Sunshine Smart Contacts 4+

Works seamlessly!

My contacts have been a mess for a long time. The features provided by the app has cleared most of the issues. It found a bunch of duplicates and was able to auto merge them. It gave me the option to change to full names for a bunch of the contacts and it even found some LinkedIns and I was able to connect to some of my friends!

Interesting but didn’t provide any new value

I was quite interested in this app because my contacts are always a complete mess. After setting everything up the app uploaded all of my contacts to their servers for processing. This was a big red flag for me, but I read their privacy policy and decided to go with it. I would feel more secure if that was done on device. After processing for a few minutes I get an email saying the enhancements are complete. I open the app and the only “enhancements” are just LinkedIn accounts added to some contacts. This is cool, but not really info I need in a contact. The best feature was showing emails from a user in their contact card. The design didn’t seem like an upgrade from Contacts or CardHop. Perhaps other people will get better “enhancements” but the ones I received left much to be desired. I ended up deleting my account for now. Will try again down the road.

(Also very nit picky but why did I have to add a picture for myself in a portrait size only for the app to crop it to a square. It literally cut the top part of my head off in my own contact card)

Developer Response ,

Hi hughbromund,
We’re glad our privacy policy put you at ease. We do not sell or use your data for any sharing purposes and contact security is very important to us. We appreciate your feedback about our enhancements - a lot of our app works behind the scenes and over time as the app gets smarter. We would love to talk with you more about how we could improve your contacts. Please reach out to support@sunshine.com at any time.
Thanks, The Sunshine Team

Doesn't actually clean up contacts?

I love the concept and I was really looking forward to the ability to search at a more granular level (~7000 contacts) but it appears that's not the focus of the app.

It does as good job of suggesting merges and changes.

However, on the cleanup front, I was disappointed to learn that the cleanup functions (merge, info fill-in) don't update the contacts at their source (iphone, Google) and, instead, keep those additions at a layer above the source so I have to keep using Sunshine for everything. I want the changes sent back to the source so they're available everywhere.

Developer Response ,

Hi Hazpoco,
We are currently working on an export feature so you can see the Sunshine improvements in your iPhone and Google contacts. We're working hard to make sure the export feature integrates seamlessly with not only your iPhone and Google contacts, but with all the other apps that may access your contacts as well. If you have any other questions or feedback, you can reach us via the Support menu in the app or at support@sunshine.com. We appreciate all your feedback and reports to help make our app better. Thank you, The Sunshine Team
UPDATE: Hi Hazpoco, We are excited to announce our Sync feature that will allow you to sync the improvements from Sunshine into your iCloud and Google contacts. We'd love for you to try it out!