Mesh vs CA3
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
CA3
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CA3 is your personal AI memory workspace on iPhone. Use the app to read, search, and manage the notes stored in your CA3 workspace. Notes can include Markdown content, source metadata, publishing state, revision history, and attachments. CA3 also includes iOS integrations for capturing useful context while you work: - Save text, links, screenshots, or a photo from other apps with the CA3 Share Extension. - Extract text from a shared image on device and keep it with the image in one searchable note. - Clip Safari pages with the bundled Safari extension. - Preview extracted page content before saving. - Save source URL, title, site metadata, Markdown body, and selected page images. - Open and review saved notes in the CA3 app. - Sign in with CA3 OAuth using scoped access. CA3 is designed for user-owned memory. It does not automatically read browsing content or photos in the background. Safari page content is accessed only when you open the extension or use one of its clipping actions, and shared content is processed only when you invoke the share sheet. Text recognition for a shared image runs on device; the image and resulting note are uploaded to your CA3 workspace only after you tap Save.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CA3 at none against Mesh's 2. CA3 also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Mesh sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month. CA3 asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mesh ships an update every 10 days, CA3 every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mesh | CA3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (764 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 28.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 764 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 376 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clay Engineering | Hangzhou Enactflow Technology Co., Ltd |
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
CA3
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
CA3
No in-app purchases









