Covve vs Monica

Covve Personal CRM helps users manage relationships with notes, reminders, curated contact news, and relationship analytics. Users can record conversations and interactions, while smart reminders flag when it may be time to reconnect or when they are losing touch. Curated news about contacts can help users prepare before reaching out, and live analytics track and organize relationships and assess network health. The app is listed for iPhone, iPad, and Android, with a web admin portal in the Pro plan. Contacts can be imported from iCloud, Outlook or Exchange, Google Contacts, and a phone address book. Listed integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Zapier, Outlook Contacts, Google Contacts, and Excel. The App Store listing says contact notes and related personal data are encrypted on-device with end-to-end encryption, and Covve cannot unlock them without the user's encryption key. Covve offers a free plan and a 14-day trial. Essential costs $12 a month and Pro costs $20 a month; Enterprise pricing is custom.

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.