FreeScout
FreeScout — Free self-hosted help desk & shared mailbox (Zendesk / Help Scout alternative)
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These bars are a reader-facing view of the ToolVitals evidence model. They summarize maintenance, shipping, confidence, and decay signals. Hosted pricing evidence is shown separately.
- Activity
- Recent commits, releases, changelog, package, and product-motion signals.
- Reliability
- Maintenance posture from recency, release evidence, availability, and repo signals.
- Adoption
- Public footprint from GitHub stars, forks, and watchers when available.
- Sustainability
- Longer-term posture combining health, activity, adoption, confidence, and decay risk.
Score History
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What ToolVitals knows about FreeScout
FreeScout — Free self-hosted help desk & shared mailbox (Zendesk / Help Scout alternative)
This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.
Maintenance and shipping signals are strong.
GitHub Activity
- Primary Language
- PHP
- Last Commit
- 2 days ago
- Releases 90d
- 16
- Default Branch
- dist
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Repository Status
- Active repository
Signal Quality
ConfidenceHigh-confidence score from multiple public signals.
Zombie RiskNo meaningful zombie signal right now.
License Evidence
- Class
- OSI-approved OSS
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Pricing Scope
- No hosted pricing tracked
This tool has an OSI-approved open-source license signal.
Tracked Sources
Classification
- Category
- Communication
- Use Case
- Team Chat
- Openness
- OSI-approved OSS
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Pricing Scope
- No hosted pricing tracked
- Tool Mode
- Source-visible project
- Score Model
- Open Source Maintenance
- Score Visibility
- Scored Intelligence
- Status
- Active
Pricing Evidence
- Scope
- No hosted pricing tracked
- Free Tier
- Not detected
- Currency
- USD
- Tracked Plans
- 0
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