--- title: "YouSpot vs. folk: a folk CRM alternative for one person" description: "folk is built and priced for teams. YouSpot is built for one person, and shows who you haven't heard from in months." canonical: https://youspot.com/vs/folk last-updated: 2026-09-25 --- # YouSpot vs. folk: 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. ## The short version - **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. ## Where folk is the better pick **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 1. **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. 2. **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. 3. **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. ## Start Your next client may already be in your inbox. [Try YouSpot free](https://youspot.com/sign-up). Free to start. No credit card needed.