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Comparison · HR
Ever Gauzy vs Jorani
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Ever Gauzy and Jorani — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Shared themes:leave-management
Ever Gauzy vs Jorani: at a glance
What is Ever Gauzy?
Ever Gauzy adds full payroll and leave management modules in a single sprint
Ever Gauzy is an open-source workforce management platform operating at an unusually high release cadence — multiple patch versions per day via stacked PRs. The v111.41.x series shows the team shipping full module additions (payroll and leave management) alongside a steady stream of internal permission fixes and UI polish. Two table-stakes HR primitives landed within hours of each other, alongside active hardening of the permission/access-control layer.
What is Jorani?
A dormant leave-management app returns with an MIT relicense and a hard break from its own API
Jorani is a self-hosted leave and overtime management app built on legacy CodeIgniter PHP. After a three-year gap, v1.0.4 arrives labelled a maintenance release but is anything but conservative: it relicenses from AGPL to MIT, moves the repository to a new organization, and deletes the Basic Auth REST API, the client-side password encryption layer and MySQL 5.7 support. The database schema is untouched, so the disruption is entirely in licensing, packaging and interfaces rather than data.
Ever Gauzy vs Jorani: editorial side-by-side
Ever Gauzy adds full payroll and leave management modules in a single sprint
◆ Current state
Ever Gauzy is an open-source workforce management platform operating at an unusually high release cadence — multiple patch versions per day via stacked PRs. The v111.41.x series shows the team shipping full module additions (payroll and leave management) alongside a steady stream of internal permission fixes and UI polish. Two table-stakes HR primitives landed within hours of each other, alongside active hardening of the permission/access-control layer.
◆ Where it's heading
The back-to-back payroll and leave management module additions signal a deliberate push toward full HR-suite feature parity. This is less differentiation, more gap-closing: the platform is assembling the set of capabilities enterprise and mid-market buyers require before standardizing on any HR tool. The permission-scoping work running in parallel suggests a broader role/access-control refactor is either underway or just wrapping up.
◆ Prediction
Expense management, performance reviews, or org-chart features are likely next in the module queue — the sprint pattern (payroll → leave → next) suggests they were developed in parallel and are staging for release. The CRUD permission architecture work indicates the team is hardening the foundation before adding more modules.
Jorani
0.0HR
A dormant leave-management app returns with an MIT relicense and a hard break from its own API
◆ Current state
Jorani is a self-hosted leave and overtime management app built on legacy CodeIgniter PHP. After a three-year gap, v1.0.4 arrives labelled a maintenance release but is anything but conservative: it relicenses from AGPL to MIT, moves the repository to a new organization, and deletes the Basic Auth REST API, the client-side password encryption layer and MySQL 5.7 support. The database schema is untouched, so the disruption is entirely in licensing, packaging and interfaces rather than data.
◆ Where it's heading
The long arc is a small project shedding weight. Releases through 2017 filled in the workflow model — cancellation states, SSO, mandatory rejection comments, a steady stream of translations. Version 1.0.0 in 2020 rebuilt the leave-balance engine and documented an OpenAPI surface, and the two releases since have been almost entirely security and PHP-version compatibility. v1.0.4 continues by removing rather than adding, including the very API 1.0.0 had documented, and folds the old tree under a legacy/ directory — which reads as groundwork for a replacement rather than a destination.
◆ Prediction
The legacy/ layout and the withdrawn REST API point to a new API and a non-legacy codebase as the next move; the entries don't indicate on what stack, or when.
Alternatives to Ever Gauzy and Jorani
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Recent activity from Ever Gauzy and Jorani
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 18h agoEver GauzyEmployee permission fallback and daily-plan scoping fixes
- 20h agoEver GauzyCRUD employee filter bypass scoped per service class instance
- 23h agoEver GauzySpelling corrections in core and contracts
- 1d agoEver GauzyFull payroll module added: PayrollRun and PayrollItem entities ⚡
- 1d agoEver GauzyLeave management module: time-off policies, official holidays, balance tracking ⚡
- 1d agoEver GauzyAllow timesheet project to be changed after creation
- 5mo agoJoraniSecurity and PHP8.5 support ⚡
- 3y agoJoraniSecurity and PHP8.2 compat release (No DB Patch)
- 5y agoJoraniJorani 1.0 revamps leave balances and documents a Swagger API
- 8y agoJoraniJorani 0.6.5 adds Portuguese and Arabic translations
- 9y agoJoraniJorani 0.6.4 fixes leave transitions and broken ICS feeds
- 9y agoJoraniJorani 0.6.3 adds Greek and mandatory rejection comments
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Ever Gauzy and Jorani?
Both compete on the same themes — leave-management — within HR. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 0.0), with 2 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 Jorani?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 0.0), with 2 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 Jorani?
Top Jorani alternatives in HR are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Jorani alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/jorani for the full list with editorial commentary on each.