# Mesh: Contacts + CRM — Powerful Contacts Manager

> Contact manager and lightweight CRM for organizing and deepening relationships. (iPhone/iPad app by Clay Engineering.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mesh-contacts-plus-crm/id1463073824 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Clay Engineering](https://appshunter.io/developer/1463073823)
- Category: Productivity, Social Networking
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.40/5 from 760 App Store ratings · 103 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 201 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2019-11-07
- Data updated: 2026-08-22
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mesh-contacts-plus-crm/id1463073824/reviews.md

## What is Mesh?

Discover, organize, and deepen all your personal and professional relationships with Mesh, a beautiful and intuitive contacts app, lightweight CRM, and more. Formerly known as Clay — same app, new name!

People make us laugh, challenge us to improve, support us when things are tough, and celebrate with us once they get better. But staying in touch with the people that matter thoughtfully is difficult. 

TRY MESH FOR FREE

Before Mesh, being thoughtful required relying on your memory as well as a mix of spreadsheets, notecards, address books, and other tools. In addition to being difficult to manage, this approach let important relationships, moments, and context fall through the cracks. That’s why we created Mesh—a stunning, intuitive, and private home for your relationships, built automatically from your email, calendar, address book, LinkedIn, Twitter, and iMessage. 

Mesh helps you show up informed by creating and automatically updating beautiful cards for each of your contacts with context such as profile photos, bios, education and work history, location, and social profiles. In addition, you can use powerful features such as natural-language search, dictation and note taking, reminders, birthday notifications, news articles about people you know, reconnection cadences, and more to deepen your relationships over time.

REMEMBER THE IMPORTANT THINGS

Mesh is the fastest and most powerful way to take notes before, during, and after a conversation with someone. Remember kids names, vacation itineraries, and that last article you read that you’ve been dying to share, all by writing a note on someone's card.

REACH OUT AT THE RIGHT MOMENT

Set a reminder for particular days—like a birthday or anniversary—or pick a reconnection cadence so you don’t lose touch. 

ORGANIZE YOUR RELATIONSHIPS

Dinner party faves? Book club? High school friends? Easily add people to groups so you can organize people however makes sense to you. Then, use those groups to make organizing events easier and faster.

SEARCH LIKE YOU THINK

You remember people in different ways—where you last met to catch up, when you last saw them, what you talked about. Just type what comes to mind and Mesh will find the right person or group of people based on your notes and their profile, all in milliseconds. It's the easiest, most powerful person search available anywhere.

STAY ON TOP OF THINGS

Never miss a beat with Home—a powerful, high-level view of all the updates from your entire network. Be the first to congratulate someone when they change jobs or when they're mentioned in thousands of top print and digital publications.

SHARE CONTACTS WITH YOUR TEAM
Mesh is the most beautiful, private, and seamless way to share contacts with your team — replace your CRM!

AND MUCH MORE
Business Cards: Easily import and digitize business card information.
Cleanup Contacts: Streamline and organize your contact list.
Cross-Device Sync and Cross-Platform: Access your contacts on any device.
Integrations: Connect with Gmail, Exchange, Office365, iCloud, Facebook, LinkedIn, Apple Contacts, Airtable, Pipedrive, Close, Affinity, Coda, Cardhop, and Rolodex
Birthday Reminders: Never miss an important date again.
Google Backup: Securely back up your contacts with Google.
Contacts+ Integration: With Mesh Pro, we're happy to import your contacts from Contacts+ via CSV
Automatic Contact Enrichment: Enrich contact details automatically (photos, social profiles, etc.).
Contact Deduplication: Merge duplicate contacts into a single comprehensive profile.
Contact Backup: Ensure your contacts are always safely backed up.
Widgets and Siri Shortcuts: First class support for Apple devices.

Unlimited contacts requires a Mesh Pro subscription. New users receive a 14 day trial of Mesh Pro, and can cancel anytime to be downgraded to Mesh Personal, which is free but has a limit of 1000 contacts.

Terms of Use: https://me.sh/terms-of-use
Privacy and Security: https://me.sh/security-and-privacy

## Key features

- Automatic contact card creation
- Natural-language search
- Note-taking and dictation
- Reminders and birthday notifications
- News articles about contacts
- Relationship grouping
- Business card import

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mesh Membership - Monthly | $19.99 | per month |
| Mesh Membership - Annual | $119.99 | per year |


## What do users think of Mesh?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🚀 Powerful features
- 💡 Innovative approach
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- ⭐ Solid app overall

**Cons**

- 🐛 Buggy and unstable
- 🕰️ Slow performance
- 🔒 Privacy concerns
- 💰 Expensive subscription

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Frequent crashes
- Syncing issues with contacts
- Unreliable archiving and editing
- Onboarding process problems

**Most requested features**

- Improved contact management
- Seamless integration with more platforms
- Automated duplicate resolution
- Better iPad support

## Recent user reviews (10 of 103)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mesh-contacts-plus-crm/id1463073824/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Needed this a long time ago!

