Kinu vs Kithmap

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.

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.