Covve

Covve is a personal CRM for professionals who win work through relationships and need structured follow-up. It combines contact history, reminders, news and network metrics with lead-capture tools across mobile and web. Choose it when relationship discipline and business-card intake matter more than a low-cost, lightweight address book.

Overview

Covve treats contacts as continuing relationships rather than static records. You can import people from iCloud, Outlook or Exchange, Google Contacts and your phone address book, then keep notes about conversations, interactions, groups and companies. Smart reminders flag when it may be time to contact someone or when you are losing touch.

Curated news about contacts supplies context before outreach, while live relationship analytics help you organise connections and judge network health. Email synchronisation and company-contact support make it more useful in professional workflows than a basic contacts replacement. Integrations cover Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zapier, Outlook Contacts, Google Contacts and Excel.

Key features

Follow-up and context

Conversation notes preserve relationship memory between meetings, and reminders turn that history into a repeatable contact routine. Contact news can help a salesperson, recruiter or partnership lead prepare before getting in touch. Analytics add a network-level view, although their value depends on keeping contact records current.

Lead capture

Essential includes unlimited business-card and QR scanning, offline scanning, support for more than 60 languages and instant lead bios. Pro adds event-badge scanning, branded digital cards and custom fields that map to a CRM. These are meaningful upgrades for conference-heavy teams; casual users are unlikely to need the higher tier.

Security and administration

On iPhone and iPad, contact notes and related personal data are encrypted on-device with end-to-end encryption; Covve cannot unlock them without the encryption key. Covve says its information-security system is certified to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 by GCERT. Hosting is in Microsoft Azure Europe and Google data centres in Germany and the Netherlands, with customer data kept inside the EEA. Enterprise adds an enterprise DPA, compliance support, SSO, audit logs, a 99.95% availability SLA and priority support.

Pricing

Covve Essential costs $12.00 per seat per month (billed $12/seat/mo). It includes unlimited business-card and QR scanning, offline capture, 60+ languages, notes and groups, instant lead bios, and Outlook, Google Contacts and Zapier integrations. It is the sensible entry point for an individual or small operation that needs dependable capture and follow-up without team administration.

Covve Pro costs $20.00 per seat per month (billed $20/seat/mo). It includes Essential, plus event-badge scanning, CRM-mapped custom fields, a web admin portal, real-time analytics, team collaboration, seat reassignment and branded digital cards. Pay the premium when several users share lead workflows or events generate enough volume to justify those controls.

Personal CRM on iOS is a free download with in-app purchases, with multiple Pro prices shown rather than one single published price. Enterprise uses custom pricing and includes everything in Pro plus CRM integrations and the enterprise controls. A 14-day trial is offered. After it ends, users who do not continue cannot scan additional cards, though contacts captured during the trial remain accessible. That restriction makes the trial useful for evaluating the relationship tools, but unsuitable as a continuing free card scanner.

Platforms

Covve runs on Android, iOS and the web. The Personal CRM is listed for iPhone and iPad and is available through Google Play. This combination suits people who capture contacts on a phone but review and administer relationships in a browser.

Who it's for

Covve is aimed at business professionals who generate work through their networks: salespeople, recruiters, consultants, founders and partnership teams. Essential fits a solo operator who needs imports, notes, reminders and high-volume card scanning. Pro is better for event-led teams requiring shared administration, analytics and CRM-shaped fields. It is a poor fit if you only want a small personal address book or insist on continuing card scanning without paying.

Pros and cons

Pros: relationship reminders and notes support consistent follow-up; contact news and analytics add context beyond an address book; imports, email sync and broad CRM integrations reduce isolation; Essential has unlimited business-card and QR scanning; on-device end-to-end encryption protects personal notes on Apple devices.

Cons: the 14-day trial stops new card scans unless you subscribe; Pro costs $20 per seat monthly for team and event features; the iOS in-app purchase pricing is not presented as one clear plan price; advanced CRM integrations and enterprise controls require custom pricing.

Alternatives

Personal CRM Software is the broader comparison for relationship-focused tools. Choose Contacts+ Personal CRM instead if a free tier with one account, 1,000 contacts and daily sync is enough. Kinu suits someone who wants a free encrypted backup for up to 10 people and can live without cross-device sync. Pick Dextr for an iOS/macOS-only free plan with unlimited contacts, AI organisation, reminders, places and events.

Dex is the alternative when LinkedIn synchronisation, desktop access and 2,500-connection capacity matter more than Covve's card scanning. KeepContact is aimed at iOS users starting with 15 contacts and three reminders on its free plan. Yenesow is a small-scale iOS option capped at five connections, ten conversations per month and five nudges per week. Monica is the choice for self-hosting, with unlimited contacts and users subject to your infrastructure. Relatable is a paid cross-platform alternative with one $44-per-month plan.

For capture-focused comparisons, see Business Card Scanner Software; for broader address-book workflows, see Contact Management Software.

Verdict

Covve is a strong choice for network-led professionals who need reminders, relationship intelligence and serious business-card capture in one system. Its main reason to choose it is the connection between contact context and disciplined follow-up. Look elsewhere if you need a permanently free scanner, a simpler personal address book or a single transparent iOS purchase price.