A smarter Contacts app — the one Apple should have built.
You remember the moment. Recall finds the name.
For parents and creatives who remember faces — but not names.
# RECALL
After 25 years photographing people, I built RECALL for brains like mine.
The kind that remember every face but forget every name.
Then I realized it wasn't just my problem.
Parents know every kid at school but can't remember their parents' names. Conference attendees collect dozens of contacts and forget who they met by the next day. Professionals build huge networks but lose the context that made those connections meaningful in the first place.
RECALL helps you remember people the way your brain actually works: through context.
Tag someone the moment you meet them. Add a quick selfie. Create your own memory system using places, events, relationships, and situations.
When you see them again, you'll know exactly who they are.
## BUILT FOR REAL LIFE
### For Parents
You've been standing beside another parent at soccer practice for three months.
You know their kid's name.
You know where they sit.
You know they drive the blue Subaru.
You have absolutely no idea what their name is.
Tag parents to schools, sports teams, classrooms, playgroups, and activities. Search #soccer, #PS42, #swimteam, or #carpool and find exactly who you're looking for.
### For Conferences & Networking
Collect contacts without losing context.
Use RECALL's built in QR sharing system to instantly exchange information while controlling exactly what details you share.
Tag people by event, company, project, industry, or conversation topic so weeks later you'll still remember why they mattered.
### For Contact Management
RECALL isn't just for adding contacts.
Use powerful maintenance tools to clean up and organize your network:
• Find and remove duplicate contacts
• Merge repeated entries
• Manage and edit tags across your entire database
• Quickly organize years of accumulated contacts
## HOW IT WORKS
• Tag people the moment you meet them
• Attach a selfie to help connect faces and names
• Search by tags, places, events, schools, companies, or relationships
• Sync seamlessly with Apple Contacts
• Organize people the way your brain remembers them
## FAST, SIMPLE, ADDICTIVE
Swipe through contacts and tag them in seconds.
RECALL's fast swipe interface makes organizing your network surprisingly easy. Add context to old contacts, clean up your address book, and build a system that actually works.
## THREE WAYS TO START
Choose the experience that fits your day:
• Home for your everyday contact management
• Recall for quickly finding people through context
• QR Mode for conferences, events, and networking
## BUILT FOR DIFFERENT BRAINS
RECALL was designed with neurodivergent users in mind.
Features include:
• Dyslexia friendly mode
• Flexible organization systems
• Context based memory tools
• Private by design
## YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS
Everything stays on your device.
No contact data is sold.
No cloud profiling.
No tracking your relationships.
Just a better way to remember people.
Names don't stick.
Context does.
Appreciate that this app gets to the core of how I want to manage my contacts and how my brain can recall them without the bells and whistles that make other CRM systems so complicated to use. It’s really good for independent freelancers and small biz… recommend!
The missing piece
Garion2000
I have always used the last name line in my contacts to put in hashtags like nyc, or a friend of x, this solves the problem! And now when I share my contact it doesn’t have all my hilarious memory tags. Great work!
The developer
Watercolor_PB
I developed this app to solve my own problem, remembering names. I really hope it helps you please send me feature ideas and feedback and I’m more than happy to fix and it.!
The app i have been missing
tadwook
I struggle to find people i have met and this app is great as its not another cem, it just uses your contact address book with hashtags
Swipe to Tag is now more reliable — tagged contacts stay tagged
Search bar always keeps the last contact in view
Quick Recall resets on second tap, just like Contacts
Simplified navigation — Tools is now inside Settings
Parents Mode shows the family icon on the Quick Access button
Kid Mode gets a dedicated icon in the mode switcher
Settings redesigned into cleaner feature blocks with a new dog icon
BCC Text — broadcast a message to multiple contacts at once
Contacts are now timestamped when created, edited, or added
General stability and performance improvements
Version 5.1
The developer, Laan Labs, 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.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
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Information
Seller
Laan Consulting Corp
Size
5.2 MB
Category
Productivity
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
