Over the past four months, Saropa Contacts has undergone a transformational development sprint delivering 605 user-facing changes. This work was strategically organized into three core pillars: introducing powerful new capabilities, enhancing existing features you already love, and reinforcing the platform with critical engineering improvements.
The outcome is an application that doesn’t just store your contacts — it understands them, anticipates your needs, and delivers a premium experience at every interaction.
Daily Inspiration & Wellness
Start every day with something meaningful! Choose which notifications you want and when you want them delivered.
- Daily Affirmations: Positive statements delivered each morning to set your mindset.
- Daily Horoscope: Your zodiac reading with a personalized welcome message.
- Mental Models: Learn powerful thinking frameworks like the 80/20 rule and Occam’s Razor.
- Interesting Words: Expand your vocabulary with a new word each day.
- Health & Safety Tips: Optional reminders about emergency preparedness and wellness.
“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” — Steve Jobs
This wasn’t about incremental updates. It was a strategic evolution focused on transforming how you interact with your most important relationships. This transformation brings:
- Google Meet: Tap to start video calls directly for any contact
- Google Calendar: Calendar events right alongside birthdays
- Personality Quiz: Deeper understanding of yourself and your contacts
- Conversion Tools: A surprisingly fun calculator with 20+ measurement categories.
- Daily Inspiration: Affirmations, horoscopes, vocabulary words, and mental models delivered when you want them.
- Enhanced Integrations: Bluesky now on your home screen, faster YouTube imports, improved Google Contacts sync, and Facebook login fixes.
This is more than an update — it’s Saropa Contacts evolved. We can’t wait for you to experience it!
“The details are not the details. They make the design.” — Charles Eames
Discover Brand New Features
Google Meet
Start face-to-face conversations directly from your contacts. Tap the Google Meet icon on any contact to instantly start a video call. Sign in once with your Google account and you’re ready to go. Works whether you’re scheduling a meeting or jumping into an impromptu chat.
Google Calendar
Your schedule and your contacts, finally together. See upcoming Google Calendar events on your home screen alongside birthdays and anniversaries. Tap any event to open it directly in Google Calendar. Events from your phone’s calendar and Google Calendar appear together without duplicates.
Personality Quiz
Understand yourself and your contacts on a deeper level. Take personality assessments and save the results to your profile. Run quizzes for your contacts to remember their personality types. Pause and resume quizzes anytime — your progress is saved. View personality insights right on the contact details screen.
Conversion Tools
A surprisingly fun calculator for everyday measurements.
- Convert temperature, speed, weight, data storage, and 20+ other categories.
- Discover whimsical units — how many LEGO bricks tall are you? How many coffee breaks in a workday?
- Your conversion history is saved so you can revisit past calculations.
- Integrated calculators into medical sections
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci
Smarter Integrations
These features existed before, but they’ve been significantly improved.
- Facebook sign-in works reliably again.
- The video wall shows YouTube videos from people in your contacts up to 8x faster.
- Google Contacts-specific fields like skills, interests, and custom labels are now fully supported.
- A “Latest News” section shows recent Bluesky posts right when you open the app.
- Learn about contact locations with automatic Wikipedia information.
- Instant WhatsApp or Telegram chats with integrated cultural etiquette tips
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” — Steve Jobs
A More Beautiful Experience
- The bottom navigation bar now features a frosted glass effect
- Visual effects automatically adjust based on your device — smooth on newer phones, lightweight on older ones.
- Edge-to-edge content for a modern, immersive look.
- Loading screens now show organic. elegant shimmer effects.
- The automatic light and dark themes based on your phone’s settings.
- Seasonal effects and for contact photos gain festive overlays during national holidays and seasons.
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” — Aristotle
Better Interactions
- Pull down on any contact to refresh their information.
- Simple drag gesture to rearrange email and phone priorities.
- The World Clock now has a time slider to see what time it is for contacts around the world.
- Business Card Mode hides personal details and shows only work information.
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
Faster & More Reliable
- Smoother performance when importing large contact lists
- Better Notifications, scheduled independently at your preferred time.
- Full support for Android 15’s new display features.
- Fixed a crash affecting Samsung devices running Android 10.
- iOS now uses modern Swift Package Manager for better future compatibility.
- Push notifications work reliably on both iOS and Android.
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.” — Henry Ford
Building Connection, Bit by Bit
The true value of this update lies in how these tools fit into your daily life. Whether you are finding clarity with a daily affirmation, understanding a friend better through a personality quiz, or seamlessly hopping onto a Google Meet call, this release is about enriching the moments that matter.
Technology should serve the relationship, not the other way around. With these new features, we believe we have struck the perfect balance between robust utility and delightful design.
We hope you enjoy discovering every detail as much as we enjoyed crafting them!
“Communication works for those who work at it.” — John Powell
Final Word 🪅
