YouSpot reads your Gmail and calendar, shows who you haven't heard from in months, not weeks, and drafts the note for you to send.
Free to start. No credit card.
folk is a well-made CRM for small teams that find and email new contacts. YouSpot is for one person whose next piece of work usually comes from someone they already know.
The clients you hear from every few months are where referrals come from. They're also the ones a two-month window misses.
| The decision | YouSpot | folk |
|---|---|---|
| Who it's built for | One person running a business on their network. | Teams. The homepage says "The CRM that works for your team", and signup asks how many teammates you have. |
| Clients you haven't heard from in months | Ask "who haven't I talked to in six months?" and get names, with the last thread and a draft to reconnect. You send it. | The Follow-up Assistant looks at conversations from the last two months. Standard shows the last 30 interactions with each person. |
| Where your people come from | Gmail and Google Calendar build the list. X, Slack, Substack, Obsidian and a Chrome extension add to it. | Gmail, Outlook, calendar and WhatsApp. The folkX extension adds people from LinkedIn, X and other sites. |
| Taking your data with you | Export your whole second brain as Markdown files, whenever you like. | Export a CSV one group at a time. Emails and other interactions stay behind. |
| Price | Start on Free. Pro is $10 a month, priced for one person. | Standard is $24 per member a month billed yearly, or $30 billed monthly, after a 14-day trial with no card. |
Compared on 25 September 2026. folk 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.
folkX adds a profile, or a page of search results, straight from LinkedIn and Sales Navigator. If most of your new names come from LinkedIn searches, folk is quicker.
Bulk email to a group, templates, campaign analytics, and sequences on Premium. If you send the same note to 200 people, folk is built for it.
Shared groups, a mobile app, and roles on Premium. If you'll soon share contacts with a partner or your first hire, folk is set up for that.
Nothing gets left behind, because nothing gets taken away.
folk exports one group at a time, as a CSV. Show every column in the view first, so they all come along.
It proposes how your columns map and saves nothing until you've reviewed it. People already there are matched by email, only empty fields fill in, and columns without a home are kept as a note.
folk's export leaves emails and meetings out. YouSpot reads them from Gmail and Calendar instead, so when you ask who's gone quiet, you get names with the last thread.
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 see who you haven't heard from in months.
Free to start. No credit card needed.
