Frappe HR
Frappe HR spends October tightening permissions and payroll edge cases on both v15 and v16.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Ever Gauzy and Zoho People — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
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.
HR records become something an outside AI agent can read and change
Zoho People is the HR module of the Zoho suite, and its feed publishes a handful of substantial posts a year rather than a running changelog. The last twelve months added OKR management, benefits administration, WhatsApp and Lano payroll integrations, and a relaunch of the Zia assistant. This entry is a different kind of release: the module's own MCP server.
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.
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).
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.
Zoho People is the HR module of the Zoho suite, and its feed publishes a handful of substantial posts a year rather than a running changelog. The last twelve months added OKR management, benefits administration, WhatsApp and Lano payroll integrations, and a relaunch of the Zia assistant. This entry is a different kind of release: the module's own MCP server.
Zia was the internal answer to AI in HR — an assistant Zoho built, running inside Zoho's own interface. MCP is the external answer, and it is the one that changes the surface: GPT, Claude and Gemini can now query employee records and execute HR actions without Zoho building an integration for each. This follows the same pattern already run across Zoho Sign, Social, Inventory, Recruit, Mail, Billing and Cliq, so the suite-wide direction is settled; People is simply the latest module to get it.
Expect the permission and audit story to become the next thing Zoho has to publish, since approving leave and creating benefits categories by prompt raises questions the announcement does not answer. Beyond that, expect the remaining Zoho modules to complete the same MCP rollout.
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 Ever Gauzy or Zoho People.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 3.8), 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.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Ever Gauzy is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 3.8), 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.
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.
Top Zoho People alternatives in HR are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Zoho People alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/zoho-people for the full list with editorial commentary on each.