Skrol vs. Apple Contacts app

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Skrol for smartphones is a chock-full of practical functions — more than in any other app of this kind. But rest assured, they aren't there for the sake of "featuritis" or at the expense of ease of use. In fact, you'll find Skrol easier to use and master than the barebone Apple Contacts app that came with your phone.

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ADDING CONTACTS
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Manual entry
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Business card scanner
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Scan QR code
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Add current location
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Paste from the Copy/Paste from websites, emails, and documents
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SEARCH
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Predictive alphabet (1st and 2nd letters)
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Search all fields
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Search by specific field (name, phone, email, etc)
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Match any words (multiple words)
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Match all words (find with several criterias)
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Fuzzy (phonetic) voice search
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Search history
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Search for groups and reminders
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Create groups from search results
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LIST OPTIONS
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Sort contacts order by info – name, organization, email domain, country, state, city, ZIP
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Multiselect for contacts, select all contacts
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Actions for multiselect (send email, etc.)
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Management actions for multiselect (move, delete, create group, etc.)
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Switch between accounts right from the contacts list
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Send email to a group
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Send SMS to a group
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Recently added contacts
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Perform actions via swipes, long hold, double-click, etc.
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CONTACT MANAGEMENT
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Detailed actions history
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Save actions location
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Merge duplicates
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Find duplicates automatically
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Manage groups (add, delete, rename, add contacts to a group)
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Import / Export contacts
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Move contacts between accounts
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CONTACT ACTIONS
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SMS templates
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Email templates
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Schedule events
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Make directions via Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Waze
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Request rides with Uber or Lyft
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Send My location
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Share My business card
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Share vCard
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Share contact via QR code or NFC
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FOLDER (CONTACT INFORMATION)
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Integrate with primary chat apps (7)
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Find and connect contact's page (13)
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Attach relatives folders
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Swipe between folders for quick viewing end editing
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Search contact information on the web for adding photo, sites, addresses, and other information to the folder without typing
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Attach photos of the business cards to folders
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Paste photos from the Clipboard
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Fields editing options (cut, copy, paste, swap, change case, format, delete)
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Send fax messages
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SETTINGS & OTHER
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Select default apps (Email, Maps, Browsers, etc.)
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Select default search engine
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Request call confirmation
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Select swipe actions for contacts list
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Siri / Google Assistant shortcuts for voice commands
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Support foreign addresses and phone numbers
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REMINDERS
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Reminders list
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Birthday reminders
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Event, anniversary and wedding reminders
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Search by event type and contact name
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Add events to the Google/Apple Calendar
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Reminder notifications directly from the app
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Active when the app isn’t running
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EMAIL
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Personalized mail merge
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Send to selected contacts
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Send to groups
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Templates library, folders, editor
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Bult-in SMTP support Apple Mail, Gmail, Outlook, MS 365, Yahoo, and AOL
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Custom SMTP for any provider
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Select preffered app for sending email (Apple Mail, Gmail, or Outlook)
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Blind or Carbony copy list for group emails
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DIGITAL BUSINESS CARDS
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Create multiple cards (business, personal, side-hastle
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Rotate phone to show users business card and QR code
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Upload paper business cards
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Nameplate mode
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Publish business cards on the web page as online signature (Skrol/Me)
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Translate to major languages while abroad
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MISCELLANIOUS
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Built-in User manual and tutorial videos
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Restore deleted contacts
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Perpetual backup
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Zoom/Unzoom font size for readability
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Biometric access security
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Utility function provided by the Apple Contacts app

Please note that Skrol and the built-in Apple Contacts app use the same contacts database, so any changes that you make inside Skrol are automatically updated inside the Apple Contacts and vice versa. 

Additionally, Skrol and the Apple Contacts can run at the same time. This way, you may continue using the Apple Contacts for routine tasks as before but rely on Skrol to better organize contacts and for all other advanced tasks and functions, such as personalized mail merge or digital business cards.

Another great way to take advantage of running both apps at the same time is to use the Apple Contacts for your personal address book (account) and Skrol for a work-related address book(s).

Why wouldn’t Apple, Google, Microsoft, or Facebook develop an app like Skrol?

Apple certainly may because it employs a vast number of some of the best designers, managers, and programmers in the world who could do just about anything they wish, short of opening an Apple store on Mars.

Besides, the Skrol app wouldn’t be possible without all of the tools and computing infrastructure that Apple has provided for developers like us to encourage them to design apps like Skrol. In that sense, we consider Apple a partner rather than a potential competitor.

Without a doubt, Google is just as capable as Apple. Still, its array of consumer-grade apps is relatively basic because, just like Apple, it prefers to focus on grander projects rather than an advanced contact organizer. For the same reasons, we also consider Google a partner.

Microsoft’s development infrastructure is on par with Google’s and Apple's, and they can eventually develop an app comparable to Skrol. Will it be as good as Skrol? We will not know until we see one a year or two from now. Keep in mind that at that time, we’ll also be a year or two ahead of them.

Facebook is an advertising/publishing/communication/metaverse juggernaut and one of the best in the world in its respective markets. For that reason, it doesn’t develop or support apps like Skrol. Also, considering all of their problems with a good number of courts, regulators, and alphabet agencies in the United States and European Union, they already have their hands full.

In addition to all of the above, these Goliaths ruthlessly compete with each other, while an ultimate contacts app needs to be a good friend to all of their peers. And that — that Apple, Google, Microsoft,  and Facebook — will intermarry for the greater good of their respective clients is even less likely to happen than the Democrats and Republicans merging into one party.

So, for the betterment of humankind, this proverbial David is working hard toward becoming a contacts app of choice for the iPhones of the hard-working executives and employees at all four. To start, click the Install Skrol on iPhone button below and begin using your free copy immediately!

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We anticipate the release of the skrol for iphone on or around April,15 2022
We anticipate the release of the Skrol app for Android smarphones on or around May 1, 2022
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