From what I know there is no such app called “recently contacted”. That is nonsense. No idea why somebody would write that as an answer. https://apps.nextcloud.com/?search=recently
Maybe the user who answered refers to the app called “contacts interaction” which is system integrated.
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“Collect data about user and contacts interactions and provide an address book for the data.”