Monica vs SoonCall

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.

SoonCall is an iOS wellbeing app focused on preventing loneliness by helping people keep up with existing relationships. It uses a contact frequency set by the user and past interactions to suggest who may be ready for a catchup. After calls made through the app, SoonCall prompts users to log the catchup; users can also mark catchups manually. Catchup History stores notes against each contact, and friendship insights show catchup streaks, trends and history. The free plan costs nothing and supports five meaningful relationships, catchup planning and tracking, and smart suggestions. SoonCall Pro costs $6.99 a month or $39.99 a year. Pro adds unlimited relationships, automatic catchup reminders, friendship insights, significant date tracking, a timezone helper, home screen widgets and beta access. The maker says the app is currently available only on iOS, with an Android version in development. SoonCall is designed to strengthen existing relationships rather than help users meet new people.