Candidate management
Keep candidate records, resumes, notes, status history, and recruiting activity in one open system your team can operate and audit.
Open-source recruiting software
OpenCATS is a free, community-maintained applicant tracking system and recruiting CRM for teams that need a practical way to manage candidates, jobs, submissions, and hiring activity without vendor lock-in.
Latest release: OpenCATS v0.10.0. Review the release notes before installing or upgrading.
Why OpenCATS
Keep candidate records, resumes, notes, status history, and recruiting activity in one open system your team can operate and audit.
Support staffing agencies, internal recruiting teams, and hiring workflows with jobs, companies, contacts, submissions, and follow-up activity.
Host OpenCATS yourself, inspect the code, contribute improvements, and keep your recruiting data under your own operational policies.
Community
OpenCATS development happens on GitHub. Contributors help with code, testing, documentation, issue reports, design improvements, release feedback, and support for other users.
Use the support page to find current GitHub Discussions and the locked legacy forum archive.
Visit supportGet the current OpenCATS release from GitHub and review version-specific notes before installing or upgrading.
Latest releaseFollow the public documentation for installation guidance, runtime requirements, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance tasks.
Installation documentationMonitor published GitHub Security Advisories and apply security releases promptly for every production instance.
Security advisories