Connect, like love, is an action verb.
A native macOS contacts app that puts you in control of your relationships. Import your contacts, clean up your list, track every interaction, and get prompted to stay in touch with the people who matter most.
The Problem
Your contacts are scattered across Apple, Google, LinkedIn, and a dozen other services — each controlled by a different company. You have hundreds (maybe thousands) of contacts, but no way to know who you’ve been neglecting. Important relationships fade because life gets busy and no tool helps you stay intentional about the people you care about.
The Solution
Connect brings all your contacts into one place you own — a local database on your Mac. It helps you organize, clean up, and actively maintain your relationships with tools designed for how humans actually think about staying in touch.
What Makes Connect Different
You own your data. Your contacts live in a local SQLite database on your Mac. No cloud dependency, no subscription, no company reading your address book.
It tracks your outreach. Log emails, texts, calls, Signal messages, LinkedIn interactions, and in-person meetings. Import your Messages.app and call history automatically.
It nudges you to stay in touch. Set follow-up cadences for tags and lists — “reach out to close friends every 30 days” — and Connect shows you who’s overdue.
It helps you clean up. The Contact Sweep feature lets you review your entire database one contact at a time, assigning tags and lists at a pace of 1-2 seconds per contact.
It shows you how you’re doing. A dashboard with freshness charts, weekly interaction graphs, and activity lanes gives you an honest picture of your relationship maintenance.
Key Features
- Multi-source sync — Import from Apple Contacts, Google Contacts, and LinkedIn with smart deduplication
- Tags & lists — Flexible organization with color-coded tags and curated lists, each with follow-up cadences
- Interaction timeline — Track emails, texts, calls, Signal, LinkedIn, in-person meetings, and notes
- Dashboard & analytics — Contact freshness charts, weekly interaction graphs, and activity lanes
- Contact Sweep — Rapid-fire review to clean up and organize your entire list
- Contact Prompter — Step through overdue contacts with quick-action buttons for call, email, and text
- Follow-up tracking — See who’s overdue based on your cadence settings
- Messages & call import — Automatically pull in your Messages.app and call history
- Duplicate detection — Find and merge duplicate contacts with field-level control
- Profiles — Separate databases for work, personal, board, or any other context
- Export everything — CSV, vCard, JSON, or full SQLite backup. Your data is always portable.
- Mailing labels — Generate printable PDF label sheets from any tag or list
Getting Started
Connect is designed to get you up and running quickly:
- Create tags and lists with follow-up frequencies
- Sync your contacts from Apple, Google, or LinkedIn
- Use Contact Sweep to clean up and organize
- Check Follow Up to see who needs outreach
- Sync Messages to capture your real interaction history
- Watch the Dashboard to track your progress
Read the full getting started guide →
Purchase Connect
Connect is a one-time purchase — no subscriptions, no recurring fees. Buy it once and it’s yours.
Available on the Mac App Store.
Requires macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later.
Built by Subversive Software
Connect is part of the Subversive Software family — hopeful, human-focused software that gives control back to people. Your contacts are yours, your data stays on your device, and you’re never the product.