Flexibits — greatest recognized for its common calendar utility, Fantastical — has a brand new, overhauled model of its contact management application Cardhop out at the moment, which updates the app with new options and a contemporary coat of paint.

But most significantly, like Fantastical earlier than it, Cardhop can be switching to a subscription mannequin. The contact app is being added without spending a dime to the prevailing Fantastical Premium subscription that Flexibits launched final yr. And to mark that expanded scope, Fantastical Premium can be getting a brand new title: Flexibits Premium.

The unique Mac and iOS versions of Cardhop beforehand value $19.99 and $4.99, respectively. However, much like Fantastical, Flexibits will now offer a extra restricted, free model of each of these functions to anybody, with extra superior performance (together with most of the new options being launched with the brand new model of the app) locked to subscribers.

Flexibits, crucially, isn’t altering the value of its subscription program to go along with the newly added app. Flexibits Premium will nonetheless value $4.99 a month or $39.99 a yr for a person person, or $7.99 per 30 days or $64.99 per yr for as much as 5 relations.

Existing Cardhop house owners will nonetheless be capable to entry any options that have been already current of their current apps from earlier than the change to the subscription mannequin with out having to pay (additionally much like the Fantastical change). They simply received’t get any main new options going ahead.

Cardhop 2.0 does add a wide range of new options, although. There’s a brand new Relationships mode, which may generate household bushes for contacts that you simply’ve set relationships between or — if in case you have Google or Office 365 accounts linked — org charts.

The iOS model of Cardhop has a brand new enterprise card scanning characteristic, which does precisely what it says on the can, and there are new widgets for each macOS and iOS that may be custom-made so as to add fast hyperlinks to name, textual content, or work together with a contact utilizing any of Cardhop’s actions. (Want a hyperlink to shortly FaceTime a buddy? Now you’ll be able to.)

And provided that Cardhop and Fantastical at the moment are bundled collectively, there are additionally some deeper ties with the Flexibits calendar app. A brand new “Invite with Fantastical” motion makes it straightforward to ask contacts (or complete teams of contacts) to occasions. Scanning a enterprise card additionally offers an choice to shortly comply with up with an on the spot calendar assembly.

The new model of Cardhop is out there to obtain now for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.