts app should have been since the beginning.
However, it’s very laggy on my i6s+, I don’t know if it’s because the phone is old but it doesn’t seems very optimized.
The contact pictures are also too small, there are enough space to enlarge them while scrolling and on the contact page. Too wasted space!
Contacts picture also are not instantly loaded if you scroll, it’s not a huge issue but it’s annoying nonetheless

by Madalenc

I didn’t think I’d like CardhopContacts this much, I love it but there’s room for improvement and would be nice to have the signal messaging app as an option for quick messaging a contact and also being able to set on the fast messaging choice for favorite contacts the two or multiple messaging apps to text any given favorite contact and not just one single option since depending on if I’m traveling or not I use either sms/iMessage or WhatsApp with certain favorite contacts

by Carthoris92

CardhopContacts is very very pretty, it shows contacts in a nice way and have a decent amount of customization options. I highly recommend it, that’s how the apple contacts app should have been since the beginning.
However, it’s very laggy on my i6s+, I don’t know if it’s because the phone is old but it doesn’t seems very optimized.
The contact pictures are also too small, there are enough space to enlarge them while scrolling and on the contact page. Too wasted space!
Contacts picture also are not instantly loaded if you scroll, it’s not a huge issue but it’s annoying nonetheless

by FrozenRiver

As a longtime Fantastical user and fan, I had high expectations, and I haven’t been disappointed. One has to keep things in context: This is a contacts app, and there’s only so much one can or needs to do with contacts. But within that limitation, it’s thoughtfully organized, attractive, and easy to use, and it shares Fantastical’s ability to just enter or speak what you want to do—enough reason in itself to replace Apple’s Contacts.

A good word about support: CardhopContacts stopped working for me with the first update—I just got a black screen. But the support response was almost instantaneous, and the problem is gone. (I hate to admit this, but I will: The solution, as is so often true, was to delete CardhopContacts and reinstall it. But that just didn’t occur to me until support suggested it . . . )

by KushDad72

Cardhop is from the developers of the game changing iOS calendar app, Fantastical.
Very few app developers have impressed to the extent that this developer has (my ranking puts them into "top three all-time", personally)
Very simply, Cardhop's developer (Flexbits) has always puts user experience first, while offering "power user" level features in the simplest format possible. Just doesn’t get any better than this. The world of contact management is usually the "lost stepchild" for most major operating systems. Expansive features, support, intuitive design, and sophistication, Every element of CardhopContacts has the user and their experience as priority number one. The only caveat is don’t be surprised if Apple tries to acquire this company in short order, yet we can’t worry about everything.

by Joshmifflin

I’ve been using Fantastical for a little while now and have loved it. Finally took the plunge to try out Cardhop, and it’s been really great so far. I have a really high standard when it comes to iOS apps, and I can safely say this surpasses my expectations. I wasn’t sure how anyone could improve on a simple contacts app, but for some reason, this really is a “contacts app I actually want to use.” The enhancements on the stock app are subtle, but they’re there.

I was a little surprised to see lack of iOS 14 widgets, but I’m assuming those are in the works?

by Daversion

There are certain apps that shouldn’t have to exist because the OS should just have the functionality. This is one of them. Flexibits basically builds the apps Apple should have.

I’m shocked and disappointed that this is #200 in the Productivity category as of this review. CardhopContacts is awesome.

iOS doesn’t really work well with Google because they push you to use iCloud. When I create a contact in Contacts it is not synced to my Google contacts nor can I specify on what service the contact is created. Cardhop fixes this and provides a much more powerful experience. I have CH for macOS and iOS and it is more powerful on the latter though indispensable on both.

by Truxima

It looks like just a contact application that helps you get everyone’s names and numbers correct on a daily basis. However, it really shines when you have to input in a lot of business cards and new contacts in following events like conferences. The snap recognition function is good for business cards that are basic and plain but has trouble reading words and numbers from more boujee cards (such as those with gold foil). Also love the family tree and relationships function. I use it all the time to keep up with extended family and also with my big and littles from my fraternity.

by LuckysClub

Great to have a more powerful alternative to Contacts, which I’ve been missing since development on Interact stopped. CardhopContacts is similar, but prettier and more advanced.

The developers need to focus on speed, speed, and speed again if CardhopContacts is going to serve its intended purpose as a starting point for all contact communications. Right now it takes 5-10 seconds at every launch of CardhopContacts for any contacts to appear. I don’t know who’s fault the bottleneck is (Apple iOS or CardhopContacts ) but it prevents CardhopContacts for working as it is supposed to.

by Gatorjan

CardHop is an excellent app for those wanting to stay in touch with friends and family and need a way to remember whom they reached out to when.

I use the search feature as my command center for all calls, messages, emails and even WhatsApp messages. I then go into the RECENT tab and get a chronological list of everyone I reached out to. One tap on their name and it lets me add a time stamped note about the call or email. Best yet. These notes about your contacts get synced into your contacts app and to iCloud for those who sync to the cloud. This is unlike CRM apps like Cloze or Keap where the phone logs or notes you write are only stored on their app’s servers.

CarrHop helps me remember who I spoke to, when, and what the topic was about. This is a terrific app for those who stay in touch with many friends and family and feel a CRM is an overkill. I use CardHop multiple times a day and love it! Five stars from me.

by Scottisloud

This is the way a contacts app SHOULD be. Easy to understand, ability to manage groups, tie into institutional directories, and easily view or edit contact info in an intuitive way. The real clincher that seals the deal is the ability to use natural
language to perform actions. Need directions to someone’s house? Want to shoot off a quick message or phone call? Just type the what and to whom and you’re done. No scrolling and tapping required.

Real slick, intuitive, and full-featured. Exactly what you’d expect from Flexibits and the standard for quality to which all apps should be held.

by BTS187

Thank you for such a user friendly app that has several nice features that the standard contacts app on the iPhone does not have! Cardhop has been rock solid performance for years!Thank you!!!
One feature that I would love to see added is the ability to be reminded when it is someone in my contacts wedding anniversary. This option could be similar to how you already show when an individuals birthday is coming up. I kindly ask that you please consider adding that option 😀

by Rdm2018

Overall I love Cardhop. It’s easy to use, miles ahead of the stock contacts app, and has some really great features like filtering contacts with missing information or not in groups, or sorting contacts by birthday. I’d love to see those features expanded on. For example, I have many contacts in multiple groups. When I view my contact list and filter multiple groups, it shows me contacts in either group (Presumably using an OR statement). I’d love the option to show only contacts that appear in both/all selected groups (using an AND statement instead). Having that ability would be huge. Aside from that, it’s really a great app and I love using it. Dark most is really nicely done. The general look of CardhopContacts is really polished!

by Ritu50xan242

It looks like just a contact application that helps you get everyone’s names and numbers correct on a daily basis. However, it really shines when you have to input in a lot of business cards and new contacts in following events like conferences. The snap recognition function is good for business cards that are basic and plain but has trouble reading words and numbers from more boujee cards (such as those with gold foil). Also love the family tree and relationships function. I use it all the time to keep up with extended family and also with my big and littles from my fraternity.