  In this review article, we describe the role of holography in deciphering the
physics of dense QCD matter, relevant for the description of compact stars and
their binary mergers. We review the strengths and limitations of the
holographic duality in describing strongly interacting matter at large baryon
density, walk the reader through the most important results derived using the
holographic approach so far, and highlight a number of outstanding open
problems in the field. Finally, we discuss how we foresee holography
contributing to compact-star physics in the coming years.
