AddressBook Cleaner Changelog

What's new in AddressBook Cleaner 2.91

Oct 17, 2017
  • Fixes problem of running on latest macOS.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.90 (Dec 6, 2014)

  • Fixes problems to make it compatible to Yosemite OS X 10.10.
  • Fixes crashes while loading contacts.
  • Improves matching performance to find duplicates.
  • Various bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.81 (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Fixes crashes while sorting duplicate contacts on OS X 10.9
  • Fixes failure on deleting some of the checked contacts.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.80 (Aug 28, 2013)

  • Add new feature to delete contact values in batches by matching given keyword or regular expression
  • Fix bug on finding duplicates.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.70 (Jun 5, 2013)

  • Improve algorithm of sorting contact to delete.
  • Fixed crashes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.67 (Apr 17, 2013)

  • Fixed problem on creating backed up vcards during deletion.
  • Improve performance to delete thousands of duplicates.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.66 (Mar 16, 2013)

  • Support for OS X 10.8.3

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.65 (Jan 18, 2013)

  • Fixed crashes on Mountain Lion 10.8.2

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.63 (Nov 12, 2012)

  • Fixed crashes with huge amount of dupes.
  • Shows message before deleting dupes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.62 (Oct 22, 2012)

  • Fixed seldom crashes on Lion (10.7.x)

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.61 (Sep 10, 2012)

  • Fixed a rare crash while sorting contacts dupes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.60 (Aug 17, 2012)

  • Fixed French translation.
  • French speaking users should update to this version.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.58 (Jul 31, 2012)

  • Fixed German translation.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.55 (Jul 17, 2012)

  • Fixed crashes on OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard)
  • Fixed occasional crashes while deleting contacts with special photo image on Lion (OS X 10.7.4).

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.53 (Jul 9, 2012)

  • Add new option "Ignore blank fields" for duplicates criteria, fields with empty values will be treated as different items.
  • All users should update to this version to filter the dupes with empty first name, last name or others fields.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.50 (Jul 4, 2012)

  • Fixed the problem of becoming frozen with huge amounts of contacts in Address Book. (Usually more than 10k)
  • Improve the performance on deleting dupes.
  • All users have large number of contacts should update to this version.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.44 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • fixes of the problem for finding dupes by nickname (blank nickname were ignored in old versions)

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.43 (Jun 15, 2012)

  • Quick check all dupes for deletion
  • Fixed bug of auto checking duplicates without phone numbers

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.41 (Jun 7, 2012)

  • Fixed missing of groups list on Leopard. (OS X 10.6 and 10.7 or later users can ignore this update)

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.40 (Jun 1, 2012)

  • Important update for comparison of contacts with blank properties: Last Name, Home Phone Number etc.
  • Fixed a critical crash bug when auto-backup is enabled for deletion

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.30 (May 30, 2012)

  • New languages support: Deutsch, Español
  • Auto-backup before deleting dupes
  • Change UI language dynamically

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.20 (May 28, 2012)

  • Multiple languages support
  • Currently support English, Italiano, Français

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.10 (May 21, 2012)

  • Add new feature of removing contacts from groups
  • Various changes

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.05 (May 21, 2012)

  • Correct text alignment in contact info panel

New in AddressBook Cleaner 2.00 (May 14, 2012)

  • Adding new feature of viewing contact information
  • Layout changes
  • Improve sorting performance

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.50 (May 8, 2012)

  • Improve algorithm for finding duplicate addresses
  • Add menu item for pasting activation code

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.43 (Apr 26, 2012)

  • Bug fixes of addresses simplifying
  • Fixed help link.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.40 (Apr 21, 2012)

  • Add new feature of simplifying contacts' addresses.
  • Various improvements.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.30 (Apr 16, 2012)

  • Layout adjustments
  • Fixed crashes on Lion

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.243 (Apr 4, 2012)

  • Improvements on phone number comparison for simplify
  • Fix the purchase link

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.240 (Mar 29, 2012)

  • Crashes bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.232 (Mar 26, 2012)

  • fixes various small bugs.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.220 (Feb 23, 2012)

  • Collate phone numbers in various formats. (e.g. (609) 591-7102 and +1-609-591-7102 recognized as same)
  • Support flexible length of phone numbers for different country and area.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.215 (Feb 18, 2012)

  • Fixed various bugs and display problem for duplicated phone numbers and email addresses.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.211 (Feb 13, 2012)

  • Fixed various bugs.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.210 (Feb 6, 2012)

  • Includes important bug fixes of missing additional matching fields.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.200 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • AddressBook Cleaner 1.200 release with great useful features including:
  • Contact collation - remove repeated phone numbers and email addresses of contacts
  • Improvements on performance of finding duplicated contacts from Apple Address Book.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.162 (Jan 10, 2012)

  • Includes a bug fix while finding out duplicated emails.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.161 (Dec 28, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.160 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • Bug fixes
  • Confirmation before deleting duplicated contacts.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.156 (Dec 13, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.155 (Dec 5, 2011)

  • Includes various bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.154 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • Bug fixes

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.153 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • Fixes of auto updates.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.152 (Nov 14, 2011)

  • Minor update

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.151 (Nov 9, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes of displaying message "The update is improperly signed." during updates.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.150 (Nov 8, 2011)

  • Includes new feature that find out contacts without phone numbers. Usually for those contacts have only email addresses.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.143 (Nov 3, 2011)

  • Includes various bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.142 (Oct 28, 2011)

  • Fixes bug of registration.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.141 (Oct 25, 2011)

  • Includes various bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.140 (Oct 18, 2011)

  • Add email address as match condition for finding duplicated contacts.
  • Add display of email address.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.136 (Oct 17, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes of registration.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.135 (Oct 10, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes.
  • Delete duplicated contacts from Apple Address Book.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.133 (Oct 5, 2011)

  • Includes various bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.132 (Oct 1, 2011)

  • Various minor bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.131 (Sep 26, 2011)

  • Bug fixes while remove duplicated contacts from Apple Address Book.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.130 (Sep 21, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes of the app becomes frozen at startup because of checking updates which sometimes occurs on Lion.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.127 (Sep 19, 2011)

  • Various bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.125 (Sep 5, 2011)

  • Includes various bug fixes for deleting duplicated contacts.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.123 (Aug 29, 2011)

  • Various bug fixes.
  • To delete duplicate contacts in Apple Address Book.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.121 (Aug 22, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.120 (Aug 16, 2011)

  • Includes bug fixes of crashes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.110 (Aug 8, 2011)

  • Fixes a vital crash bug while deleting duplicate contacts.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.102 (Aug 4, 2011)

  • Bug fixes.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.100 (Jul 21, 2011)

  • Major updates.
  • Includes:
  • Add additional fields as matching condition for find duplicated contacts.
  • Improve matching algorithm for some contacts with empty fields.

New in AddressBook Cleaner 1.004 (Jul 12, 2011)

  • Includes various tiny bug fixes.