ChiefOnboarding
Employee onboarding platform that allows you to provision user accounts and create sequences with todo items, resources, text/email/Slack messages, and more! Available as a web portal and Slack bot.
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Still maintained? Yes: 11 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.5.0 (Sep 2026).
Also an alternative to Workday and BambooHR.
At a glance
ChiefOnboarding quick facts
- Health score
- 70/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 934
- Last commit
- 7 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.5.0, Sep 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
Top alternatives to ChiefOnboarding
Full rankings: Workday alternatives, BambooHR alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "ChiefOnboarding is a free and open source employee onboarding platform. You can onboarding new hires through Slack or the dashboard."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
ChiefOnboarding scores 70/100, #20 of 32 in Automation: 11 commits in the last 90 days earn 12.8 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.5.0, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 934 stars add 11.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 22.2 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 12.8 / 35
11 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.5.0 released 2 months ago
- Stars 11.9 / 20
934 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 11
- Last 90 days
- 36
- Last 12 months
- 7 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #20 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between pyLoad (#19) and Mylar3 (#21) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v2.5.0 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 934 |
| Open issues | 63 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | chiefonboarding/ChiefOnboarding ↗ |
ChiefOnboarding vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with ChiefOnboarding (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activepieces | 98 | 25k | MIT | today |
| ERPNext | 98 | 41k | GPL-3.0 | today |
| Ever Gauzy | 96 | 8.7k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Fredy | 93 | 1.6k | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| ChiefOnboarding (this tool) | 70 | 934 | AGPL-3.0 | 7 days ago |
| Automatisch | 49 | 14k | AGPL-3.0 | 9 months ago |
ChiefOnboarding: common questions
What does ChiefOnboarding replace?
Repoly lists ChiefOnboarding as an open-source alternative to Workday and BambooHR. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where ChiefOnboarding stands against the others.
Is ChiefOnboarding still maintained?
ChiefOnboarding had 11 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 7 days ago; the latest tagged release, v2.5.0, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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