Dex is a polished personal CRM with reminders you set for each person. YouSpot reads your Gmail and calendar, works out who's gone quiet, and reads the message itself when you ask.
Free to start. No credit card.
Dex is a mature personal CRM with phone and desktop apps and more channels than YouSpot. YouSpot reads your Gmail and calendar, finds who's gone quiet without a schedule, and reads the whole email when you ask it something.
Dex's own docs say its assistant sees the sender, subject, date and a snippet, not the full message. YouSpot reads the email itself, live from Gmail, when you ask, and doesn't copy your mail in.
| The decision | YouSpot | Dex |
|---|---|---|
| What the assistant reads | The whole message, read live from Gmail when you ask a question. | The sender, subject, date and a short snippet of each email, per Dex's docs. |
| Knowing who's gone quiet | Works it out from when you last emailed each person. Ask "who haven't I talked to in six months?" and get names, with the last thread. | Reminders start once you set how often to hear from each person, plus a few suggestions a day it picks for you. |
| What it holds | Your people, plus your Obsidian notes, a Notion export and pages you save as you browse. | Your people, each with notes, tags, groups, custom fields and a timeline. |
| Taking it with you | Export your whole second brain as Markdown files, whenever you like. | Three separate CSV files: contacts, timeline and network updates. |
| Price | Start on Free, no credit card needed. Pro is $10 a month. | Premium is $12 a month billed yearly, or $20 month to month. No free plan, and the 6-day trial needs a card. |
Compared on 25 September 2026. Dex and the other product names on this page are trademarks of their owners.
An example of one question, answered from sent mail and a calendar.
Free to start. No credit card.
Said plainly, so the rest of the page is easier to believe.
Dex has apps for iPhone, Android, Mac and Windows, and keeps your phone's address book in step both ways. YouSpot runs in the browser, with a Chrome extension. If you add people from your phone at events, Dex is ahead.
Dex brings in WhatsApp, iMessage and your phone's address book. YouSpot reads Gmail or Outlook, but does not import WhatsApp or ordinary text threads, so Dex sees more of the conversations that happen on your phone.
Dex has refined keep-in-touch reminders since 2019: a schedule per person, snooze, birthdays and a weekly digest. For friends and family it's the better fit. YouSpot is built around clients and the people who send you work.
Nothing gets left behind, because nothing gets taken away.
About a minute. Everyone you've ever emailed becomes the list of people you know.
Export Contacts from Dex (Settings, Workflow, Import / Export) and upload the CSV once. YouSpot proposes how the columns map and saves nothing until you've reviewed it. People already there are matched by email, only empty fields fill in, and columns that don't match are kept as a note.
Names, the last thread with each, and a draft to reconnect when you want one. You send it.
YouSpot can read your mail. It can't send, change or delete any of it.
A message is read when you ask a question. It isn't copied into YouSpot.
Drafts wait for you. Nothing reaches another person until you send it.
Export your whole second brain as Markdown files whenever you like.
Disconnect Gmail and YouSpot's access ends right away. Delete your account and your data goes with it.
Connect Gmail, and a minute later you'll see who you haven't heard from.
Free to start. No credit card needed.
