# Saropa Contacts

> Saropa Contacts is a free intelligent address book app for Android and iOS, built by Saropa Pty Ltd (Australia). It organizes your contacts, keeps you safe with 16,800+ global emergency services across 250 countries, and includes first-aid tips and condition guides, smart data cleanup, interactive maps, and 100+ more features. Rated 4.8 stars with 50,000+ downloads. Mission: to reduce the impact of crises everywhere.

## Keywords

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## About

- **App Name**: Saropa Contacts
- **Tagline**: "The Intelligent Address Book"
- **Hero**: "Your contacts. Always current. Always connected."
- **Price**: 100% free for personal use. No hidden costs, no subscriptions, no tiers.
- **Platforms**: Android and iOS (iPhone and iPad)
- **Rating**: 4.8 stars, 50,000+ downloads
- **Developer**: Saropa Pty Ltd (ABN 41 142 178 434)
- **Offices**: Melbourne and Sydney (Australia), New York City (USA)
- **Website**: https://saropa.com
- **Android Package**: com.saropamobile.app
- **Google Play**: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saropamobile.app
- **App Store**: https://apps.apple.com/app/saropa/id6447379943
- **Social**: BlueSky @saropa.com
- **Explainer Video**: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/0uG4sIKoGs8
- **App Category**: Productivity (SoftwareApplication)

## What's New & Why Saropa (8 Features)

Your contacts app stores information — Saropa helps you **use** it.

1. **100% Free** — All features unlocked for personal use. No hidden costs, no subscriptions.
2. **Emergency & Health** — 16,800+ emergency services across 250 countries, plus first-aid tips, health guides, and a condition finder.
3. **Contact Cleanup** — Spots duplicates automatically, shows missing info, gives each contact a completeness score. You decide what to fix.
4. **Location & Travel Tools** — See who's nearby on a map, check local time before calling, and convert currency. Built for travelers.
5. **Events & Reminders** — Follow-up nudges when you haven't reached out in a while. Track when you last talked to people. Event mini-calendar for what's coming up.
6. **Snappier Performance** — Faster loading. Smoother scrolling. Everything just feels quicker.
7. **Smart Business ID** — Spots business contacts automatically. Keeps companies separate from personal contacts.
8. **Interactive Social Wall** — Favorite, hide, or mark contacts for emergencies. Your social connections, organized your way.

## Who Is Saropa For?

Whether you've got 50 or 5,000 contacts, Saropa helps you actually use them.

- **Parents & Families** — Would your babysitter know exactly who to call in a crisis? Keep medical info organized and access offline first-aid tips for when seconds matter.
- **Big Social Circle** — Landing in a new city? See which friends are nearby on a map. Check their local time before calling. Share your number via QR in two taps.
- **Work & Community** — Three months later, do you remember how you met? Tag how you connected, flag incomplete info, and keep your professional network actionable.

## Smart Contact Management (11 Features)

Smart groups, follow-up reminders, and business card mode. Organize without the effort.

1. **Contact Profile View** — Centralized detail screen showing everything about a contact: profile photo, multiple phone numbers, emails, addresses, social links, and notes. All in one tap.
2. **Native Edit Integration** — One-tap to open contacts in your device's native contacts app. Make edits there and changes sync automatically back to Saropa.
3. **Quick Toggles** — One-tap buttons to mark contacts as Favorite, Hidden, or Follow-up. Instant filtering and organization without opening menus.
4. **Biometric Locking** — Lock sensitive contacts behind Face ID or fingerprint. Perfect for protecting business contacts or private information.
5. **Follow-Up Management** — Mark contacts for follow-up with one tap. Get reminders to reconnect. Dedicated list shows who's waiting.
6. **Business Card Mode** — One tap to hide personal contacts and show only professional ones. Switch between work and personal mode instantly.
7. **Top Contact Points** — Automatically ranks contacts by interaction frequency. See who you call and message most. Surfaces your most important relationships.
8. **Country Flags** — Visual country indicators next to phone numbers and addresses. Instantly see where contacts are located with flag icons.
9. **Former Name Support** — Store maiden names and previous names. Search by old names to find contacts even after name changes from marriage or other reasons.
10. **Business Detection** — Automatically separates businesses from people. Keeps your personal and professional contacts organized without manual sorting.
11. **Timeline Tab** — A unified, chronological feed of every interaction, edit, and event, creating a complete history log of your digital life.

