Simple Contacts

What Simple Contacts is for

Simple Contacts is an Android address book for phone numbers, emails and calendar events. The developer describes it as lightweight and says it takes up little storage. It is aimed at people who want their contacts kept in one place without manually copying them somewhere for safekeeping.

Contacts can stay on the phone alone, or they can be synchronised through other methods the listing mentions without naming. Either way, the app is built around a single phone book screen rather than a set of separate tools.

Storing, syncing and backing up contacts

Each time you add a new contact, the app backs it up automatically, so the backup stays in step with the contacts on the phone. The listing presents this as the way to avoid doing manual backups.

Backups are written as VCF files, the standard vCard format that most address books can read. That makes them usable for moving contacts to another phone or importing them into a different app.

Finding a contact quickly

The list can be sorted and filtered by more than one parameter at a time. The developer says this lets you reach a contact without scrolling through the whole list.

You can also choose to show surnames as the first name. This changes how names are displayed and sorted in the list, which suits anyone who thinks of people by their family name.

Emails, events and recent contacts

Beyond phone numbers, the app stores email addresses and events for each contact, so birthdays or appointments tied to a person sit on the same record. It also keeps a list of recent contacts for quick access to people you have been in touch with lately.