![]() ![]() Cardhop’s design - and especially the app icon - is stunning. The renowned Flexibits natural language parser is built into Cardhop for iOS, making finding, editing, and creating new contacts a breeze. If you’ve tried Cardhop for Mac, then you have an idea of how Cardhop for iOS works. It’s safe to assume that Cardhop, now available for the iPhone and iPad as well as the Mac, is Simmons’ vision of how contacts can and should be handled on iOS. Simmons, the lead developer at Flexibits and the man behind Cardhop for Mac, pointed out how “unexciting” contacts apps can be. This was one of the aspects Michael Simmons pointed out to me in a phone call recently. ![]() I am very unlikely to try a third-party phone app, after all. The less exciting the app category, at least for me, the less likely I am to experiment with new apps outside of the given stock app. Contacts is visually boring, structurally locked down and option-free, and yet is fundamental to how we communicate through Messages, Phone, Mail, and more. The phone app hasn’t exactly been a development playground for iOS.Ĭontacts, in my opinion, ranks second on this list. You use the phone app to make calls, look at your recent and missed phone calls, and, in some cases, dial into your voice mail to listen to your messages. If I had to take a guess, I’d say the least exciting app on the iPhone is the phone app. ![]()
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