## Data Quality & Tools (13 Features)

Saropa flags what's broken so you can fix it.

1. **Duplicate Detection** — Finds duplicate contacts automatically. One-tap merge with preview. Catches variations like "Bob Smith" and "Robert Smith" or slight phone number differences.
2. **Completeness Scoring** — Every contact gets a 0-100% quality score. See at a glance which contacts need more information. Filter by completeness to focus cleanup efforts.
3. **Missing Data Alerts** — Automatically flags contacts with no phone number, no email, or no address. Dedicated audit lists show exactly what's missing so you can fill gaps efficiently.
4. **Email & Phone Validation** — Format validation catches invalid email addresses and malformed phone numbers. Find contacts with "email@" or phone numbers with letters before they cause problems.
5. **Address Validation** — Flags incomplete addresses missing street, city, or postal code. Ensures your contacts have complete, mappable addresses for navigation and mail.
6. **Birthday & Anniversary Audits** — Detects missing birth years, unreasonable ages (130 years old?), and invalid anniversary dates. Ensures your birthday calendar shows accurate, complete dates.
7. **Empty Details Detection** — Finds "ghost" contacts with a name but absolutely no other data: no phone, email, address, or notes. Decide whether to delete or fill in missing information.
8. **Organization Audits** — Flags job titles without company names or companies without titles. Ensures professional contacts have complete work information for networking.
9. **Pre-processing** — Auto-cleanup runs when importing contacts from other apps. Standardizes formats, removes duplicate whitespace, and normalizes phone number formatting automatically.
10. **Fuzzy Search** — Finds contacts even with typos or partial matches. Search "Jon" to find "Jonathan". Search "555-1234" to find "+1 (555) 123-4567".
11. **Currency Converter** — Built-in calculator for real-time exchange rates using the Frankfurter API, perfect for travelers.
12. **Internet Speed Test** — Native utility to measure network latency, download speed, and upload speed directly within the app.
13. **Unit Converter** — Suite of conversion tools for Medical Dosage, Length, Weight, Temperature, Volume, Digital & Technology, Digital Media & Audio, Energy & Environment, Clothing, Cooking, Paper, and Shoe Sizes.

## Safety, Privacy & Emergency (12 Features)

16,800+ emergency services across 250 countries. Know who to call in a crisis.

1. **Emergency Services Database** — 16,800+ emergency organizations across 250 countries. Police, fire, ambulance, poison control, coast guard, and 67 other service types. Local numbers, instantly available.
2. **Medical First Aid Tips** — First-aid tips covering CPR, choking, burns, cuts, allergic reactions, and more. Works offline when you need it most.
3. **Emergency Preparedness** — 521 guides for natural disasters, power outages, evacuations, severe weather, and crisis situations. Checklists and action plans to prepare before disaster strikes.
4. **Medical Conditions Database** — Medical conditions with symptoms, treatments, and when to call 911. Searchable offline database for quick reference.
5. **Emergency Quick Bar** — Local emergency numbers appear at the top of the dialer screen based on your current location. One tap to call police, fire, or ambulance without searching.
6. **Call Notices** — Pre-call warnings before calling specific contacts or countries. Set reminders like "Don't call Mom before 9am" or get timezone alerts before international calls.
7. **Emergency Auto-Flagging** — Automatically tags imported contacts as medical, police, fire, or other emergency services. Keeps emergency contacts organized and easy to find in crisis situations.
8. **Condition Finder** — Search symptoms to find related medical conditions and first aid guidance. Type "chest pain" or "fever" to get immediate information and know when to seek help.
9. **You Are In Control** — Your personal contact data belongs to you. Manage, secure, and back up your information.
10. **Secure by Design** — Your information is protected with leading security measures on your device and during cloud sync. Built with privacy at the core.
11. **Transparent & Optional Telemetry** — You can opt-in to share anonymous usage data to help improve. Saropa never collects your personal contact details.
12. **We Don't Sell Your Data** — Saropa never sells your data. Core features are free, supported by optional paid features for professional users.

