The Personal CRM Graveyard: Which Apps Shut Down, and Which Only Look Dead

The birthdays. The names of people's kids. The thing your friend said last summer that you meant to follow up on.

You are about to type all of that into an app, and the sensible thing to check first is whether the app will still be there in five years. So we tried to check it properly, for ten personal CRM apps.

We found three published claims that one of these apps had died. One was a company announcing its own closure, and it was true. The other two were wrong, and one of them was ours.

We published a wrong obituary

In our own Notion personal CRM comparison, we published Keepsake as "Dormant, last update Apr 2025." Keepsake had shipped version 1.0.1 on 17 April 2026. We had called a three-month-old app dormant, in a table people use to decide what to trust. We corrected it the same day we caught it, and it is why this post exists.

Then we found the same mistake elsewhere. SaaSHub's Fabriq page, retrieved 25 July 2026, flagged the app as discontinued. Fabriq had shipped an Android update five days earlier, on 20 July.

Two wrong obituaries out of three, in a category small enough that everybody reads everybody.

The one that actually closed

UpHabit is the real thing. In April 2026 its makers put a note on the homepage, still there on 25 July 2026:

while we succeeded on a product level, it wasn't a commercial success so we've made the difficult decision to close down the web and mobile apps

Eight years. A product its makers called a success. Closed anyway.

If that note was addressed to you, stop and do this. Open UpHabit. Settings, then Export All Contacts. Now, not next month. The notice says already-installed apps keep working, but the store listings no longer resolve, so getting UpHabit onto a new phone is not something to count on. Once you have the file, we wrote up where UpHabit people are landing.

Ten apps, checked by hand

Every row was checked by hand on 25 July 2026 against whichever primary sources exist for it: Apple's lookup API, the Play listing, the product's own site, and archived copies of that site going back years. We put our own app in the same table.

Status words mean what we could verify from public sources that day, not what any company told us. Dormant means we found no public sign of development, not that anyone has confirmed the app is finished.

One app is closed. Four are dormant. One repositioned itself into something else. Four are shipping. And ours is the eleventh row, two weeks old on the day we checked, in a category that just closed an eight-year-old product.

If your people already live in one of the dormant four, nothing breaks today. Open the app tonight, find the export, and save the file somewhere that is not that app. Then do it again after every phone update. Dormant apps do not announce the day they stop opening.

One of the dormant four is still charging. Nat's pricing page was listing a plan at $370 a year on 25 July 2026, on a site whose footer says 2022 and whose blog disappeared sometime between August 2024 and January 2025.

Which one closes next is not knowable.

The app is fine. The feature you came for is gone.

Two of the apps above are alive without being the app anyone signed up for. Moments now sells itself as a general AI assistant and renamed itself to match. Cloze's site now leads with real estate.

Neither of those is a failure. Cloze is still shipping, and both companies look healthier than the ones that closed. But if you signed up to remember your friends' birthdays, a thriving company that has quietly pointed itself somewhere else leaves you in the same place as a shutdown, just more slowly.

This is the quietest way one of these dies on you: the icon stays on your home screen, the company stays healthy, and the feature you relied on gradually stops being the point. Nobody sends a closure notice for that.

Why nobody can tell

The reasons turned out to be embarrassingly small.

Apple hides the year. The App Store's version history prints the year only on releases from previous years. Anything from the current year shows as a day and a month, like "1.0.1 Apr 17". That single formatting decision is how we buried Keepsake.

Directory listings get written once. Someone submits an app, the entry goes up, and nothing forces a re-read a year later. The entry ages. The app moves on.

A live website proves nothing. Nat has a site that loads, a web app that loads, and a pricing page still offering a plan. It also has a homepage unchanged in every archived snapshot we could find going back to early 2025. The lights are on. We found no public sign of anyone working on it since early 2025, and nothing about visiting the site would tell you that.

An empty store search proves nothing either. A delisted app, a region-locked app, and a product that only ever ran in a browser all return the same nothing. Nat is the third kind. Absence tells you where an app is not, never whether it is gone.

