Decision Workspace
turnkeeper vs apalis vs croner
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
50
turnkeeper
growingv1.2.8
An asynchronous, recurring job scheduler for Tokio with support for CRON, interval, and weekday/time schedules, plus retries, cancellation, and observability.
65
apalis
growingv0.7.4
Simple, extensible and multithreaded background task processing for Rust
62
croner
growingv3.0.1
Fully-featured, lightweight, and efficient Rust library designed for parsing and evaluating cron patterns
Core Metrics
| turnkeeper | apalis | croner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 50 | 65 | 62 |
| Total Downloads | 4.3K | 784.8K | 4.7M |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 66.9K | 432.1K |
| Dependents | 0 | 169 | 1.0K |
| Releases | 11 | 68 | 29 |
| Last Updated | 181d ago | 19d ago | 210d ago |
| Age | 1y | 5y | 2y 6m |
Health Breakdown
turnkeeper
Maintenance
11
Quality
19
Community
6
Popularity
4
Documentation
10
apalis
Maintenance
18
Quality
16
Community
11
Popularity
7
Documentation
13
croner
Maintenance
11
Quality
16
Community
14
Popularity
8
Documentation
13
Technical Details
| turnkeeper | apalis | croner | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 1.2.8 | 0.7.4 | 3.0.1 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✓ Yes | ✗ No | ✓ Yes |
| License | MPL-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| Dependencies | 16 | 21 | 8 |
| Crate Size | 82KB | 43KB | 54KB |
| Features | 6 | 11 | 1 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 6.9% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2021 | 2021 |
| MSRV | — | — | — |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •apalis leads with a health score of 65/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •croner has the most downloads (4.7M), suggesting wider adoption.
- •croner is depended on by 1.0K crates — strongest ecosystem trust.
- •apalis is pre-1.0 — API may change.