Personal CRM for Gmail
Relationship care alongside Gmail — without anyone reading your mail
Not launched yet Endearist is in development — there is nothing to download yet. This page describes how the app is meant to work. The first release is intended for Android and Windows; end-to-end encrypted sync over your own storage is planned for v1. See the roadmap →
Search for a "CRM for Gmail" and most of what you find demands full read access to your inbox as step one. Cloze, Nat, and Streak build their relationship timelines by reading every email you've ever sent or received — salary negotiations, medical mail, and tax notices included. Endearist makes the opposite call: no OAuth scope for your inbox, ever. What is planned instead: importing your Google Contacts via CSV or vCard, and a journal where, after the email thread that mattered, you capture in two sentences what actually counted. A read-only calendar overlay and Google Drive as a sync destination are ideas that have not been decided. If GDPR is more than a footnote to you, that separation is precisely the point.
How Endearist will work with Gmail
-
Export your contacts from your Google account
Open contacts.google.com, tick one contact, then choose "Selection actions → All" in the top left. Click "Export" in the top right and pick Google CSV or vCard as the format — Endearist's planned import is designed to read both. The file lands in your downloads folder and never leaves your devices again. vCard and CSV import: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1.
-
Import and clean up in one pass
On import, Endearist is designed to detect duplicates — the three versions of the same person that accumulate in every Google account over the years — and propose merges. The result would be something you may not have had in a while: an address book where each person exists exactly once, stored locally and visible only to you. vCard and CSV import: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1.
-
Maybe: your calendar as an overlay
Not decided yet, but this is the idea: your Google Calendar as a read-only overlay. Endearist would show upcoming and past events alongside your contacts, but create nothing, change nothing, delete nothing — read access is the entire permission. Before a call, you see when you last spoke without bouncing between two apps.
-
Journal instead of mail scanning
After the email exchange that actually mattered, you would open the person in Endearist and capture the essence: what you agreed on, what's on their mind, when you want to follow up. Two sentences from you beat any auto-generated timeline — because they include what was between the lines. Local-first vault, fully offline: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1.
-
Once sync exists: encrypted, over your own storage
Sync is planned but not available. It is planned over a shared folder or a WebDAV server you run; data is meant to be end-to-end encrypted before upload, so the storage would hold nothing but unreadable ciphertext. Whether Google Drive becomes a destination has not been decided. End-to-end encrypted sync over storage you run yourself — a local or shared folder, or a WebDAV server — is planned for v1. Google Drive as a destination is not decided yet. Managed sync on Endearist Cloud is planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only.
What is planned — honestly
| Capability | Status | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Importing Google Contacts (CSV and vCard) | Planned for v1 | Both export formats from contacts.google.com are meant to be supported, including duplicate reconciliation on import. |
| Google Calendar as a read-only overlay | Not decided | Not decided yet. If it comes: events alongside your contacts, strictly read access — Endearist never writes to your calendar. |
| Google Drive as an E2E-encrypted sync backend | Not decided | Not decided yet. If Drive comes: encryption before upload, and Google only ever sees ciphertext. What is planned is sync over a folder or WebDAV. |
| Capturing context from email threads | Manual (planned) | You write what mattered into the journal yourself. That's by design: curated context instead of an auto-harvested inbox. |
| Reading your inbox to build a timeline | Not supported | Privacy by design: Endearist is built to request no mail scope and to see zero email. Tools that want full inbox access should have to explain why — we simply don't want it. |
| Contact enrichment from signatures and mail headers | Not supported | No background enrichment from your mailbox or external sources — if it didn't come from you, it isn't on the profile. |
Frequently asked questions
- Is there a personal CRM that works with Gmail?
- Endearist is being built for exactly this question — and the honest follow-up is what "works with" should mean. Tools like Streak or Cloze live inside your inbox and read all of it in exchange. Endearist is designed to work alongside rather than inside: contacts import and export planned, calendar overlay and Drive sync not decided, but zero mail access. You lose the automatic timeline and keep an inbox that stays private. It has not launched yet.
- Why doesn't Endearist read my email like Cloze or Nat do?
- Because a relationship tool shouldn't need to read every salary negotiation, medical email, and resignation letter to be useful. Mail scanning means a vendor holds standing full access to your most intimate archive — a risk we won't take on, for you or for us. Local data plus your own journal does the essential work without that price.
- How do I get my Gmail contacts into Endearist?
- Via contacts.google.com: select all contacts, click "Export", and choose Google CSV or vCard. Keep the file for Endearist's planned import, where a duplicate check is designed to tidy things up. vCard and CSV import: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1.
- Is this GDPR-friendly if I manage contacts professionally?
- The architecture is meant to work in your favor: data will live locally on your device, sync (planned) will be optional and end-to-end encrypted, and there is no third-party processing you'd have to account for. You remain responsible for what you record — but you start from the most data-minimal position there is. The vendored app measurement does not confirm an encrypted local database. It records an unencrypted SQLite file; an app lock does not encrypt that file. Protect your device and backups independently.
Last updated: 2026-09-30
Endearist is in development.
Join the launch list: one email when it opens. Platforms, plans and capabilities need their own approval; signup creates no app access or purchase.
Join the launch list