Syncman

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Version: 1.2.1 || Release Date: 2009-02-12 || License: Shareware (9.95 EUR) Developer: Wateree Software

Synchronizes your Address Book with Gmail

Syncman synchronizes your Mac's built-in Address Book with your Gmail Contacts with a minimum of fuss, hassle and frustration. Syncman does one thing and does it well. That said, here are a few features to give you an idea of what Syncman is all about:

Three different synchronization strategies:
- Bi-directional sync between Address Book and Gmail
- One-way synchronization from Address Book to Gmail
- One-way synchronization from Gmail to Address Book
Support for most standard contact fields:
- Name, Company, Title & Notes
- Email Addresses & Phone Numbers
- IM Accounts (AIM, Jabber, MSN, ICQ & Yahoo)
Scheduled synchronization with configurable ‘bother level’
Can optionally run in the menubar as a background application (especially handy when using scheduled synchronization)
Shows you all proposed changes before it makes them
Optionally synchronize Gmail's “Suggested Contacts”
Works with both Gmail and Google Apps

Required OS: 10.5
Tags: addressbook , gmail , contacts , synchronize , sync

3 Opinions

by bogen, 2008-06-29

For those who don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch, Syncman seems to be a more than viable alternative to Apple's built-in synchronization. It just works (which IMHO is all one can ask for). It even seems to be better at coping with company-type contacts.

The ability to sync just a certain Address Book group or just e-mail contacs would be nice, though. My Apple Address Book contains quite a number of contacts without e-mail addresses and I don't really need those in Gmail …

by netnichols, 2008-06-20

@factoryjoe : It is, in a very rudimentary fashion. Here's the <a href="http://wateree.net/blog/2008/05/new-competition/">blog post</a> I wrote when 10.5.3 came out. Syncman offers a number of advantages over the built-in syncing from Apple, and there will only be more advantages as time goes on.