## Sharing, Sync & Integrations (12 Features)

When you move or change your number, everyone gets the update. When they do, you get it too.

1. **Living Connections** — When someone updates their info, everyone connected gets the change automatically. No more outdated phone numbers.
2. **You Control What's Shared** — When someone shares their details with you, you choose what to accept. Keep what's useful, ignore the rest.
3. **See Before You Send** — Preview exactly what you're sharing before you send it. Your home address? Your work email? You decide.
4. **QR Code Generator** — Dynamic QR codes for sharing VCards, phone numbers (tel:), emails (mailto:), geo-locations (geo:), and Wi-Fi credentials.
5. **Adaptive Sync Prompts** — Dismiss a sync reminder? Saropa asks less often. It learns your preferences and stops nagging.
6. **Keep Everyone Updated** — Changed your number? Moved house? One tap to update everyone who matters. They get your new details instantly.
7. **Share Source Tagging** — Always know who shared what. Every phone number, email, or address is tagged with where it came from.
8. **Deep Linking Support** — Open specific contacts or features directly from other apps, messages, or web links. One tap to the right place.
9. **Relationship Network Visualization** — See how your contacts are connected to each other. A visual map of who knows who in your network.
10. **Social Sign-In** — Complete authentication support for Apple, Facebook, Google, and Zoom. Sign in with one tap.
11. **Facebook Friends Import** — Graph API integration to directly import your Facebook friend list as contacts.
12. **Integration Toggles** — Granular per-contact toggles to hide/show actions for specific apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal.

## Location, Maps & Events (13 Features)

Maps, time zones, prayer times, world capitals — everything you need before you reach out.

1. **Full Screen Map Explorer** — A dedicated, immersive map tab for visualizing all your contacts and mapped locations globally with intelligent clustering.
2. **Capital City Explorer** — A curated map mode for exploring world capitals and discovering which contacts you know near major cities like Paris, Tokyo, or New York.
3. **Contact Clustering** — Visual grouping of nearby contacts into single pins at high zoom levels, expanding automatically as you zoom in for detail.
4. **Current Location Marker** — A distinct, live-updating visual marker showing your current GPS position using device location services.
5. **Coordinate Editor** — Manual latitude/longitude entry tool allowing you to correct or fine-tune the exact location of any contact or address.
6. **Compass Widget** — An overlay widget displaying real-time bearing and orientation using your device's magnetometer.
7. **Address Auto-Correction** — Detects incomplete or invalid addresses and auto-corrects them so your contacts always map correctly.
8. **Unified Special Occasions** — A merged calendar view combining contact birthdays, anniversaries, Google Calendar events, and local device events into one list.
9. **Google Calendar Sync** — Two-way synchronization with Google Calendar, allowing viewing and management of external events within the app.
10. **Mini-Month Headers** — Collapsible month-based view with animated mini-calendars. Visual indicators highlight days with events, making it easier to plan ahead.
11. **Islamic Prayer Times** — Precise calculation and display of Fajr, Dhuhr, Asr, Maghrib, and Isha prayer times based on your location. Includes Ramadan indicators, Laylat al-Qadr notation, next prayer countdown timer, and Qibla direction.
12. **Hebrew Calendar** — A toggle option to display the Hebrew calendar date alongside the standard Gregorian date throughout the app. Includes Alot HaShachar, Sof Zman Shema, Chatzot, Mincha Gedolah, Plag HaMincha, Teet HaKochavim, Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh, Torah Cycle, and Jewish Festivals.
13. **Astronomical Data** — Daily calculation and display of sunrise, sunset, moon phases, moon visibility percentage, and solstices/equinoxes for your location.

