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Persodex

Launching today

Your personal CRM that lives on top of your iOS contacts.

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Your personal CRM that lives on top of your iOS contacts.

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A smarter contacts app that helps you stay in touch with the people who matter. Or as we like to call it: Contacts with Context. Persodex syncs natively with Apple’s Contacts instead of replacing them. We don‘t even require an account. No import. No migration. No lock-in.

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Launch tags:iOS•Productivity•CRM

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Hey Product Hunt, I’m Alex :) It might sound like a cliché, but I originally built Persodex for myself. I’ve been self-employed for over 15 years now, which means I’ve met a lot of people - clients, freelancers, founders, partners, and friends. The problem was that, over time, my address book had become little more than a list of names. I could usually remember who someone was, but not always where we had met, what we had talked about, which company they worked for at the time, or why I had saved their number in the first place. Important context was all the place, across notes, messages, Instagram, and my own memory (which doesn't exactly get any better with age 👴🏻😅). I tried a few personal CRMs, but they all felt like business software. Too many fields. Too many features. And almost all of them wanted me to move my contacts into their own system. Privacy has always been extremely important to me - perhaps that’s just my German side ;) That became the core idea behind Persodex. Persodex works directly with the native iOS address book. Notes are stored in the existing notes field, tags are saved as native contact groups, and your data remains accessible even without Persodex. I did not want to create another platform people would feel locked into. That principle shaped the entire launch: keep it native, private, simple, and focused on helping people remember people. Anyway, I hope this answers some of your questions. I’d love to hear what you think! Alex P.S. The last link gives you 25% off the Lifetime plan.

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15d ago

@poolie Personal CRMs never stick for me because of upkeep, contacts go stale the second I stop manually tagging. Since you sit on the native iOS contacts, does context enrich itself from where I actually interact with someone, or do I still have to feed it? That's usually the line between a tool I keep and one I drop in a month.

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8h ago

Persodex

Maker

@artem_fedorovich i know what you mean. right now, you have to feed it. apple doesn‘t allow to read stuff from mail.app oder messages.app - we would need a mac-companion to do that. i did not want to add stuff like your mail-accounts within the app to read out all mails, didn‘t felt like this was the right move in terms of privacy. but maybe that would be a start?

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12m ago

Native contact groups for tags is the right call for the no lock in promise. The part I would be curious about, having built iOS apps that touch CNContactStore, is iCloud sync. Group membership through the Contacts framework has a history of showing up empty or duplicated on a second device right after a sync, since groups sync separately from the contact records themselves. Has that shown up in testing across devices, or does storing tags as groups avoid the issue entirely?

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9h ago

Persodex

Maker

@abdullah_javaid3 hah, good question. since we create groups and tags WITHIN the contacts database, we don‘t have any issues with that.

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11m ago