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@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

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[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 "!".)

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

They posted from mastodon though, so they do need to mention the community in order to cross post there.

[–] palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

really? that is cool. i did not realise that was possible. ah fediverse... so many possibilities!

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can even call mastodon bots here, e.g. @remindme@mstdn.social in 5 minutes

[–] remindme@mstdn.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you my dear bot

[–] Hopfgeist@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I see. I suspected it might be something like that. I've never tried that.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 1 points 1 year ago

I agree that DAVx^5 is really good. OP is from Mastodon, which might explain the funny post title.

[–] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because Davx5 only works with Android and he stated he wants something that syncs across all of his devices. I came across this posting because I am also looking for a solution to sync contacts between my Android and iPhone. I am trying to get away from Nextcloud because it's overkill for my use case... So far I have tried Radicale and Baikal but neither works for iOS.