## Discovery & Social (13 Features)

Quizzes, horoscopes, historical events, weird holidays. Start your day with a little wonder.

1. **Fandom Companions** — Pre-loaded datasets of beloved fictional characters you can import as "contacts" for fun or demos. Includes Harry Potter, Star Trek, Star Wars, Superhero DC, and Superhero Marvel.
2. **Emergency Education** — A library of guides, checklists, and resources for crisis situations like natural disasters and medical emergencies.
3. **Mental Models Library** — A collection of decision-making frameworks (Occam's Razor, First Principles, etc.) with daily notifications.
4. **Curious Facts** — A rotating daily trivia database with thousands of interesting facts to spark curiosity.
5. **Inspirational Quotes** — A database of 1,000+ quotes, filterable by author, category, or country of origin.
6. **Zodiac & Birthstones** — Detailed astrological data including Western and Chinese zodiac signs, symbols, and gemstone associations.
7. **Holidays & Observances** — Public holidays for 100+ countries. Religious holidays and festivals for every major faith: Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jain, and more.
8. **Famous Figures Database** — 746+ profiles of politicians, scientists, comedians, musicians, business leaders, and celebrities with Wikipedia integration. Filterable by category and country.
9. **Social Wall Tab** — An interactive social feed collecting updates from connected contacts across platforms. Favorite videos to boost visibility and train the feed algorithm.
10. **BlueSky Integration** — A full native client for BlueSky, rendering posts, images, and hashtag feeds directly in the app.
11. **YouTube Channel Imports** — Subscribe to specific YouTube channels and view their video feeds without leaving the app.
12. **Feed Balancing Algorithm** — A custom "anti-echo chamber" algorithm that decays older posts and penalizes repetitive sources.
13. **News Media Database** — A directory of global news sources tagged with "Political Leaning" (Left/Center/Right) to help curate your news intake.

## Customization & Design (13 Features)

Hundreds of settings to turn features on or off. 50+ themes. Dark mode. Dyslexia-friendly fonts. Make Saropa work exactly how you want.

1. **12-Tab Scrollable Navigation** — A custom bottom navigation bar handling 10+ active tabs with horizontal scrolling for all your features. Tabs include: Contacts, Favorites, Emergency, Map, Media, Events, Countries, Clock, Timeline, History, and more.
2. **Manage Tabs** — An "Edit" mode allowing you to hide, show, and reorder navigation tabs based on your preference.
3. **Pinch-to-Zoom Lists** — Interactive density control for list views. Pinch to change row height and information density.
4. **Swipe Hints** — "Peek & Bounce" animations to teach you about available swipe gestures (archive, delete, call).
5. **Shimmer Loading** — Modern "Skeleton/Shimmer" screens replacing spinning loaders for better perceived performance.
6. **Modern Look** — Clean, modern design. Snappy animations. Easy on the eyes. 50+ themes including glassmorphism effects.
7. **Animated Toasts** — Custom slide-up notification toasts with "Undo" capabilities and intelligent stacking logic.
8. **Sparkle Effects** — Particle system animations for "Success" states like completing a profile or earning a badge.
9. **Non-Linear Font Scaling** — Custom text scaling logic that preserves layout integrity on small screens by scaling non-linearly.
10. **Smart Calendars & Coaching** — Create dynamic calendars for key events, and receive daily tips to nurture your relationships.
11. **Seamless Communication** — Connect through WhatsApp, Facebook, Telegram, Google Meet, Gmail, and more directly from contact profiles.
12. **Cosmic Connections** — Explore relationship insights with Western and Chinese zodiac signs, horoscopes, and numerology.
13. **Thematic Content & Notable People** — Explore diverse categories like Star Trek, F1, and more, plus profiles of musicians and leaders.

