Comparison

Mesh vs Stafn

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

Stafn

This app helps you track personal goals and challenges, offering flexible rule settings and progress visualization. It allows for custom challenges or curated ones, with options for strict or forgiving tracking methods. Built for real-life adaptability, it includes features like notes, mid-run rule changes, and a focus timer.

Highlights
  • Customizable challenges
  • Flexible rule settings
  • Progress visualization
  • Daily check-ins
  • Focus Timer
  • Weekly training plans
Features
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Stafn is a straightforward tracker for the goals you actually want to stick to: 75 Hard, 75 Soft, thirty days of writing, or something nobody's named yet. HOW IT WORKS Start with a curated challenge or build your own from scratch. Set your tasks, pick rest days if you want them, and choose how forgiving the rules are. Then check in once a day, usually in under a minute, and watch the streak build. THREE WAYS TO PLAY BY THE RULES Strict is true to the original 75 Hard format: miss one task and you start over at day one. Flexible keeps your history and progress even after a missed day, only the streak resets. Points-based asks you to hit a daily target instead of every single task, so no one thing can end your run. BUILT FOR REAL LIFE Skip a day you genuinely can't make, without it counting as a miss. Add a note to any day worth remembering. Change tasks, rest days, or rules mid-run when your plan needs to change. Weekly training plans, starting with running, build mileage week to week with cutback and taper weeks built in. A standalone Focus Timer is there for any task that needs a clock, in or out of check-in. SEE THE WORK, NOT JUST THE NUMBERS Progress lays out your whole run on one screen: the streak, a day-by-day grid, and which tasks you are actually consistent with. Free to start, with a small ad or two along the way. A paid tier that removes them and unlocks unlimited trackers is coming soon. No subscriptions, ever, that is a promise Stafn is built around from day one.

Screenshots

Mesh4 screens
Stafn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Stafn at 5.0 against Mesh's 4.4. Stafn also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Mesh's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (765 vs 2). On price and iOS requirement 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. Stafn asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Stafn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mesh has 765 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mesh versus Stafn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMeshStafn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (765 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings765 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size393 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClay EngineeringDurell Blanks

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

Stafn

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

Stafn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mesh free?
Mesh is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Stafn free?
Stafn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mesh or Stafn?
Stafn is rated higher. Mesh averages 4.4 out of 5 from 765 ratings, while Stafn averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Mesh or Stafn have ads?
Stafn shows ads; Mesh does not.

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