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Comparison · HR
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.
Ever Gauzy vs Horilla: at a glance
What is Ever Gauzy?
Ever Gauzy follows account deletion with nine same-day patches carrying project archiving.
Ever Gauzy shipped 111.142.0 on October 28 with self-serve account deletion and telemetry redaction, then cut nine patch tags the same day. The substantive ones carry archive and unarchive for projects and teams, per-task sync scope that keeps tasks private to the platform, a redesigned project dashboard and proposal details, and email links restricted to allowed origins. The rest are egress-audit baselines and Plane plugin bumps adding status-less projects and employee subscriptions.
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 follows account deletion with nine same-day patches carrying project archiving.
◆ Current state
Ever Gauzy shipped 111.142.0 on October 28 with self-serve account deletion and telemetry redaction, then cut nine patch tags the same day. The substantive ones carry archive and unarchive for projects and teams, per-task sync scope that keeps tasks private to the platform, a redesigned project dashboard and proposal details, and email links restricted to allowed origins. The rest are egress-audit baselines and Plane plugin bumps adding status-less projects and employee subscriptions.
◆ Where it's heading
The product is shipping in waves: a large stage merge, then a string of small tags that move it to production. Two threads run through October: tidying the project and task model (archiving, sync scope, a Plane integration) and privacy and compliance work (account deletion, egress audits, DPIA links).
◆ Prediction
Expect more Plane plugin bumps and UI redesigns from the same contributors, plus further egress-audit and compliance tags as account deletion settles in production.
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
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Recent activity from Ever Gauzy and Horilla
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 19h agoEver Gauzy111.142.9: Plane plugin 0.1.14 names org on unsubscribe
- 22h agoEver Gauzy111.142.8: Plane sync handles status-less projects
- 1d agoEver Gauzy111.142.7: egress-audit flag reset
- 1d agoEver Gauzy111.142.6: proposal details redesign
- 1d agoEver Gauzy111.142.5: Wave 23 CI fixes and OpenRouter save
- 1d agoEver Gauzy111.142.4: project archiving, task sync scope, dashboard redesign
- 1mo agoHorilla2.1.8 — Security release
- 1mo agoHorilla2.1.5 — Bug-fix release
- 1mo agoHorilla2.1.4 — Security release
- 1mo agoHorilla2.1.3 — Security and bug-fix release
- 1mo agoHorilla2.1.2 — Security patch
- 1mo agoHorilla2.1.1 — Security patch
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Ever Gauzy and Horilla?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 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 7.5 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.