Guide
What is a personal CRM?
A personal CRM is an app that remembers what you know about the people you meet — names, context, personal details, past conversations. Unlike a company CRM (which manages deals and pipeline) or a contacts app (which just stores phone numbers), a personal CRM grows with every conversation you have.
How do you know you need one?
- You regularly meet more than 50 people you'd need to remember.
- You've forgotten something important about a contact before — a name, a detail, a promise.
- Your company CRM is built for deals, not for the human side of your contacts.
- You write things in Apple Notes, Excel, or nowhere at all — and never find them again.
How personal CRMs differ
An honest overview of the best-known options. None of these tools is bad — they just prioritise different things.
| Tool | Price | Voice input | Records conversations | Data location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MyBrivio | €7.99/month or €59.99/year | Germany, encrypted | ||
| Dex | from $12/month | USA | ||
| Clay | from $10/month | USA | ||
| Monica | free (open source) or ~$90/year cloud | self-hosted or USA | ||
| BlaBlaNote | free or €9–12/month | EU (Spain) |
Prices and details as of September 2026, per each provider's own listing. Please verify on the provider's site before buying.
Where MyBrivio is different
Voice instead of forms
You talk for 20 seconds after the conversation — no typing, no forms. More on our voice input page.
Records nothing
MyBrivio never listens during your meeting. You tell it afterwards what mattered — the other person never needs to consent to anything.
It's yours
Encrypted with your own key, stored in Frankfurt. No account, calendar or address-book sync needed.
This is what a contact looks like in MyBrivio
Conversation history, open promises, personal details, openers for the next meeting — all of it grown from 20-second voice notes. None of it typed.
Who it's for
For everyone whose success depends on relationships.
Founders, account managers, consultants, buyers, advisors: people with more contacts than a memory can hold, and no pipeline they would fit into.