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Comparisons · Updated August 2026

Personal CRMs compared

Dex, Clay, Folk — and the quiet one. Most personal CRMs are built for people with hundreds or thousands of contacts to keep up with. Weft is designed for the small circle you actually love. Here's the honest map of who each is for.

The short version. If your circle is closer to 15 people than 1,500 and you want a calm, on-device notebook rather than a roster to keep on top of, that's Weft. If you have 2,000 contacts and your career depends on remembering them, use Dex — honestly. We're not in competition for that person.

How Weft compares, one line each

  • vs Dex — Dex is built for networkers tracking thousands of professional contacts with LinkedIn enrichment and broadcast follow-ups. Weft is designed around a small circle, uses journal vocabulary, stores notes in an on-device database, and costs $18.99/year or $39.99 once. Read the full Weft vs Dex comparison →
  • vs Mesh (formerly Clay) — Mesh is AI-native and auto-enriches your contacts from the web. Weft never sends your notes to a cloud LLM and does no enrichment; you write the sentence, the app remembers it. Read the full Weft vs Mesh comparison →
  • vs Folk — Folk repackages a sales pipeline for personal use. Weft has no pipeline, no stages, no lead status — it's a journal about the people you love, not a deal board. Read the full Weft vs Folk comparison →
  • vs a Notion template — A Notion personal-CRM template is a database you have to maintain. Weft is a dedicated iOS app that surfaces the right person at the right moment, on your home screen, with no upkeep. Read the full Weft vs Notion comparison →

Where the others are genuinely the right pick

An honest comparison has to say when the answer is "not us." If you're a founder, salesperson, recruiter, or investor who needs to remember hundreds of people well enough — and you'd benefit from LinkedIn enrichment, a web app, and roster-wide reminders — then Dex or Mesh is the more mature tool, and Folk is built for teams running a pipeline. Manually copying two thousand contacts into Weft would be miserable, and we'd rather you used the right thing.

Where Weft is the right pick

If, instead, you keep meaning to text the friend you haven't spoken to in three weeks — or you want to remember that your mom picked up watercolor again, or that David starts the new job Monday — then a networking CRM feels like a costume. Weft is a small, private notebook for the people who matter: notes, threads, and a deliberately short Today list. Notes live in an on-device database, Premium supports private CloudKit sync, and no cloud AI reads or writes your words. Free supports up to 7 people; Premium supports unlimited people.

Weft is free for up to 7 people, forever. Premium is $2.99/month, $18.99/year (7-day free trial), or $39.99 once for a lifetime purchase — iPhone, iOS 26+.

Try Weft. Free for up to 7 people, forever. No Weft account, no card, no email. Get it on the App Store →

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