# Monica Personal CRM

> Open-source personal CRM for friends, family and colleagues

Monica is an open-source personal CRM for remembering the people in your life: how you know them, what you last talked about, important dates, gifts and debts. It can be self-hosted for free with Docker or a PHP environment, or used as a hosted service at one flat account price with unlimited contacts. A rebuilt version, Monica v3, is announced for release before the end of 2026.

- **Category:** CRM Software
- **Made by:** Monica (since 2017)
- **Website:** https://www.monicahq.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

Monica Personal CRM has a free plan. Paid plans start at $9 / month per account, or $90 billed yearly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Self-hosted Monica: the full open-source application is free to run on your own server, with unlimited contacts and community support. You provide hosting, updates and backups.
- **Free trial:** 30-day free trial of the hosted plan, no credit card required during the trial.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Self-hosted Monica | $0 | The full open-source application on your own infrastructure, with unlimited contacts, data import and export, and community support. |
| Hosted Monica | $90 per year, per account ($9 if billed monthly) | Unlimited contacts, notes, reminders and journal entries, with automatic updates, managed backups and email support. |

Read from https://www.monicahq.com/en/pricing/ on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Monica Personal CRM before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Hosted Monica is $90 a year against $9 a month, which the pricing page describes as two months free when billed yearly. Source: https://www.monicahq.com/en/pricing/

## Key features

- **Contact records and relationships:** Each person's record holds how you met, contact details, significant others, children and pets, and links to family, partners, friends and coworkers.
- **Notes and journal:** Private notes on each person and journal entries record what happened, so past conversations can be found without searching through messaging apps.
- **Reminders:** Reminders for important dates and events, with birthdays filled in automatically, plus call logging so you can be prompted to get back in touch.
- **Activities, gifts and debts:** Keep a history of meals, calls, trips and events, track gifts given or planned, and note money owed in either direction.
- **Import, export and custom fields:** Contacts import from vCard and CSV files with duplicates shown before merging, records take custom fields and sections, and data can be exported at any time.
- **REST API:** A REST API imports and exports contacts and automates other parts of the application. The pricing page lists API use as included, not an add-on.

## Good for

- People who want a private record of friends and family, not a sales tool
- Self-hosters who want an open-source personal CRM with no license fee
- Anyone who wants one flat price however many contacts they have

## Worth knowing

- There are no native mobile apps yet; the web app works on a phone, and iOS and Android apps are planned for after v3.
- The hosted service has no free plan, only a 30-day trial; using Monica for free means running your own server.
- Monica v3 is a ground-up rebuild expected before the end of 2026; a migration path for existing accounts is a stated goal.
- Displayed prices may exclude taxes, depending on your location.

**Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable, Notes, Daily notes, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Dex](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dex): Personal CRM that syncs LinkedIn, email and calendar contacts. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dex-vs-monica-personal-crm)
- [Mesh](https://toolgpa.com/tools/mesh): Personal CRM that builds itself from email, calendar and social. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/mesh-vs-monica-personal-crm)
- [Covve](https://toolgpa.com/tools/covve): Personal CRM app with reminders, notes and card scanning. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/covve-vs-monica-personal-crm)
- [folk](https://toolgpa.com/tools/folk): CRM that pulls contacts from LinkedIn, email and WhatsApp. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/folk-vs-monica-personal-crm)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://www.monicahq.com/en/pricing/
- https://www.monicahq.com/en/
- https://www.monicahq.com/en/features

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