Dex vs Kithmap

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.

Kithmap is a personal relationship CRM for keeping track of people and connections. Its graph lets users label links such as family, friends, partners, colleagues and classmates. People can be added by typing or pasting names, then organized with tags or groups and given photos and notes. Users can set a follow-up cadence, see who is overdue, record conversations and receive birthday reminders.

Kithmap describes itself as a single-user tool for personal memory, not a sales CRM. It runs on the web and macOS, and users sign in with Google. Optional connections to Google Contacts, Gmail and Calendar are subject to the access a user authorizes. Kithmap says Gmail thread bodies are not stored, although thread headers and relevant calendar events are cached on its server; for the Mac companion, message bodies remain on the Mac and only derived log entries are sent. Users can export data as JSON or delete an account in Settings. The open beta plan is free. Kithmap says it is US-only and not yet GDPR-compliant for EU residents.