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SwooshContacts for BlackBerry Ranks Your Contacts Based on Activity and Makes it Quick to Contact Them

by Kevin Michaluk on 7 Mar 2010 09:53 AM
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The folks at Swoosh Software let us know over the weekend they just released a new app for BlackBerry Smartphones that's both useful and fun to use. SwooshContacts automatically ranks your contacts based on activity making it quick to contact the folks you deal with most, letting you discover who is most important in your life (hopefully it's your significant other at the top by default, but if not you can at least favorite them to that position!). SwooshContacts features include:

  • Tracks contact activity
  • Automatically ranks contacts
  • Sort by activity, date, rank, name or company
  • Shows contact photos
  • Quickly filter contacts
  • Quickly send emails
  • Quickly send SMSs
  • Quickly place calls
  • Quickly show maps
  • Award stars to valuable contacts
  • Award hearts to your absolute favorites

The app has a small memory footprint at under 40kb and a FREE TRIAL is available. if you like it after you try it, you can pick it up for $4.99 from the CrackBerry App Store. 

Filed Under: BlackBerry Apps; Tags: Swoosh Software, SwooshContacts
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37 Comments

Posted by Hangslow Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Sounds interesting.

 
 
Posted by mike340t Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

4.99 seems like a lot to rank my contacts.. Also when I go SMS it already shows my recent people I messaged which is just as fast... This seems more for the kiddies... Does anyone really have the time to "award" hearts and stars to contacts....

 
 
Posted by Hangslow Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

$4.99 is a bit too much. I like the idea. It would have been nice (or will be, if you can use actually pictures for your contacts. Drop the price and you have a buyer in me.

 
 
Posted by haemish Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Add photos to your contacts in the BlackBerry AddressBook and they should show in SwooshContacts.

 
 
Posted by tnmurdock Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Not hearts and stars...but pink clovers...you bet

 
 
Posted by Nelimungous Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Seriously?

 
 
Posted by haemish Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Adding a heart to a contact pins it to the top of the list which some people wanted. Stars are also awarded automatically for activity which is a useful visual visual indicator.

 
 
Posted by Disciplinz Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

what are some other apps that does this too? i remeber i saw a few but i can't remeber.

 
 
Posted by anderl72 Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

i had swoosh photo, it is buggy and never got updated, new release. so i already had xperience with swoosh ;)

 
 
Posted by haemish Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Follow the link to the product in the store and there is a list of similar products at the bottom of the screen.

 
 
Posted by Disciplinz Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

sorry.

to be more clear, im trying to look for an analytic app. the part where they rank contact base on calls made, call duration and sms sent.

 
 
Posted by emacf1 Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

I am waiting for the xobni guys to release their app - what we saw at DevCon was really impressing

http://www.xobni.com/learnmore/mobile/

 
 
Posted by lonestar1135 Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Its a pretty cool idea and done well. I downloaded the trial and its pretty slow and didn't transfer all my contacts into the application. I'll keep an eye on it and if there's an update I'll give it another try.

 
 
Posted by haemish Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

The initial scan does take a little while because SwooshContacts will attempt to rank your contacts based on your email history and call logs. Once that has been done things should be pretty speedy. We have tested with a few hundred contacts.

 
 
Posted by lonestar1135 Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

Ok great. I love the trial so far. And it has gotten speedier. Quick judgment on my part. What about missing contacts in the SwooshContact application?

 
 
Posted by Schaeffer Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

But with the price tag on that your demand will be low. If you were a known app developer like poynt then you could attach a price tag like that on the app. You would make more money lowering the price because more people would buy it. As of right now I don't believe many will buy this because its a new app. You need to get a good rep within the app community before you can successfully attach a price tag like that. I'm not bashing your app it might be great but not many will pay that price to find out. Just my two cents.

 
 
Posted by haemish Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

All our apps have a free trial, click the link at the top of the article to see our other products.

 
 
Posted by NoOneSpecific Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

I use Sensobi. It's a very good contact manager. One of the best I've seen.

 
 
Posted by NightShade00013 Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Wow. . . looked at xobni and it's kinda interesting but for all the features it's 29.95. . . and people were complaining about five bucks

 
 
Posted by Maiev Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

This thing fails lol. All my contacts are on my 2nd contact list, but this app only reads the database from the 1st database (not even all).

SO I open it up and it's got no contacts to display lolz

 
 
Posted by jfrancismiller Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Nice app, I'm going to give it a try :) thanks

 
 
Posted by jorGeorge Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 810 days ago

Lower the price to $2.99 and you'll get a lot more buyers. This reminds me of when Addonis was released with a $15 price tag. This isn't that bad, but you need to realize that $5 is too much for an application like this.

