Nexus Contacts
Meet People. Remember Context.
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Record someone saying their own name, so you get it right next time. The screen splits and turns around, so they can read their half while you read yours.
Meet someone new — snap a selfie together, jot why you met, and Nexus Contacts remembers the context.
Nexus Contacts is a capture app for the people you meet: conferences, the person next to you at a wedding. Take a photo, write a quick note, optionally set a follow-up — all in the time it takes to say goodbye.
HOW IT WORKS
• Meet someone → take a selfie together
• Write a one-line note while it's fresh: who they are, what you talked about
• Optionally set a follow-up reminder, with snooze if today isn't the day
• Everyone you've met lives in one grid — search, filter, revisit
YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
Nexus Contacts has no servers. Every person you capture lives on your device first. iCloud sync is off by default on new installs — turn it on if you want your library on more than one device. A sync-health screen tells you honestly whether it's working, not just whether it's turned on.
Your backup file explains itself: open it in a text editor years from now, with no app installed, and the file tells you what it is and how to read it back out. That's what "your data" is supposed to mean.
PRICING
Free for the first 100 people you capture — every feature included, no trial, no subscription. If your network outgrows that, one purchase raises the limit: $19.99 for room for 1,000 people, or $49.99 for no limit at all. Buy once, keep it.
Your phone's address book never counts toward the limit — only the people you capture with Nexus. And whatever you've captured stays fully yours at any count: view, edit, export, and sync always work. The limit only pauses adding new people.
PRIVACY, PLAINLY
• No account, no signup, no login
• No analytics, no tracking, no ad SDKs
• No third-party servers — sync uses your own iCloud account, and it's optional
• Camera, Photos, Contacts, Location, and Calendar access are all used only for what you'd expect and only when you ask for it — see the in-app permission prompts for exactly why each one is requested
Built by Common Nexus. Questions or feedback: support@commonnexus.com
Ratings & Reviews
Ask them how they say their name
Names are easy to get wrong and awkward to ask about a second time. You can now record someone saying their own name, and play it back before you next see them.
The recording screen is split in half and turned around, so the person you just met reads their side the right way up while you read yours. Both halves have the same three controls: record, play, delete. The app asks you once, before the first recording, to ask them first — it stores nothing about that conversation, because it cannot witness one.
Get in the frame together
At an event, we watched people open the app to save someone they had just met — and photograph themselves. The camera opened facing them, with a lot on screen, and the obvious thing to do was the wrong one.
The camera now says what the photo is for before it opens: this is how you will remember the person you just met, so get in the frame together. If you would rather skip it, there is a switch in Settings.
Fewer questions before you have done anything
Opening the app used to mean up to three separate requests for access to your contacts, before you had tapped a single thing. Those are gone. It now asks once, at the moment you do something that needs it, and if you say no it does not ask again.
Add the event afterwards
Saved someone and forgot to attach the event? You can do it from their card now. It is one-way — once they are assigned, that is where they stay — and the app says so before you confirm.
Notes open ready to talk
A note is written right after an interaction, when nobody wants to hunt for a control. The keyboard is now up as soon as the composer opens, so the dictation mic is one tap away instead of three.
Sending goes through Messages
WhatsApp is no longer one of the ways to send your contact. In our testing it could not carry both the photo and your details to someone who was not already in your address book — which is exactly the person you have just met. Messages carries both, so that is the path now.
Clearing all data
"Clear All Data" left behind internal backup copies that are now properly removed.
The developer, Common Nexus LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Common Nexus LLC
- Size
- 14.7 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.1 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.1 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlimited Upgrade $30.00
- Unlimited Capacity $49.99
- Capacity: 1,000 People $19.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Common Nexus LLC
