When I was searching a friend’s contact, I found there were several duplicate contacts in my Contacts. Maybe we don’t have a date often, so I record his contact several times. And I scrutinized my Contacts, more than that one has duplicate contacts. There are hundreds of contacts in my Mac, I am not able to find and delete those duplicate contacts manually. What should I do? Who can give me some useful advices?
Yesterday, I saw this problem mentioned above from a forum. And there are other users also have the same confusion. Actually, it is a general problem. Many times, we are likely to repeat storing contacts of some people. Plenty of duplicate contacts were recorded over time, not overnight, which caused a lot of inconvenience for contact management. So what we should to do to deal with those tiresome duplicate contacts? Merging duplicate contacts seems a good solution to this troublesome problem.
In that case, how to merge or remove duplicate contacts on Mac? If you search this problem on Google, you will get some results, but the solutions from Google are chaotic, you must choose the most suitable one in a pile of results. It is really a difficult task. Don’t worry, this article will share 5 solutions to merge and delete duplicate contacts on Mac for users, El Capitan is also included. And detailed operation steps of each solution also will be provided. You can read my article and select the best solution to merge and remove duplicate contacts on Mac. Please read on.
Price: $19.99
Cisdem ContactsMate for Mac is one of the best contact management software that will analyzes, reports, and fixes dozens of problems with OS X Contacts and export Mac contacts to CSV, vCard, TXT, Docx, HTML, Excel, Numbers, and Pages format for easy Contacts back up or sync. With this useful tool, you can manage and backup OS X Contacts in one place or sync contacts from Mac to iPhone. No matter how much contacts you have, download and install 
Cisdem ContactsMate for Mac, it will help you to find all of duplicate contacts, and remove duplicate contacts on your Mac easily.
Pros: Make groups for contacts
14 screening conditions to find, analyze, report the errors and duplicates
batch fix all similar problematic contacts, etc.
Cons: export your address book to CSV, vCard, TXT, DocX, HTML, Excel, Numbers, and Pages formats. About importing Excel or SCV, vCard, Docx, HTML, Numbers, and pages formats, but this is listed into the next upgrade.
Download the free trial of Cisdem ContactsMate for Mac Now!
Step 1. Download Cisdem ContactsMate and launch it on Mac.
Step 2. Sync with OS X Contacts. When you run Cisdem ContactsMate on your Mac, it will ask you to set connection with your Contacts, just click "OK".
Step 3. Search duplicate contacts. Go to the top menu bar, Cisdem ContactsMate > Preferences > Duplicate > OK, it will start to scan.
Step 4. A list all of duplicate contacts are detected. You can choose to delete this contact or merge contacts.
AddressBook Cleaner is a duplicate contacts remover app. To keep Address Book clean and contacts unique, this app will help users to clean up Apple Address Book on Mac to avoid duplicated contacts. With this tool, get rid of duplicate contacts from mac address book becomes easy. It will help you finding out all the duplicate contacts in Address Book matched various situations, and marking the ones unwanted automatically. So you can remove duplicate contacts easily.
Pros: Find all the contacts which match the predefined fields, and mark the ones to be remove.
Cons: Sometimes the sync process is going wrong somewhere along the line and creating duplicate lists of some contacts. You have to take time to find and delete the duplicate contacts by hand.
Download the free trial of AddressBook Cleaner for Mac Now!
Step 1. Download and install AddressBook Cleaner on your Mac.
Step 2. Find out duplicated contacts automatically after you specify the filter conditions.
Step 3. Check duplicate on your Mac.
Step 4. Merge duplicate contacts on Mac. Just click "Delete" button to remove all marked contacts from Address Book.
Contacts Cleaner is an amazing application that will go through your address book and sensibly merge, delete and clean up your contacts. It has an easy to use interface, users can find duplicated contacts and fields and removing unwanted data through it. In addition, with this useful application, Contacts can be changed individually or by checking the "fix all similar" box, anything with the same issue will be fixed in one go.
Download the free trial of Contacts Cleaner for Mac Now!
Detailed steps to merge and delete duplicate contacts as shown below:
Step 1. Download and install Contacts Cleaner on your Mac. At first, you need to download Contacts Cleaner, this application doesn’t allow user to try it for free. You need to pay money so that you can download it. After downloaded, it will be installed on your Mac automatically. It is convenient.
Step 2. Sync with OS X Contacts. Just as Cisdem ContactsMate, when you run this application on your Mac, it also will ask you to sync with your Contacts. You need to sync with OS X Contacts, so that you can finish the next step.
Step 3. Find duplicated contacts on your Mac. Next, you need to find duplicate contacts on your Mac. Contacts Cleaner provides multiple conditions for users to choose, you can check on or more condition. And click “OK”, it will start to scan.
