Mesh vs Groupthink Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Groupthink Assistant
This app acts as a personal memory for your contacts, organizing information about individuals and past conversations. It helps you prepare for interactions by providing summaries of what you know, your history, and outstanding tasks. The app also helps manage your daily schedule and allows for quick note-taking or recording of conversations, linked to specific people.
- One page per person profile
- Track conversation history
- Manage outstanding tasks
- Daily schedule overview
- Quick note and recording capture
- Personalized contact reminders
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Groupthink is a memory for the people in your life and work. Before you talk to someone, open their page. You'll see what you know about them, what you talked about last time, and what you said you'd do. ONE PAGE PER PERSON What you know, your history together, and the threads still open. New facts from your notes wait for you to confirm them. Set how often you want to stay in touch and see who's overdue. YOUR DAY Today shows your meetings, who's in them, and what to bring up with each person. CAPTURE IN A TAP Record a conversation or jot a quick note. Groupthink files it on the right person. ASK ABOUT ANYONE The Advisor answers questions like "what do I owe people this week?" and "when did I last see Dana?" Free brings in 12 months of calendar history. Pro brings in up to 3 years and adds the Advisor, after a 30-day free trial. Groupthink Pro is $25/month, renews monthly until you cancel. New accounts start with a 30-day free trial. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://groupthink.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Groupthink Assistant at 5.0 against Mesh's 4.4. Mesh's advantage is ratings volume (765 vs 2) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Mesh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Groupthink Assistant sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $25.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Groupthink Assistant holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesh has 765 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mesh ships an update weekly, Groupthink Assistant every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mesh | Groupthink Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (765 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 765 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 393 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clay Engineering | Groupthink |
Customer experience
Mesh
Groupthink Assistant
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
Groupthink Assistant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mesh
- Mesh Membership - Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Mesh Membership - Annual14 Days trial$119.991 Year
Groupthink Assistant
- Groupthink Pro$25.001 Month