## Saropa vs. Your Phone's Contacts App

Your phone's contacts app stores names and numbers. Saropa actively works to keep you organized, safe, and connected.

| Feature | Default Contacts App | Saropa Contacts |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Services | None | 16,800+ worldwide |
| Duplicate Detection | Manual | Automatic + smart merge |
| Data Quality Checks | None | 20+ automated audits |
| Follow-up Tracking | None | Track last contact + reminders |
| Contact Maps | None | World map + clustering |
| Timezone Awareness | None | World clock + time travel |
| Completeness Scoring | None | 0-100% quality score |
| Medical First Aid | None | First-aid tips |
| Business Card Mode | None | Hide personal, show professional |
| QR Code Generation | None | VCard, Phone, Email, WiFi, Geo |
| Privacy Controls | Basic | Biometric locking + geohashing |

**Bottom Line**: Your phone's contacts app stores names and numbers. Saropa actively works to keep you organized, safe, and connected.

## Why People Choose Saropa

Different people, same result: a smarter, safer address book.

- **Would you know the ambulance number in a foreign country?** — 16,800+ emergency numbers across 250 countries, automatically detected by your location. Works offline.
- **How many duplicate contacts are cluttering your phone?** — Smart auditing spots duplicates, flags missing info, and gives your address book a health score. Clean up in minutes.
- **Who else is reading your contact list right now?** — Your data stays yours. Biometric locking, local backups, and GDPR compliance. Saropa doesn't sell your network.
- **Why pay monthly for basic contact features?** — Full suite of tools (cleaning, maps, emergency data, groups) 100% free for personal use. No hidden costs, no tiers.
- **Would your babysitter know which doctor to call?** — Organize family contacts with medical details and emergency backups. Plus first-aid tips for when seconds matter.
- **Ever accidentally called someone at 3 AM their time?** — See contacts on a world map, check their local time before dialing, and convert currencies on the spot.

## Getting Started Made Easy (9 Features)

1. **Pick Up Where You Left Off** — Interrupted during setup? A banner reminds you to finish importing whenever you're ready.
2. **Smart Permission Guidance** — Denied a permission? Saropa shows you exactly where to fix it in your device settings instead of asking again.
3. **Try Before You Sign In** — See what Saropa can do before creating an account. Preview features and discover friends already using the app.
4. **Child Safety Controls** — Keeps kids out of the browser and video player with a simple math challenge only adults can pass.
5. **Stopwatch** — Precision timing tool with lap support and history logging for workouts or timing anything.
6. **Your Device at a Glance** — See your phone's specs, storage, and identifiers in one place. Handy for tech support calls.
7. **Web Links Panel** — One-tap "Search on Google/Wikipedia" buttons for any entity: Person, Holiday, or Place.
8. **Rich Link Previews** — Shared links show a visual preview with title, image, and description. No more mystery URLs.
9. **Hundreds of Settings** — Turn features on or off. Adjust how data displays. Make it work exactly how you want.

## Data Content Totals

- 16,800+ emergency service organizations
- 250 countries covered
- first-aid tips and condition guides
- First-aid tips
- 521 emergency preparedness guides
- Medical conditions with symptoms and treatments
- 1,000+ inspirational quotes
- 746+ famous figures profiles
- 911+ character events (birthdays of notable people)
- 251+ country public holiday events
- 3,129+ searchable hub items
- 100+ countries with public holidays
- 50+ visual themes
- 39+ color themes (light and dark mode)
- 20+ automated data quality audits
- 67+ emergency service types (police, fire, ambulance, poison control, coast guard, etc.)