Step 4. Merge duplicate contacts on Mac. Wait a minute, you will get results. It will list duplicate contacts for you, you can click “Merge contacts” to merge duplicate contacts on Mac.
Address Book Clearout is a great application for Mac users, that will straighten out your contacts, clean up data issues and quickly finds and highlights duplicates to help you merge and eliminate redundant and out-of-date information with a simple but powerful interface, and not only remove duplicates, but find those cards that you put in at different times for the same person. With this application, you can easily find and merge duplicate contacts on your Mac.
Download the free trial of Address Book Clearout for Mac Now!
Detailed steps to merge and delete duplicate contacts as shown below:
Step 1. Download and install Address Book Clearout on your Mac. Before merging duplicate contacts on Mac, you need to download Address Book Clearout first. This application also not support downloading for free, you need to pay some money for it so that you can try it. And after downloaded, it also will be installed on your Mac automatically.
Step 2. Sync with OS X Contacts. Then you need to set a connection between Contacts with Address Book Clearout so that you can sync with OS X Contacts.
Step 3. Find duplicated contacts on your Mac. Next, using this application to find duplicate contacts on Mac, after a while, it will send a duplicate scan reports for you.
Step 4. Merge duplicate contacts on Mac. You can view duplicate scan reports, and click each contact to view details. Then you can choose to remove multiple contacts by one click.
Contacts Cleanup is simple application that it only can help users to find and merge the duplicate contacts into a single contact. User can solve three conflicts by using this application, including duplicate contacts, duplicate phones, and duplicate emails. If you use Contacts Cleanup, merging duplicate contacts on Mac is no longer a difficult task. Contacts Cleanup is available on Mac App Store.
Detailed steps to merge and remove duplicate contacts as shown below:
Step 1. Download and install Contacts Cleanup on your Mac. Contacts Cleanup is available on Mac App Store, so this application also doesn’t support trying for free. You need to purchase. And all of applications download from Mac App Store will be installed automatically.
Step 2. Sync with OS X Contacts. Next, you need to sync with OS X Contacts. It is a key step that had to be satisfied.
Step 3. Find duplicated contacts on your Mac. Contacts Cleanup also provides many screening conditions for users, you can check the condition you want, one or more. Then it will scan your Contacts to find duplicate contacts on Mac.
Step 4. Merge duplicate contacts on Mac. After finding duplicate contacts, the next thing you should do is merging duplicate contacts on Mac. You can click “Merge Contacts” to finish it.
In conclusion, those 5 solutions mention above all can merge duplicate contacts on Mac. And each one has its good points. But Contacts Cleaner, Address Book Clearout, Contacts Cleanup all don't provide a free trial for users, if you want to use them, you must to pay first. In general, users need to try out an application before purchase. It is a drawback. What’s more, compared to Cisdem ContactsMate for Mac, The functions of other applications are very limited. Except for finding and merging duplicate contacts on Mac, Cisdem ContactsMate for Mac also can give you a comprehensive management for your Contacts. It also can analyzes, reports, and fixes dozens of problems with OS X Contacts and export Mac Address Book to multiple formats for better sharing or backup. But others can’t do that. It is so prefect, right?
2016-09-18 03:48:07 / Posted byJose Henline to Contact Manager Mac Follow @ Jose
Securely lock apps like Facebook, Twitter, games, Reddit, etc. and block distracting websites on Mac Learn More
Burn any video to DVD on Mac including: MP4, AVI, VOB, 3GP, FLV, MOV, MTS, M2TS, WMV, MKV, M4V,etc. Learn More
Many users don’t know how to sync contacts to Gmail for backup. This article will show you how to sync your Mac, Android phone , iPad and iPhone contacts to Gmail.
Many Gmail users are looking for answers online about how to add contacts to Gmail. In fact, adding contacts to Gmail is the same as adding contacts to Google Contacts. How to add contacts to Gmail? This guide will show you 5 ways to add contacts to Gmail or Google Contacts.
We can store our contacts through many channels, like iPhone, mac and some media applications. With my situation, I prefer to manage all of my contacts at one place, it will be very easy to call, message or email someone. In order to make email be convenient, this article will introduce how to import contacts into outlook.
Contact Manager Mac
︾
︾
Get Inspired!
Sign up for Cisdem newsletters, stay informed on the latest products news, the hottest deals, and our holiday special sales.
3 Responses
I have 200 contacts in my Contacts, and i don't how many duplicates are there. I will try these apps to remove duplicate contacts and make my Contacts perfect.
1 years ago REPLYVery comprehensive article. Tks ~
1 years ago REPLYIt is surprising that I have over 50 duplicate contacts in my address book. Thanks for the powerful tool from cisdem. It worth its price.
1 years ago REPLYLeave a Reply