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I'm building a light weight personal CRM/contacts management app for Android

Posted on 3/9/26 at 3:27 pm
Posted by AaronDeTiger
baton rouge
Member since Jun 2014
2293 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 3:27 pm
I wanted to share an Android app I’ve been developing and get some thoughts from the tech board. I'm in the petrochemical industry, and over the years, my contact list has grown to over 2,000 people. I got tired of manually typing in contact info every time I met someone new or was handed a business card.

So I built my own app. It’s called Gravitate. It’s an offline-first personal CRM and business card scanner.

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Here is the quick rundown of what it does:

Instant Offline Scanner: Uses your camera to scan business cards instantly and auto populate contact fields. It processes everything directly on your phone, so it works when you have zero cell service.

The Radar: Automatically drops every contact you save an address for onto a map so you can see exactly where your network is and plan routes. Multiple filtering options

The Context Hub: Can group your contacts by specific events, projects, or job sites. Read and write to calendar.

Memos & Relationship Tracking: Lets you record a 60-second audio debrief right after a meeting, and uses color-coded indicators to tell you when a warm relationship is going stale. Tracks different forms of contact.


I am just about done with the core development. I'm getting ready to hand the app off to my designer (wife, no pics) to overhaul the look and feel with custom animations and polish before we launch.

Before we lock it down for the Play Store, I want to get it into the hands of some guys who would actually use it. I’m looking for 3 to 4 beta testers from each of my main target fields to try it out, try to break it, and tell me what I need to tweak:

Industrial / Construction / Project Management
Outside Sales / Real Estate
Recruiters / Executives

Let me know what you guys think of the concept, or if you'd be down to test the beta in a week or so.
This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 3:57 pm
Posted by AaronDeTiger
baton rouge
Member since Jun 2014
2293 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 3:39 pm to
Screenshots:




This post was edited on 3/9/26 at 3:43 pm
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
14728 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 7:30 pm to
Interesting. At first I thought, "I can scan business cards in OfficeLens (deprecated)." But it seems you're providing value above that. I like it, but my outside sales do not generally involve anywhere I can drive to in under a few hours.
Posted by SATNIGHTS
Red Stick
Member since Jan 2008
2462 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 8:55 pm to
I would use something like that.

Signed Purchasing Guy
Posted by FieldEngineer
Member since Jan 2015
2822 posts
Posted on 3/9/26 at 9:26 pm to
Looks cool, but you should clean the customer data from the screenshots (unless that’s sample data).
Posted by AaronDeTiger
baton rouge
Member since Jun 2014
2293 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 12:46 pm to
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Signed Purchasing Guy


I hadn't thought of that user base. I should have because I got a stack of business cards to test with from a purchasing guy.
Posted by SlowFlowPro
With populists, expect populism
Member since Jan 2004
472218 posts
Posted on 3/10/26 at 3:18 pm to
Thank you for giving me ideas to add to the LPM (with included CRM) I'm vibe coding currently.
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