Covve vs Kinu

Covve Personal CRM helps users manage relationships with notes, reminders, curated contact news, and relationship analytics. Users can record conversations and interactions, while smart reminders flag when it may be time to reconnect or when they are losing touch. Curated news about contacts can help users prepare before reaching out, and live analytics track and organize relationships and assess network health. The app is listed for iPhone, iPad, and Android, with a web admin portal in the Pro plan. Contacts can be imported from iCloud, Outlook or Exchange, Google Contacts, and a phone address book. Listed integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zapier, Outlook Contacts, Google Contacts, and Excel. The App Store listing says contact notes and related personal data are encrypted on-device with end-to-end encryption, and Covve cannot unlock them without the user's encryption key. Covve offers a free plan and a 14-day trial. Essential costs $12 a month and Pro costs $20 a month; Enterprise pricing is custom.

Kinu is a private personal CRM for remembering details and important dates about friends and family. It can remind users when a date arrives or when they have not been in touch for a while. For each person, users can keep moments, private and voice notes, dates, and rituals. It is designed for personal relationships rather than sales contacts or a larger social network, and has no feeds, followers, likes, or public profiles.

After sign-in, Kinu works offline and saves changes to the device first. Relationship data is local by default; users can enable free encrypted backup or paid encrypted sync. When either is enabled, data is encrypted on the device before it leaves and remains encrypted in transit and at rest. Voice notes stay on the device on every plan, and data can be exported at any time. Kinu is available on Android, iOS, and web. The free plan supports up to 10 people; Kinu Plus adds unlimited people and encrypted sync for $6.99 per month or $69.99 per year.