【Interact Contacts】評価/口コミ・レビュー [iPhone]

On launch day, this was very nearly the app I had been looking for for the last couple of years. Groups are almost unusable in the stock Apple Contacts app. I had used a combination of Drafts (also by this developer), LaunchCenter Pro, and TextExpander to work around some of the limitations.

Interact makes working with groups actually viable in iOS. You can create or edit groups directly on the phone. There is no separate database, it works directly with the contacts you have already entered via Contacts. The scratchpad feature is great. Officially, the developer only supports English, but the app recognizes most Japanese address elements, and a quick select and tag will let you properly enter names — which the parsing engine doesn't recognize automatically.

The developer is responsive. I sent an email the day I downloaded it, explaining that I really wished the scratchpad supported tagging phonetic first and last names. Even though a bilingual usage case like mine is pretty rare, only about a week later, when the first point release came out, he had added support for tags for phonetic last and first names.

**ディベロパーは英語だけ喋られるが、アプリは日本語でも使える。サポートは英語しかできないと思うけど。**

Appleのコンタクトのアプリよりのアプリを数年に調べていた。発売日にもInteractはほとんどの欲しい特徴がありました。前に、Drafts、LaunchCenter Pro、とTextExpanderでグループメールができたけど、やっぱりそのワークフローは面倒くさかった。

Interactのアプリはグループを直接編集したり、作ったりできます。別のデーターベースじゃなくて、自分のコンタクトを使います。ベストの特徴はscratchpadです。そこに新しいコンタクトの情報を入力して、自動的にアプリはコンタクトのフィルドを解答できます。ディベロッパーは英語しかサポートできないが、もうアプリは住所など分かるみたいです。日本語にテストをした時、ほとんど間違いはなかったです。氏名は自動に分からないが、すぐにタッグをできるからちゃんと入力できます。

さらに、ディベロッパーがいいと思います。名前の読み方は日本によくメモを使います。最初板のscratchpadはそのタッグなかった。ディベロッパーにサポートメールを送ったすぐ後で、ポイント・リリースにそのタックを追加してくれました。やっぱり、服のようなバイリンガルのケースは珍しいけど、できるだけディベロパーは改善したいみたいですね。

This is a 4-star app that will probably be 5-stars after a post-launch update or two addresses user requests. On my wish list is: tags for Phonetic First Name and Phonetic Last Name. Living in Japan, you often need those to confirm *kanji* readings, particularly for given names.

Those fields are available for adding manually after the contact is created, but the parsing engine doesn't recognize them yet. Considering that the overhead for adding those, and perhaps some other fields is probably not that high, I'm betting we'll see support for the full list of fields in future updates.

I've been looking for a better way to add contacts for a long time. The standard Contacts app requires lots of tapping, typing, tapping through fields. Other 3rd party apps have been much the same, even if they featured other extended capabilities.

I've used Drafts extensively for the last couple of years and tried to cobble together my own workflow using URL-callbacks and other power-user type tricks to try to streamline the process, but the technical hurdles and time investment started to approach developing my own app. Thankfully, the same guys who made Drafts made this app, so I don't have to!