Pretty but pointless – Cardhop Review

This entire app should just be a tab in fantastical. I got it for free with a fantastical subscription and figured I’d play with it. This app does absolutely nothing for you, it’s just a bit prettier than the default contacts app. There are NO management features. This won’t remove duplicates, update info, or combine same contacts across accounts. Relationship mapping is pointless, this isn’t Facebook or Sharepoint, you know who is in your phone. The search is just any extra step from using iOS / Siri search. It doesn’t import your favorites from iOS. So enjoy setting all that up again. Speaking things it can’t do, it can’t get the names or any identifiable info about which list is which. So if you have a Google in your phone it will find your iOS contacts and your Google contacts but will show both accounts as “Unknown Account” so here’s to hoping to identify where a contact comes from by the total number of contacts in that account. This seems like a great way to accidentally contact work people with your private address or vice versa. Organizing contacts is this apps stated purpose and it’s literally incapable of doing that. Of course you can add Google accounts separately from iOS by just connecting the app, then you’ve got triple entries making everything unusable. The one feature that seems to work as intended is the birthday list. So that’s nice, in case you miss the contact-birthday notification in literally every other contact or calendar app on your phone, Facebook, and just being a competent member of society. But hey, what’s one more birthday safety net eh? Seriously, if you get it for free this is worth the price so you can use it to make slightly-better-than-default contact widgets but I can’t imagine who would ever find this app useful on its own.
Review by DrPeril on Cardhop.