Comparison

Optix vs Mesh

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

Head to head
About

Optix

This app provides a mobile-first experience for smart and connected workplaces. It powers coworking spaces and enterprise organizations, offering seamless access to workplace resources. Contact your community manager for access.

Highlights
  • Mobile-first workplace experience
  • Powers coworking spaces
  • Supports enterprise organizations
  • Seamless access to workplace resources
Features
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Optix is the technology platform for smart and connected workplaces. Our software powers coworking spaces and enterprise organizations with a delightful mobile-first experience. To gain access to your organization's workplace app, please contact your coworking community manager.

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

Optix4 screens
Mesh4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Optix at 67% against Mesh's 28%. Optix also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Mesh's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and ratings volume (765 vs 161). On price, ads and device support 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. Optix asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Optix holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 161 and 765 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Optix's written reviews are positive against 28% of Mesh's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Optix ships an update monthly, Mesh weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Optix versus Mesh: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOptixMesh
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (161 ratings) — better4.4 (765 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better28.1% of reviews
Number of ratings161765 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB393 MB
Age rating12++4
DeveloperShareDesk Global Inc.Clay Engineering

Customer experience

Optix

All ratings159 ratings
Positive99.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.6%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%

Mesh

All ratings765 ratings
Positive84.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews114 reviews
Positive28.1%
Neutral5.3%
Negative66.7%

Bugs and requests

Optix

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

Optix

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 Optix free?
Optix 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, Optix or Mesh?
Optix is rated higher. Optix averages 4.9 out of 5 from 161 ratings, while Mesh averages 4.4 from 765 ratings.
Do Optix or Mesh have ads?
Neither Optix nor Mesh shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Optix or Mesh?
Optix ships an update monthly, and Mesh weekly. Most recently, Optix was updated on October 29, 2026 and Mesh on October 26, 2026.

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