## Import Data Sources

Pre-loaded datasets available to import:
- Emergency Tips
- Emergency Education
- Medical Health
- Affirmations
- Quotes
- Vocabulary
- Mental Models
- Harry Potter (Fandom Companions)
- Star Trek (Fandom Companions)
- Star Wars (Fandom Companions)
- Superhero DC (Fandom Companions)
- Superhero Marvel (Fandom Companions)
- Public Figures

## Country Profiles

Each of the 250 countries includes:
- Interactive map and flag
- Quick facts (continent, dialing code, country codes, top-level domains)
- Currency details with live exchange rates and quick converter
- Banks & Financial directory
- News Media directory (with political leaning: Left/Center/Right)
- Public Holidays & Observances
- Time Zones
- States & Territories
- Public Figures from that country
- Quotes from that country
- Your contacts in that country
- Emergency Directory
- Cultural information (greetings, communication style, sensitive topics, taboo behaviors)

## Contact Detail Features

Each contact profile shows:
- Avatar/profile photo
- Multiple phone numbers with country flags
- Emails, addresses, social links, notes
- Quick actions (call, SMS, email)
- Location on map
- Family group and community group membership
- Birthday, anniversary, and custom events
- Organization and job title
- QR code for sharing
- Activity timeline
- Contact completeness score
- Biometric lock option
- Follow-up status
- Favorite/Hidden/Emergency toggles
- Relationship network graph
- Communication app integrations (WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Facebook, Google Meet, Gmail)
- Share source tags

## Navigation Tabs

Configurable bottom navigation tabs (show/hide/reorder):
- Home (welcome screen, top contacts, upcoming events)
- Contacts (alphabetical list with avatars)
- Favorites
- Emergency
- Map (full-screen explorer)
- Media (YouTube video feed with category filters)
- Events (calendar with birthdays, holidays, prayer times, astronomical data)
- Countries (grouped by continent with flags and local times)
- Clock (world clock with contact avatars)
- Timeline (chronological interaction history)
- History (recently viewed items, useful screens grid)

## Accessibility

- Dark mode with multiple dark themes
- Dyslexia-friendly font mode
- Non-linear font scaling for small screens
- Pinch-to-zoom list density control
- High-contrast visual indicators
- ARIA labels throughout
- Screen reader compatible

## Privacy & Security

- Saropa never sells user data
- Biometric locking (Face ID, fingerprint) for sensitive contacts
- Geohashing for location privacy
- Local data stays on-device
- Optional telemetry (opt-in only, anonymous, never personal contact details)
- GDPR compliant (EU data protection)
- Legal hub (Privacy, GDPR, Terms): https://saropa.com/legal
- Privacy policy tab: https://saropa.com/legal?tab=privacy
- GDPR policy tab: https://saropa.com/legal?tab=gdpr
- Terms tab: https://saropa.com/legal?tab=terms
- Legacy URLs /privacy, /gdpr, /terms redirect to the Legal page with the matching tab
- Security contact: security@saropa.com
- Privacy contact: privacy@saropa.com

## Company Details

- **Legal Name**: Saropa Pty Ltd
- **ABN**: 41 142 178 434
- **Country**: Australia
- **Offices**: Melbourne, Sydney (Australia); New York City (USA)
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Copyright**: 2010-2026

## Pages

- [Homepage](https://saropa.com): Full feature showcase with 9 app screenshots, explainer video, and feature carousels
- [Contact](https://saropa.com/contact): Technical support, company contacts, privacy inquiries
- [Legal](https://saropa.com/legal): Privacy policy, GDPR, and Terms & Conditions (tabbed)
- [Privacy Policy](https://saropa.com/legal?tab=privacy): Privacy mission statement and data handling practices
- [Terms of Service](https://saropa.com/legal?tab=terms): Binding terms and conditions for using Saropa services
- [GDPR](https://saropa.com/legal?tab=gdpr): EU General Data Protection Regulation compliance, data subject rights, cookie policy
- [Emergency Services](https://web.saropa.com/emergency-world): Worldwide emergency services directory (separate subdomain)

## Contact Information

| Department | Email |
|---|---|
| App Support | app.support@saropa.com |
| Web Support | web.support@saropa.com |
| Sales | sales@saropa.com |
| Media | media@saropa.com |
| Careers | careers@saropa.com |
| Security | security@saropa.com |
| Privacy | privacy@saropa.com |

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