ABC Group Messenger Reviews

This is not a contact manager, it has the exact same functions as iOS and nothing more except a confusing interface and the ability to back contacts. I bought it to try to cleanup my contacts manage groups.. I can create groups but cannot edit their membership and the help says you can but the help doesn’t match ABCGroupMessenger and I even paid the upgrade and it still only lets me add / delete groups but not membership. what irritates me even more several functions in ABCGroupMessenger take me to another app in ABCGroupMessenger Store even after making the purchase and they want you to buy them too. No thanks.. total bait and switch app in my opinion.

I'm looking for an app that searches within the contacts notes. I don't mean telling me which contact the keyword is located but actually taking me to the line in the notes where the key word is. I use my contacts notes as a database where I keep passwords, info etc.. Taking me just to the contact means I have to still search within that contact for the entry which can be difficult. Unfortunately ABCGroupMessenger does not take you to the keyword. It only shows you which contact the keyword is located in.

I sent an email about a week ago and it did not arrive until hours later, 12 or more. I know because I am one of the recipients. Also, I did not get any replies to the email until after it arrived in my inbox.

During a recent cross country trip, on which I send a daily email to fam and friends, I wrote 4 emails to a group of 40-45 people and only the first one was sent. These were on Oct 12, 13 and 14th. The last three told me they were sent successfully but none arrived to my inbox and I confirmed with another recipient that they only received the first one as well. They were sent using free wifi at restaurants, one at Red Lobster and two at McDonalds, but again I received the successfully sent message after each one.

If I don't receive a response with an acceptable explanation in a week, I may have already deleted your app and found a better one. I like everything about your app for group mail except it's apparently unreliable.

Danny Wilson

I mostly needed a contacts app that would show me photos and second lines (employers) in the list, not just the native app’s long list where everything blends together. This does great. So far I’m happy with the backup option which is included free.

I do *not* use some of the more complex functions that other people have mentioned issues with - like group text, or ABCGroupMessenger selecting wrong numbers/contact points for people.

I also don’t use ABCGroupMessenger’s list syncing functions (which it might actually try to make you buy in a different app); I just have the phone sync natively to my Gmail account and that suffices for me.

I have looked for an App that would allow reliable grouping of contacts by category to replace one I have had since the early days of iPhones. The one I have used no longer worked and wasn’t maintained by the creator. Luckily I was able to find ABCGroupMessenger which excels in every function I need. It is a solid very useful tool. Thanks for the terrific app.

This is by far the best app for managing contacts that I have found.. it is easy to use, has multiple and useful functionality, and works perfectly. Thanks to ABCGroupMessenger developer!!

I have been using ABCGroupMessenger a few years now and I love it. You are able to create groups with no problems and editing file are so easy. I would recommend ABCGroupMessenger for people who have several groups to maintain on their cell phone

Good program for group texts. I use it all the time in my work with college students. My only problem is the limitation to 5 persons for my group texting - which means sending multiple texts in the group.

ABCGroupMessenger solves an issue I’ve had with managing contact groups, which incredibly the default iPhone app STILL cannot do in 2021. It also has a ton of really nice configuration options that make it well worth a purchase.

Between ABCGroupMessenger & Contacts Sync (same developer) my Google contacts sync seamlessly with my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. ...Including Groups! I really love ABCGroupMessenger!

I’m impressed by the continued support for ABCGroupMessenger!

Update 5/19: Thank you to the developers for continued support of ABCGroupMessenger. 99 cents a year well worth it, and I glad to help support ongoing updates & support!

I love ABCGroupMessenger until it is time to add a new contact. It says to hit the + button, but that adds to the phone book and not to the created group that I would be texting. I will probably look for another app just because of the difficulty of adding new contacts to my group

I use this every week since I have various groups and teams I have to communicate via mass text and email. It’s easy to use, it sinks to my contacts so it’s easy to add or subtract someone to the group and it allow me to have as many people to the communication that I need. Please keep doing a great job. I love ABCGroupMessenger

I had bought ABC to easily view and modify the multiple groups on my contacts. But a few days ago I made an error which lost a set of my contacts, and then used Restore on iCloud to put them back. To my horror and frustration, iCloud’s restore made things much worse, losing more of the contacts and losing the groups on others.

I therefore used the restore on ABCGroupMessenger, which I fortunately remember I had saved just a week ago or so. That brought back all the contacts on my iPhone, complete with groups. Yay, I was so happy with ABCGroupMessenger and so relieved!

This is a great app. Simple to start and use. It organizes your contacts into groups which are affected in the main contacts app. No limits. Does have ads in the free version but not obtrusive. It won't find duplicates but I think they have another app that can do that with premium. You can call, text, email individuals and groups from ABCGroupMessenger.

I was using a different app for my contacts. I got a new phone and tried to load ABCGroupMessenger which I really liked because it was user friendly and did what I wanted. Not perfect but few things are so I was disappointed when I found out that app was no longer available. So I tried 3-4 different ones and finally settled on this one. Now I am thrilled that the other one isn’t available because this one is so much better.

This is a great little program! For making group email lists on an iPad. As you cannot create a group list in Contacts on the iPad. It took me a little while to figure out how to use this. It would be better if they had a video tutorial. But once you get the hang of it it works really well! Make sure you create a back up if he files. You house you could a race everything. But use it wisely you’ll be happy!

I love my Apple devices, but I wanted to maintain all my contacts in Google Contacts and sync selected contacts to my iPhone. Then the iPhone could sync those contacts to iCloud and all my other devices (iPad, Mac, etc) could pick them up. I’m able to do this using ABC Groups and it’s sister app, Contacts Sync for Google Gmail.

I use Contacts Sync to bring over contacts from selected Google Contacts groups. I use ABC Groups to manage contacts within those groups. Any changes I make are synced back to Google using Contacts Sync.

When I create a contact on my iPhone, I use ABC Groups to assign it to a group and Contacts Sync will create it in Google Contacts.

It blows my mind that iOS Contacts has a group feature, but no way to easily manage them. Without ABC Groups and Contacts Sync, I’d be a very unhappy camper.

It does group mailings well, but I do use it chiefly to keep 3,000+ iOS contacts organized. You can edit any field in the contact record as well as the names of groups of contacts. Using it with “Contacts Sync for Google” from the same developer makes it easy to edit contacts, manage them in groups, and sync them to Google Contacts. You can sync only selected groups to sync to Google if you have more confidence in Apple’s privacy than Google’s.

This product has so many useful options including: 1. Contacts without a group 2. Contacts with multiple groups 3. Contacts without e-mail 4. Contacts without a phone And many more. I a contact list approaching 8,000 in size this allows cloning contacts so common information doesn’t have to entered. Contact date of creation is available. Recent modified are available in order of most recent to least. Best product of its type. Great addition to your contacts app provided by Apple.

Best supplemental iPhone contacts app.

I needed something on my iPad to send group mail to my Sunday School class. This works pretty well. There are a few bugs I am trying to work out , but in the long run it is very helpful.
I really like using ABCGroupMessenger. The more I learn how to use it, the better I like it..