Intriq vs personal CRMs and meeting-transcription tools.
Price, platforms and where each tool gets its data, side by side. Then a full comparison page for each: what it does well, where the workflows diverge, and when to pick which.
At a glance
Intriq, Dex, Mesh, Folk and Monica
Prices in US dollars as listed on each company's own pricing page on September 25, 2026. Check their sites for current terms.
| App | Starting paid price | Free plan | Platforms | How you capture | Where the data comes from |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Intriq | Starting paid price $12.99/mo, or $8.33/mo billed yearly | Free plan Yes | Platforms iPhone, web | How you capture Type or speak a note; AI files it under the right person | Where the data comes from Only what you tell it |
 Dex | Starting paid price $20/mo, or $12/mo billed yearly | Free plan No (7-day trial) | Platforms iOS, Android, web, Mac, Windows, Chrome extension | How you capture LinkedIn, email, calendar and WhatsApp sync; contact import | Where the data comes from Your synced accounts |
 Mesh (formerly Clay) | Starting paid price $10/mo, or half that billed yearly | Free plan Yes (up to 1,000 contacts) | Platforms iOS, Mac, Windows, web | How you capture Import from email, calendar, LinkedIn, X, Facebook and iMessage | Where the data comes from Your synced accounts, plus updates such as job changes and news mentions |
 Folk | Starting paid price $30 per member/mo, or $24 billed yearly | Free plan No (14-day trial) | Platforms Web, mobile app, Chrome extension | How you capture LinkedIn extension; email, calendar and WhatsApp sync; CSV import | Where the data comes from Your synced accounts, plus contact and company enrichment |
 Monica | Starting paid price $9/mo, or $90/yr hosted | Free plan Free if you self-host | Platforms Web (works in a phone browser) | How you capture Manual entry; vCard and CSV import | Where the data comes from Only what you enter |
Personal CRMs & relationship tools
How Intriq compares to the personal CRMs and contact tools people use to keep track of who they know.
vs Dex
Intriq vs Dex
Both Intriq and Dex live near the personal CRM category, but they solve different jobs. Dex is built for managing a professional network with integrations and reminders. Intriq is built for private relationship memory and grounded recall on iPhone and the web.
vs Clay (Mesh)
Intriq vs Clay (Mesh)
Clay, recently rebranded as Mesh, leans on automatic contact enrichment from public sources. Intriq is the opposite posture: a private relationship memory layer built only from the notes you write yourself.
vs Monica
Intriq vs Monica
Monica is the open-source personal CRM that lets you self-host your relationship data. Intriq is the iPhone-first private relationship memory app for users who want a native mobile workflow without running their own server.
vs Folk
Intriq vs Folk
Folk is a modern, polished CRM with multiple pipelines and team workspaces. Intriq is a private, iPhone-first relationship memory app with no pipeline at all. They overlap on capture but diverge sharply on intent.
vs Apple Contacts
Intriq vs Apple Contacts
Apple Contacts stores reachability: phone, email, address, company. Intriq stores relationship memory: what was said, what you promised, what to bring back. They are designed for different jobs and most people benefit from using both.
vs Notion
Intriq vs Notion
Notion is the flexible workspace that many people use as a DIY personal CRM. Intriq is a dedicated relationship memory app for users whose Notion CRM keeps getting abandoned after the third meeting.
Meeting & transcription tools
How Intriq differs from AI meeting assistants and transcription tools. They remember the meeting; Intriq remembers the person.
vs Fireflies.ai
Intriq vs Fireflies.ai
Fireflies.ai bills itself as the #1 AI assistant for your meetings: a bot that joins your calls, records them, and produces transcripts and summaries. Intriq is a different category entirely: a private, iPhone-first memory of the people you meet, built from conversations you record on your phone and notes you write, never from a bot in your calls.
vs Otter.ai
Intriq vs Otter.ai
Otter.ai is the best-known real-time transcription tool: it turns meetings, interviews, and lectures into searchable, speaker-labeled text. Intriq solves an adjacent but different problem: a private, iPhone-first memory of the people you meet, built from the conversations you choose to record and the notes you choose to keep.
vs Granola
Intriq vs Granola
Granola is the AI notepad founders love: it listens to your meeting in the background and enhances the notes you type with what was actually said, no bot joining the call. Intriq also records and summarizes conversations, on iPhone and Apple Watch, and organizes the memory you keep around people.
vs Fathom
Intriq vs Fathom
Fathom is the popular free AI notetaker: a bot joins your call, records it, and produces a transcript, summary, and action items, with sync into your CRM. Intriq is a different category: a private, iPhone-first memory of the people you meet, built from conversations you record on your phone and notes you write, never from a bot in your calls.
vs Plaud
Intriq vs Plaud
Plaud makes the best-known AI recording hardware: a card or pin that captures in-person talks, phone calls, and meetings, then transcribes and summarizes them in the cloud. Intriq records on the iPhone you already carry, for up to two hours and with the screen locked, or starts from an Apple Watch. It summarizes the whole conversation and files what you keep under the people in it.
vs tl;dv
Intriq vs tl;dv
Choose tl;dv for recording video calls and reviewing them across a team. Intriq records and summarizes conversations you start on iPhone or Apple Watch, then organizes the context you keep around people. It does not join Zoom, Meet or Teams calls with a bot.
vs Jamie
Intriq vs Jamie
Jamie is the most privacy-serious meeting notetaker in the category: no bot in the call, no audio retained, EU data residency, ISO 27001. Intriq is not a better version of that. It is a different tool: it records the conversations you start on your iPhone, including the in-person ones no desktop notetaker sees, and organizes what you keep around the person.
vs Read AI
Intriq vs Read AI
Read AI turns meetings into measurement: transcripts, summaries, and participant analytics like talk time, engagement, and sentiment. Intriq measures nothing and scores nobody. It keeps the things people told you, attached to them, so you have them before the next conversation.