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Endearist vs Covve
A fair, specific comparison — written so you'd be comfortable if a Covve engineer read it.
Fairness pledge
Covve is the best business-card scanner in the personal-CRM space — its OCR is fast, the news-alerts feature for tracked contacts is well-executed, and the digital business card you can send via NFC is a clever twist on networking. If you're a frequent networker (conferences, trade shows, sales calls) and you collect physical business cards, Covve is a strong choice and we say so. Two caveats we'd want to know as a buyer. It is a mobile-only product — there's no desktop client — and the underlying contact model is shallower than a personal CRM's: it's optimized for capture, not for relationship depth over years. And it is no longer the budget pick it was: Covve's plans are priced per seat in US dollars, starting at $12/seat/month for Essential and $20 for Pro (roughly €10 and €17). We used to say Covve was priced fairly at €4.99/month. That plan is gone, and we've rewritten this page rather than leave the old number standing.
Where does my data live with Covve versus Endearist?
Covve: cloud-hosted, with the company headquartered in Cyprus (EU). Contact data syncs to Covve's servers so the news-alert engine can run. Endearist: not publicly available yet. The primary copy is intended to stay on your device. 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.
How does each tool access AI?
Covve uses AI for OCR (business-card scanning) and for the news-monitoring signal that flags relevant articles about your contacts — both run on Covve's servers. Endearist is designed to use no AI by default. If you bring your own AI key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), it is meant to be stored on your device; managed AI without your own key is only proposed as part of a Pro Cloud subscription. AI with your own key: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: managed AI (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only) and Endearist Cloud (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only). Specific budgets, routing and prices require approval. Family sharing: not decided yet; no included family seat is promised.
What do Covve and Endearist cost over three years?
Covve Pro: $20/seat/month, published in USD — about €17/month, so roughly €617 over 3 years. Covve Essential: $12/seat/month, about €10/month or ~€370 over 3 years. Endearist cannot be bought yet. Its proposed prices are Pro Cloud Light at €4.99/month (~€180 over 3 years, roughly a third of Covve Pro) and Pro Lifetime at €69 once — which, if it ships at that price, would cost less than about four months of Covve Pro. Converted at the ECB reference rate of 2026-08-25 (1 USD = €0.857); Covve prices in dollars, so your euro cost moves with the rate. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local core and data export. The proposed 25-contact limit is not a confirmed entitlement. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local app and AI with your own key (planned for v1). Sync over your own storage is planned for v1. Managed cloud services are not a lifetime feature. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: managed AI (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only) and Endearist Cloud (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only). Specific budgets, routing and prices require approval. Family sharing: not decided yet; no included family seat is promised.
What doesn't Endearist do?
We don't have native business-card OCR, and we don't run a news-monitoring service that watches the web for mentions of your contacts. Covve's capture-and-alert loop is its strength. Endearist is being built for the people you already know well enough not to need a card for — partners, family, close friends — and for the journal layer around them.
Feature matrix
Side-by-side.
