folk is the CRM for your team. YouSpot is for when the team is you.
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.
- YouSpot
- Built for one person and the clients from months back
- folk
- Built and priced for teams, per member
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.
folk follows up on the last two months. YouSpot looks further back.
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.
What you'd see
An example of one question, answered from sent mail and a calendar.
Free to start. No credit card.
Where folk is the better pick
Said plainly, so the rest of the page is easier to believe.
You find new people on LinkedIn.
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.
You send campaigns.
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.
You're about to hire.
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.
Switching from folk
Nothing gets left behind, because nothing gets taken away.
- 01
Export each group from folk.
folk exports one group at a time, as a CSV. Show every column in the view first, so they all come along.
- 02
Upload the CSV to YouSpot.
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.
- 03
Connect Gmail and Google Calendar.
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.
Questions
- Is YouSpot a good folk CRM alternative for a solo consultant?
- If most of your work comes from people you already know, yes. folk is built to help a team capture and email new contacts. YouSpot is built to keep one person's past clients and referrers from going cold.
- Does folk have a free plan?
- folk's pricing page shows a 14-day trial with no card, then Standard at $24 per member a month billed yearly, or $30 monthly. It doesn't list a free plan.
- folk has AI assistants too. What's different?
- folk's Follow-up Assistant works on conversations from the last two months. In YouSpot you ask in plain English, like "who haven't I talked to in six months?", and get names, the last thread, and a draft to reconnect.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. Keep folk for LinkedIn capture and campaigns, and use YouSpot for the clients you haven't heard from in a while. YouSpot's Gmail access is read-only, so it won't change anything folk sees.
- What does it cost?
- Start on Free, no credit card needed. Pro is $10 a month, and you can cancel anytime.
What you can count on.
Gmail is read-only.
YouSpot can read your mail. It can't send, change or delete any of it.
Your mail stays in Gmail.
A message is read when you ask a question. It isn't copied into YouSpot.
Nothing goes out on its own.
Drafts wait for you. Nothing reaches another person until you send it.
Everything comes with you.
Export your whole second brain as Markdown files whenever you like.
Leaving is one step.
Disconnect Gmail and YouSpot's access ends right away. Delete your account and your data goes with it.
Your next client may already be in your inbox.
Connect Gmail and see who you haven't heard from in months.
Free to start. No credit card needed.