Payroll and benefits software is a high-trust category: teams need payroll, attendance, leave, employee records, and compliance workflows to be maintained enough that they are not betting operations on abandoned code. The June 2026 ToolVitals data compares 16 open/source-visible Payroll & Benefits Tools using the supplied health, shipping, openness, license, GitHub star, and ToolVitals score fields.
This ranking includes open/source-visible tools only and orders them by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used only as a secondary popularity signal when scores are tied. In this data set, every listed tool has openness_label OSI-approved OSS, but the license_label still matters because the group spans LGPL-2.1, GPL-3.0, MIT, AGPL-3.0, and Apache-2.0 licenses.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Horilla | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-2.1 | 74 | 46 | 1251 | 72 | 🟢 Good |
| 2 | Nepal Compliance | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 59 | 58 | 145 | 65 | 🟢 Good |
| 3 | OpenHRApp | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 51 | 63 | 5 | 65 | 🟢 Good |
| 4 | MinT HCM | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 58 | 36 | 371 | 62 | 🟢 Good |
| 5 | jorani | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 51 | 29 | 407 | 55 | 🟡 Fair |
| 6 | Open Attendance | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 56 | 13 | 0 | 51 | 🟡 Fair |
| 7 | OpenJornada | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 44 | 24 | 0 | 50 | 🟡 Fair |
| 8 | Avkash | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 49 | 22 | 24 | 49 | 🟡 Fair |
| 9 | Celeryband | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 54 | 11 | 6 | 47 | 🟡 Fair |
| 10 | Farik | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 41 | 7 | 2 | 43 | 🟡 Fair |
| 11 | ATGO | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 46 | 7 | 0 | 42 | 🟡 Fair |
| 12 | Hrevolve | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 41 | 11 | 2 | 41 | 🟡 Fair |
| 13 | timeoff-management-application | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 27 | 0 | 1037 | 34 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 14 | OfficeLife | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 28 | 0 | 949 | 32 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 15 | Headcount | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 26 | 0 | 97 | 30 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 16 | Nivara | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Horilla ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 72, the highest health score in the group at 74, and the largest shipping gap among the leaders with a shipping score of 46.
Nepal Compliance ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 65, matching OpenHRApp on score but ranking ahead on GitHub stars, 145 versus 5. Its description is narrower than a generic HR system because it focuses on Nepal HR, payroll, and accounting compliance based on ERPNext; its openness_label is OSI-approved OSS and license_label is GPL-3.0.
OpenHRApp also scores 65 and has the strongest shipping score in the list at 63, ahead of every higher-starred tool in this data. The tradeoff is adoption signal: it has only 5 GitHub stars. Its openness_label is OSI-approved OSS, license_label is MIT, and the description centers on HR and employee attendance rather than a full payroll suite.
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