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Wednesday · May 15Who's on your mind today?
SarahIt's been three weeks. Her mom's surgery was on the 14th — worth asking how it went.inner circle·weekly
DavidHe starts the new job Monday. You meant to wish him luck.close friend·biweekly
MomA short call would be nice. Last note: she picked up watercolor again.family·weekly
TodayPeopleSearch
Most apps want your attention. Weft asks for a moment.
The people in your life — the five, ten, twenty who actually matter — deserve more than a follow-up reminder. They deserve to be remembered with care: the small things you noticed, the worries they shared, the surgery on the 14th, the new job on Monday, the book they couldn't put down.
Weft holds those notes for you. Quietly. On your phone. Without ads, without leaderboards, without asking you to invite three friends.
— a small studio of one
A daily moment
Open. See who matters. Close.
Today surfaces a short, ranked list based on due threads, birthdays, and each person's rhythm. Each card carries the reason: an open thread you left, a date you wanted to remember, or time quietly passing.
"If everyone's been seen recently, Weft says nothing pressing. Enjoy your day."
9:41
Sunday · May 18Nothing pressing. Enjoy your day.
TodayPeopleSearch
9:41
Wednesday · May 15Who's on your mind today?
Sarahjust now
Coffee at Verve. She's been worried about her mom's surgery on the 14th. Started a new book on grief.
Follow up
Quick capture
Write a sentence. That's enough.
The note sheet takes one breath to open and one to close. Type the thing you'll wish you remembered next month. Toggle Follow up if it should come back as a thread.
Markdown works invisibly. Photos attach with one tap. No prompts, no fields, no required tags.
Open threads
Tomorrow, the app remembers.
Anything you marked Follow up re-surfaces on its date. Coffee plans, a book recommendation, a job interview you should ask about — held quietly until it's time, then folded into Today as a soft reason.
Threads stay open until you mark them caught up. Resolved follow-ups remain in the history, and you can reopen one whenever you need it.
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Sarah · inner circle · weeklyThreads
TodayAsk how her mom's surgery went.From the note on Apr 22
In 4 daysSend her the grief book title — Joan Didion.From the note on Apr 22
ResolvedCoffee plan for the 14th.Closed Apr 22
NotesThreadsLog
Weft is one small thing, so it can be a good one.
It's easier to keep an app calm by being honest about everything it chose not to be. A short list of nos, so you know what you're holding.
Not a CRM
No pipelines, no stages, no lead status. The market already has fifty of those — and they all feel like work.
Not a contact app
Apple Contacts already holds phone numbers and addresses. Weft holds memory — the things you'd otherwise forget.
Not a checklist
No little flame icons, no chains to keep alive, no guilt when you skip a week. Friendship isn't a workout plan.
Not a journal of you
Day One already exists for that, and it's wonderful. Weft is a journal about other people, written from your side.
Not AI-powered
No cloud LLM reads or writes your notes. No AI summaries or generated messages. The whole point is that you wrote it.
Not on the web
iPhone only — lock-screen + home-screen widgets, deeply native. We chose depth over reach; there is no Android, web, or desktop app.
Calm by design
Small things, done with care.
Everything Weft ships is here because it earned its place. Nothing else.
Gentle rhythm
Pick weekly, biweekly, monthly, or quarterly for each person. An optional generic daily reminder runs locally at the hour you choose.
Threads, not tasks
Mark a thought as "follow up" and it comes back on its date, folded softly into Today. No checkbox guilt.
iCloud, your way
Premium can sync through your private CloudKit database, encrypted in transit and at rest. Weft has no notes backend and cannot access those records.
Export with Premium
Premium exports every note to PDF or Markdown in one tap. The files stay yours; the app is just a place to keep your words.
Designed for iOS 26
Native Liquid Glass, Dynamic Type, lock-screen + home-screen widgets, and Apple Shortcuts. Feels like part of the OS, because it is.
A fair, sustainable price
Free to begin. Quietly priced if it sticks.
Free for up to seven people on one device. Lifetime is $39.99 — less than two years of yearly, then never again.
Weft stores notes in an on-device database. When Premium iCloud sync is enabled in Weft, Apple processes synced records in the user's private CloudKit database and encrypts them in transit and at rest. Weft has no notes backend, analytics endpoint, or third-party SDKs, and cannot access private CloudKit records.
Why no AI?
Because the value is in you writing the sentence. Weft does not auto-summarize conversations or generate messages, and no cloud LLM reads or writes your notes.
Will there be an Android version? A web version?
Not for a long time. Weft is built around iOS 26 features — Liquid Glass, lock-screen widgets, Apple Shortcuts, CloudKit. Cross-platform would water it down. If you live on Android, we'd rather you use a different app than a worse Weft.
What happens if I stop paying?
Your existing people, notes, and attached photos remain. If you already have seven or more people, you cannot add another, and adding new photo attachments requires Premium. iCloud sync, PDF/Markdown export, and the full large-widget reasons and caught-up action are unavailable until you restore Premium. Subscriptions buy features, not your words.
