BusyContacts App Reviews

If you want to enhance standard Contact app from mac, this is great product. I particulary appreciate the automatic integration with emails. From this application you have a global view on contacts with your own fields, you have the list of what you did and all associated email. I bought also Busycal that integrate good with it. I did not like the « todo » that goes to Busycal and would have preferred an integration with just a list.

I also own the busycal2 software so purchasing this was a no brainer Take apple’s contacts app. Feed it steroids for a year, put it on a rigourus training program during that year. And at the end of that year you would have busyContacts. It has way better filtering than apple contacts, I was able to fix and tag using multiple rules for filtering. I love that it picks out emails for that contact selected. I have only used the program for 2 hours before I was convinced to purchase it, as I seen that it held up to my expectations of there previous product. This is what apple contacts should be about!!!

Great tool but lacking iphone app

BusyContacts have made my workflow so much easier. It’s a must-to-have app if your address book has a lot of contacts, and you are looking for a good way to structure and manage your contacts on a daily basis.

Before BusyContacts I had several lists and they never synced with my Admin. It has solved all our problems.

Busy Contacts takes the MAC contacts and puts it on steriods. The reason I like this so much is it used the same database that Apple uses, so while using this program you have all the extended features but your database is still compatible with Contacts, and my IPhone. So when I make a change it also shows up on my IPhone, and the shipping software I use for both the USPS and UPS. I have been waiting years for a program like this. Other programs all they do is import your contacts and use their own proprietory database making it useless outside of their program. Keep up the good work!!

I’ve wanted an address book app like this for a decade or more. This is what Mac’s address book app should be. Perfect app! Worth every penny!

Im particular and exacting in my contact management needs. This is such an unsexy area, yet vital to my functioning work flow system. I was cautious about tweaking or changing away from Contacts (Mac OS X version). But 2 days with BusyContacts (even v1.0) has me converted. BusyContatcs simply a much more robust and powerful engine for tracking contacts than the built in Contacts app provides. And if the development record/schedule for BusyContacts matches BusyCal (which I also use), I can rest assured BusyCal LLC will aggressively refine and improve BusyContacts over the years to come. BusyContacts app utilizes the shared / sync architecture of Mac OS X; I needn’t fear locking myself into one app. Should development cease, I can always revert to Contacts without much friction. That’s a huge plus for me. The software just works; it works well. And I’m excited to watch it grow. Why 4 stars? In a 1.0 release, always room for growth. Minor interface tweaks. And support has been excellent. Response time under 1 hour on my emails.

BusyContacts is very intuitive - no learning curve at all. Recent emails or appointments involving the contact show up in a panel on the right. Editing data is way easier than in Apple’s Contacts. The look and feel are actually fun!

First, I have to admit that I used the Trial version of this program for a full 30 days before I was forced to purchase it. I was very skeptical at first since it functions very much like Apple Contacts. Like you, I could not figure out why I should pay $50.00 for a program that does what Contacts does for free. The fact is that it does something that I haven’t seen any other program do as well. It keeps tract of all communication between you and each of your contacts and it does it automatically. For example, the minute you install the program, it instantly finds every email communication you’ve had with this contact and stores it in the contact’s record. It does the same for Text messages, appointments and To Do’s. If you need to keep track of you activity with each contact, this is an indispensable tool. In addition, rather than being limited to just a few categories that you can assign your contacts to, BusyContacts uses tags. That means you can categorize your contacts in an unlimited number of different ways. It is also very intuitive in the way it links various contacts together. For example, when you start typing the name of a related contact, it searches your database for the associated person while you’re typing. So, after only a few strokes, you can just press enter to link the two contacts. I really think that the program is over priced. However, I got so used to the ease of use and the functionality that I just could not go back to using Contacts. This program is well designed and easy to use. If you try it for 30 days, you will want to keep it.

Finally, an effective program that can serve as a hub for information about my clients. I have a law practice, and the most difficult aspect of having the law pracice is trying to keep everyone on the team up to date on everything that is happening, or coming up, in a case, with the least possible effort. If a client calls, I want my assistants to be able to quickly know anything new in the case, even if I have not had a chance to tell them yet at a meeting. This program integrates everything for a client: (1) It will list all of the tasks (to-dos) associated with that client along with the task deadline, so my assistants can tell a client: (a) what is being worked on and when it is scheduled to be completed, and (b) what they still need to do and when they need it completed; (2) It lists all of the upcoming events associated with a client; (c) it can quickly tell eveyone who is involved with the client’s case from judges, experts to opposing counsel; (d) it has a robusst note-taking abiltiy so that I or an assistant can quickly jot down notes about what has been happening, what needs to be discussed the next time the client is on the phone, and what has been discussed already so that I don’t have several people trying to talk to the client about the same topic. All of this in one location, that is easy to use and intuitive. There is more robust (and more expensive) law practice management software out there, but I don’t like the expense and I typically don’t need most of the features (and, realistically, they all have very steep learning curves and rarely have an intuitive interface). This program works, and it works well - within seconds of a cliet calling my assistants (or myself) knows everything that is important and is happening in a case, and can remember to remind clients of what they still need to do for us (because of court deadlines, it is important to take every opportuntity that the client is on the phone to tell the client what still needs to be done; with this program, it ie easy to know that right away). It also integrates well with BusyCal, the companion application. The only feature, that I fully expect to show up in a later update, is that the email integration prgram still requires the use of the default Mac Mail application. It pulls the emails associated with a contact’s email address and displays them, but it is only able to access the library created by Mac Mail; therefore, you need to have Mac Mail open and downloading emails to make use of this feature. I use Airmail, so now I have to keep the default Mail program active in the background for this feature to sync. As I said, it is a simple fix to allow a user to designate the location of the email library that the program uses to display emails, and so I’m sure that (relativiely minor) additoinal feature will show up in the near future. The release of this product made the BusyCal/BusyContacts combindation worth the expense of both. I had not previously considered BusyCal alone to be worth the extra expense, even though it did have some nice additional features.

