Comparison

Mesh vs Relateful

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

Relateful

Features
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In the rush of daily life, it's easy to let important relationships drift. You mean to call, you want to check in, but time slips by. Relateful is your personal relationship manager, designed to help you be the thoughtful, present friend, partner, and family member you want to be. Stop letting good intentions fade. Relateful provides the gentle nudges and simple tools you need to consistently invest in the people who matter most. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://relateful.app/privacy_policy Key Features: ◆ Never Lose Touch: Set custom reminder frequencies for each contact—weekly, biweekly, monthly, or any interval you choose. Our "Relate" dashboard shows you at a glance who you haven't connected with in a while, making it easy to close the distance. ◆ Log Meaningful Moments: A great conversation is worth remembering. Quickly log your interactions, whether it was a deep phone call, a fun lunch, or a quick text. Add notes and tag the mood and quality of your time together so you can remember the details that matter. ◆ Organize Your Circle: Not all relationships are the same. Group your contacts into circles like "Support Clique," "Sympathy Group," or "Work Friends" to better organize your social life and view your interaction history with focus. ◆ See Your History at a Glance: View a complete, chronological history of your interactions with any person. Never again have to ask yourself, "When was the last time we talked?" The answer is right at your fingertips. ◆ Private By Design: Your relationships are your most personal data. Relateful is a completely offline app. All your information is stored securely on your device, not on our servers. You can export your data at any time. No accounts, no sign-ups, no worries. Relateful isn't another social network. It’s a quiet, private space for you to mindfully strengthen the bonds you already have. Download Relateful today and start investing in your most valuable asset: your relationships.

Screenshots

Mesh4 screens
Relateful3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Relateful at 15.1 against Mesh's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Relateful sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Mesh versus Relateful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeshRelateful
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (765 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings765 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size393 MB37 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperClay EngineeringBenjamin Wanner

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

Relateful

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
2 purchases

Relateful

Subscriptions2
  • Relateful Premium14 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Relateful Premium (annual)14 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Mesh free?
Mesh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Relateful free?
Relateful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Mesh or Relateful have ads?
Neither Mesh nor Relateful shows ads.

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