Streak alternatives
The 7 best Streak alternatives in 2026 — for people, not pipelines
Streak perfected one clever idea: the CRM moves into Gmail itself, email threads become pipeline stages, and mail merge plus email tracking come along for the ride. For email-centric selling it remains the cleanest option on the market — we won't pretend otherwise. People look for an alternative for two main reasons: the Pro tier runs $49 per user per month (about €1,760 over three years), and anyone using Streak just to keep track of people in their life is paying sales-tool prices for a job the tool was never designed to do. We've ranked seven options — lighter sales CRMs for those who still chase deals, and personal CRMs for those whose "pipeline" is really friends, family, and longtime colleagues. Prices verified 10 June 2026, weaknesses included, our own product clearly flagged.
Why people leave Streak
Streak is, and remains, a sales CRM: pipelines, deal stages, mail merge, view-tracking. Use it for personal contacts and you quickly notice that people exist here as boxes with deal fields — there's nowhere to record how you met someone. Then there's the price: the free tier covers only basic personal use, Pro costs $49 per user per month, Enterprise $129. And Streak lives exclusively as a browser extension inside Gmail (Chrome/Safari) — the mobile apps are read-only windows onto your pipelines, and there is no desktop client at all. Your data sits on Google Cloud in the US the whole time, which raises GDPR questions for private notes too. The exit, at least, is simple: Settings → Export hands you your boxes as a CSV. If you genuinely sell over email, keep Streak with a clear conscience — this list is for everyone else.
How we ranked — and our bias
Disclosure first: Endearist is ours, and we put it at rank 1 — so what you're reading here is the reasoning, not just the result. We scored along the reasons people actually leave Streak: per-person cost over three years, whether the tool exists outside Gmail, how contacts are modelled (deal or human), and how cleanly data exports. Every price comes from the vendor's public pricing page, checked on 10 June 2026. There are no affiliate links and no paid placements, and every tool — ours first — lists its honest weaknesses.
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Endearist
Our productLocal-first personal CRM — relationships instead of boxes, no Gmail required
Best for: Anyone whose Streak pipeline was secretly a circle of friends
Strengths
- Your data lives on your device first; sync is optional and end-to-end encrypted (AES-256-GCM) — no Google Cloud, no US database
- Native apps on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux — Streak exists only as a Gmail extension plus read-only apps
- Relationship depth instead of deal fields: how-we-met, pets, life events, a journal, and gentle stay-in-touch reminders
- Pro Lifetime at €69 once — Streak Pro costs that amount roughly every six weeks
Weaknesses
- No pipelines, no deals, no mail merge — if you actually sell, you'll still need a sales CRM alongside
- No email sync and no Gmail plugin: email context only comes in manually via share sheet or notes
- No team features — Streak's shared pipelines have no counterpart here
Pricing: Free up to 25 contacts. Pro Lifetime €69 once, Pro Cloud Light €4.99/mo, Pro Cloud €9.99/mo.
Endearist doesn't replace Streak's pipeline — it replaces the habit of abusing a pipeline as a memory for people. Streak's CSV export walks in through Settings → Import in one step; names, emails, and notes arrive, deal stages deliberately don't. Over three years it's €69 once against roughly €1,760 for Streak Pro, and your private notes end up on your device instead of on US servers.
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Capsule CRM
Tidy small-business CRM with a genuinely usable free tier
Best for: Freelancers who want a pipeline without depending on Gmail
Strengths
- Free tier with 250 contacts for 2 users — far more generous than Streak's personal tier
- Pipeline, task tracks, and project boards in a deliberately lean interface, reliably maintained for over fifteen years
- One of the cleanest exports in the category: CSV, Excel, vCard, and a full-account ZIP backup
Weaknesses
- AWS hosting in the United States with no EU data-residency option — a minus for GDPR-sensitive data
- Still a business CRM: opportunities and sales scaffolding are everywhere, even if all you want is to keep up with people
- No native desktop client — the mobile apps are companions to a web application
Pricing: Free (250 contacts, 2 users). Starter $18/user/mo (annual) up to Advanced $60/user/mo.
The best pick if what you liked about Streak was the pipeline, not the Gmail cage or the price. Capsule delivers the same core mechanics in a standalone, calm web app — and the free tier carries a solo operation surprisingly far. For purely personal contacts it still speaks sales grammar, though.
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Less Annoying CRM
One plan, every feature: the most honest pricing model in CRM
Best for: Solo service providers who never want to compare tier tables again
Strengths
- Flat $15/user/month with unlimited contacts — no tiers, no contracts, no upsells
- Free phone support from actual humans — unique at this price point
- Learnable in an afternoon: deliberately no AI suite, no feature sprawl
Weaknesses
- Web-only and US-hosted (St. Louis) with no EU option — neither native apps nor GDPR data residency
- No free tier, just a 30-day trial — €540 over three years is a lot for simply staying in touch
- Default fields are lead-shaped; anything personal has to be improvised via custom fields
Pricing: $15/user/month flat, every feature included. 30-day trial, no free tier.
