PingCRM
Open-source personal networking CRM — AI-powered, self-hostable.
Auto-syncs Gmail, Telegram, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp. Detects life events. Drafts contextual follow-ups with AI. Tells you who to reach out to and why.
Docs · Setup Guide · Hosted Waitlist
Why PingCRM?
| PingCRM | Monica | Dex |
|---|
| Price | Free (self-hosted) | Free / $9/mo | Free tier / $12/mo |
| AI message drafting | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Gmail sync | ✅ threads | ❌ | ✅ contacts only |
| Telegram sync | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Twitter/X sync | ✅ DMs + mentions | ❌ | Import only |
| WhatsApp sync | ✅ QR pairing | ❌ | ❌ |
| LinkedIn sync | ✅ Chrome extension | ❌ | ✅ |
| Life event detection | ✅ multi-source | Manual | Job changes only |
| Self-hostable | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ |
| Open source | ✅ AGPL-3.0 | ✅ AGPL-3.0 | ❌ |
What it does
- Unified timeline — every email, DM, mention, and call in one contact view
- Relationship scoring — 0–10 score surfaces who's going cold
- AI suggestions — drafts contextual follow-ups, never sends automatically
- Life event detection — new jobs, birthdays, bio changes across platforms
- Identity resolution — merges the same person across Gmail, LinkedIn, Telegram, etc.
- MCP server — query your CRM from Claude Desktop, Cursor, and other MCP clients
See the feature docs for screenshots and details.
Get it running
Option 1 — One-click deploy
| Platform | Deploy |
|---|
| Railway | |
| Render | |
| DigitalOcean | |
| Fly.io | fly launch --from https://github.com/sneg55/pingcrm |
| Coolify (self-hosted) | Import as Docker Compose app |
After deploy, set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY and any OAuth credentials for integrations you want. Environment reference →
Option 2 — Have an AI agent deploy it
Point Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or any coding agent at AGENT_SETUP.md and ask it to deploy PingCRM on your VPS. Twelve-phase runbook — DNS, TLS, secrets, OAuth, the works.
"Read AGENT_SETUP.md and set up PingCRM for me on my server."
Option 3 — Run it yourself
git clone https://github.com/sneg55/pingcrm.git
cd pingcrm
cp backend/.env.example backend/.env # edit backend/integration values
cp .env.docker.example .env # edit POSTGRES_PASSWORD and SECRET_KEY
docker compose up -d
Full walk-through with integration setup: docs.pingcrm.xyz/setup
Staying up to date
PingCRM checks GitHub for new releases and shows an in-app banner when one
is available. See Update Notifications
for details and opt-out.
Stack
Backend: FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis · Celery · Claude (Anthropic)
Frontend: Next.js · React · Tailwind
Deploy: Docker Compose · Caddy · GitHub Actions
Architecture overview →
Contributing
Contributions welcome — bugs, features, integrations, docs.
License
AGPL-3.0 — free to use, modify, self-host. Network use requires source disclosure.
