Alternative Contacts app with a focus on privacy and data protection
Private Contacts offers a privacy-first address book that keeps sensitive contacts separate and adds caller-ID for private entries. It runs as a client-only app with open-source code on GitHub and supports encrypted backups, backed by 50,000+ total downloads and 1.2K in the last 30 days.
Pros & Cons
Separates private contacts from your normal address book
Client-side data storage minimizes data exposure
Caller-ID notifications for private contacts improve privacy while staying informed
Open-source transparency with GitHub-hosted code
Public-contact features are still in development; full parity with standard contact apps is not yet guaranteed
About Private Contacts
Private Contacts is a productivity app developed by 2Gusoft.
How many times has Private Contacts been downloaded?
Private Contacts has been downloaded 64 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 1.2 thousand times.
What is the rating of Private Contacts?
Private Contacts is rated 4.77 out of 5 stars, based on 110 ratings.
Is Private Contacts free?
Private Contacts is free to download. The APK download size is 5.39 MB. The latest version available is 5.8.7. The last update was on May 3, 2026.
What are the requirements for Private Contacts?
Private Contacts requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play April 2022.
Description
Improve the privacy of your contacts by defining which of them should be shared with other apps and which should remain private (secret).
While you may be willing to share most of your phone's contacts with apps like WhatsApp or Instagram, you probably don't want to let them know about some others like your doctor, therapist, etc.
First, you don't communicate with them over WhatsApp anyway. And second, this is a real privacy-issue because the mere fact that you have that number stored means that you are a patient there which is confidential data.
Unfortunately, Android only allows an all-or-nothing approach: either you give an app full access to your phone's contact-list or you don't give it anything.
Use the app "Private Contacts" to store those contacts which you do not want to share. It is mimics the standard functionality of your normal contact app but stores all its contacts separately, not sharing them with any other app.
The app offers a caller-ID functionality to show a notification if one of your private contacts is calling you. This notification will tell you which contact it is that is calling you. The default phone-app would not be able to do so because the contacts are not even shared with that.
Of course, you might say that you don't care about sharing this data. In that case, John Oliver explains far better than me, why you should: https://youtu.be/wqn3gR1WTcA
The app takes the protection of your data seriously and does not send any identifying information to anyone. This is a client-only app: there is no server to which the app could even send your data. The only information we get, are anonymized crash-reports from Google.
It is completely open source and can be found on Github under https://github.com/fgubler/PrivateContacts
### Plans for the future ### In addition to the secret contacts, the app can also read, edit, create and delete "normal" public contacts. Most typical features of a contact-app are supported. The rest of them will be implemented as soon as possible.
Recent changes: Bugfix for failure to save contact when changing it right after creation
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So far, exactly what I needed. A 'private' address book/contacts list, completely separate from the rest of my phone. Allows me to manage contacts that I may only need to contact once a year and so unclutter my main account. Would like the ability for multiple, separate contact lists for ease of organizing e.g. family, work, businesses.
★★★★★Indian OutLaw· Nov 20, 2023
I love this app. I wish I could lock it with a password. Maybe in the future. 😄 😆
★★★★★Pink· Mar 19, 2023
This is the app I wanted... Thank you... Suggestion: Can you add a WhatsApp shortcut to send WhatsApp message directly ?
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Technologies used by Private Contacts
Private Contacts is requesting 18 permissions and is using 13 libraries.
Trust & Safety: Open-source and client-only design minimizes data exposure; only anonymized crash reports may be collected by Google. The app requests sensitive permissions (eg. READ_CONTACTS, POST_NOTIFICATIONS) to enable core functionality, so review the requested permissions and assess privacy implications.
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.
Android Jetpack core
Firebase
Kotlin