KAddressBook – address book manager

KAddressBook is an address book manager. It stores all the personal details of your family, friends and other contacts.

This tool supports a wide variety of services, including NextCloud, Kolab, Google Contacts, Microsoft Exchange (EWS) or any standard CalDAV server.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Powerful search – KAddressBook has configurable filters and powerful search capabilities.
• Duplicate detection and merging – KAddressBook can find duplicated contacts from multiple sources and can merge them into a single contact.
• Good standard support – KAddressBook can import and export from and to nearly every address book standard.
• LDAP integration – Can connect to multiple LDAP servers, which can then be used for contact autocompletion when composing emails in KMail.
• Integration – Integrates with other Kontact components, e.g. exporting birthday reminders to KOrganizer.
• QR codes – KAddressBook can display a QR code for each contact to quickly scan it into your phone or send to someone.

Website: apps.kde.org/kaddressbook
Support: Code Repository
Developer: Laurent Montel
License: GNU General Public License v2.0 or later

KAddressBook is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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