Who built it?
One developer, working out of Tokyo. Weft is a deliberate, single-person project — the kind of app you can email about and hear back from the same person who wrote the code. Say hello.
What about import from Notion / Google Contacts / a CSV?
Weft does not import from Apple Contacts, Google Contacts, CSV, or Notion. You add each person manually, so the app never needs Contacts permission and your small circle stays intentional.
I received a Weft gift code — how do I use it?
Open Weft, tap the gear icon to open Settings, then Redeem a gift code. (Or on the paywall: Have a code? Redeem.) Paste your code into Apple's redemption sheet — if it's a Lifetime gift, Premium activates immediately. No Weft account or signup is required. Gift codes come from us directly to people we want to hand the app to (press, friends, occasional giveaways); we don't sell them through the site.
Does Weft work with Siri and Shortcuts?
Yes — three native actions ship out of the box: Add a Weft note, Open a person in Weft, and Who's on my mind today. Run them from the Shortcuts app, the Action Button, lock-screen widgets, Spotlight search, or just by saying "Hey Siri…". No setup; they appear automatically the first time you launch Weft. All three are free.
What's the best private personal CRM for iPhone?
If "private" matters more than "powerful," Weft is built for exactly that. It keeps notes for a small circle in an on-device database, with private iCloud sync for Premium, no analytics, and no cloud AI reading or writing your words. Free for up to 7 people; Premium supports unlimited people. iPhone, iOS 26+.
Is there a personal CRM that doesn't use AI?
Yes — Weft. No cloud LLM reads or writes your notes, and nothing is auto-summarized or enriched; you write the sentence, the app simply remembers it. It is a small-circle, local-first notebook. Free for up to 7 people; Premium supports unlimited people. iPhone, iOS 26+.
How do I remember to keep in touch with friends and family?
Add the people who matter most, write a line after you talk, and let Weft quietly surface who you may have drifted from — no streaks, no pressure. An optional generic daily reminder can run locally at the hour you choose. Free for up to 7 people; Premium supports unlimited people. iPhone, iOS 26+.
What's a calmer alternative to Dex?
Weft. Where Dex is built for networkers keeping up with thousands of professional contacts, Weft is designed around a small circle, uses journal vocabulary instead of sales vocabulary, and stores notes in an on-device database without cloud AI. Free supports 7 people and Premium is unlimited. See the full Weft vs Dex comparison.
Background
What's a personal CRM, and why a quiet one?
A short explainer for everyone who arrived here searching for a relationship app and wondered if Weft was the right fit.
What "personal CRM" actually means
A personal CRM is software for people, not for sales pipelines. Where a workplace CRM (Salesforce, HubSpot) tracks leads and deals through a funnel, a personal CRM is a small private space for remembering the humans in your own life — birthdays, last conversations, kids' names, the worry someone mentioned in passing.
The category emerged because contact apps are too thin (just phone numbers) and journals are too self-focused (a diary about you, not them). A personal CRM holds the middle ground: per-person memory, gentle rhythm, no public profile.
Who Weft is for
Weft was built for people who want to stay close to a small, defined circle — not network with thousands. If any of these sound like you, you're the audience:
The senior engineer who keeps forgetting their coworker's kid's name and feels bad each time.
The new parent watching close friendships erode under the weight of admin and exhaustion.
The freelancer who wants to remember which client said what, without standing up a CRM.
The introvert who loves a small handful of people and wants a private place to think about them.
The adult child who lives far from family and wants to call their mom on the right week, not the wrong month.
Anyone who tried Notion templates or a spreadsheet and bounced off the overhead.
How Weft differs from Dex, Clay, Folk, and other personal CRMs
The personal CRM market splits into two patterns. Networker tools like Dex and Clay are designed for thousands of contacts, LinkedIn-style enrichment, and broadcast follow-ups — useful if you're a founder building a Rolodex, less so if you just want to remember your closest twenty people. Workplace CRM spillover like Folk CRM repackages sales pipelines for personal use; pipelines feel like work even when relabeled.
Weft sits in a third lane. It is designed around a small circle, with seven people free and unlimited people in Premium. The vocabulary is borrowed from journaling, not from sales — notes, threads, rhythm — never "lead," "stage," "engagement." Nothing is shared, nothing is public, nothing is auto-summarized by AI.
If you want auto-pulled contact feeds, LinkedIn integration, or shared workspaces, those products are excellent at it. If you want a quiet, on-device notebook that remembers what you can't, that's Weft.
Weft is built for iOS 26 specifically — native Liquid Glass surfaces, lock-screen + home-screen widgets, Apple Shortcuts, and private CloudKit sync for Premium. We chose depth over reach: an app that feels like part of the operating system instead of a cross-platform shell that feels like part of none.
Practically: no Android, web, or desktop app. Notes live in an on-device database; when Premium iCloud sync is enabled in Weft, synced records use your private CloudKit database. Weft has no notes backend and cannot access private CloudKit records.
Keep the people who keep you.
Free for up to seven. Forever. No Weft account, no card, no email.