Monica

Monica is a leading open-source personal relationship management system that transforms how individuals maintain and nurture their personal connections. Created to solve the universal challenge of remembering important details about the people we care about, Monica provides a private, self-hosted alternative to social networks and cloud-based contact managers. With thousands of installations worldwide, Monica has become particularly valuable for people with Asperger syndrome, those caring for family members with Alzheimer's disease, introverts who want to stay connected, and anyone who values meaningful relationships but struggles with memory or organization.

Common Use Cases

Families use Monica to maintain detailed records of relatives' lives, tracking birthdays, gift preferences, conversation topics, and family history that gets passed down through generations. Remote workers and digital nomads rely on Monica to stay connected with friends and professional contacts across different time zones, documenting interactions and setting reminders to maintain relationships despite physical distance. Caregivers utilize Monica to document medical information, preferences, and important details about the people they care for, ensuring continuity of care and personalized attention. Professionals use Monica to complement their business CRM by tracking personal details about colleagues, mentors, and industry contacts that help build authentic professional relationships beyond transactional interactions.

Key Features

• Comprehensive contact management with customizable fields
• Activity and conversation logging with timestamps
• Birthday and event reminders with email notifications
• Notes, documents, and photo uploads per contact
• Gift idea tracking and gift history
• Debt and loan tracking between contacts
• Task management and goal tracking
• Relationship mapping and family trees
• Journal entries and life events documentation
• Multi-language support (27 languages)
• Privacy-focused with full data ownership
• Import/export capabilities for data portability
• API access for custom integrations
• Mobile-responsive web interface

Why deploy Monica on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Monica on Hostinger VPS provides complete privacy and data sovereignty for your most personal information—details about family, friends, and relationships that should never be stored in third-party cloud services or sold to advertisers. The VPS environment ensures your relationship data remains exclusively under your control, meeting the highest privacy standards while avoiding the data mining and tracking inherent in social networks and cloud contact managers. With dedicated resources, you get reliable performance for your personal knowledge base, sufficient storage for years of photos, documents, and notes about your relationships, and the ability to access your data anytime without depending on external services or internet connections to third-party servers. The professional infrastructure ensures your Monica instance remains available when you need to check a birthday, prepare for a conversation, or remember important details before meeting someone, while direct server access enables custom backups, data migration, and integration with your personal productivity tools for a truly personalized relationship management workflow.