Coleva vs Dex

Coleva is an iPhone personal CRM and relationship journal that organizes short written or dictated entries into memories about people, places, and moments. On-device intelligence extracts people, relationships, dates, and details, with a one-tap undo. A living map shows connections in colour-coded groups, while search can answer plain-English questions from the user's notes. Birthday lead-time reminders and check-in nudges help users follow up. The Free plan is limited to 20 people and includes journal capture, the living map, birthdays, and Ask Coleva. Coleva Plus adds unlimited people, important-date reminders, calendar-synced nudges, AI assist, career and location trails, photo avatars, app lock, and custom map colours. Plus costs $3.99 a month or $39 a year. Notes, diary entries, relationships, and attached photos are stored locally on the iPhone; the maker says it has no server holding user content. Optional Cloud Assist can send limited text or profile information to OpenAI's API when enabled in Settings, and can be turned off. Coleva requires iOS 26.0 or later.

Dex is a personal CRM that brings together LinkedIn, email, and daily tools to help users maintain relationships and remember context. Contact records can hold details such as how people met, education, work, important dates, family, gift ideas, and event history. Dex can remind users to reconnect and alert them to upcoming birthdays. Its integrations include Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, two-way contact sync, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Superhuman, CSV, Granola, Zapier, and Dex MCP Server. Users can connect Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or other MCP-compatible tools to their account and relationship data. The mobile app supports quick contact notes and meeting preparation information; desktop downloads are available for Mac and Windows. Premium costs $12 a month and includes LinkedIn sync for up to 2,500 connections. Professional costs $20 a month and supports up to 9,000 connections, with Mail Merge for personalized email workflows to up to 200 contacts. There is no free plan, but a 7-day trial is listed. Dex describes its focus as personal relationships rather than sales pipelines.