How to order Monica HQ?

Deploy Monica HQ as a fully managed service starting at €9/month. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, monitoring, and human support, all included.

DANIAN runs Monica HQ as a fully managed service: installation, updates, backups, monitoring and security are handled for you.

See the monicahq hosting page for plans, pricing and a free trial.

1. Login at: https://portal.danian.co

2. Manage Apps - Add an App

3. Select: Monica HQ

4. Select service Region

This is the datacenter location where your App will be located.

5. Select the App Address (URL) - Select 1 of the 2 options:

A. Use a free URL provided by DANIAN

B. Use my own Domain/Subdomain. Then enter the URL. Later an automated email will be send to you with additional info.

6. Click: Send

7. You will be notified via email as soon as your App is activated.

8. To access the App credentials:

https://portal.danian.co - Manage Apps - My Apps - Click on the App
There you will find:
A. Account related info: Email, Username
B. App related info: Order Date
C. App info: App name, Plan, Disk, Region, Public IP Address, Charge
D. App Login: URL, Username and/or Email, Password & Useful info
E. Status: Delivered or Pending
F. Total Cost per month

About Monica HQ

Monica is an open-source personal CRM — software for keeping track of the people in your life rather than the deals on your pipeline. It records contacts, family relationships, conversations, gifts given and received, important dates, and follow-up reminders. The project is licensed AGPL-3.0 and built by a small Montreal-based team.

The project began in 2016 as Régis Freyd's personal side project. It is maintained by Régis and Alexis Saettler. The hosted edition at monicahq.com has been priced at $9/month or $90/year since launch — that pricing has not moved in eight years.

The codebase is PHP on the Laravel framework, MySQL or MariaDB for storage, and Sabre/DAV for CardDAV/CalDAV sync. A next-generation rewrite called Chandler — released as v5.0.0-beta.5 in April 2025 — is the active development branch and ships with Keycloak and Kanidm SSO, Typesense search, and a refreshed UI. New installs are recommended to go straight to v5; there is currently no automated v4-to-v5 importer, so the choice matters at deploy time.

GitHub records over 24,000 stars on the repository and Monica HQ has reported more than 25 million pulls of its Docker image.