Comparison

Mesh vs a)plan coaching 2.0

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

a)plan coaching 2.0

This app enhances one-on-one coaching with technology, offering real-time feedback and encouragement through notifications and text chat. It serves as a central hub for tracking accomplishments and progress towards personal goals.

Highlights
  • Real-time feedback from coaches
  • Progress tracking for goals
  • Capture general accomplishments
  • Track areas of growth
  • Gratitude journaling
  • Short and long-term goal setting
Features
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Better coaching, optimized by technology. The a)plan process was designed by the coaching industry’s best and brightest, with behavioral psychology and neuroscience at the core of our approach. Supporting this approach is the a)plan app, a unique and proprietary communication platform designed to extend the one-on-one coaching experience. Through the use of notifications and text chat, users receive real-time feedback and positive encouragement from their coaches, which deepens engagement and supports positive change. The app is also a central hub for tracking micro accomplishments and progress towards specific, predefined goals. Users of the a)plan app enjoy the ability to capture and track: General accomplishments Gratitude Progress towards goals Areas of growth Short terms goals Longer term goals for the year and beyond Significant progress starts on a)plan’s app-based coaching platform.

Screenshots

Mesh4 screens
a)plan coaching 2.04 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: a)plan coaching 2.0 at 100% against Mesh's 28%. a)plan coaching 2.0 also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Mesh's advantage is ratings volume (762 vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price 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. a)plan coaching 2.0 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

a)plan coaching 2.0 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesh has 762 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 28% of Mesh's written reviews are positive against 100% of a)plan coaching 2.0's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mesh ships an update every 2 weeks, a)plan coaching 2.0 every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Mesh versus a)plan coaching 2.0: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMesha)plan coaching 2.0
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (762 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings762 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size201 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClay EngineeringA-Plan

Customer experience

Mesh

All ratings762 ratings
Positive84.4%
Neutral3.1%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews112 reviews
Positive27.7%
Neutral5.4%
Negative67.0%

a)plan coaching 2.0

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

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

a)plan coaching 2.0

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

a)plan coaching 2.0

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mesh free?
Mesh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is a)plan coaching 2.0 free?
a)plan coaching 2.0 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mesh or a)plan coaching 2.0?
a)plan coaching 2.0 is rated higher. Mesh averages 4.4 out of 5 from 762 ratings, while a)plan coaching 2.0 averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Mesh or a)plan coaching 2.0 have ads?
Neither Mesh nor a)plan coaching 2.0 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mesh or a)plan coaching 2.0?
Mesh ships an update every 2 weeks, and a)plan coaching 2.0 every 6 weeks. Most recently, Mesh was updated on September 26, 2026 and a)plan coaching 2.0 on August 15, 2026.

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