Great replacement for Cobook

This is a very robust Google Contacts <-> Mac Addressbook / iCloud synch tool. For the 2 years I’ve been dragging my feat to find a replacement for Cobook and have finally found it. I’ve been running this app for about a week and trust it with my contacts, it seems very solid with no weird synch problems.

Worth every penny. You have to purchase to test functionality if you have more than somehting like 50 contacts. I took a gamble given reviews and won.

I look forward to more features being added over time, like being able to synch with Facebook and LinkedIn (I only care about grabbing contact’s profile photos for my address book and the URL and or handle for a contacts social media site).

In my environment I wanted Mac Addressbook and iCloud to be my primary contacts DB. My primary working environment is in iOS and MacOS X. However, I use Google voice heavily so needed my addressbook to synch to Google for Google Voice calling. Furthermore I use Outlook on a Microsoft Windows virtual machine and need my Mac Addressbook to synch Outlook 2013. I achieve this via the following:

- iCloud keeps all my Mac OS X and iOS device addressbooks in sync
- Contacts Sync for Google Gmail syncs my Mac OS X Addressbook with Google Contacts
- gSyncit, a paid for outlook plugin ($19), does a great job synching my Outlook Contacts in a Microsoft Windows virtual machine running on MacOS X synced with Gmail Contacts (gSyncit also syncs my Google calendar to Outlook so I can see my overall availability across personal and work)

El Mango about Contacts Sync for Google Gmail