| Feature | Endearist | Covve |
|---|---|---|
| Local-first data storage | Designed so the primary copy lives on your device, not on a server. Local-first vault, fully offline: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. | No — cloud-synced to Covve's servers (EU). |
| End-to-end encrypted sync | 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. | Transport TLS only; server holds plaintext. |
| Mobile native apps (iOS / Android) | Flutter apps in development; nothing to install yet. Native Android app: planned for v1. The first release is intended for Android and Windows. Native Windows app: planned for v1. The first release is intended for Android and Windows. Native iPhone and iPad app: planned for later. The first release is intended for Android and Windows only. Native macOS app: planned for later. The first release is intended for Android and Windows only. Native Linux app: planned for later. The first release is intended for Android and Windows only. | Source check for Covve (2026-09-30): Listed platforms: iOS, Android. Native availability for macOS, Windows, Web, Linux is unverified. Personal CRM listings, not the separate Covve Scan app; checked store regions do not prove availability everywhere. Check current availability and account/region limits with the vendor. We have not tested the apps ourselves. |
| Desktop native apps | Native desktop apps in development; nothing to install yet. Native Android app: planned for v1. The first release is intended for Android and Windows. Native Windows app: planned for v1. The first release is intended for Android and Windows. Native iPhone and iPad app: planned for later. The first release is intended for Android and Windows only. Native macOS app: planned for later. The first release is intended for Android and Windows only. Native Linux app: planned for later. The first release is intended for Android and Windows only. | Source check for Covve (2026-09-30): Listed platforms: iOS, Android. Native availability for macOS, Windows, Web, Linux is unverified. Personal CRM listings, not the separate Covve Scan app; checked store regions do not prove availability everywhere. Check current availability and account/region limits with the vendor. We have not tested the apps ourselves. |
| AI features | Planned as strictly opt-in — your own key, or managed AI in a proposed Pro Cloud subscription. AI with your own key: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: managed AI (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only) and Endearist Cloud (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only). Specific budgets, routing and prices require approval. Family sharing: not decided yet; no included family seat is promised. | Server-side: OCR for card scanning + news-monitoring signal for tracked contacts. |
| Self-host option | No — there is no server component to host; the local store is meant to be the app itself. Local-first vault, fully offline: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. | No. |
| Pricing | Proposed, not purchasable yet: free up to 25 contacts; Pro Lifetime €69 once, Pro Cloud Light €4.99/mo, or Pro Cloud €9.99/mo. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local core and data export. The proposed 25-contact limit is not a confirmed entitlement. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local app and AI with your own key (planned for v1). Sync over your own storage is planned for v1. Managed cloud services are not a lifetime feature. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: managed AI (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only) and Endearist Cloud (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only). Specific budgets, routing and prices require approval. Family sharing: not decided yet; no included family seat is promised. | Per seat, in USD: Essential $12/mo ($119/yr), Pro $20/mo ($199/yr), Business $31/mo ($299/yr). |
| Open source code | Pledged source release if we ever shut down or get acquired. | No — proprietary. |
| Plain-Markdown export | Planned — plain Markdown you can read without any app. Markdown, CSV and vCard export: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. The documented implementation has a separate readable ZIP export with media and a report of omissions; legacy exports remain partial. This is not device or release acceptance. | CSV / vCard export; no Markdown. |
| Voice-note transcription | Planned — on-device, or with your own key. On-device transcription: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. | No. |
| Family / multi-vault share | Family sharing: not decided yet. Multiple vaults: not decided yet. | No — single-user design. |
| Journal / reflection | Journal, weekly ritual, and appreciation prompts are meant to be built in, not built by you. Local-first vault, fully offline: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. | No — note field per contact, no journal surface. |
| Relationship depth (how-we-met, pets) | Designed with ready-made fields: how-we-met, pets, custom pronouns, life events, debts, attachments. Local-first vault, fully offline: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1. | Shallow — name, company, role, tags, free-text notes. No pets / debts / life-events. |
| Calendar / messenger integrations | Deliberately lighter: a read-only calendar overlay and manual share-sheet capture for messenger context are ideas, not decisions. Read-only calendar overlay: scope and availability are not confirmed. Status: not decided yet. Share-sheet capture: scope and availability are not confirmed. Status: not decided yet. | Limited — phone-book sync, no calendar integration. |
When to pick Covve
When is Covve the better choice?
If you collect physical business cards regularly — at conferences, trade shows, or in-person sales — and your phone is your primary contact device, Covve's OCR is the best in the category. The news-alerts feature for tracked contacts is genuinely useful for the "stay top-of-mind with 200 acquaintances" use case. Pick Covve when card-scanning + alerts is your primary need — it works today, and Endearist is not released yet. We're building a different shape — local-first and journal-deep — without native card scanning.
Switching
How do I switch from Covve to Endearist?
If you're on Covve and want to switch: export your contacts from Covve via Settings → Export (vCard format). Endearist is not released yet, so keep that file for now: vCard import is planned for the app, but which Covve fields and tags carry across has not been verified. Covve's news-alert history has no Endearist equivalent and won't migrate. If you'd like to keep the card-scanning workflow, you can continue using Covve for capture either way. vCard and CSV import: not publicly available yet. Status: planned for v1.
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Prices and positioning verified 2026-08-26.
Platform information updated 2026-09-30; source-check dates are shown in the table.
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