VideoAsk (by Typeform) vs Mesh
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VideoAsk (by Typeform)
Engage your audience with personalized video conversations at scale. Record video questions, receive video or text answers, and automate business processes like lead generation and recruitment. Transcripts are provided for all responses.
- Record video/voice questions
- Receive video, voice, or text answers
- Video recruitment tools
- Lead generation and nurturing
- Website FAQs
- Customer support
- Video testimonials and feedback
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VideoAsk is a more personal way to have business conversations at scale. Use the power of video and your face to engage with your audience at a completely different level, and do it all whilst you sleep. Useful for: Video recruitment: from candidate sourcing and async video interviews to candidate assessment, onboarding and more. Marketing: lead generation, lead capturing, lead nurturing, run FAQs on your website. You can also use VideoAsk for service management, customer support, data collection, collecting video testimonials, running feedback surveys, video surveys and polls. HOW DOES IT WORK? 1. Easily record your video (or voice) questions & share a link with anyone. 2. Choose how you would like to receive answers: Video/Voice/Text or Multiple Choice (poll) 3. Respondents answer on their mobile or desktop browser without needing the app. 4. You get real answers straight to your mobile device + full-text transcriptions. While VideoAsk is free, some features such as Custom Branding, NPS responses or Conditional Logic are only available subscribing to one of our plans. Please check the ‘Plans & Billing’ page in the app for more information. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: VideoAsk (by Typeform) at 88% against Mesh's 28%. VideoAsk (by Typeform) also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4). Mesh's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. VideoAsk (by Typeform) sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month and Mesh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
VideoAsk (by Typeform) holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 503 and 766 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of VideoAsk (by Typeform)'s written reviews are positive against 28% of Mesh's.
VideoAsk (by Typeform) ships an update every 3 weeks, Mesh weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VideoAsk (by Typeform) | Mesh |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (503 ratings) — better | 4.4 (766 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 27.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 503 | 766 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 393 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Typeform | Clay Engineering |
Customer experience
VideoAsk (by Typeform)
Mesh
User reviews
VideoAsk (by Typeform)
From 503 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Powerful and effective tool
- 👍 Easy to learn and use
- 💡 Innovative and personal communication
- 🌟 Game changer for business
- 📈 Converts leads effectively
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy sign-in process
- 🐛 Error message when uploading video
- 🐛 Current version doesn't save 'ask'
Mesh
From 766 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Powerful features
- 💡 Innovative approach
- 👍 Intuitive interface
- ⭐ Solid app overall
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unstable
- 🕰️ Slow performance
- 🔒 Privacy concerns
- 💰 Expensive subscription
Bugs and requests
VideoAsk (by Typeform)
Reported bugs
4 issues- Sign-in is glitchy on site and app
- Error message when uploading video
- Latest version on latest iOS update on iPhone 11 isn't saving any ask
- Getting an error message as soon as trying to record a video
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
VideoAsk (by Typeform)
- Grow Monthly$8.991 Month
- Brand Monthly$18.991 Month
- Grow Monthly$29.991 Month
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- Brand Monthly$49.991 Month
- Grow Yearly$83.991 Year
- Brand Yearly$179.991 Year
- Grow Yearly$284.991 Year
- Brand Yearly$449.991 Year
Mesh
- Mesh Membership - Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Mesh Membership - Annual14 Days trial$119.991 Year
Questions
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