Nigeria’s Contactly is a mobile app that allows users to share their contact details securely with people they meet by creating a creating a profile giving on the app that gives them a personalized ID linked to all their contact information plus social network profiles.
The Contactly ID gives users up-to-date contacts no matter the time and location and or on whatever device.
Founded by Morrison Laju, a Computer Science Student at Federal University of Technology Minna and Stanley Ojadovwa who worked as community manager, Co-Creation Hub Nigeria, Contactly promises that you will never lose your contacts again.
“Users will therefore stay up-to-date with contacts’ ever-changing contact information.You will never lose your contacts. Get all your contacts back when you lose, damage or upgrade your phone,” the guys say. “Contactly, when fully realized, will be a multi-platform address book utility. It is our intention that Contactly becomes something of a ubiquitous utility – the kind of tool that you use frequently to manage your complex network of contacts data.”
Contactly will also help users get their contacts on their mobile phones or SMS and users can even make a skype call or even email that contact. Users can also simply login to Contactly from their browser and access the list of contacts they have added.