Cardhop Contacts

This is a pretty useful app, it works well to add a new contact with some pasted information since you can just add everything inline and Cardhop parses our the details. It’s nice to have a recents view. One thing I hate: I have birthday notifications on, it shows a tiny photo of the contact, a Haptic Touch or 3D Press (long press) expands the card but displays a large animated cake. I don’t need to see (the same) animated cake for every birthday notification, I know it’s that person’s birthday, that’s the point of the “x person’s birthday is in x days” text. I *would* however like to see a larger version of that person’s contact photo *and* the date of their birthday displayed prominently in the expanded view. Also I would like to snooze the birthday notification in case I’m not ready to act on it in that moment. It’s emblematic of how this developer’s version of “pretty” animations overtakes functionality, and they appear (based on an email exchange) to be set in stone about the Haptic Touch birthday animation. The word that most describes this developer is stubborn, and unwilling to consider how their software is actually used. It’s a shame, because there’s much more potential for this app imo, but they’re holding it back by mostly sticking with how it functioned in the 1.0 release.

I’ve been using Cardhop for several years now, and have never looked back. It’s beautifully crafted, and makes a more Apple-like app than Apple’s own Contacts. It also works with the same database. Open it for the first time and all of your contacts are right there. If you work with your contacts you should give it a go. There’s absolutely nothing to lose!