Cronmaster
Cronjob management UI with human readable syntax, live logging and log history for your cronjobs.
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Still maintained? Yes: 72 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.4.1 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Cronmaster quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,397
- Last commit
- 5 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.4.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Cronmaster scores 93/100, #8 of 32 in Automation: 72 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.4.1, 5 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,397 stars add 12.6 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 star count, worth 7.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
72 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
2.4.1 released 5 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.6 / 20
1.4k 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
- 72
- Last 90 days
- 164
- Last 12 months
- 5 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #8 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between Dagu (#7) and Fredy (#9) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | 2.4.1 · 5 days ago |
| Stars | 1,397 |
| Open issues | 8 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | fccview/cronmaster ↗ |
Cronmaster vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Cronmaster (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Activepieces | 98 | 25k | MIT | today |
| changedetection.io | 98 | 35k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Kestra | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Cronmaster (this tool) | 93 | 1.4k | AGPL-3.0 | 5 days ago |
| Leon | 84 | 18k | MIT | yesterday |
Cronmaster: common questions
Is Cronmaster still maintained?
Cronmaster had 72 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 5 days ago; the latest tagged release, 2.4.1, is from 5 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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