Efficient Address Book Free Portable for Windows

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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffOctober 18, 2019

Efficient Address Book Free Portable lets you keep all of your contacts in one place. It also enables you to set up reminders, so you never forget a birthday again. And because this tool is completely portable, you can take it with you and use it on any computer you choose.

Pros

Organization and import options: You can import your entire contact list into this app as long as it is in the form of a comma delimited file, or you can add them manually. Once those contacts are in place, you'll have quite a few options for organizing them for easy access. For instance, you can create different groups to sort your Work and Personal contacts, and you can even have sub-groups within those groups for further clarity.

Portability: Since this is the portable version of the app, you can transfer it completely to a USB drive and take it with you wherever you go. That means you'll never be without all of your contacts, and changing computers doesn't mean you have to put all of that information together again.

Cons

Convoluted Help: The Help document that comes with this app, while extensive, isn't very clear in its descriptions. This isn't a huge drawback, since most features are clearly accessible anyway. But it could be a problem for those with less computer experience.

Bottom Line

Efficient Address Book Free Portable is a handy tool to have at your disposal. It lets you keep all of your contact information organized the way you want to, and because you can carry it on a portable drive, you never have to worry about being without all of that information.

What’s new in version 5.60.0.556

Version 5.60 build 556: 1. (Network version) added: Users can set to only remind some team members for public tasks. 2. Enhancement: Users can also choose to alert at a specific time for the Tasks with no start date and due date. 3. Enhancement: Optimized the editing interface of Event. 4. Enhancement: Optimized the editing interface of Task. 5. (Network version) Fixed: The SYSDBA may not have full privileges. 6. Fixed: Error may come when Importing predefined holidays. 7. Other improvements are made and bugs are fixed.

Efficient Address Book Free Portable for Windows

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GENERAL

Release: October 18, 2019

Latest update: October 18, 2019

Version: 5.60.0.556

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 10
Windows 8
Windows 7

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 52,701

Downloads Last Week: 1

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User Reviews

4.3/5

6 User Votes

Great Way To Keep All Your Contacts in One Place
ssteiner86April 6, 2015
Pros
Efficient Address Book free is very easy and simple to us. You can enter as many contacts as you would like. It has a nice, clean interface. You can also pick different style designs to use.
Cons
You only get a few style designs to choose from unless you upgrade to their paid version.
Summary
Better than all the rest including online tools
dryndryrMarch 10, 2014
Pros
Very clean, efficient interface and good data flow in card-edit view. Simple data import from CSV file. Excellent keyword search tool. Uses separate data fields for home address vs business/work address and let's you choose which type is primary address. Has 4 data fields each for business phones, home phones, mobile phones, and email. Has a data pre-view function so you can scroll your address records in summary view to search for your item, and open only the record you're looking for. Has more than enough data fields that won't all fit in any one dialog view but you can click the "All Fields" tab and see/scroll all the data in one view. Has a small "Comment" box at the bottom of the main tab ("General" tab). But if you need to input a lot of notes, there is a Comment tab that gives you an editor to work with. Exports data to CSV or HTML (your data isn't held captive if you use this program). I was able to import 269 address records, clean them up in 2 eves, & get a nice data set.
Cons
Can't use categories without the upgrade (but the keyword search function works very well). I don't really need categories with this program, and I usually won't use a program without the category feature.
Summary
I tried all the other PIMS, Contact software, task manager software--some of them at least twice. I also tried many online tools including ZOHO, etc. Efficient Address Book Free is the most well-rounded, balanced of the bunch; I'm upgrading to the Efficient PIM Free, and possibly to the paid upgrade as well. In addition, the data import works extremely well.
A Big Relief
roger-thatApril 7, 2013
Pros
Works smoothly. Allows import-export in FREE version (YAY!!). Good BACKUP operation. Lots of options to select. WORKS well. No glitchy oddball non-standard-looking features (such as those sometimes found in software imported and roughly translated from the depths of Lower Slobovia). NICE clean list interface, and VERY nice card-form edits. Multiple phone-type selections for each phone field should be in a prize-winning category all their own. Being able to even edit the fonts used is a MAJOR relief, to assist in getting more data onscreen.
Cons
Wish the "Custom Fields" names were editable in the free version, but they work anyway, and I suppose they had to save SOMETHING for the Paid version to get us to fork over a few bucks. (Price of which, BTW, looks to be very fair at only about 26 bucks.)
Summary
I've been searching for over 6 months for a not-too-simple and not-too-complex contact database system, kinda what ACT! used to be 15 years ago before they became bloatware. Nice features in the free version, easy to use (& figure out), GREAT having import/export ability (been storing previous mass of data from a dead address manager in Excel format 'til I could find something suitable), and nice operability. Found that when importing the data from Excel's exported "CSV" format, it wouldn't recognize the CSV formatting as OK. So I just opened the CSV file with Notepad, re-saved it with a slightly different filename, and imported THAT successfully into this program, no problem. (It seems to have a grudge against EXCEL-formatted CSV). Overall, very happy. Adding data finally to an apparently very reliable program. I anticipate that after a week or two of settling into this lovely little contact manager I'll actually spring for the full PRO version. Kudos to the programmers and concept designers!!
No mailto links
howardfernsSeptember 26, 2012
Pros
Interface looks good at first glance, similar to some of the better PIM software. It's portable, I installed it in Dropbox.
Cons
If there is any way of using the email addresses to open your mail client, I couldn't find it. The product is no use to me without that. Aside from that, I didn't like it having one field for street, one for city, one for state and one for zip. The only way I could get round that was to enter the whole address in one line in one field that I renamed "Address". Each contact's details all one line in 'report' view was too cramped, but when you viewed it in 'form' view it was cluttered with all the unused fields, i.e. the ones you deselected during customization.
Summary
After trying it I uninstalled it.
Does all you could ask for
strikemaster1December 6, 2011
Pros
Simple easy to use portable contacts program that does all I need and more. Nice interface to boot. Well done
Cons
none yet that I know of
Summary
If its just an address book you need, this is perfect for a freebie, and being portable adds to its value in my book
works fine
wyldchyld69November 4, 2010
Pros
easy to use
Cons
none I can think of
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Manage your contact and customer information using cross-platform address book.