See more at once
Use a dense, resizable table with sortable columns and adjustable row density instead of opening one person at a time.
A native workspace for Apple Contacts
Your contacts, without the card-by-card grind.
Scan a dense table, search across fields, save the views you use, and make careful updates. Compact Contacts works with the contacts already on your Mac—no new account or contact cloud.
- $12.99 one-time purchase
- No subscription
- No ads or analytics
Your Mac stays in charge of sync.
- iCloud
- Exchange
- CardDAV
- On My Mac
Less opening. More seeing.
Built for address books that have outgrown a stack of cards.
Compact Contacts keeps the system Contacts database as the source of truth, then adds a faster way to inspect and organize it.
Search across fields
Find people locally across names, organizations, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, and groups.
Make the table yours
Choose the columns, sorting, density, and details layout that match the way you work.
Return to useful views
Combine multiple ALL or ANY conditions, then save the filter and layout as a reusable Saved View.
Preview bulk changes
Review organization, department, or job-title changes before applying them, including clear explanations for skipped contacts.
Review duplicates carefully
Inspect potential matches on demand. Exact-copy removal is narrowly constrained, recovery-first, and never runs automatically.
Saved Views
Keep the layout, not another copy of your contacts.
Build a view for business contacts, missing email addresses, a particular group, or the fields you check every day. Saved Views remember your conditions and table layout while your contact cards remain in the macOS Contacts database.
- Multiple conditions with ALL or ANY matching
- Saved columns, sorting, density, and inspector layout
- Optional default view when the app opens
Previewed Bulk Edit
Know what will change before anything changes.
Select several contacts and preview an update to organization, department, or job title. Compact Contacts identifies eligible records, explains skips, and requires recovery preparation for real contacts.
- No hidden or background cleanup
- Source and writability checks before saving
- External changes detected before an edit is committed
Private by design
Your address book is not our business.
Contact content and search stay on your Mac. Compact Contacts has no developer-operated contact backend, third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking.
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Straight answers before you download.
Does it replace iCloud or Google sync?
No. macOS and your configured providers continue to handle synchronization. Compact Contacts gives you a better workspace for the records already on the Mac.
Does it create another contacts account?
No. The system Contacts database remains the source of truth. There is no Compact Contacts login, cloud, or subscription.
Can I explore it without using my contacts?
Yes. A clearly labeled Sample Contacts workspace uses fictional, temporary data and never changes the macOS Contacts database.
What does it require?
macOS 15 or later. The app supports English and Turkish and is sold as a one-time Mac App Store purchase.
Compact Contacts for Mac