Dex vs Nimble (2026)
Dex and Nimble both build rich contact profiles from your network, but Dex is a personal CRM for staying in touch while Nimble is a social-selling CRM with light pipeline tools. Here's which fits networking versus relationship-led sales.
Dex
Personal CRM that syncs LinkedIn, Gmail, and your calendar to help you maintain and strengthen professional relationships. Built for individuals, not sales teams.
Nimble
Nimble is a social CRM that automatically builds rich contact profiles by pulling in data from email, calendar, and social networks, making it a strong choice for relationship-driven sales and networking.
TL;DR
- Pick Dex if you want a personal relationship manager that keeps your network warm — LinkedIn sync, a unified interaction timeline, and keep-in-touch reminders, all for one person.
- Pick Nimble if you sell through relationships and need social-driven contact enrichment plus light pipeline management and small-team support.
Pricing
Dex starts at $12/month and is priced for individuals, not teams — an easy bar to clear for personal use. Nimble is a single plan at $24.90/user/month billed annually, with no tier confusion but a per-seat model that reflects its sales features. For one networker, Dex is the cheaper tool; for a small selling team, Nimble's price buys pipeline and collaboration Dex doesn't offer.
Personal rolodex vs. social-selling CRM
This is the real distinction. Dex is a personal CRM — its job is to help you maintain professional relationships, not run a sales process. It connects LinkedIn (importing up to 9,000 connections and auto-updating when contacts change jobs), Gmail, Google Calendar, and messaging apps into one relationship timeline, then nudges you with keep-in-touch reminders so people don't fall through the cracks. There's no shared pipeline, deal tracking, or team collaboration — and that's intentional.
Nimble is a social-selling CRM. It's built on the premise that most sales is relationship-driven and that manual record-keeping is the failure point, so it auto-aggregates email, calendar, LinkedIn, and X/Twitter data into rich contact profiles. The Nimble Prospector browser extension captures leads from LinkedIn, websites, or any page in one click, and it adds AI lead qualification and light workflow automation on top of the contact graph.
Individual vs. team use
Dex is unapologetically single-player — ideal for founders, investors, salespeople, recruiters, and networkers tracking follow-ups that would otherwise live in a spreadsheet or memory.
Nimble fits individual salespeople, consultants, and small teams where relationship context matters more than complex automation, and it offers bidirectional Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace sync for both contacts and calendar — useful when a team standardizes on one ecosystem.
Limits to weigh
Both depend on social-platform access that can tighten over time — Dex's LinkedIn sync is subject to LinkedIn's API policies, and Nimble's enrichment relies on continued social access. Both are also light on heavy automation and deep reporting: Dex by design, Nimble compared to Pipedrive or HubSpot at similar prices. Neither is the tool for enterprise pipeline forecasting.
Bottom line
If your goal is simply to stop losing touch with people you meant to follow up with, Dex is one of the best personal CRMs available and $12/month is a low bar to try it. If you're doing relationship-led selling and want enrichment plus light pipeline and small-team features, Nimble is the more capable choice for staying top-of-mind across a large network. Solo networking points to Dex; networked selling points to Nimble.