Comparison

Workable vs Mesh

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Workable

This app streamlines HR processes, offering tools for efficient recruitment and comprehensive employee management. It features an AI-powered applicant tracking system, secure employee data handling, and integrated payroll options. The platform also includes a job board to connect candidates with opportunities.

Highlights
  • AI-powered Applicant Tracking System
  • Sourcing tools and job board integration
  • Automation for faster hiring
  • Employee data management
  • Time off and payroll integration
  • Branded job boards
Features
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Workable simplifies HR with a suite of products for recruitment and employee management: Workable Recruiting is the leading Applicant Tracking System, enhancing hiring with AI, powerful sourcing tools, and seamless integration with major job boards. Speed up hiring with automation, and stay informed with comprehensive reporting. Workable HR enables employee management from start to finish. It’s a highly configurable system to securely handle employee data, manage time off, integrate with payroll, and more, all in one place. In addition to Workable’s HR suite, Jobs by Workable connects millions of candidates with opportunities at Workable-powered companies, while Workable’s Branded Job Boards offer customized job boards for communities and networks to attract talent. Workable has helped more than 27,000 companies hire the right employees and manage them effectively.

About

Mesh

Organize and deepen personal and professional relationships with this intuitive contact manager and lightweight CRM. It automatically builds contact cards from your digital life and offers features like notes, reminders, and news updates to help you stay connected.

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

Screenshots

Workable4 screens
Mesh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Workable at none against Mesh's 2. Workable also leads on review sentiment (39% vs 28%). Mesh's advantage is ratings volume (764 vs 148) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mesh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Workable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Workable against 4.4 for Mesh. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesh has 764 ratings behind it against 148, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Workable's written reviews are positive against 28% of Mesh's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workable ships an update fortnightly, Mesh every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Workable versus Mesh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkableMesh
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (148 ratings)4.4 (764 ratings)
Positive reviews39.4% of reviews — better28.1% of reviews
Number of ratings148764 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB376 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWorkable Ltd.Clay Engineering

Customer experience

Workable

All ratings148 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral7.4%
Negative8.8%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral33.3%
Negative27.3%

Mesh

All ratings764 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative12.4%
Written reviews114 reviews
Positive28.1%
Neutral5.3%
Negative66.7%

Bugs and requests

Workable

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Mesh

Reported bugs

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

Requested features

4 requests
  • Improved contact management
  • Seamless integration with more platforms
  • Automated duplicate resolution
  • Better iPad support

In-app purchases

None

Workable

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Mesh

Subscriptions2
  • Mesh Membership - Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Mesh Membership - Annual14 Days trial$119.991 Year

Questions

Is Workable free?
Workable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mesh free?
Mesh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Workable or Mesh?
Workable and Mesh are both rated 4.4 out of 5 on the App Store, from 148 and 764 ratings respectively.
Do Workable or Mesh have ads?
Neither Workable nor Mesh shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workable or Mesh?
Workable ships an update fortnightly, and Mesh every 10 days. Most recently, Workable was updated on October 13, 2026 and Mesh on October 13, 2026.

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