Now out in the iTunes App Store: a new contacts app that’s – short version – quick and rather nice to use. The slightly longer version is that it feels like LaunchCentre Pro or Drafts in that you can use it to rapidly do sequences of things.

Mingle calls itself Action-Based Contacts and the idea is that you can hold down on someone’s name in your address book and swiftly slide them over to icons for phone, email, text and so on. Let go, and you are phoning them, emailing them, texting ’em.

I saw it in beta and my entire contribution to the beta program was mentioning that I’d like to see favourite contacts listed. Currently you get your entire address book and since mine is fairly large – 881 contacts it says here – that takes some scrolling. The maker, Samir Ghobril, says Favourites are coming.

Look at the screenshots in the App Store and if you fancy it, buy now: currently it has a launch offer of half off, which makes it 69p.

But do use that link: if you search for the word Mingle in the App Store, the first one you get is a dating app.