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Flowable vs My Hours
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Flowable and My Hours — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Flowable vs My Hours: at a glance
What is Flowable?
Flowable ships once a year and spends it on the Java platform, not on the process engine.
Flowable's release history is a slow major-version cadence — 7.0.0 in 2023, 7.1.0 in 2024, 7.2.0 in 2025, 8.0.0 in February 2026 — and each major is anchored to a Java-ecosystem jump rather than to process modelling itself. Flowable 8 moves to Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4, makes Jackson 3 the default, and removes JUnit 3 and JUnit 4 support outright. The engine-level additions that do arrive, like lambda expressions in expressions, are incremental extensions to BPMN and CMMN semantics.
What is My Hours?
My Hours 10.2 adds lifetime project profitability, including flat-fee work.
10.2 adds an all-time Balance column that shows lifetime project profitability, flat-fee projects included, and Project overview now shows Balance and Margin (all time). Clients can have multiple contacts for invoices and scheduled reports, and normal users can complete their assigned tasks if a Pro setting allows it. Those changes follow 10.0's configurable timesheet periods and locking and 10.1's account-wide audit log.
Flowable vs My Hours: editorial side-by-side
Flowable
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Flowable ships once a year and spends it on the Java platform, not on the process engine.
◆ Current state
Flowable's release history is a slow major-version cadence — 7.0.0 in 2023, 7.1.0 in 2024, 7.2.0 in 2025, 8.0.0 in February 2026 — and each major is anchored to a Java-ecosystem jump rather than to process modelling itself. Flowable 8 moves to Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4, makes Jackson 3 the default, and removes JUnit 3 and JUnit 4 support outright. The engine-level additions that do arrive, like lambda expressions in expressions, are incremental extensions to BPMN and CMMN semantics.
◆ Where it's heading
This is a project whose roadmap is largely set by the platform underneath it. Each major forces a coordinated upgrade on adopters — Java 17 and Jakarta 9 at 7.0.0, Spring Boot 4 and Jackson 3 at 8.0.0 — and in exchange delivers query, variable and migration refinements aimed at large existing deployments. The 7.0.0 decision to drop the UI applications and the content, form and Mule modules set the pattern: narrow to the engines and the REST APIs, and let everything else go.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next major to track the following Spring and Java LTS jump on roughly the same annual rhythm. Nothing in these entries points to an AI or agent-facing direction, so any such move would be a genuine departure rather than a continuation.
My Hours
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My Hours 10.2 adds lifetime project profitability, including flat-fee work.
◆ Current state
10.2 adds an all-time Balance column that shows lifetime project profitability, flat-fee projects included, and Project overview now shows Balance and Margin (all time). Clients can have multiple contacts for invoices and scheduled reports, and normal users can complete their assigned tasks if a Pro setting allows it. Those changes follow 10.0's configurable timesheet periods and locking and 10.1's account-wide audit log.
◆ Where it's heading
My Hours is moving from time capture toward the money view of a project, on top of the controls finance and HR teams expect: periods, locks, approvals and a record of who changed what. Invoicing keeps getting deeper alongside that. The Claude connector remains a secondary interface, and nothing has been added to it since launch.
◆ Prediction
Expect more profitability reporting built on the all-time figures, along with approval and export features on top of timesheet periods. The entries don't show where the MCP integration goes next.
Alternatives to Flowable and My Hours
Other PM 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 Flowable or My Hours.
NocoBase
NocoBase puts Redis realtime behind a commercial plugin as app-server tags reach 4.0 beta.
Fibery
Fibery moves AI Connectors to free beta two weeks after preview, with MCP creation on the way.
Camunda
Camunda opens the 8.11 cycle with job-worker fixes and variable metadata across gRPC, REST and MCP.
Asana
Asana Tables puts vendor and asset records next to tasks, and AI Teammates can read them.
SmartSuite
SmartSuite gives integrations their own identities and lets its AI run behind corporate gateways.
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Recent activity from Flowable and My Hours
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoMy HoursProject profitability, client contacts & task completion (10.2)
- 19d agoMy HoursMy Hours 10.1.1 fixes XLS timesheet upload on the Track page
- 24d agoMy HoursAudit log, Invoiced grid redesign & bulk edit for locked logs (10.1)
- 1mo agoMy HoursTimesheet periods, locking & per-user working days (10.0.0)
- 1mo agoMy HoursInvoice columns, client notes & breaks improvements (9.11.0)
- 1mo agoMy HoursBreaks, simpler clocking & bulk edit for Basic (9.10.0)
- 8mo agoFlowableSpring Boot 4 and Jackson 3 required; JUnit 4 support removed ⚡
- 1y agoFlowableAsync variables, skip expressions and broader query filters
- 2y agoFlowableLiquibase dropped from App, CMMN, DMN and event registry engines
- 2y agoFlowableBug-fix release adding async leave and LocalDate timers
- 2y agoFlowableSpring Boot 3.1.6 support and dynamic event subscriptions
- 3y agoFlowableJava 17 rebase; UI apps, content and form engines removed ⚡
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Flowable and My Hours?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. My Hours is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), 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 Flowable better than My Hours?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. My Hours is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Flowable?
Top Flowable alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Flowable alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/flowable for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to My Hours?
Top My Hours alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "My Hours alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/myhours for the full list with editorial commentary on each.