Coywolf Contact: A minimalist PWA contact manager
Coywolf Contact is a free contact relationship manager (CRM) and progressive web app (PWA) with a minimalist user interface built for speed and efficiency and works entirely offline.
I’ve always wanted more out of native contact apps and significantly less from even the most simple CRM solutions. I didn’t like the interactivity and design patterns of native apps, and I didn’t want the endless options and features that most software companies add to appeal to the broadest audience.
I knew what I wanted would never exist unless I built it, so I did.
I had several specific goals when I set out to build my ideal contacts app. I wanted:
- a minimalist single-column design with an in-and-out content architecture (a single-page app that utilizes modal windows).
- a highly performant web app that was incredibly fast to use.
- a web app with keyboard shortcuts to make finding and viewing records more efficient than using a mouse or trackpad.
- a cross-platform web app with real-time syncing.
- the ability to easily share contact records and also have contacts update their own records.
- a progressive web app (PWA) that mimicked native apps with full offline capabilities.
- an app with an API for third-party integration and automation.
- an app that costs very little to run and has effortless scaling.
Coywolf Contact contains those items, but like all new software, it’s missing plenty of features I still plan to add. Some of those features on my wish list include:
- dependable parsing of natural language input when adding new contact records (although it does have operators, which I think are cool).
- more third-party integrations and the general availability of webhooks (it will support Zapier very soon, though).
- native access to contact records via iOS and macOS.
- plenty more features like web push notifications, localization, auth-based third-party contact importing, branding, bulk editing tools, record merging, and file attachments.
Those things will come in time. For now, the focus is on getting people to use it and provide feedback. I want to know what you like and dislike, how you think it could be better, and also to report any bugs you experience.
The app is currently in public beta. Watch the teaser video and create a free account. The app is also part of a broader platform strategy, which I discuss on the Coywolf Blog.
Jon Henshaw is the founder of Coywolf and an industry veteran with almost three decades of SEO, digital marketing, and web technologies experience. Follow @jon@henshaw.social