 
 
Posted by trsteve1 Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 809 days ago

is it just me, or does this not load the contacts?

I've been trying, and it just says *please wait*

huh?

 
 
Posted by jorGeorge Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 809 days ago

After trying out the trial, this app seems very buggy. My most used contact is listed number 2 because their mobile number 2 is used as mobile number 1. This app only counts one number per category (mobile, home, work). Not very useful.

 
 
Posted by kjay1303 Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 809 days ago

Thanks Kevin... I don't think $4,99 is too much to pay for this app - developers have to make their money somehow! Free trial is great.

 
 
Posted by Jonneh Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 809 days ago

I praise & give kudos to any developer that is smart enough to include free trials of their creations. So, even though I'm not buying your app, or even trying it out, I just want to say thank you for being reasonable developers. Buying an application and then later finding out it is buggy as hell or simply doesn't play nice with your personal device is one of the biggest disappointments you can have with your smartphone experience. :(

 
 
Posted by BurgerBoy Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 809 days ago

If you compare the price to other contact management tools, you will see that the price is comparable. I use Sensobi and think it does a better job with more analytics but it is twice the price. If you want a simpler contact tool, I $5 for this produce is fair.

 
 
Posted by SCrid2000 Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 809 days ago

I have the same issue with this as I had with swoosh's sms app: I like it better than the default, but there's no hotkey. So even though it looks better (despite being harder to find a specific contact) it takes longer to use. And since it's less time effecient AND takes up extra space, I end up deleting it. If there was a way to switch the hotkey to this and delete the stock address book, I'd pay for it in a second.

 
 
Posted by Cadillac.Cowboy Sunday, Mar 07, 2010 809 days ago

Agreed - without the ability to replace the default (BlackBerry OS) call log or contacts/address book, this application is largely pointless... The developer doesn't have to "delete" the default contacts/address book or call log (not that this is even possible, as I understand it...), but instead present this application when trying to ACCESS those functions.

If this application could be made to display INSTEAD of the default contacts/address book and/or call log (particularly the latter), I'd buy it in a heartbeat at the current price (I could possible even be convinced to spend a little more!), but until such a time, I'm uninstalling it...

 
 
Posted by jetman1287 Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

Blackberry finally gets an interesting new app and it's overpriced. Just like that redicilous $15 mlb app. Sigh. It's not all the developers fault though, all BB apps cost too much.

 
 
Posted by freddymartinez9 Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

The MLB app also costs 15 dollars from Android Marketplace

 
 
Posted by haemish Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

The people that want to SwooshContacts to run instead of the stock AddressBook can simply move the application icon to where the AddressBook was and click it. If you want quicker accesss to SwooshContacts bind it to one of the convenience keys.

 
 
Posted by Cadillac.Cowboy Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

One of my convenience keys is assigned to the camera (for those spontaneous moments where one might need to get to the camera QUICKLY, and I'm not just referring to "memorable moments"...), the other to "QuickLaunch" (launch multiple applications from the one convenience key).

Now I COULD add SwooshContacts to QuickLaunch, but that brings two issues of its own - it's not as intuitive as having SwooshContacts open when trying to access the call log and/or contacts/address book, and depending on one's QuickLaunch setup, it will take 2+ clicks to launch SwooshContacts...

You MIGHT say that 2+ clicks isn't all that much, but you have to look at what you're actually using - it's an application SPECIFICALLY designed to enhance the functionality of the call log and to a lesser extent, the contacts/address book - two of the most commonly used functions on ANY telephone!

ANY time that can be saved using these two functions, no matter how small, is a MASSIVE benefit, ESPECIALLY if you're a heavy user of your phone...

 
 
Posted by SCrid2000 Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

Haha, I hide the address book. I access it by pushing the a button. So putting the swoosh contacts icon where the address book icon is would be useless without a hotkey. As for convenience keys, mine are used up.

 
 
Posted by anderl72 Monday, Mar 08, 2010 809 days ago

waiting for the xobni bb version

i had swoosh photo, it is buggy and never got updated, new release. so i already had xperience with swoosh ;)

 
 
Posted by crackcookie Tuesday, Mar 16, 2010 801 days ago

its not a BAD app, its just not worth 5 dollars....why not lower the price and get more buyers?

Do we really NEED our contacts listed, when BB does that automatically....your last SMS are listed in order....ergo. 5 is too much for hearts

 
 
Posted by chuck091956 Friday, Jun 18, 2010 707 days ago

I've not found any documentation of Swoosh Contacts. Does anyone know what drives the Ranking number or the Activity % number?