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| From | Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.mobile.android |
| Subject | Re: contacts |
| Date | 2026-07-14 17:33 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <1135oca$g6jv$6@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 2026-07-13, Maria Sophia wrote:
> Nuno Silva wrote:
>> With Android 15, I was able to install the
>> Fossify one. That said, I wasn't impressed when
>
> Caring about privacy, I installed OpenContacts which I think is better than
> the Fossify Contacts app, since OpenContacts ties to WhatsApp, Telegram &
> Signal, in addition to whatever your default SMS app is (mine is pulsesms).
>
>
> *Open Contacts*
> <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/>
> <https://gitlab.com/sultanahamer/OpenContacts>
>
> Below is a copy of what I wrote a few months ago on this newsgroup.
>
> Fossify Contacts is apparently a nice replacement UI for managing
> contacts. But apparently it still uses the standard Android
> ContactsProvider. That means it uses the system SQLite contacts
> database. Which means it uses the same storage model as the stock
> Contacts app.
>
> So if we add a contact in Fossify Contacts, it will appear in the
> system contacts DB and that means any app with contacts permission
> can read it.
(What I get there is that I can add them to a store which isn't visible
by other applications. Now I have no idea if this is an app feature, an
Android feature or an Android modification by the phone manufacturer...)
>
> Sigh.
>
> The pre-2021 Simple Mobile Tools Simple Contacts Pro had a "local-only"
> mode that stored contacts in its own internal storage, and it also
> supported VCF import/export. But in my testing years ago, it worked
> only with some dialers, not all.
[...]
>
> The only contacts apps that I've found that meet the privacy
> requirements are:
> 1. DOpen Contacts (supports private storage + VCF import/export)
> 2. Simple Contacts Pro (old version from before 2021)
(Isn't Simple Mobile Tools Simple Contacts{, Pro} what Fossify Contacts
was forked from?)
> If anyone knows of a modern FOSS contacts app that keeps everything
> out of the system provider and supports VCF import/export and integrates
> with dialer/SMS, I'd love to hear about it.
--
Nuno Silva
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