If what bothered you about Streak was the upsell cliff between free and $49 Pro, LACRM is the counter-programme: one price, everything included, unchanged for years. It remains a sales CRM for customer relationships — but one that never forces you back onto a pricing page.
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Pipedrive
The kanban pipeline everyone copied — as a standalone CRM
Best for: Sellers who find Streak's pipeline too glued to the inbox
Strengths
- The visual kanban pipeline is the industry benchmark, and activity-based selling forces a next step
- Lite from $14/seat/month (annual) — entry costs less than a third of Streak Pro
- EU sign-ups land in the Frankfurt AWS data center, contracting with Pipedrive's EU entity
Weaknesses
- No free tier — every month costs money, even if all you manage is birthdays
- Even more deal-shaped than Streak: contacts exist to be attached to opportunities
Pricing: No free tier. Lite $14/seat/mo (annual), Growth $39, Premium $49, Ultimate $79.
The logical move if you used Streak seriously for work and just want out of Gmail: same pipeline thinking, more mature tooling, more honest per-seat pricing. For personal network upkeep, however, Pipedrive is the most expensive way to view friendships as stalled deals — pick one of the personal options below instead.
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folk
Boutique CRM with a Notion feel and one-click LinkedIn capture
Best for: Agencies and consultants whose relationships are also their revenue
Strengths
- One-click LinkedIn capture plus a table-style interface that feels like Notion rather than a CRM
- Pipeline view and AI message drafting for outreach in a single tool
- EU/US infrastructure with GDPR-compliant data processing
Weaknesses
- Expensive in total: Standard €24/month plus €25/month for the AI add-on — about €1,760 over three years
- Android only as a PWA, desktop as a web wrapper with no Linux — platform coverage is thin
- Designed around deals and clients, not the people at your family dinner table
Pricing: Standard €24/mo, Premium €39/mo, AI add-on +€25/mo. No free tier.
folk hits the midpoint between Streak's sales machine and a personal CRM: light enough that networking feels pleasant, capable enough for a client list. Fully equipped, though, it costs as much as Streak Pro — it solves the shape problem, not the price problem.
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Dex
Networking CRM with LinkedIn sync for people whose job is relationships
Best for: Recruiters and VCs who want relationship upkeep without pipeline baggage
Strengths
- LinkedIn auto-sync and a Chrome extension capture job changes automatically — no other tool on this list does that
- Keep-in-touch reminders plus two-way Google Calendar sync
- Native iOS and Android apps plus web and macOS — Streak's read-only apps look pale beside it
Weaknesses
- US servers (AWS) with AI running through OpenAI on Dex's infrastructure — private notes leave your device
- Premium at $12/month or Professional at $20/month, with no lifetime exit from the subscription
Pricing: Free tier. Premium $12/mo, Professional $20/mo. No lifetime.
For anyone who repurposed Streak for professional networking, Dex is the more honest shape: built for people rather than deals, with the best LinkedIn wiring in the category. If escaping Gmail dependence has left you wary of the next US cloud, though, settle the data question before you move.
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Monica
Self-hosted open-source relationship CRM — AGPL since 2017
Best for: Technical folks who want their contact data on their own server
Strengths
- Completely free and open source (AGPL) when self-hosted — maximum independence from any vendor
- Surprisingly broad for personal life: activity log, gifts, debts, relationship graph
- Monica Cloud ($9/month) runs on European servers — more GDPR-friendly than most US options
Weaknesses
- No native apps: a web view on mobile, browser-only on desktop
- Self-hosting means running and maintaining a PHP/Laravel stack with MySQL indefinitely
- Nothing for email selling — Streak's mail merge or tracking deliberately have no home here
Pricing: Self-hosted free. Monica Cloud $9/mo or $99/yr.
The complete opposite of Streak — which is exactly why it's on this list: no selling, no mandatory cloud, no subscription pressure, and full control over every row of your data. If you enjoy maintaining a server and only want to rescue the human half of your Streak account, this is its deepest free home.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Streak free for personal use?
- Yes — Streak offers a free tier for personal use with basic CRM features. Its limits are tight, though, and the next step up jumps straight to Pro at $49 per user per month. For purely personal contact management that's a steep cliff; Capsule (250 contacts free) or Endearist Free are gentler on-ramps.
- Does Streak work outside Gmail?
- Practically no. Streak is a browser extension for Chrome and Safari that lives inside Gmail; the iOS and Android apps give read-only access to your pipelines, and there is no desktop client. If you want a CRM independent of your inbox, you need a different tool — every alternative on this list stands on its own.
- How do I export my data from Streak?
- Settings → Export gives you your pipelines and boxes as a CSV file — contact names, email addresses, and free-text notes included. Streak offers no Markdown. The CSV lands in Endearist via Settings → Import; pipeline stages and deal values won't map, because there simply are no pipelines there.
- Should I keep Streak if I genuinely sell for a living?
- Probably yes. For email-centric selling, Streak remains the most deeply integrated Gmail CRM — mail merge, pipeline-in-inbox, email tracking. Many people run two tracks: Streak (or Pipedrive) for the deals, and a personal CRM for the people who should never appear in a forecast.
Prices and availability verified: 2026-06-10
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