Contact Clearout has duplicate and near duplicate search. It provides fast scan and drag-n-drop editing of all your contacts. It gives you single click control of group membership. Using the Group Matrix and sorting by group allows visual analysis of group usage. Everything is can be undone, all deleted contacts are archived.
Contact Clearout has duplicate and near duplicate search. It provides fast scan and drag-n-drop editing between the duplicates. Everything is can be undone, all deleted contacts are archived. Contact Duplicates is designed to be used as an occasional sweep for problems and duplicates. You can only edit matched duplicates – to extend this to all contacts in your list consider buying Contact Clearout.
Address Book Clearout is not currently available for new purchases. Please consider Contact Clearout.
Address Book Clearout is provided to support the thousands of users of the previous version who are on legacy systems and anyone who hasn’t or can’t update to Yosemite. It will work with all systems from Snow Leopard up, though appearance and stability may not be optimal on legacy systems. Address Book Clearout is not certified for El Capitan and may not run under future operating systems.
If you are running Yosemite you should choose Contact Clearout which will is under active development.
| Contact Clearout | Contact Duplicate | Address Book Clearout | |
|---|---|---|---|
| O/S Support | Yosemite and up. | Yosemite and up. | Snow Leopard 6 and up to Yosemite. |
| Identical Duplicate scan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Suggest possible matches | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit or Drag-n-Drop between matched contacts. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Edit or Drag-n-Drop between any contacts | Yes | – | Yes |
| Visual display of Group Membership | Yes | – | Yes |
| One-click control of Group Membership | Yes | – | Yes |
| Archive of all deleted Contacts | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| On-going developement | Yes | Yes | Some development and bug fixes only. |