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Ever Gauzy vs Horilla
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Ever Gauzy and Horilla — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
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Ever Gauzy vs Horilla: at a glance
What is Ever Gauzy?
Ever Gauzy is shipping a stream of pagination and filter fixes, one patch at a time.
Ever Gauzy released ten patch versions in two days, nearly all single-PR fixes: sort order in employee, candidate, equipment-sharing and time-off pagination, time-off filters on MikroORM, page-size persistence and an employee-creation loading bug.
What is Horilla?
Horilla shipped six security releases in three weeks, ending with a no-login RCE.
Horilla's 2.1.x line has become a running security audit. Between 2.1.1 and 2.1.8 the team closed more than a dozen externally reported advisories, from stored XSS and local file reads to salary-redirect and self-approval flaws, capped by an unauthenticated remote code execution in the public recruitment flow.
Ever Gauzy vs Horilla: editorial side-by-side
Ever Gauzy is shipping a stream of pagination and filter fixes, one patch at a time.
◆ Current state
Ever Gauzy released ten patch versions in two days, nearly all single-PR fixes: sort order in employee, candidate, equipment-sharing and time-off pagination, time-off filters on MikroORM, page-size persistence and an employee-creation loading bug.
◆ Where it's heading
The project is in a hardening pass on list views and ORM-backed queries, with one release per merged PR. A tenant-isolation test commit and new issue templates point to quality and contributor-process work, not feature expansion.
◆ Prediction
Expect more micro-releases fixing sorting and filtering in other modules. The entries show no sign of a feature release.
Horilla
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Horilla shipped six security releases in three weeks, ending with a no-login RCE.
◆ Current state
Horilla's 2.1.x line has become a running security audit. Between 2.1.1 and 2.1.8 the team closed more than a dozen externally reported advisories, from stored XSS and local file reads to salary-redirect and self-approval flaws, capped by an unauthenticated remote code execution in the public recruitment flow.
◆ Where it's heading
The pattern is consistent: outside researchers are probing the 2.x codebase, and the maintainers are responding fast with detailed advisories and no-migration patches. Most of the flaws are authorization checks that trusted any manager relationship rather than the specific record, which points to a codebase-wide access-control review rather than one-off fixes.
◆ Prediction
Expect more point releases closing authorization bugs in the remaining HR modules (payroll, attendance, assets) before any feature work resumes on 2.2.
Alternatives to Ever Gauzy and Horilla
Other HR products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Ever Gauzy or Horilla.
Teamtailor
Teamtailor lets recruiters write their own AI pipeline steps in plain language.
Frappe HR
Frappe HR is pushing payroll toward accountant-grade bookkeeping, one release a week.
Tanda
Tanda keeps absorbing HR admin into workforce management, one automation at a time.
Employment Hero
Employment Hero builds toward AI-native HR with a recruitment agent and developer API push
Workyard
Workyard makes overtime rule authorship conversational while extending expense card coverage to every US bank.
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Recent activity from Ever Gauzy and Horilla
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 12h agoEver GauzyFixes stuck loading after employee creation error
- 12h agoEver GauzyEmployee list remembers page size
- 12h agoEver GauzyFixes sort order in candidate and equipment lists
- 12h agoEver GauzyFixes time-off filters under MikroORM
- 16h agoEver GauzyFixes sort order in employee pagination
- 1d agoEver GauzyFixes sort order in time-off pagination
- 4d agoHorilla2.1.8 — Security release
- 21d agoHorilla2.1.5 — Bug-fix release
- 22d agoHorilla2.1.4 — Security release
- 22d agoHorilla2.1.3 — Security and bug-fix release
- 23d agoHorilla2.1.2 — Security patch
- 24d agoHorilla2.1.1 — Security patch
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Ever Gauzy and Horilla?
Both compete on the same themes — open-source — within HR. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Ever Gauzy better than Horilla?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 5.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other HR products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Ever Gauzy?
Top Ever Gauzy alternatives in HR are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Ever Gauzy alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ever-gauzy for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Horilla?
Top Horilla alternatives in HR are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Horilla alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/horilla for the full list with editorial commentary on each.