BusyContacts: Contact Manager

Name: BusyContacts: Contact Manager
Author: Busy Apps FZE

Address Book, CRM & Groups

Only for Mac

Free · In‑App Purchases

Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Busy Apps FZE
Language

EN
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Size

35.7
MB

Mac

BusyContacts is the contact manager the Mac has been missing. It replaces the built-in Contacts app with a faster, more flexible way to create, find and manage people, and it works with the accounts you already have: iCloud, Google, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Fastmail, Yahoo and any CardDAV server. Paired with BusyCal, it becomes a lightweight CRM that tracks who you met, what you sent them and what comes next. Free to try for 14 days. A subscription unlocks the full app, and one subscription covers your whole family through Family Sharing. ACTIVITY LIST • See a timeline of everything connected to a contact: emails sent and received in Apple Mail, meetings, tasks and events from BusyCal, and posts from LinkedIn, Bluesky, Mastodon, Instagram, GitHub, Reddit, YouTube and more • The BusyContacts Mail Assistant extension for Apple Mail captures the messages that matter and keeps them on your Mac TWO VIEWS, YOUR RULES • Card View: a clean single column with photos and a letter index for fast scrolling • List View: a table with over a hundred available columns, sorting on up to four levels, and up to ten custom fields as columns of their own • A customizable info panel with side-by-side or stacked layout, and hover actions to call, write or map a contact in one click TAGS, GROUPS AND SMART FILTERS • Give each contact as many tags as you like, then filter by tag from the sidebar with live counts and colors • Tags map to Groups in iCloud and Apple Contacts and to Categories in Exchange and Outlook, so they travel with your data • Smart Filters find contacts by any condition (a tag, a company, an upcoming birthday, a custom field value) and sit on the filter bar as one-click buttons EVERY ACCOUNT IN ONE PLACE • iCloud, Google, Microsoft 365 / Office 365, Outlook.com, Exchange, Fastmail, Yahoo, Fruux, Contactzilla and CardDAV, with push sync where the server supports it • Because BusyContacts syncs through your accounts, Apple Contacts and your iPhone stay in step automatically LINK AND MERGE • Cards for the same person across accounts are linked automatically and can be shown as one combined card • Link, unlink, merge, or merge and link cards yourself to clean up duplicates; edit a combined card once and every linked card updates BUSYCAL INTEGRATION • Link contacts to events, meetings, tasks and journal entries, or drag a contact onto the calendar to schedule a meeting • Birthday and anniversary calendars in BusyCal, and an Upcoming group in BusyContacts for the next two weeks of dates SHARE ADDRESS BOOKS • Share with other BusyContacts users, read-only or read-write, through Microsoft 365, Exchange, Fruux, Kerio, Zimbra and CardDAV servers that support sharing, or peer to peer over your local network CAPTURE AND OUTPUT • Business card reader: drop in a photo of a card or an email signature and BusyContacts reads it into a new contact, entirely on your Mac • Quick Entry: type a name, number, email and company on one line and BusyContacts sorts out the fields • Create a QR code for any contact, or import one by dropping a QR image on the Dock icon • Print envelopes and mailing labels for Avery, DYMO and custom sizes • Export as vCard or CSV, with automatic backups and one-click restore AND MORE • Unlimited fields per type, custom labels, and custom field types including numbers and money you can sort and filter • Local time, pinned contacts, private notes that never leave your Mac, related names, attachments and a Me card • Call from your Mac through your iPhone or Skype, keyboard shortcuts for everything, a busycontacts:// URL scheme, and ready-made Alfred and LaunchBar workflows Made by the team behind BusyCal. Questions? Visit busymac.com/docs/busycontacts or write to us from within the app.

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Way better than Apple’s Contacts app, but…
11/01/2024
raved
…missing a key feature: custom column heading config in list view. For example, for items tagged as a business, when I select the business tag the list view should display the business name in the first column and not show the first/last name columns. But for my “Friends” tag, it should show their names only and not show a “company” name.
Way better than Apple’s Contacts app, but…
11/01/2024
raved

…missing a key feature: custom column heading config in list view. For example, for items tagged as a business, when I select the business tag the list view should display the business name in the first column and not show the first/last name columns. But for my “Friends” tag, it should show their names only and not show a “company” name.
The personal information manager I had been looking for
10/09/2017
NeoMacMan
BusyContacts and BusyCal form an impressive duo in how they work together (and share data with Apple’s built-in applications). I just switched from a PC, where I had been managing contacts using Outlook 2010. I had been reluctant to switch over to a Mac, despite my wife’s cajoling me that “it just works,” because the Mac version of Outlook does not even let you see all the e-mail associated with a contact. BusyContacts does. Through its integration with BusyCal, you can see past and future activities instantly and elegantly on one screen. Spending just a few minutes with this software put my concerns to rest, and convinced me that real contact management is possible without subscribing to some overloaded CRM service.
The personal information manager I had been looking for
10/09/2017
NeoMacMan

