What is the best Scratchpad alternative?

If you're free to choose your system of record, Agent07 — it removes the data-entry job Scratchpad accelerates, and the record is included instead of riding on a $175 Salesforce seat. If you're locked into Salesforce with RevOps, Scratchpad and Dooly remain the best of the hygiene-layer category.

Why do tools like Scratchpad exist at all?

Because classic CRMs price the record separately from the work of maintaining it. A whole category — Scratchpad, Dooly, spreadsheet exports — exists to soften that maintenance. When the record maintains itself, the category has nothing left to accelerate.

We're on Salesforce with two years left. Should we switch?

Probably not — mid-contract Salesforce with a RevOps team is a switching wall, and we say so honestly. Agent07 fits best for teams that are greenfield or on a light CRM. If that's not you today, keep Scratchpad; revisit at renewal.

CRM Hygiene alternatives

Best Scratchpad Alternatives for Sales Teams (2026)

Scratchpad exists because updating Salesforce is so painful that teams pay a second subscription to make it bearable. That's not a product category — it's a symptom.

Reviewed by Raunaque S., Head of Marketing, Agent07 · June 12, 2026

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Scratchpad (and Dooly, its closest sibling) is genuinely clever software: a fast workspace over Salesforce so reps can update pipeline, notes, and fields without wading through page loads. Reps who must feed Salesforce love it. But step back and look at what's being purchased: a tool to make a human faster at typing what other systems already know. The call happened on a recorded meeting. The email thread is in Gmail. The commitment is in the transcript. Scratchpad speeds up the copying; it doesn't question why the copying exists. Agent07 removes the job instead: the record writes itself from every email, call, and document — high-confidence updates applied automatically, the rep approves the rest — so 'CRM hygiene' stops being a workflow anyone needs to accelerate.

Why teams leave Scratchpad

It accelerates work that shouldn't exist

Scratchpad makes data entry faster. Faster data entry is still data entry — the information it's typing already exists in the email thread, the calendar, and the call recording.

A subscription on top of a subscription

Scratchpad rides on Salesforce: you pay ~$175/seat for the CRM, then $19–39/seat to make it usable. The stack tax compounding in real time.

Still depends on the rep showing up

The pipeline is only as current as the rep's last Scratchpad session. Skip a busy week and the record is stale again — the failure mode is unchanged, just faster to fix.

No intelligence, just speed

Scratchpad doesn't know what was said on the call or written in the thread. It can't draft the follow-up, flag the risk, or answer 'why did this slip?' — it's a better keyboard, not a better memory.

How the top alternatives compare

Scratchpad vs. Agent07 and other leading options.

Feature	Agent07	Scratchpad	Dooly	Salesforce alone
Fast manual updates	✓ (rarely needed)	✓ (best in class)		— (slow)
Record updates itself from email/calls
Works without Salesforce underneath	✓ (is the record)	— (requires SFDC)	— (requires SFDC)	n/a
Meeting capture → CRM fields		Partial (notes sync)	Partial
Deal intelligence (risk, why-slipped)				Einstein add-ons
Follow-up drafting
Total cost of the answer	$50/seat	$19–39 + $175 SFDC seat	$30+ + SFDC seat	$175+/seat + admin

Prices verified July 2026. Scratchpad and Dooly require a Salesforce org — their price is additive to the CRM seat. If you're locked into Salesforce with a RevOps team, they're good tools; the comparison here is for teams still free to choose the record. Always confirm at vendor's website. Checked against Scratchpad’s pricing page on June 15, 2026.

#1 Recommendation

Agent07

Agent07 is the best Scratchpad alternative because it deletes the workflow Scratchpad accelerates: the record writes itself from email, calls, and documents on one Deal Memory. High-confidence changes are applied automatically and the rep approves the rest — so pipeline reviews start from a record nobody had to feed.