Comparison

Mesh vs Contact Eclipse

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

Head to head
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

About

Contact Eclipse

This app offers a modern way to manage your contacts, allowing you to add, delete, and merge entries efficiently. Organize contacts into custom lists, pin favorites for quick access, and communicate with groups or individuals. It supports iCloud sync and home screen widgets for seamless integration.

Highlights
  • Add, delete, and merge contacts
  • Identify and merge duplicate contacts
  • Create custom contact lists
  • Pin favorite contacts
  • Group messaging and individual messaging
  • Share contacts via QR Code
  • iCloud sync across devices
  • Home screen widgets
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Contact Eclipse is an elegant contact manager built in SwiftUI. Manage Contacts with Ease Add, delete, or merge contacts — one at a time or in bulk. Identify duplicates by filtering on full name, first name, last name, phone number, organization, email, or address. Stay Organized Pin your Favorites to the top for instant access. Create custom Lists for easy organization and quick communication. Search contacts or jump to any section with the alphabet shortcut. Share & Connect Message an entire list at once via group chat, or send individually to each contact. Share contacts and lists via QR Code. Read and write NFC Contact Cards (iPhone only). Sync & Widgets iCloud Sync keeps your Favorites and Lists up to date across all devices. Add Home Screen widgets for quick access to your favorites, lists, and more.

Screenshots

Mesh4 screens
Contact Eclipse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Contact Eclipse at 5.0 against Mesh's 4.4. Contact Eclipse also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Mesh's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 8 months) and review sentiment (28% vs 0%). 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. Contact Eclipse asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Contact Eclipse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesh has 764 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of Mesh's written reviews are positive against 0% of Contact Eclipse's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mesh ships an update every 10 days, Contact Eclipse every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mesh versus Contact Eclipse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeshContact Eclipse
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (764 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.1% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings764 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Vision Pro
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size376 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClay EngineeringMatthew Harrington

Customer experience

Mesh

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

Contact Eclipse

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and 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

Contact Eclipse

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mesh

Subscriptions2
  • Mesh Membership - Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Mesh Membership - Annual14 Days trial$119.991 Year
None

Contact Eclipse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mesh free?
Mesh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Contact Eclipse free?
Contact Eclipse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mesh or Contact Eclipse?
Contact Eclipse is rated higher. Mesh averages 4.4 out of 5 from 764 ratings, while Contact Eclipse averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Mesh or Contact Eclipse have ads?
Neither Mesh nor Contact Eclipse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mesh or Contact Eclipse?
Mesh ships an update every 10 days, and Contact Eclipse every 8 months. Most recently, Mesh was updated on October 13, 2026 and Contact Eclipse on October 6, 2026.

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