Contacts+ Personal CRM vs Monica

Contacts+ Personal CRM keeps a record for each person, with context and follow-up reminders for maintaining relationships. Records can include notes, tags, relationships, contact details, custom fields, birthdays, and important dates. Contacts sync in both directions with Google, iCloud, and Microsoft/Outlook accounts. Users can set reminders with due dates and snooze them, sync tasks one way to calendars, and receive a daily task digest email. The business-card scanner uses AI to transcribe cards and other images containing contact details into records. Premium and Teams add enrichment, duplicate detection and merging, profile photo matching, and outdated-data cleanup. An MCP integration connects the address book to ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok, with proposed changes awaiting user approval. The free plan includes one account, 1,000 contacts, daily sync, and web, iOS, and Android apps. Premium is $9.99 a month, billed 119.88 USD yearly; Teams is $12.99 a month, billed $155.88 per user yearly. The web app runs in a browser, and the maker says there is no separate native Mac or Windows app.

Monica is an open-source personal CRM for organizing information about friends, family, colleagues, and other important people. Contact records can include contact methods, significant others, children, pets, private notes, reminders, gifts, and money owed. The service also stores relationship notes, journal entries, and activity history for calls, meals, trips, events, and other occasions. Contacts can be imported from vCard or CSV files, with duplicates displayed before merging. A REST API supports contact-data imports and exports and automation of parts of the application. Monica says it does not sell personal data, show ads, or use private account contents to train models. Hosted accounts include managed backups and email support; self-hosting uses Docker or manual installation, with users maintaining infrastructure and backups. Self-hosted Monica is free; Hosted Monica is $90 a year.