Comparison
Lumenbase vs Folk: which CRM fits your team?
Folk and Lumenbase both put relationships first. But they cover different amounts of the funnel. Folk is a clean, contact-first CRM with one-click LinkedIn and Gmail import and AI to fill in details. It suits networking-led teams and agencies who want something light. Lumenbase goes deeper. You get the whole funnel from Lists to Accounts, always-on Lumo, browser meeting recording, and invoicing. And more of it comes with the entry plan.
Quick verdict
When each one wins
Lumenbase is better if
- You want a Lead Development stage that sits between contacts and deals you forecast
- Lumo is always on. It tells you who to contact and why, and gives you a draft to send or skip
- You can record meetings from your browser on Meet, Teams, and Zoom. You get the transcript and a Lumo summary on the contact timeline
- You want deals, dashboards, automation, and API access without jumping to a premium plan
- You want to track accounts after the sale and send invoices in the same app
- You forecast revenue and need weighted pipeline numbers
Folk is better if
- You want a clean, light, contact-first CRM that’s quick to set up
- Your work is networking and relationship-led outreach more than set deal forecasting
- You love one-click import from LinkedIn, X, and Gmail with instant AI fill-in
- You want a simple, shared address book for a small team or agency
- You don’t need a deep funnel, accounts, or invoices
Feature comparison
| Feature | Lumenbase | Folk |
|---|---|---|
| Whole funnel in one place: Lists, Leads, Deals, Accounts | Deals (Premium beta) | |
| Always-on AI that tells you who to contact (Lumo) | Follow-up Assistant | |
| AI drafts outreach, you approve before it sends | Follow-up Assistant | |
| Meeting recording in the browser, with transcript and summary | ||
| LinkedIn capture browser extension | ||
| Email and calendar sync, logged to records for you | ||
| Visual automation builder | Sequences (Premium) | |
| Drag-and-drop reports and analytics | Dashboards (Premium) | |
| REST API plus MCP server for agent access | API (Premium) | |
| Clear per-seat pricing | ||
| Deal pipeline and dashboards on the entry plan | Premium plan | |
| Accounts view after the sale | Limited | |
| Built-in invoicing | ||
| One-click detail fill-in for contacts | Via integrations |
A dash means the feature isn’t built in. You may still get it through a plan, an add-on, or another tool, and the cell says so when that’s the case.
Lumenbase vs Folk: feature by feature
How much of the funnel
Folk is contact-first and stays light. Pipelines, sequences, dashboards, and API access mostly sit on its Premium plan, and Deals is still a Premium beta feature. Lumenbase includes the whole funnel, Lists through Accounts, plus forecasting and invoices on the working plan. So you don’t outgrow the entry plan the moment you need a deal stage.
Contacts and details
Folk is great at getting contacts in fast: one-click import from LinkedIn, X, and Gmail with folkX, plus AI fields that fill in details. Lumenbase has a LinkedIn Capture extension and built-in detail fill-in through Apollo and Snov, with dedupe and clean-up tools built in.
AI and meetings
Lumenbase keeps a live Lumo read on who needs attention, drafts outreach to approve, and records meetings from your browser with a summary on the timeline. Folk’s Follow-up Assistant flags contacts who have gone quiet and pre-writes replies in your tone. Folk has no built-in meeting recorder.
Where each may not be the best fit
Lumenbase may not fit if…
- Teams who want the lightest possible contact CRM with little structure
- Networking-led users who don’t run a set deal funnel at all
Folk may not fit if…
- Teams who need deals, accounts, invoices, and forecasting in one place
- Teams who want always-on AI and meeting capture built in
- Teams who don’t want core features (pipelines, API, dashboards) locked to a premium plan
Which should you choose?
Pick Lumenbase if you want relationship-first selling plus a real funnel: deals, accounts, invoices, forecasting, always-on AI, and meeting capture, included from the start rather than added on at a premium plan.
Pick Folk if you want a clean, light, contact-first CRM for networking and relationship-led outreach, with fast one-click import and AI fill-in, and you don’t need a deep funnel or invoices.
FAQs
folk is a trademark of folk app SAS. Lumenbase is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by folk. This describes Lumenbase as of 23 June 2026. Competitor products, pricing, and features change often, so check both against what your team actually needs.
We’ve filled in the Folk details as carefully as we can from public sources. If something looks off, and we’ll fix it.