Update 07 December 2011 – Xobni Pro Account
Further to below evaluation, I have just started evaluating Xobni Pro account, it’s provided with great features. At the outset everything seems well organized, with pro account I am able to search contact in message box of outlook with auto suggest, its lighting fast better than outlooks built in feature, I am also able to upload and download contacts and have access to more feature. I will evaluate it further and will share Updates.
Also, I forgot to mentioned Xobni’s Spam Rescue Feature, it’s great tool, it has rescued some important email. Try it yourself. Cheers!
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Updated 07 November 2011 – Xobni Vs Gist
I have lots of email accounts and overloaded information with huge contact database as I get thousand of emails from friends, networks, collegues, customers and site visitors.
I was waiting for a smart software which can read my email information across all my inboxes and create auto contacts.
Few weeks back, I took efforts to evaluate several softwares, I liked Xobni (also known as smartr) and Gist, both are unique in activities while same in concept. The basic job of both softwares is to create and present contacts and relevant information of such contacts in easy and quick way. A very useful Tools if you are frequent emailer like me. :)
I must say that, i was impressed with both software. Both have helped me to organize my contacts and communications.
Xobini is easy, faster, well-known, available across all the devices, and has nice interface but it is not free (pro version), the major con of Xobini is that it lacks dashboard.
On other hand Gist is so easy to use that you will finish an account creation and syncing task in few minute, it has nice dashboard and brig surprising elements to make your communication easy. However, it’s search is not as lighting fast as xobini, specially if you are using an outlook plugin. Also, since Gist is bought by RIM, I anticipate some restriction in a future like limited availability to some devices or limitation of features. Remember Viigo, I am missing it badly. :(
Xobini’s free version coud irritate at some time as it comes with restriction unless you pay for pro version, and you cant export contacts in free version. On other hand, Gist is free, Only restriction, i noticed that you can export only 5000 contacts at one time.
Gist has a nice dash board and its easy for sync information while Xobini does a great job as an outlook plugin, its speed and sensibility are amazing. So if you are looking for outlook plugin try Xobini, if you are looking for stand alone online contact manager tried Gist, it has an awesome dashboard.