Contact Book vs Covve: business-card scanning vs deliberate logging

Covve's centre of gravity is the card scanner: snap a business card, the OCR pulls name / title / company / numbers, and a contact appears. That's genuinely useful at trade shows and conferences where you walk away with forty cards. If that's your week, Covve removes real friction. Contact Book has no scanner by design - we assume most of the people worth remembering arrived through a conversation, a DM, or an introduction, not a printed card. The difference isn't quality; it's which world you live in.

Covve adds an AI layer that ranks your network and nudges you toward people it thinks you're neglecting. Some people love this; it does the deciding so you don't have to. We took the opposite bet: you set a cadence per person (every few weeks, quarterly, yearly, never), and the only thing the tool does is surface what's overdue. No ranking, no scoring, no algorithm deciding a friend matters less this month. If you want the relationship priorities to stay yours, that's the meaningful split.

Beyond the scanner question, the surfaces diverge. We carry a full relationship graph (who's whose sister, partner, chosen family), a life-events timeline with dated entries, and gift tracking so you don't repeat last year's present. Covve's strength is the front door - getting people in fast - while ours is the texture you build over years. If the relationships you keep are few but deep, the texture is what you'll feel; if they're many and shallow-but-numerous, the scanner is what you'll feel.