--- title: "YouSpot vs. Pipedrive: a Pipedrive alternative for consultants" description: "Pipedrive runs a board of sales stages. YouSpot reads your Gmail and calendar and keeps track of the people you know, including who's gone quiet." canonical: https://youspot.com/vs/pipedrive last-updated: 2026-09-25 --- # YouSpot vs. Pipedrive: 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. ## The short version - **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. ## Where Pipedrive is the better pick **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 1. **Connect Gmail and Google Calendar.** About a minute, read-only. Everyone you've ever emailed becomes your people list. 2. **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. 3. **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. ## Start Start with the people you already know. [Try YouSpot free](https://youspot.com/sign-up). Free to start. No credit card needed.