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Web App

Monica

A personal CRM to remember the details about the people you know.

Visit Monica4.4

  • Rating

    4.4 / 5

  • Pricing

    Free

  • Difficulty

    Intermediate

  • Works on

    Web, Cross-Platform

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What is Monica?

Monica is a free, open-source personal relationship manager you can host yourself. Log conversations, birthdays, gifts, reminders and notes about friends, family and contacts, so you can stay in touch and remember what matters to the people in your life.

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Pros: what Monica does well

  • Reminders for birthdays and check-ins
  • Private notes on every contact
  • Free and open source

Cons: where it falls short

  • Details are logged by hand
  • Self-hosting needs some setup

Who Monica is for

People who want to keep up with friends and contacts more thoughtfully.

Who can skip it

Anyone whose contacts app already covers what they need.

Monica alternatives

Not sold on Monica? These do a similar job, and each card says what it has in common.

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Tasks.org

Focus: to-do list and caldav. Shares reminders and open source with Monica. An Android app, not a web app. Adds Android. Rated 4.6 (Monica: 4.4).

Android AppFreeAndroid
4.6Visit

vdirsyncer

Focus: calendar sync, caldav and carddav. Shares contacts and open source with Monica. Adds Linux and macOS. Same 4.4 rating.

OtherFreeLinux, macOS
4.4Visit

Ente

Focus: encrypted photos, 2fa and cloud storage. Shares open source and github with Monica. Freemium (Monica: Free). Adds iOS, Android and macOS. Rated 4.7 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFree planWeb, iOS
4.7Visit

Jellyfin

Focus: media server, streaming and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Monica. Rated 4.7 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFreeCross-Platform
4.7Visit

Navidrome

Focus: music, streaming and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Monica. Adds macOS, Windows and Linux. Rated 4.7 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFreeWeb, macOS
4.7Visit

Free alternatives to Monica

Want to spend nothing? These free picks cover similar ground.

Paperless-ngx

Focus: documents, ocr and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Monica. Adds Linux. Rated 4.7 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFreeWeb, Linux
4.7Visit

Dashy

Focus: dashboard, start page and self-hosted. Shares open source and github with Monica. Rated 4.6 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.6Visit

Homarr

Focus: dashboard, homelab and self-hosting. Shares open source and github with Monica. Adds Windows and Linux. Rated 4.6 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFreeWeb, Windows
4.6Visit

Homepage

Focus: dashboard, start page and docker. Shares open source and github with Monica. Rated 4.6 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.6Visit

Mealie

Focus: recipes, meal planning and shopping lists. Shares open source and github with Monica. Rated 4.6 (Monica: 4.4).

Web AppFreeWeb, Cross-Platform
4.6Visit
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