Compact Contacts: A fast, focused table for your Mac contacts

Compact Contacts is a native macOS companion for the contacts already on your Mac. Scan them in a dense, configurable table, search locally across fields, save filters and layouts as Saved Views, copy individual fields, and edit with the owning account in view. Duplicate review is read-only. No new account, contact cloud, subscription, ads, or analytics. macOS remains responsible for iCloud, Google, Exchange, and CardDAV sync. $12.99 one-time purchase.

Hi Product Hunt — I built Compact Contacts after seeing the same complaints repeatedly: Apple Contacts is difficult to scan when you have hundreds or thousands of people, and simple jobs like comparing records or copying one field take too many clicks. Compact Contacts uses the contacts already on your Mac and presents them in a dense, configurable table. Search stays local, Saved Views remember filters and columns, edits are source-aware, and duplicate review is read-only. There’s no new account, contact cloud, subscription, ads, or analytics. It’s a $12.99 one-time purchase for macOS 15+. I’d especially appreciate feedback from people with large address books: which columns and saved views matter most in your daily workflow?

Been waiting for something like this, the local-only angle is what sold me. One thing that would make it a daily driver for me is a quick way to export a Saved View as a vCard bundle so I can hand off filtered subsets of contacts to coworkers without sharing my whole address book.