Flexibits, the company that makes popular calendar app Fantastical, today launched a new contacts management app, Cardhop. Designed to be more than just a simple contacts app, Cardhop is interactive and is designed to be your communications hub, allowing you to email, message, and interface with your contacts from one central location.

When developing Cardhop, Flexibits aimed to do the same thing for contacts that it did for the calendar - turn an app that can be dull, unintuitive, and slow into a robust, streamlined app that offers a lot more utility.


Cardhop imports all of your contacts from your Mac (which are typically also synced with iOS devices using iCloud) and it provides an interface that makes it easy to search for an existing contact or add a new one using the same natural language parsing that's available in Fantastical.

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A search for "Eric" for example, will bring up the card for a contact named Eric, with information like phone number, email address, birth date, home address, Twitter handle, Facebook profile, Skype username, and more. There are dozens of fields that can be added for each contact.

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Entering a phrase like "Eric 867-5309 work" will automatically add the phone number you entered to Eric's contact card under the work heading, and similar phrases can be used to quickly update or remove information for all contacts. Added information will sync to the default Apple Contacts app.

If you start typing a name that's not already in your contacts list, Cardhop will automatically add a new entry with the information. Groups of contacts are also supported, so you can create a group like "work" to automatically send an email or a message to everyone you work with.

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Cardhop's most useful feature is perhaps its quick actions. Every contact card in Cardhop features four customizable quick action buttons for interacting with contacts and performing tasks like placing a call, sending a tweet, or sending an email. The following quick actions are available: Call, Copy, Directions, Email, FaceTime, FaceTime Audio, Large Type, Message, Skype, Telegram, Twitter, URL, and VoIP.

Clicking on one of the quick action buttons performs the task assigned to the button, but typing a quick action like "Skype Eric" or "Message Eric" also works. When using the call feature, there's also an option to place the call on your iPhone from your Mac using Bluetooth. Cardhop has the potential to save time in a workflow because it automates tasks that would normally take several clicks.

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Cardhop also takes advantage of the underused "note" feature available in the default Contacts app, making a notes section front and center for each contact in the app. Notes can be used to add details about contacts that you want to remember, leading to richer interactions.

"Until now, contacts apps were basically boring databases," said Michael Simmons, Co-founder of Flexibits. "Cardhop is an entirely different approach and we think it's going to simplify and truly change the way people think about and interact with their contacts."

Cardhop is normally priced at $19.99, but to celebrate its launch, Flexibits is offering it for $14.99 for a limited time. Cardhop can be downloaded from the Mac App Store.

Top Rated Comments

AndyK Avatar
97 months ago
This seems to try to solve a problem I’m not sure I have.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jphall Avatar
97 months ago
If it had a history / activity for each contact so i can neatly have all my emails organized it would be awesome.
I've been using BusyContacts since it came out, very full featured app with an Activity pane for Calendar/Mail/Messages/Twitter history if you so desire.

https://www.busymac.com/busycontacts/index.html

I've been using BusyMac apps for well over a decade, really great apps!
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Fran6cojL Avatar
97 months ago
I need this! but! with a historical view of all communications with my contacts.

If it had a history / activity for each contact so i can neatly have all my emails organized it would be awesome.

We need a windows my people functionality like on mac
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
RimasM Avatar
97 months ago
I like how $14.99 becomes 16.99€ despite of 1USD ~ 0.85€
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AJ Mac25 Avatar
97 months ago
I'm a big, big fan of Fanstastical its a huge part of my workflow. I'd like to try this out but I'm not sure if i need it.
There is a free trial download on the company's webpage.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Fran6cojL Avatar
97 months ago
I've been using BusyContacts since it came out, very full featured app with an Activity pane for Calendar/Mail/Messages/Twitter history if you so desire.

https://www.busymac.com/busycontacts/index.html

I've been using BusyMac apps for well over a decade, really great apps!
YOU ARE THE MAN!! i have been looking for something like this for a while now!!!
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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