Google Contacts Review - why 3.6 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Oct 04, 2022

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What is Google Contacts?

Google Contacts is an online contact management tool that can be used as a standalone software and also comes integrated with Google Drive, Calendar, Gmail and other Google products. The software can help users to manage all their contacts easily and can be synchronized with PC applications, mobile devices and operating systems.

Google, the company behind Google Contacts, was founded back in 1998, is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has thousands of employees and offices all around the world.

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Who is it best for?

Google Contacts is suitable for Gmail users and can be also used by individuals who are looking for a way to manage their contacts. It can be also used as a phone contact backup solution for Android phone users as it can synchronize contacts with mobile devices.

Main features and functionalities

Google Contacts comes with last name sorting, custom labels, undo, automatic saving, prominent notes field, structured name fields, contacts synchronization, third party software support for synchronization and support for syncing with any system that can sync via Microsoft’s ActiveSync. Other notable features are: autocomplete feature in other Google applications, support for saving 25,000 contacts, and synchronization with Google Maps and easy interaction with Google Contacts from Google Calendar.

What is the actual cost?

The cost of license starts at $0.99 per user/month. ITQlick pricing score is 6.6 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for Google Contacts. You can also find here pricing information from Google Contacts's website.

Pros

• Google Contacts supports contact notes that are larger than 16 kilobytes unlike other similar tools
• Google Contacts supports synchronization with PC applications, smartphones, tablets and operating systems
• The contact management tool supports synchronization with third party apps unlike other similar tools

Cons

• Google Contacts doesn’t support synchronizing contacts with follow-up flags which can be a problem for some users
• Google Contacts shows bold, links and other rich content added contacts of Outlook as plain text
• Contacts assigned to different categories in Outlook doesn’t appear in this contact management tool

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of Google Contacts vs alternative software solutions.

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