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Personal CRM alternatives, compared.

Honest, side-by-side comparisons of the tools people use to remember the people in their lives — from lightweight personal CRMs to spreadsheets — and where Wend, a relationship brain that maintains itself, fits in.

Lightweight personal CRM

Dex alternatives

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A popular personal CRM with a browser extension, reminders, and a timeline per contact.

Monica HQ alternatives

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An open-source personal relationship manager you can self-host or use as a hosted app.

Clay (now Mesh) alternatives

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A beautiful personal-network app that auto-updates contacts from your connected accounts — acquired by Automattic in 2025 and rebranded to Mesh (me.sh).

Mesh (formerly Clay) alternatives

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The personal-network app formerly known as Clay (clay.earth) — an auto-updating, design-forward address book, now part of Automattic.

Team & VC relationship intelligence

Folk alternatives

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A lightweight team CRM with shared contact lists, pipelines, and email sequences.

Affinity alternatives

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Enterprise relationship-intelligence for VC and dealmaking teams, priced for organizations.

Contacts & email tools

Cloze alternatives

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A relationship manager that pulls context from your email, calendar, and social into per-contact views.

Google Contacts alternatives

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The free address book built into Google — names, emails, and phone numbers.

DIY (spreadsheet / notes)

Notion (as a CRM) alternatives

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A flexible docs/database app people bend into a homemade personal CRM with templates.

a spreadsheet alternatives

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The classic homemade contact tracker — a Google Sheet or Excel file of people and notes.