Two apps, one goal: nurturing your network. Here is the honest comparison — including the areas where folk is ahead.
folk is a modern, lightweight CRM for teams — with sales pipelines, email campaigns and the well-known folkX extension for capturing LinkedIn contacts. Nametrace is not a team sales tool but a personal network app: web research on your contacts, meeting documentation and relationship care — for you as a person, not for a sales pipeline.
| Feature | Nametrace | folk |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic web research on contacts (roles, companies, topics from the open web) | ✓ Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Natural-language network search ("Who knows about solar energy?") | ✓ Yes | — No |
| Native contact sync with Apple, Google & Microsoft (bidirectional, incl. photos & groups) | ✓ Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Meeting documentation with voice notes → searchable AI insights | ✓ Yes | — No |
| Keep-in-touch reminders with AI message suggestions | ✓ Yes | ◐ Partial |
| Digital business cards with QR code (multiple profiles) | ✓ Yes | — No |
| Browser extension for capturing contacts | — No | ✓ Yes |
| Sales pipelines & email campaigns for teams | — No | ✓ Yes |
| Email & calendar integration (automatic contact timeline) | — No | ✓ Yes |
| German-language app, support and AI output | ✓ Yes | No (English only) |
| Data hosted in Switzerland | ✓ Yes | No (US/EU) |
| Price (as of 2026) | from CHF 36/year, Pro CHF 120/year | from approx. $24 per user/month (Premium $48) |
Fairness is part of a comparison: for sales teams, folk is the stronger tool — folkX is one of the best LinkedIn-to-CRM bridges, plus collaborative pipelines, email campaigns and many integrations. If you run a sales pipeline as a team, folk is the right choice; if you want to nurture your personal network, Nametrace.
Other tools show you what is in your inboxes and profiles. Nametrace actively researches the open web — roles, companies, projects, topics — and builds a searchable person profile from it.
Your contact data is hosted in Switzerland (AWS Zurich); the app is fully available in German and English.
Bidirectional synchronisation with your Apple, Google or Microsoft address book — your contacts remain yours, on every device.
Nametrace is free to try — including web research credits.
Start for freeAs of August 2026. All information about folk is based on public sources, to the best of our knowledge, without guarantee. folk is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with Nametrace.
