# alseambusher/crontab-ui

Easy and safe way to manage your crontab file

Repository: https://github.com/alseambusher/crontab-ui
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/crontab-ui
Homepage: https://lifepluslinux.blogspot.com/2015/06/crontab-ui-easy-and-safe-way-to-manage.html
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: nodejs, crontab, unix
Last push: 2026-07-31T19:50:43+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 95, release rhythm 80, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4101, "days_push": 33, "days_rel": 136, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3281, forks 498 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:53.604704+00:00)

## What it is
Crontab UI is a self-hosted Node.js web application that provides a graphical interface for safely managing crontab files on Unix systems. It supports adding, deleting, and pausing cron jobs, plus backups, export/import across machines, error logs, and webhook/mail hooks.

## Use cases
- manage cron jobs through a web interface instead of editing crontab by hand
- safely pause and resume scheduled jobs without breaking the crontab file
- back up and restore crontab configurations
- export cron jobs from one machine and import them on another
- view error logs for individual cron jobs
- see when a cron job will run next

## When to choose
- you manage many cron jobs and find raw crontab editing error-prone
- you want a simple self-hosted UI for scheduling with backup and export features
- you need to replicate the same cron jobs across multiple servers

## When to avoid
- you prefer declarative infrastructure-as-code scheduling like systemd timers or Kubernetes CronJobs
- you need a distributed job scheduler across a cluster rather than per-machine crontab management
- you are on a system without cron or Node.js

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: web-framework, scheduling, developer-tools, gui
- domain: self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: crontab, cron-jobs, web-ui, scheduling, backup, job-management, devops, automation, command-line, linux, nodejs, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- alseambusher/crontab-ui (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.604704+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:43:19.422242+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/alseambusher/crontab-ui (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:53.604704+00:00, sha 220a1275e443)
  - homepage: https://lifepluslinux.blogspot.com/2015/06/crontab-ui-easy-and-safe-way-to-manage.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:36:19.448220+00:00, sha 5c725c270b35)
  - site_page: https://lifepluslinux.blogspot.com/2013/03/installing-turbo-assembler-tasm-turbo.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:36:19.457449+00:00, sha 63b8dbccfad7)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/crontab-ui (fetched 2026-08-29T09:36:19.459435+00:00, sha 0b486da078cd)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.