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Comparison · HR
Jorani vs Tanda
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Jorani and Tanda — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Jorani vs Tanda: at a glance
| Feature | Jorani | Tanda |
|---|---|---|
| Sector | HR | HR |
| Velocity score | 0.0 | 7.5 |
| Sparks · 30d | 0 | 1 |
| Top themes | hr, leave-management, self-hosted, php | workforce-management, payroll, rostering, compliance |
| Last editorial update | 1h ago | 15h ago |
| Website | Visit → | — |
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 Tanda?
Rostering and payroll grind, with AI quietly arriving in the hiring module.
Tanda covers rostering, time and attendance, payroll, and onboarding for Australian and New Zealand employers, and it ships almost daily. The current batch is characteristic: payroll go-live notifications that can be scoped to specific locations, four new pay run statuses so a failing run reports instead of stalling silently, a Locations and Teams visual refresh, a bulk-editable Roster Ratios page, split revenue by category for four POS integrations, and a required flag for parental consent templates. Nearly every item notes a gradual rollout. Separately, Tanda Hire gained automatic AI ranking of applicants.
Jorani vs Tanda: editorial side-by-side
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.
Tanda
7.5HR
Rostering and payroll grind, with AI quietly arriving in the hiring module.
◆ Current state
Tanda covers rostering, time and attendance, payroll, and onboarding for Australian and New Zealand employers, and it ships almost daily. The current batch is characteristic: payroll go-live notifications that can be scoped to specific locations, four new pay run statuses so a failing run reports instead of stalling silently, a Locations and Teams visual refresh, a bulk-editable Roster Ratios page, split revenue by category for four POS integrations, and a required flag for parental consent templates. Nearly every item notes a gradual rollout. Separately, Tanda Hire gained automatic AI ranking of applicants.
◆ Where it's heading
Two things are running at once. The larger is a long consolidation pass — settings moving to dedicated pages, statuses replacing silent failures, notifications getting narrower targeting, pages converted to the current design. This is a product being made legible after years of accumulation, and the awards compliance work continues underneath it, with Fair Work determinations absorbed into managed templates so customers get the wage change without acting. The smaller and newer thread is AI moving from the roster (natural-language validations, Roster Agent instructions) into hiring, where it now scores candidates.
◆ Prediction
The roster already has AI validations and the hiring module now has AI ranking, so the next candidate is the module in between — onboarding or timesheet approval, where the same pattern of scored exceptions with a stated reason would fit.
Alternatives to Jorani and Tanda
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 Tanda.
Wagepoint
Wagepoint's news is its accountant channel, not its software
Ever Gauzy
Ever Gauzy turned its dashboard into a composable canvas, then filled it with 47 widgets in a week.
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
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Recent activity from Jorani and Tanda
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoTandaTargeted Payroll Go-Live Notifications
- 3d agoTandaNew Pay Run Statuses
- 3d agoTandaLocation and Teams Pages Redesign
- 3d agoTandaAI Candidate Ranking in Tanda Hire ⚡
- 4d agoTandaSales & Data Stream Configuration Improvements
- 7d agoTandaRequired Parental Consent Templates
- 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 Tanda?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Tanda 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 Tanda?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Tanda 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 Tanda?
Top Tanda alternatives in HR are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Tanda alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tanda for the full list with editorial commentary on each.