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Monica

Personal CRM for remembering the humans

provisional — pending verificationAGPL-3.0self-hostable

Value Index

4.3 / 5

Transparency5

Value density4

Privacy5

Efficiency3

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Why it's listed

Monica is listed in crm for small business because it competes on utility: personal crm for remembering the humans. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed AGPL-3.0; pricing: free (ce) / paid cloud. Its resource footprint is reasonable for what it does, though not featherweight. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: AGPL-3.0
Pricing: Free (CE) / paid cloud
Funding model: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: medium
Replaces: a spreadsheet of birthdays
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

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