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Jorani vs Ever Gauzy
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Jorani and Ever Gauzy — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Jorani vs Ever Gauzy: at a glance
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.
What is Ever Gauzy?
Ever Gauzy turned its dashboard into a composable canvas, then filled it with 47 widgets in a week.
Ever Gauzy is in the middle of a concentrated dashboard rewrite. A drag-and-drop builder with an empty canvas and user-created tabs landed on 26 July; the widget palette went from 6 to 31 the next day, and to roughly 47 by 28 July. The UI shell is being reworked in lockstep — breadcrumbs on every page, flat menu chrome, a settings shell for plugin pages, then hairline chrome and a neutral type scale. Release tagging is noisy: single pull requests surface as two or three adjacent version tags.
Jorani vs Ever Gauzy: editorial side-by-side
Jorani
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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.
Ever Gauzy turned its dashboard into a composable canvas, then filled it with 47 widgets in a week.
◆ Current state
Ever Gauzy is in the middle of a concentrated dashboard rewrite. A drag-and-drop builder with an empty canvas and user-created tabs landed on 26 July; the widget palette went from 6 to 31 the next day, and to roughly 47 by 28 July. The UI shell is being reworked in lockstep — breadcrumbs on every page, flat menu chrome, a settings shell for plugin pages, then hairline chrome and a neutral type scale. Release tagging is noisy: single pull requests surface as two or three adjacent version tags.
◆ Where it's heading
The product is converting a fixed reporting screen into a surface users assemble themselves, which for an open-source ERP and HR suite shifts dashboard work from vendor roadmap to per-deployment configuration. The visual refactor arriving alongside it suggests the builder is meant to be the primary entry point rather than one more page in the menu. The AI assistant is being made discoverable in the same pass, placing it in the new chrome instead of behind a menu.
◆ Prediction
Expect the widget palette to keep growing and to gain per-widget configuration, permissions, or sharing, since a builder without those stays a single-user tool. The volume of cherry-pick and cascade entries suggests this work is still moving from develop to stage and has not settled into stable releases yet.
Alternatives to Jorani and Ever Gauzy
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 Jorani or Ever Gauzy.
Wagepoint
Wagepoint's news is its accountant channel, not its software
iCIMS
iCIMS publishes labor-market research on a cadence its product changelog never matches.
Zelt
UK HR and payroll software running a pure search-acquisition feed
Teamtailor
An ATS opening its pipeline to AI assistants while screening moves into every stage
Sling
Sling's feed is shift-scheduling SEO on a fortnightly cadence; no product release appears.
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Recent activity from Jorani and Ever Gauzy
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 13h agoEver GauzyHairline chrome, neutral type scale, AI assistant surfaced
- 3d agoEver GauzyCI cherry-picks and a stage cascade
- 3d agoEver GauzyStage-review fixes: breadcrumbs, page frame, alignment
- 3d agoEver GauzyWidget palette reaches about 47 widgets
- 4d agoEver GauzyDuplicate tag for the widget-wave release
- 4d agoEver GauzyWidget palette grows from 6 to 31 ⚡
- 3mo 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
- 8y agoJoraniJorani 0.6.4 fixes leave transitions and broken ICS feeds
- 8y agoJoraniJorani 0.6.3 adds Greek and mandatory rejection comments
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Jorani and Ever Gauzy?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 0.0), with 1 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 Jorani better than Ever Gauzy?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 0.0), with 1 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 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.
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.