Mesh vs Donna
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
Donna
This app helps you manage overwhelming tasks by letting you speak or type your thoughts freely. It then distills your input into a single, actionable item, reducing mental clutter and the pressure of decision-making. Your system evolves organically without constant maintenance or punitive reminders.
- Brain dump via voice or text
- Distills input to one actionable item
- Organic system evolution
- Home screen widget for daily focus
- No streaks, overdue flags, or completion percentages
- Data deletion available
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Task management for a head that holds more than it can sort. Twenty things at once, and no way to pick one. That's the moment Donna was built for. You talk, it sorts, and you carry one thing instead of twenty. Open the app and just talk. Say all of it: the work thing, the text you never answered, the appointment you keep meaning to book, the one you can't quite put into words. It doesn't have to make sense. It doesn't have to be in order. Everything else is still there. You just don't have to carry it. HOW IT WORKS Brain dump. Speak or type, any time. No forms, no categories, no setup. This is the whole interface. One thing. Not a ranked list. Not a priority matrix. One thing, pulled from everything you said, so you're not stuck at the front end deciding. Donna remembers. Every dump builds on the last. Ask the app later what you said about the lease, or your sister, or that project, and it'll tell you. Your system, built quietly. The things you keep circling back to arrange themselves in the background. You never file anything. You never maintain anything. On your home screen. Today's one thing sits in a widget, so opening the app is never a requirement. NOTHING HERE CAN BREAK No streaks. No overdue flags. No red badges. No completion percentage watching you. Miss a day, miss a month. Donna picks up where you left off and doesn't mention it. Decide something doesn't matter anymore and drop it, and Donna stops bringing it up. Nothing here is built to make you feel behind. IT'S YOURS, AND IT STAYS YOURS Delete everything, any time, from inside the app. Memory, history, account, all of it. It's immediate and it's real. Gone means gone. WHO IT'S FOR Anyone whose head holds more than it can sort. If you've ever looked at everything you have to do and couldn't pick a single place to start, this was built from that exact moment. DONNA PRO Everything above, free for 14 days. After that: Monthly: $12.99 Annual: $99 Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://donna-app.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Questions: support@donna-app.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Donna at 5.0 against Mesh's 4.4. Mesh's advantage is ratings volume (766 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 1). 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 Donna sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Donna holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesh has 766 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Mesh | Donna |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (766 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 27.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 766 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 393 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clay Engineering | Akralis Design Studios |
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
Donna
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
Donna
- Donna Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
- Donna Pro Annual$99.001 Year









