diff --git a/ui/Cargo.toml b/ui/Cargo.toml
index ff66bd2d6..8050c82cb 100644
--- a/ui/Cargo.toml
+++ b/ui/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ workspace = ".."
 xdg = "2.1.0"
 serde = "1.0.71"
 serde_derive = "1.0.71"
+serde_json = "1.0"
 config = "0.6"
 chan = "0.1.21"
 chan-signal = "0.3.1"
diff --git a/ui/src/conf/accounts.rs b/ui/src/conf/accounts.rs
index 3024fdd53..43c2698a3 100644
--- a/ui/src/conf/accounts.rs
+++ b/ui/src/conf/accounts.rs
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ pub struct Account {
 
 impl Drop for Account {
     fn drop(&mut self) {
+        //TODO: Avoid panics
         let data_dir =
             xdg::BaseDirectories::with_profile("meli", &self.name)
                 .unwrap();
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ impl Drop for Account {
                 }
             };
             let writer = io::BufWriter::new(f);
-            bincode::serialize_into(writer, &self.address_book).unwrap();
+            serde_json::to_writer(writer, &self.address_book).unwrap();
         };
     }
 }
@@ -104,7 +105,7 @@ impl Account {
         let address_book = if let Ok(data) = data_dir.place_data_file("addressbook") {
             if data.exists() {
                 let reader = io::BufReader::new(fs::File::open(data).unwrap());
-                let result: result::Result<AddressBook, _> = bincode::deserialize_from(reader);
+                let result: result::Result<AddressBook, _> = serde_json::from_reader(reader);
                 if let Ok(mut data_t) = result {
                     data_t
                 } else {
diff --git a/ui/src/lib.rs b/ui/src/lib.rs
index 7a8ba50ac..f53eb565c 100644
--- a/ui/src/lib.rs
+++ b/ui/src/lib.rs
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ extern crate termion;
 #[macro_use]
 extern crate nom;
 
+extern crate serde_json;
+
 use melib::*;
 use std::collections::VecDeque;