@selfhosted Self host phone contacts sync

I am searching for something to sync my phone contacts between multiple phones for some time. Best case it shouldn’t use DAVx^5 and should support Android and iOS. Thanks for your suggestions!

What I found so far:
Nextcloud - but needs DAVx^5
Radicale - also needs DAVx^5
SoGo - needs some CARD-DAV application

  • Hopfgeist@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What’s your problem with DAVx^5? It’s completely and permanently free and fully-featured on f-droid. Only the PlayStore version costs money. The authors don’t want to make money, but motivate you to move away from Google infrastructure.

    If you only need address/phone number sync, then nextcloud is probably overkill, but I use it, and it works great. Also for calendar sync and file storage.

    (You don’t need to put the community name in the title, especially not with “@”, which signifies usernames. Communities are prefixed by “!”.)

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    1 year ago

    I’ve used Nextcloud and DAVx5 for years (back when X5 was still called DAVDroid). Works great.

    That works for me since I use Nextcloud for other things. If you want to sync just contacts and calendars, I’d go with Radicale as I used that successfully before implementing Nextcloud.

  • Iain@fed.rosssi.co.uk
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t SoGo use Activesync? This wouldn’t need an app on your phone.

    I tried the same setup as you a few years ago. It worked, but I didn’t like SoGo for email so moved to Nextcloud/SnappyMail and DAVx/K9 on my phone. Have been using this fine since.

  • redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com
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    1 year ago

    You may be able to use ActiveSync protocol to sync contacts to mail server like exchange or mailcow, though I never use it myself.