GoWorks

Spec sheet

Purpose

GoWorks is a desktop app for Google Workspace administrators that handles employee onboarding and offboarding, bulk account changes, Gmail signatures, group management, and user activity audits.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integrations

GoWorks connects to Google Workspace through Google OAuth and Google Admin SDK, Gmail, Groups Settings, and Drive APIs; Gmail features require a Service Account with Domain-Wide Delegation.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Support

The maker invites contributions, issues, and feature requests through the GitHub repository and asks that security vulnerabilities be reported privately through GitHub.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

License

GoWorks is licensed under Apache 2.0, and the project says it may be used, modified, and distributed, including commercially.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Admin access

Sign-in is restricted to Workspace administrators on the configured domain, and the app requires the user to provide their own Google Cloud project and credentials.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Bulk jobs

Bulk jobs can suspend or delete accounts, push signatures, or add groups from CSV files, with row validation, live progress, cancellation, rate limiting, and retries.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Bulk operations

CSV workflows support suspending or deleting accounts, deploying signatures, and adding group members, with row validation, cancellation, rate limiting, retries, and live progress.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Credential security

The Service Account key and Google refresh token are encrypted at rest in a master-password vault using Argon2id and AES-256-GCM.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Demo

A demo mode runs against fictional in-memory data without a Google account, Service Account, master password, or internet connection.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Downloads

The project provides macOS DMG and Windows EXE installers and states that it has no automatic updates, so new versions must be distributed manually.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Gmail signatures

The app includes an HTML signature editor with reusable tokens, image uploads, domain-wide deployment, and an audit for signatures that differ from the template.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Google Workspace features

It supports user and group management, account aliases and forwarding, group settings, Admin audit logs, and Workspace storage and usage reports.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Groups and users

Admins can search and edit user profiles and memberships, manage group members and settings, and import group members from CSV.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Integration

GoWorks connects to Google Workspace through a Google Cloud project and uses Google Admin SDK, Gmail, Groups Settings, and, for signature image uploads, Drive APIs.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Local operation

The app stores its database and job queue locally and says it has no GoWorks backend or telemetry.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Notable limitation

Forgetting the master password is unrecoverable; resetting the vault removes the saved Service Account key and Google session.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Offboarding

Its guided offboarding flow can change an employee’s organizational unit, suspend the account, remove groups, reset the password, and set email forwarding.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Pricing

The project page gives no product price and describes GoWorks as open source under Apache License 2.0, including commercial use.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Release signing

The published macOS and Windows installers are not code-signed; the project provides SHA-256 checksums for download verification.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Requirements

Using the app requires a Google Workspace account with super-admin privileges and a Google Cloud project controlled by the user.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Security limitations

Published installers are not code-signed, and the OAuth Client ID and Secret are stored as plain local configuration; the maker recommends verifying installer SHA-256 checksums.Read 4 Oct 2026 · github.com

Signatures

The Gmail signature tools include an HTML template editor, reusable tokens, image uploads, domain-wide deployment, and an audit for signatures that differ from the template.Read 11 Oct 2026 · github.com

Where Specifiction places it

• Employee Offboarding Software#21 of 347.4