*2026-07-17, version 2026.4.1*

First CRM for normal people

### 2/5 — Good idea, lacking execution

*2026-06-04, version 2026.4*

Consistently riddled with bugs (when typing notes, and most recently logging in has simply stopped working)

### 4/5 — Good flow…

*2026-05-14*

Started using this for the past one week and it is quite engaging, builds into my daily work routine and flow. This is really versatile. There are some minor quirks that needs learning or sometime when the app just shuts down (disappears) when for example updating birth date for a contact on my iPhone.

### 5/5 — Home Screen worthy rolodex

*2026-05-12, version 2.20.1*

Use it every week, a super charged rolodex for me to stay on top of updates and reminders within my network

### 1/5 — Free version needs a credit card?!

*2026-04-09, version 2026.3.2*

I’d use the app if I wasn’t forced to add a credit card to use the free version… I’m more than willing to pay for a subscription if I like it (and it looks like I’d like it), but I’m not giving my credit card to use a free version of an app! lol

### 2/5 — Not as good as you’d hope.

*2026-01-22*

Chat GPT said clay was good. I thought I did enough research but now I’m using the app and none of my notes for my contacts are there! Even the Nexus feature for individual contacts isn’t working. I click it and nothing happens. When I use the Nexus feature (not linked to specific contact) it’ll still tell me about my notes but that’s so inconvenient. The app is not due for an update and the Nexus assures me it’s just a UI bug… you also can’t delete contacts just archive them. I just feel like I might as well keep notes on my contact library. I would get a refund if I could. I wish I never bought the year subscription $120 down the drain. By the way- in my opinion the 5 star reviews seem like bots- or they had personal interest in a good review…

### 1/5 — Worst contact management ever

*2026-01-16, version 2.18.21*

I am so frustrated that I have just spent days organizing my contacts, and it doesn’t even properly remember who is archived, it hasn’t auto enriched anyones information, it lacks the ability to detect fuzzy duplicates. What a waste of my time, and money - I can’t believe you are charging what you are for this absolute piece of garbage. I really wish I could get back my lost time. Can hardly do even the most basic of what it claims.

### 1/5 — Paywall upon installation

*2025-12-22, version 2025.13*

Makes you pay first sadly

### 1/5 — Complete Scam!

*2025-11-11, version 2025.12.1*

They ask you to put your credit card information before seeing the platform. Then they as you to upload your data BEFORE seeing the platform! And even to unsubscribe or to delete your account you MUST give them your data because otherwise you won’t get into the dashboard! I have written them an unsubscribe email and didn’t receive any response either!

### 2/5 — Confusing, not very useful

*2025-10-29, version 2025.11*

Requires too many permissions for not enough accuracy / value overall

## Frequently asked questions about Mesh

### What does Mesh: Contacts + CRM do?

Mesh is a contact management app and lightweight CRM designed to help you organize and deepen your personal and professional relationships. It automatically builds comprehensive contact cards by integrating with your email, calendar, address book, and social media profiles, providing context and history for each contact.

### What are the key features of Mesh?

Key features include automatic contact card creation with rich context, natural-language search for finding people quickly, note-taking and dictation to remember important details, reminders for birthdays and reconnection cadences, and the ability to group contacts for easier organization and event planning.

### How much does Mesh cost?

The app is free to try, with options for in-app purchases. This allows users to explore its core functionalities before committing to any paid features.

### What devices is Mesh compatible with?

Mesh offers cross-device sync and cross-platform compatibility, meaning you can access and manage your contacts on any device. This ensures your relationship data is always up-to-date and accessible wherever you are.

### How can Mesh help me stay in touch with people?

Mesh helps you stay in touch by providing timely reminders for important dates like birthdays and anniversaries, and by suggesting reconnection cadences to ensure you don't lose touch with important contacts. It also surfaces news articles about people you know, giving you timely conversation starters.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2026.5.1 — 2026-08-07

- Improved and expanded shortcuts
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 2026.5 — 2026-08-01

- Improved and expanded shortcuts
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 2026.4.2 — 2026-07-25

- Improved the navigation menu on iPad
- Bug fixes and performance improvements

### 2026.4.1 — 2026-06-13

- Fixed and issue with adding a note label
- Improved Activity filters by disabling unavailable filters in Upcoming and showing the active filter more clearly
- Refined some empty states in the contact card
- Improved Nexus replies with cleaner formatting, better spacing, reference access, and stronger contact context
- Updated and expanded social icons, including support for Bluesky, Mastodon, Substack, Threads, and TikTok
- Improved LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter import flows with clearer failure states and retry messaging
- Search is more reliable, with stale results ignored and loading states fixed when searches fail
- Improved business card scanning reliability and scan identity handling
- Save scanned business cards to your Photo Library

### 2026.4 — 2026-05-07

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-22.*