Open Contacts

Open Contacts is a comprehensive program for creating address books and managing contact details.

Once it is initialized, you are required to create a working directory, with or without shortcuts. The interface is not modern or particularly intuitive.

You can create a new record by writing a person's name, title, notes, personal and professional details, company information, contacts, and associated people.

It is possible to add extra sections, such as address, company, electronic, personal, or work, create or break relationships, as well as link selected people.

Contacts are organized into multiple categories that you can define, such as friends, relatives, and business. You can use a search function when dealing with large amount of data (by phone number, email address, address, birthday, any dynamic field), export contacts to XML, CSV, Excel or vCard format, as well as print information or synchronize it with the SyncML server.

The application provides a backup and restore service, and lets you change data in batch mode (e.g. refresh initials by name or surname). You can view photos, save layouts, import contact details from external files, and more.

Open Contacts does not put a strain on system performance, since it requires low CPU and RAM. It has a good response time and does not cause Windows to hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. However, the tool needs some major improvements in the layout department of the interface.