Less Annoying CRM keeps the people you add. YouSpot finds the ones you forgot.
Connect Gmail and YouSpot builds your list from everyone you've ever emailed, including the past clients and referrers you never got round to adding.
Free to start. No credit card.
- YouSpot
- Builds the list from everyone you've ever emailed
- Less Annoying CRM
- Tracks the people you've added, from the day you connect
Less Annoying CRM is simple, steady and well loved, and it looks after the people you choose to put in it. YouSpot starts from your inbox, so the people you never added are there from the first day.
One keeps who you add. The other finds who you didn't.
A lot of new work comes from people you haven't spoken to in a while. They're in your sent mail, not in a list you made.
| The decision | YouSpot | Less Annoying CRM |
|---|---|---|
| Getting your people in | Connect Gmail and Google Calendar. It builds the list from everyone you've ever emailed. | Import a spreadsheet or add people by hand. Their team will run the import for you. |
| Your older email | Your whole sent mail counts, so people you wrote to years ago show up. | Logs email automatically for people you've already added, from the day you connect. It doesn't add anyone new. |
| Finding someone you half remember | Ask "who haven't I talked to in six months?" and get names, with the last thread. | Search, filters and saved views across the people you've added. No built-in AI. |
| Getting back in touch | It drafts a reconnect email from what it knows about them. You send it. | Tasks, task templates and automations help you follow up. You write the email. |
| Price | Start on Free. Pro is $10 a month, priced for one person. | $15 per person a month plus tax, one plan with every feature. Raised once since 2009. |
Compared on 25 September 2026. Less Annoying CRM 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 Less Annoying CRM is the better pick
Said plainly, so the rest of the page is easier to believe.
You want a price that stays put.
One plan, one price, and one increase since 2009, with older customers kept on the old price for four years after it. That's a track record YouSpot hasn't had time to earn.
You want a person to call.
Free phone and email support for everyone, from the first day of the trial, and their team will run your import for you. Reviewers mention it constantly, and they mean it.
You'd rather choose every person who goes in.
Less Annoying CRM only tracks the people you add, and it argues that keeps things tidy. If you want every name in your list to be one you put there, that's a sound way to work.
Switching from Less Annoying CRM
Nothing gets left behind, because nothing gets taken away.
- 01
Connect Gmail and Google Calendar.
About a minute. Your mail becomes the list of everyone you've worked with, including people you never added anywhere.
- 02
Upload your Less Annoying CRM export.
Once, as a CSV. YouSpot suggests how the columns match up and saves nothing until you've checked. People already there are matched by email, only empty fields fill in, and anything that doesn't fit is kept as a note.
- 03
Ask who's gone quiet.
Names, the last thread with each, and a draft to reconnect when you want one. You send it.
Questions
- Is YouSpot a Less Annoying CRM alternative?
- For finding the people you've lost touch with, yes. If you want a simple list you fill yourself, with a person on the phone when you're stuck, Less Annoying CRM does that well.
- Won't reading my whole inbox fill YouSpot with clutter?
- It's a fair worry, and Less Annoying CRM makes the case well. YouSpot tells people apart from newsletters and bulk mail senders, so your list is the people you've written to. Your mail isn't copied in. It's read when you ask a question.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. Keep Less Annoying CRM for the clients you're working with now, and use YouSpot to find the past clients and referrers you haven't heard from in a while. Both can connect to the same Gmail.
- Can I get everything back out?
- Yes. Export your whole second brain as Markdown whenever you like. It's yours, in files any app can open.
- 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.
Find the people you never got round to adding.
Connect Gmail, and a minute later you'll see who's gone quiet.
Free to start. No credit card needed.