Check any iPhone app in one minute

You do not have to take our word for this, and given the above, you probably should not.

Open this in a browser, with the app's ID taken from its App Store URL:

https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=1460143202

That one is Fabriq, which returned version 2.4.6 when we ran it on 25 July 2026. If it comes back higher for you, that is the point: the app is still moving. Apple returns raw JSON, and the field you want is currentVersionReleaseDate, which unlike the store listing carries the year. You also get version and the latest release notes.

Android has no equivalent endpoint, so open the Play listing and read the "Updated on" line under About this app, which does carry the year. Check both stores before you conclude anything from one: iOS and Android ship on separate tracks, which is why Fabriq's Android build is newer than its iOS build despite the lower version number.

Web apps take longer, because there is nothing to query at all: the footer year, the date of the last blog post, whether signup still works, then the page against a year-old copy in the Wayback Machine.

You cannot check if it will live. You can check if you can leave.

Three questions. Run them before you type a single real name into any app on this page.

We chose those three questions, and it is fair to notice they are questions our own app happens to answer well. So rather than hand you a test and let you take our word for the results, we ran the first one across the whole table, ours included.

Which of them will let you leave

We read each app's own help centre, App Store description, App Privacy section and privacy policy, looking for a documented way to get your data out. We did not create accounts, and we did not press the buttons. This is what each company publishes about its own export, and nothing more. The exception is our own row, where we know more than we publish, which is exactly why it should not count as evidence to you.

"Nothing documented" does not mean no export exists. We read public pages. An export button could sit in a settings screen nobody wrote about, and for Fabriq in particular there is a support form where a human might well send you your data if you ask. What we can say is that three of these apps publish nothing about getting your data out, and that if you are choosing today, silence is worth something.

Two results deserve their own line.

Nat's export is a person. Its FAQ says, word for word: "Can I export my notes? Of course, just email us at export@nat.app and we'll send you a CSV with all the notes you've taken." That was a perfectly good answer when someone was reading that inbox. Nat has shown no public sign of development since early 2025. The export path is a human being, and the question is whether anyone is still there.

Amicu's export exists in a changelog from 2020. The release note for version 2.0.3 reads "And you can export your data. You're in control of your data." The current App Store description is long, lists dozens of features, and never mentions export at all. The feature is probably still in there. The only proof that it was ever built is five years old.

That is the difference the third question is really asking about. Not whether an export exists on paper, but whether it will still be reachable on the day you need it.

The third question we could only answer from outside, and only partly. Nat has never shipped an app, just a website, so nothing about it survives the company by definition. Mesh mails your export from its own servers, so that path needs them running too. For the rest we could not determine it from published sources, and we are not going to guess at other people's architecture. And ours is the row where we are marking our own homework, which is why the next section exists and why it ends by telling you to test us.

Where Kinu stands, including the awkward part

Kinu is our app, so read this section with the suspicion it deserves. We cannot promise Kinu will be here in ten years, and anyone who promises you that about any app on this page is selling something.

Getting your data out: yes, today. There is an export button in the settings, on the free tier, with no upgrade and no support ticket. It covers your people, your moments, your important dates, your categories and your settings. Private notes, and any moment you marked private, go in only if you turn on that switch. There is no way to import it back yet, so it is a copy out rather than a restorable backup.

Reading the file: yes. It is JSON, built on your device, and it opens in any text editor.

Working without us: mostly. Everything is written to a database on your phone rather than to a server, and after you sign in once the app opens and works with no connection at all. Kinu Plus adds sync, which uploads an encrypted snapshot to our servers, so on the paid tier a copy lives with us as well as on your phone.

None of that makes Kinu permanent. It makes Kinu survivable, which is the honest version of the promise. So do to us what we did to everyone else. Add three people and press export before you trust us with the rest.

Eight years. A product its makers called a success. A note on a homepage. If we ever have to write that note, we would like the worst part of it to be the goodbye.

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