The natural language parser also lets you easily search contacts and even launch actions. Easy contact creation is only the start of what Cardhop offers. This makes sense since a name looks like a name, an address looks like an address, and a phone number looks different than an email address, but the same single text entry in the built-in Contacts app creates a new contact with the first name ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and no other details. Just like Fantastical, Cardhop intelligently parses natural text to create new entries and launch actions.įor example, you can type (or copy and paste) ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and Cardhop will create the new entry with the correct fields populated. You just don’t notice because something magnitudes better hasn’t existed. Even as a basic database, Apple’s Contacts app can feel clunky and not well considered. I treat it like a database that’s primarily used to populate contact information in Mail, Messages, FaceTime, and Calendar. Personally, I don’t launch Apple’s Contacts app very often.

That’s partly because Apple’s Contacts app hasn’t changed in several versions aside from gaining a rich leather address book theme then shedding the leather in favor of its current stark design.

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