A sales board is built for salespeople. Your work comes from people you know.
YouSpot reads your Gmail and calendar and keeps track of your network, including the past clients and referrers you haven't spoken to in a while.
Free to start. No credit card.
- YouSpot
- Keeps track of the people you know
- Pipedrive
- A board of sales stages for salespeople
Pipedrive is a well-made sales tool: a board of stages, with each open opportunity moving toward a close. YouSpot keeps track of your network, the past clients and referrers you haven't heard from in months, from the email you already send.
Pipedrive tracks what's open. YouSpot tracks who you know.
A board is the right view when ten proposals are in flight. The next piece of work often comes from someone with nothing open at all.
| The decision | YouSpot | Pipedrive |
|---|---|---|
| What it's built around | The people you know, and when you last spoke to each of them. | A board of sales stages, with each open opportunity moving toward a close. |
| Getting your email in | Connect Gmail, read-only. Everyone you've ever emailed joins your list. | Two-way sync with Gmail or Outlook, from the Growth plan up. Lite uses a BCC address instead: you copy Pipedrive on each email you want logged. |
| Knowing who's gone quiet | Ask "who haven't I talked to in six months?" and get names, with the last thread. | The board shows what's open and what's next. Past clients with nothing open sit in the contact list. |
| Keeping it current | Fills in from the mail you send and from your calendar. Nothing to type in. | Stages and fields are yours to set up and move. Nova drafts updates after calls for you to approve. |
| What one person pays | Start on Free, no credit card needed. Pro is $10 a month. | Growth, the first plan with email sync, is $39 per person a month billed yearly, or $49 billed monthly. Lite is $14 billed yearly, or $24 monthly. 14-day free trial. |
Compared on 25 September 2026. Pipedrive 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 Pipedrive is the better pick
Said plainly, so the rest of the page is easier to believe.
You have a lot of proposals in flight.
Drag-and-drop stages are what Pipedrive's reviewers praise most. With ten open proposals, a board is the better view, and YouSpot doesn't have one.
You want the selling tools built in.
Email tracking, sequences, a scheduler, web forms, e-signatures and email campaigns, some on higher plans or as add-ons. YouSpot drafts a reconnect email and you send it.
You work from your phone, or from Outlook.
Pipedrive has native iOS and Android apps that work offline, and syncs Outlook as well as Gmail. YouSpot has no phone app, though you can text it over SMS or iMessage, and it connects Gmail, not Outlook.
Switching from Pipedrive
Nothing gets left behind, because nothing gets taken away.
- 01
Connect Gmail and Google Calendar.
About a minute, read-only. Everyone you've ever emailed becomes your people list.
- 02
Bring your Pipedrive contacts.
Export your people from Pipedrive as a CSV and upload it once. YouSpot proposes how the columns map and saves nothing until you've checked. Anyone already there is matched by email, and only empty fields fill in.
- 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 Pipedrive alternative for consultants?
- If your work comes from past clients and referrals more than from a board of open proposals, yes. If you run a sales process with stages and follow-up sequences, Pipedrive fits that better.
- Can I bring my contacts over from Pipedrive?
- Yes. Export your people from Pipedrive as a CSV and upload it. YouSpot shows how it plans to map the columns and saves nothing until you've reviewed it. Columns it can't place are kept as a note.
- Doesn't Pipedrive have AI too?
- Yes. On every plan, Nova briefs you before calls, transcribes them and drafts updates, and Pipedrive connects to ChatGPT and Claude. AI email writing is on Premium, $59 per person a month billed yearly or $79 monthly. The difference is what it's pointed at: the board. YouSpot is pointed at the people you know.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. You could keep Pipedrive for open proposals and use YouSpot to keep track of everyone else. The two don't connect to each other, so a CSV is how contacts move across.
- 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.
Start with the people you already know.
Connect Gmail, and a minute later you'll see who's gone quiet.
Free to start. No credit card needed.