Comparison

Mesh vs Duckbill

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
Features
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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

Duckbill

This app offers human-led, AI-enhanced personal assistance for everyday tasks and life administration. It handles everything from prescription refills and appointment booking to travel arrangements and bill management, freeing up your time.

Highlights
  • Human-led AI-enhanced assistance
  • Task execution for daily chores
  • Life administration management
  • Prescription refill coordination
  • Birthday card and gift sending
  • Passport renewal services
  • Travel booking and coordination
  • Grocery delivery setup
Features
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Duckbill is an executive assistant for your personal life, led by expert humans and enhanced with AI superpowers. We provide life support by taking over the execution of dreaded everyday tasks and endless life admin. Just tell us what you need, like: - I’m having trouble finding my Rx in stock anywhere, can you call around to pharmacies and have it delivered monthly? - Can you put my friends and family's birthdays on my calendar, and send each one a handwritten card from me every year? - Renew my passport, please. - Can you review my calendar and book me a trip to/from the airport for each flight? - Send me new recipes each week and set up an ongoing grocery delivery so I have what I need for each one. - Can you call my health insurance and sort out this medical bill? I don’t have time to wait on hold. Then, our team of copilots will get to work! We’ll ask the right questions to get it done. We promise: we’re always aiming to take the burden off of you. With just a bit of info from you, we’ll start to anticipate your to-do’s and stay one step ahead. The more we get to know you, the better Duckbill gets. It feels good to let go, doesn’t it?

Screenshots

Mesh4 screens
Duckbill4 screens

Verdict

The call

Mesh and Duckbill both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 74% of Duckbill's written reviews are positive against 28% of Mesh's. Duckbill also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Mesh's advantage is ratings volume (766 vs 70). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Duckbill asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Mesh against 4.3 for Duckbill. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesh has 766 ratings behind it against 70, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 28% of Mesh's written reviews are positive against 74% of Duckbill's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mesh versus Duckbill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeshDuckbill
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (766 ratings) — better4.3 (70 ratings)
Positive reviews27.8% of reviews74.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings766 — better70
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size393 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClay EngineeringDuckbill Technologies, Inc.

Customer experience

Mesh

All ratings765 ratings
Positive84.1%
Neutral3.1%
Negative12.8%
Written reviews115 reviews
Positive27.8%
Neutral5.2%
Negative67.0%

Duckbill

All ratings69 ratings
Positive76.8%
Neutral5.8%
Negative17.4%
Written reviews39 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral7.7%
Negative17.9%

User reviews

Mesh

From 766 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Powerful features
  • 💡 Innovative approach
  • 👍 Intuitive interface
  • ⭐ Solid app overall

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and unstable
  • 🕰️ Slow performance
  • 🔒 Privacy concerns
  • 💰 Expensive subscription

Duckbill

From 70 App Store ratings

What we love

  • ✨ Saves significant time
  • 🤝 Acts as a helpful partner
  • 💯 Efficient task completion
  • 💡 Great for ADHD/organization
  • 💖 Humans care about users

Room to improve

  • 📉 Task completion inconsistent
  • 💸 Misleading completion rates advertised
  • 💰 Frequent requests for extra payment
  • 💳 Auto-deducted money without permission
  • 💸 Expensive for the value

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

Duckbill

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • No way to resolve billing issues on mobile
  • Service went down due to billing issue with no quick fix
  • Login screen freezes (inferred from billing issue)
  • Incompatible with older devices (inferred from general app issues)
  • Home screen features gone

Requested features

8 requests
  • Ensure tasks are completed within scope
  • Humans can't get paid until task is marked complete by user with 5 stars
  • Flat, predictable pricing plan instead of credits
  • Bring back unique and useful app features
  • Automate more features with agents
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  • Build multi-action agents (shopping, calendar management, bookings)
  • Lower prices
  • Improve app cleanups (e.g., password prompts)

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Mesh

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

Duckbill

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mesh free?
Mesh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Duckbill free?
Duckbill is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mesh or Duckbill?
Mesh is rated higher. Mesh averages 4.4 out of 5 from 766 ratings, while Duckbill averages 4.3 from 70 ratings.
Do Mesh or Duckbill have ads?
Neither Mesh nor Duckbill shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mesh or Duckbill?
Mesh ships an update weekly, and Duckbill weekly. Most recently, Mesh was updated on November 6, 2026 and Duckbill on November 3, 2026.

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