Open-source recruiting software

Applicant tracking that stays in your hands.

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.

CandidatesOrganized pipeline
JobsOpen requisitions
SubmissionsTrack hiring activity

Why OpenCATS

Built for ownership, clarity, and everyday recruiting work.

Candidate management

Keep candidate records, resumes, notes, status history, and recruiting activity in one open system your team can operate and audit.

Recruiting CRM

Support staffing agencies, internal recruiting teams, and hiring workflows with jobs, companies, contacts, submissions, and follow-up activity.

Open-source control

Host OpenCATS yourself, inspect the code, contribute improvements, and keep your recruiting data under your own operational policies.

Community

Maintained in the open by users and contributors.

OpenCATS development happens on GitHub. Contributors help with code, testing, documentation, issue reports, design improvements, release feedback, and support for other users.

Join the project

Use the support page to find current GitHub Discussions and the locked legacy forum archive.

Visit support

Download

Get the current OpenCATS release from GitHub and review version-specific notes before installing or upgrading.

Latest release

Install

Follow the public documentation for installation guidance, runtime requirements, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance tasks.

Installation documentation

Secure

Monitor published GitHub Security Advisories and apply security releases promptly for every production instance.

Security advisories