BusyContacts and BusyCal form an impressive duo in how they work together (and share data with Apple’s built-in applications). I just switched from a PC, where I had been managing contacts using Outlook 2010. I had been reluctant to switch over to a Mac, despite my wife’s cajoling me that “it just works,” because the Mac version of Outlook does not even let you see all the e-mail associated with a contact. BusyContacts does. Through its integration with BusyCal, you can see past and future activities instantly and elegantly on one screen. Spending just a few minutes with this software put my concerns to rest, and convinced me that real contact management is possible without subscribing to some overloaded CRM service.
Excellent contact management app
11/28/2017
Bruce in Louisville
Looked for a long time for full-featured contact management app. As a journalist/publisher, contacts are critical to my work, and Busy Contacts fills the bill. I switched to iCloud contact syncing in order to remove some friction in my contact management, and this app fits right in. The fact that it also pulls data for the people I follow on Twitter, FB, and LinkedIn (to a point), and allows me to merge all of those along with the iCloud contacts, is the key feature I was looking for.I haven’t used the Activity feature, but may try to incorporate that as well. The ability to send email, including CC and BCC, to a tagged group is a great time-saver.I wish it was better integrated with the Airmail app I use for email. (Airmail keeps its own contacts as well as using what’s on the machine, and sometimes they are not in sync.)To this point, I have not fully explored all the features of Busy Contacts; if I do, I may need to give it six stars. <g>
Excellent contact management app
11/28/2017
Bruce in Louisville

Looked for a long time for full-featured contact management app. As a journalist/publisher, contacts are critical to my work, and Busy Contacts fills the bill. I switched to iCloud contact syncing in order to remove some friction in my contact management, and this app fits right in. The fact that it also pulls data for the people I follow on Twitter, FB, and LinkedIn (to a point), and allows me to merge all of those along with the iCloud contacts, is the key feature I was looking for.I haven’t used the Activity feature, but may try to incorporate that as well. The ability to send email, including CC and BCC, to a tagged group is a great time-saver.I wish it was better integrated with the Airmail app I use for email. (Airmail keeps its own contacts as well as using what’s on the machine, and sometimes they are not in sync.)To this point, I have not fully explored all the features of Busy Contacts; if I do, I may need to give it six stars. <g>
Finally a CRM that integrates perfectly with Exchange
12/31/2017
Colorado diva
I host all my contacts on an Exchange server. I have around 2,000 contacts and the program that came with the Mac would crash all the time. It also wasn’t very robust in that I couldn’t categorize my clients other than putting them in groups, without any color coding. With Busy contacts, I have all my contacts tagged with color codes, the program pulls in all the emails and messages I have sent them ever, and I can easily create new meetings and events. I love this program. And no crashing - yet.
Finally a CRM that integrates perfectly with Exchange
12/31/2017
Colorado diva

I host all my contacts on an Exchange server. I have around 2,000 contacts and the program that came with the Mac would crash all the time. It also wasn’t very robust in that I couldn’t categorize my clients other than putting them in groups, without any color coding. With Busy contacts, I have all my contacts tagged with color codes, the program pulls in all the emails and messages I have sent them ever, and I can easily create new meetings and events. I love this program. And no crashing - yet.

· [NEW] New support for shared address books in Microsoft 365 work or school accounts using Microsoft Graph · [NEW] New chooser for contact links that match more than one card · [NEW] Added Rename Tag to the tag menu and fixed renamed tags briefly showing their old names · Improved autocomplete and keyboard navigation while editing contacts · Fixed saving and clearing formatted notes and getting stuck in Edit mode · Fixed custom field labels reverting after edits or when switching contacts · Fixed international phone formatting, including extensions and significant leading zeros · Fixed related names opening unrelated contacts and selected links being lost during CardDAV or Exchange sync · Fixed tag filter labels in Smart Filters · Fixed additional nicknames missing from printed addresses · Fixed Microsoft contact sync failures caused by phone number and postal address limits · Fixed Microsoft Graph sync overlooking contact edits and address book renames made during a sync · Ongoing stability and performance enhancements

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Seller: Busy Apps FZE
Size: 35.7 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires macOS 13.5 or later.

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