OpenCATS
The facts below are what the maker publishes about OpenCATS, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From OpenCATS's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| OpenCATS | Free | Self-hosted; runtime and server setup required · Free, open-source software |
The facts
Each one read from OpenCATS's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Candidate records
- It manages candidate records, resumes, notes, status history, and recruiting activity.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Career site
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Database limit
- MariaDB is the recommended and tested database family; MySQL is not the documented database target.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Data control
- Teams can host OpenCATS themselves, inspect its code, and keep recruiting data under their own operational policies.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Distribution
- Prepared full release archives are published through GitHub Releases in .tar.gz and .zip formats.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Documentation
- Public documentation covers installation, runtime requirements, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance tasks.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Interview scheduling
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Job board distribution
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Optional utilities
- Antiword, pdftotext, html2text, and unrtf can improve resume and document text extraction and search, but are not required for installation.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- OpenCATS is a free, community-maintained applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Recruiting workflows
- It supports jobs, companies, contacts, submissions, and follow-up activity for staffing agencies and internal recruiting teams.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Release
- The maker site identifies OpenCATS v0.11.1 as the latest release.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Release security work
- Version 0.11.1 is described as a security and maintenance release with additional security hardening.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Resume parsing
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Runtime
- The documented runtime requires PHP 8.4.1 or later within PHP 8, MariaDB, a web server, and required PHP extensions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The maker advises monitoring GitHub Security Advisories and applying security releases promptly to production instances.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker points users to the OpenCATS subreddit for peer-to-peer support and troubleshooting discussions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Tested baseline
- Project CI tests PHP 8.4.1 and PHP 8.5 on Linux/Unix with MariaDB 10.7 for Docker-backed integration and Behat testing.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Workflow automation
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
