Comparison

Mesh vs HelloCRM

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

HelloCRM

Features
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HelloCRM helps sales and support teams manage every customer conversation in one place – WhatsApp, SMS, email, calls, and live chat – all connected to your CRM. From the first touch to closed deal, you get a clear timeline of every interaction so nothing slips through the cracks. Quickly search and select contacts from your phone or CRM, then start a conversation on the channel they prefer. View all previous WhatsApp, SMS, email, and call history in a single, organized thread so your team always has context. Use message templates to reply in seconds, send documents or media, and switch channels without losing the conversation. Real‑time notifications make sure you never miss an important reply. Whether you’re at your desk or on the move, HelloCRM keeps you and your team in sync so you can respond faster, follow up on time, and close more deals. Key features Unified inbox: See WhatsApp, SMS, email, calls, and live chat for each contact in a single conversation view. Multi‑channel replies: Choose the best provider (WhatsApp, SMS, email, etc.) for each message with one tap. Contact picker: Browse thousands of contacts, search by name, number, or email, and start chats instantly. Rich composer: Send text, images, documents, audio, video, and templates directly from the message composer. Templates & snippets: Use pre‑approved message templates to reply faster and keep communication on‑brand. Smart notifications: Get push alerts for new messages and important replies so you can act immediately. Conversation filters: Quickly view all, open, closed, read, or unread conversations to stay organized. CRM‑ready: Designed to work alongside your CRM so conversations, activities, and follow‑ups stay in sync. HelloCRM is built for modern teams who want to manage every customer interaction from one simple, powerful mobile app.

Screenshots

Mesh4 screens
HelloCRM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HelloCRM at none against Mesh's 2. HelloCRM also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Mesh's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs monthly). 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. HelloCRM asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mesh ships an update weekly, HelloCRM monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mesh versus HelloCRM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeshHelloCRM
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (765 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings765 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
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 EngineeringOSHI B2B INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED

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

HelloCRM

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

HelloCRM

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mesh free?
Mesh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HelloCRM free?
HelloCRM is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mesh or HelloCRM have ads?
Neither Mesh nor HelloCRM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mesh or HelloCRM?
Mesh ships an update weekly, and HelloCRM monthly. Most recently, Mesh was updated on October 26, 2026 and HelloCRM on October 25, 2026.

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