UVDesk
UVDesk community is a service oriented, event driven extensible opensource helpdesk system that can be used by your organization to provide efficient support to your clients effortlessly whichever way you imagine.
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Still maintained? Yes: 6 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.1.8 (Sep 2025).
Also an alternative to Zendesk.
At a glance
UVDesk quick facts
- Health score
- 49/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 19,637
- Last commit
- 23 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.1.8, Sep 2025
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to UVDesk
Full rankings: Zendesk alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Uvdesk community helpdesk project skeleton packaged along with the bare essential utilities and tools to build and customize your own helpdesk solutions."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
UVDesk scores 49/100, #26 of 45 in Software Development - Project Management: 6 commits in the last 90 days earn 7.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.1.8, 1.1 years ago) earns 14.5 of 25, 19,637 stars add 17.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 28.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 7.0 / 35
6 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 14.5 / 25
v1.1.8 released 1.1 years ago
- Stars 17.2 / 20
20k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 6
- Last 90 days
- 6
- Last 12 months
- 23 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #26 of 45 tools in Software Development - Project Management by health , between ShipShipShip (#25) and Pagure (#27) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | v1.1.8 · 1.1 years ago |
| Stars | 19,637 |
| Open issues | 75 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | uvdesk/community-skeleton ↗ |
UVDesk vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with UVDesk (Software Development - Project Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chatwoot | 98 | 39k | ⊘ Proprietary | today |
| FreeScout | 95 | 4.6k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Review Board | 93 | 1.7k | MIT | today |
| Request Tracker | 82 | 1.2k | GPL-2.0 | today |
| Tiledesk | 70 | 325 | MIT | 2 days ago |
| UVDesk (this tool) | 49 | 20k | MIT | 23 days ago |
UVDesk: common questions
What does UVDesk replace?
Repoly lists UVDesk as an open-source alternative to Zendesk. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where UVDesk stands against the others.
Is UVDesk still maintained?
UVDesk had 6 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 23 days ago; the latest tagged release, v1.1.8, is from 1.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.