I prefer BusyContacts over other similar apps. For one thing, it’s easy to use, enter new contacts and link contacts with messages/emails etc. I also like that it knows how to format international phone numbers. Does what I want and doesn’t impose a lot of stuff on me that I don’t want. What’s not to like? Would give it a 5 star rating if it would offer better control over prefixes. A lot of my contacts are Dr xxx, and it is not obvious to me how to add the prefix. When it important contacts from Apple’s program they now have a first name “Dr.” minor quibble. Everything else about it works as I wished.

I’ve tried a variety of CRM apps, but none did it for me - until BusyContacts (and I’ll say the same for BusyCal). This is the best featured and most versatile CRM that I’ve used - great job!

Having tried and LOVED BusyCal, I decided to try BusyContacts. Very good app. Easy to transition over from Contacts. Very easy to use, solid and unbreakable. Four stars for one reason, $49.99 is a bit high for a contacts app.

I have spent more hours and money than I care to admit searching for a decent contact management app. I had thousands of contacts that needed to be organized and in order to launch my new company. I was desperate and tried everythig out there. None of these programs even came close to working. Either they were insanely complicated to set up, or they didn’t sync, export, import, OR, they had a horrible interface making it impossible to work with. When I discovered BC, I was blown away. I have never written a review for an app before but I am writing one now because if you are still reading you must be searching for an app that actually works. BusyContacts is simple to use and reliable. Also, its all about the cloud and so you don’t have to worry about drama between your Contacts app and BusyContacts. If you don’t need CRM but do need someting that can handle large lists, BusyContacts is the one.

This is a nice cross-grade to standard OSX Contacts, but due to missing functionality, its not a replacement. You can’t import from CSV, TAB or TXT file. You can’t globally correct a name, company name etc. You can’t make “sub-lists” (i.e. company, then by department etc.)

after finding the default mac app too cumbersome for even relatively simple contact entry I decided to go with a more “pro” type app. As a regional territory manager for a large multi-national corporation, contact entry MUST be easy for me. There are days when I enter 30 contacts into mys system. That was taking an hour plus of my day at times, which just became unacceptable. I’d been using and loving busycal for a while, so I thought I’d give busycontacts a try. And yeah, it’s everything I wanted plus things I didn’t even know I wanted. First, contact entry is dead simple. Fast, intuitive, as many fields as you need, but not overwhelming unless you need it. The quick contact entry is *brilliant* in its execution and implementation. I was sold just on contact entry right there. In a week this saves me at least an hour, which makes up for the cost right there. As an adherent of GTD, I’ve been using Omnifocus for a while, and one feature I’ve loved is the ability to give actions a person context so that I can look over my notes before meetings. Well, this takes that to a whole new level, and then some, automatically. Now, before any phone conversation or meeting I have with someone I can quickly review what I have going on with that person and have had going on with them recently. People are amazed at how well I “remember” past conversations, meetings, text messages, etc. They just don’t know about my secret weapon. Search is a breeze, tags are great (Though I don’t use them a ton yet, though that’s more me just needing ot make it a habit). If you manage a large number of contacts, this is truly a brilliant app, especially if you have busycal and they can work their magic together.

For a small business, BusyContacts is the perfect solution to client management. I’m downsizing from FileMaker Pro, which is too finicky and bloated for my needs. Rather than move up to the new version and price scheme, I went down a rung and couldn’t be happier about it. The transition is not easy, but worth the effort. BusyContacts does everything well and it does it easily. Plus, you can try it before you buy it. Great program and highly recommended.

Multiple accounts (CARDDAV), color coding, activity tracking, tagging—and it backs itself up and restores seamlessly! My Mac OS X Server has had a couple of contact database issues that resulted in loss of data, but Busy Contacts allowed me to rebuild/restore with far less hassle than previous server rebuilds that involved exporting VCards and re-importing. You’ll find you will migrate away from groups and to Busy Contacts’ tagging approach, but that makes better intuitive sense to me anyway. Their customer support via email is excellent (and not much needed)—I am hugely impressed and grateful for the thought that went into this app.

After trying the native Apple apps, Outlook for Mac and Salesforce, I have finally found a CRM platform that meets my needs. I maintain several Exchange and iCloud calendars. I need to organize thousands of contacts, build calling plans and record our interactions. This history must be readily available and logically structured. The combination of these two apps is fully meeting my needs. The synchronization with the native Apple apps has thus far been error free. Highly recommend this platform.