UpHabit Alternatives in 2026: Where Your Contacts Can Go Next

If you used UpHabit to remember who to call back and when, the first job is to secure your list, and the second is to pick where it lives next. The right home depends on one question more than any other: which devices do you need it on? That decides most of this page.

Below: what can be confirmed about UpHabit right now, how to hold on to your data, and four places to take it, each described from its own website.

Is UpHabit still available?

UpHabit's own pages are offline as of October 26, 2026. The UpHabit website answers with a "service unavailable" error, its App Store listing returns "not found", and the UpHabit help center returns "not found" too. Several sites that rank for this search say UpHabit closed its apps earlier in 2026, but UpHabit's own announcement isn't reachable to confirm the date or the terms, so this page doesn't repeat them.

What that means in practice: you can't count on downloading UpHabit again on a new phone, and you can't count on anything stored only in UpHabit's servers being there next month. Treat whatever you can still open as the copy to keep.

Save your contacts before you choose a replacement

Do this today, before you compare anything. It takes a few minutes and it keeps every option open.

1. Look for a device that still has UpHabit installed. An app already on a phone or Mac can keep opening even when its listing is gone. Don't delete it and don't sign out until you've saved a copy.
2. Open its settings and look for an export. Save whatever file it gives you to a place you control, such as your computer or a cloud drive, not only the phone.
3. Copy the notes that matter by hand if there's no export. Birthdays, how you met, the names of someone's kids: these are what's hardest to rebuild, so they're worth the time.
4. Check your phone's address book. If your contacts first came from your phone, a Google account or a Microsoft account, those originals are separate from UpHabit and should still be there. The part at risk is what you added inside UpHabit.

Which replacement fits which kind of UpHabit user

People leaving UpHabit want roughly the same thing, a nudge to stay in touch plus somewhere to keep notes, but they differ on everything around it. These four cover the common situations.

Dex: the closest like-for-like replacement

Dex is the nearest thing to a drop-in replacement if you need the same list on your phone and your computer. The Dex homepage lists a web app, iOS, Android, macOS, Windows and a Chrome extension, with keep-in-touch reminders, notes, custom fields, tags and groups on every contact, and contacts pulled from more than 15 sources, including phone contacts, LinkedIn and CSV files.

Moving a file in is well documented. Dex's CSV guide says the import runs in the web app under Settings → Workflow → Sync & Import/Export, matches column names loosely, and turns columns it doesn't recognize into custom fields instead of dropping them. Two cautions from the same guide: CSV import isn't available in the mobile app, and the file should be saved as UTF-8 so accented names come through intact.

The trade-off is price. Dex's pricing page lists Premium at $12 a month billed yearly, $16 billed quarterly or $20 billed monthly, and Professional at $20, $27 or $34 on the same terms. There's no free plan. You can try Premium or Professional for six days, but Dex asks for a card up front and charges when the trial ends unless you cancel. For a fuller look at Dex, see our Dex alternatives page.

Nametag: open source, and cheap enough to forget about

Nametag is for the UpHabit user who wants a small, private record of people and never wants to be stranded by a company closing again. Its GitHub repository is licensed under the AGPL v3, runs with Docker, and lists reminders for important dates and staying in touch, vCard and JSON import and export, and CardDAV sync with Google Contacts, iCloud, Outlook and Nextcloud.

If you don't want to run a server, the hosted version is inexpensive. Nametag's pricing page lists a Free plan with up to 50 people and 5 reminders, Personal at $1 a month or $10 a year for up to 1,000 people and 100 reminders, and Pro at $2 a month or $20 a year with no limits. Self-hosting is free with no limits.

The limit to know about: there are no native phone apps yet. The repository says Nametag installs as a PWA (a web app you add to your home screen) and lists native Android and iOS apps as a roadmap item that needs help. The Nametag homepage describes access "from any device" through that web app.

Mesh: a free tier with room for a large list

Mesh suits someone with a few hundred people to keep track of who doesn't want to pay yet. Mesh's pricing page lists a free Personal plan with up to 1,000 contacts, search and groups, reminders, reconnect prompts, birthday notifications and life-update alerts. The page notes the free plan is set up with a credit card.

Pro, listed at $10 a month on the same page, adds unlimited contacts and CSV and spreadsheet import, which is what you'd need to bring a large UpHabit export in. Mesh lists apps for macOS, web, Windows and iOS; the pricing page doesn't mention Android, so Android users should look at Dex or Nametag first. Our Mesh alternatives page goes deeper on what Mesh connects to.

Merlin: if the people you track are the people you email

Merlin is an AI assistant for the Mac that we make, and its People panel is built from the mail, calendar and contacts in the Google accounts you connect, not from a list you keep by hand. The panel puts four kinds of people at the top: anyone whose message to you has sat unanswered for between 2 and 30 days (Merlin filters out pitches, receipts and mailing lists), anyone with a birthday inside two weeks, anyone with a reminder you set that's now due, and anyone with an open to-do. A separate Gone quiet group lists people you emailed at least three times between two months and a year ago, with nothing sent or received since.

Opening a person shows Merlin's take on where things stand between you, your shared history (mail, calendar events, recorded calls and your own notes, newest first), and an About section for how you met, family, pets, birthday and things to remember. You can add a note, a reminder, a to-do or a "moment" for time together that email can't see, such as a dinner. Or skip the forms and tell Merlin in chat about a friend's new job or their dog's name, and it files it on that person's record.

Be clear on what Merlin isn't, especially coming from a phone app:

• Mac only. There's no iPhone or Android app, so it can't replace a phone-first reminder app on the go.
• Email is the signal. Unanswered messages and Gone quiet come from mail alone; someone you mostly text or call can look quiet when they aren't.
• Google first. Gmail and Calendar are required to set it up. The free plan connects up to two Google accounts and includes 5,000 credits a month, which Merlin spends as it works; paid plans, from $29 a month for Pro, raise the credits and allow five accounts.
• No file import into People. People reads your Google contacts. To bring an UpHabit list in, import it into Google Contacts first (below).
• Some gaps. No custom fields, no photos or files on a person, no way to delete a person yet, and notes can't be edited once saved.

UpHabit alternatives side by side

Moving an UpHabit export into each one

The path depends on the file you saved and the tool you pick.

Into Dex

Upload a CSV in the Dex web app, check the column mapping, then use Dex's merge step for duplicates. Re-save the file as UTF-8 first if it came out of Excel (Dex's CSV guide).

Into Nametag

Nametag imports vCard and JSON, not CSV (GitHub). With a CSV, one route is to add the contacts to Google Contacts and let Nametag's CardDAV sync with Google Contacts pick them up.

Into Mesh

CSV and spreadsheet import is part of Pro on Mesh's pricing page. The free plan's list on that page doesn't include file import, so a large export is a reason to start on Pro.

Into Merlin

Put the contacts into Google Contacts in a Google account you connect to Merlin. Google's export help page describes moving contacts between accounts as a CSV or vCard file. They then show up when you search in People, and anyone you open becomes a saved person, starting from the name, organization, phone and birthday Google has. Notes from UpHabit won't carry over as notes; paste the important ones into each person's About or tell Merlin in chat.