Updated August 2026
    Abandoned
    25k

    Monica: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Personal relationship manager, and a new kind of CRM to organize interactions with your friends and family.

    TL;DR • Monica • as of August 2026

    Monica is an open-source customer relationship management (crm) project, with 25k GitHub stars and a health score of 18/100. It committed 0 times in the last twelve months across 0 of those months, and its status is abandoned. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    25k
    GitHub stars
    18/100
    Health score
    0
    Commits (12 mo)
    0/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Abandoned — Archived or no commits for over a year.
    Last commit 2025-08-30
    Days since last commit 352
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 0
    Months with activity 0 of 12
    Last release 2025-04-21
    Archived No
    Licence AGPL-3.0
    Category Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    AGPL-3.0

    Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Monica means for your idea

    Monica is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Monica: common questions

    Is Monica still maintained in 2026?

    Abandoned. Monica recorded 0 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 0 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2025-08-30. Last release: 2025-04-21. Archived or no commits for over a year.

    Can I use Monica commercially?

    Monica is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.

    How crowded is the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) category?

    7 open-source implementations, 5 of them actively maintained, led by Twenty at 55k stars. Saturation score 41/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    Monica alternatives in Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    Twenty

    Alternative to CRM

    55k

    A modern CRM offering the flexibility of open source, advanced features, and a sleek design.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

    Krayin

    Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    24k

    CRM solution for SMEs and Enterprises for complete customer lifecycle management.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    EspoCRM

    Alternative to CRM

    3.2k

    CRM with a frontend designed as a single page application, and a REST API.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

    Corteza

    Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    2.1k

    CRM including a unified workspace, enterprise messaging and a low code environment for rapidly and securely delivering records-based management solutions.

    Actively maintained
    Apache-2.0

    Django-CRM

    Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

    610

    Analytical CRM with tasks management, email marketing and many more. Django CRM is built for individual use, businesses of any size or freelancers and is designed to provide easy customization and qui

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

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