The iOS platform has been hurting for a good address book app and now with Cardhop it finally has one. I’ve posted before about the lack of usable contact management apps for iOS. To some extent you were stuck between Apple’s underwhelming Contacts app or FullContact.
FullContact is a very nice contact management app with some killer features. But it doesn’t share everything with your iCloud contacts. You might try and use Siri to text someone while you’re driving and find out that you don’t have the mobile numbers you thought you had.
Carhop syncs flawlessly with Apple’s native Contacts database and can be shared with iCloud Contacts. But that’s just the foundation.
It’s Like a Launcher for Relationship Management
Cardhop’s superpower is that lets you use natural language to enter contact information and perform actions. Type “text Bob W” and Cardhop with launch iMessages. Type “Muffin Man, Drury Lane” and Cardhop with create a V-card for a Muffin Man living on Drury Lane.
When you reach out to someone through Cardhop the app remembers this and adds the person’s contact info to the Recent’s group along with an icon linking to your preferred communication channel.
At Last, Easy Group Management
One of the most frustrating things about Apple’s native Contacts app is that you can’t add, delete or edit Groups. You have to set those up either in iCloud online or on your Mac.
Cardhop shows you the same groups that you have on your other devices and it makes group management a breeze.
Possibly the best feature is available to people who are using Cardhop on the Mac. That’s because you can set up sophisticated “Smart Groups” on the MacOS version of Cardhop, for instance filtering people by region, profession or tidbits that you have squirreled away in their Notes.
Cardhop on iOS won’t let you create a smart group but it will give you access to all smart groups that you’ve set up on the MacOS app. This gives you the ability to see people you may be losing touch with, connect with people in a certain profession or region.
And It’s Inexpensive
For the price of a cappuccino you can pick up Cardhop for iOS and dive right in. If you want to know more check out what Ryan Christoffel or Adam Angst have to say.
