Hiring & Applicant Tracking

Our top three hiring and applicant tracking tools

Manatal comes first because $15 a user a month, with unlimited hiring managers, buys a full tracker with a career page, job posting and AI suggestions. Breezy HR is second for paying nothing while hiring one role at a time, and Zoho Recruit third for phone apps at a low price per recruiter. Workable narrowly missed: it searches 400M+ profiles but starts at $299 a month. Top Echelon and Recruit CRM are built for agencies, and TestGorilla tests skills without tracking applicants.

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   First: Manatal

   Free trial · from $15/mo

   For: Most small companies hiring for themselves

   Manatal's Professional plan is $15 a user a month billed annually ($19 monthly), with unlimited hiring managers, so a company with one person running hiring pays $15. It parses resumes and fills profiles from LinkedIn and GitHub, suggests candidates for each job, builds a career page and posts to free and premium job boards, with a Chrome extension for sourcing. Know the limits: Professional stops at 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates, there are no phone apps, only a progressive web app, the 14-day trial leaves out job board posting, and posting opens only once the account is verified after paying.

   Manatal pricing and details
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   Second: Breezy HR

   Free plan · from $157/mo

   For: Teams hiring for one role at a time who want to pay nothing

   Breezy HR's free Bootstrap plan gives unlimited users one open job or candidate pool at a time, with a careers site, posting to 50+ job boards and resume parsing. Startup is a flat $157 a month billed annually ($189 monthly) for unlimited jobs and users, and adds questionnaires, stage automations, self-scheduling and the phone apps. Its iPhone and iPad app averages 4.6 from about 340 ratings. It is second because the free plan shows only candidates added in the last 30 days, which a slow hire runs into, and a second open role costs more than ten times Manatal's price for one user.

   iPhone and iPad app: 4.6 out of 5 on the App Store

   Breezy HR pricing and details
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   Third: Zoho Recruit

   Free plan · from $25/mo

   For: Recruiters who want phone apps at a low price per seat

   Zoho Recruit posts jobs to a careers site, 75+ job boards and social media, tracks applicants in pipelines and keeps a candidate CRM, on the web, iPhone and Android. The free plan allows 1 active job per recruiter license, and Standard is $25 a recruiter a month billed annually ($30 monthly) for 10 active jobs, a branded careers site and premium boards. It is third because, for one recruiter, Manatal holds more jobs for less, hiring manager licenses come only in packs of 10, AI matching and automation need Enterprise at $50, and there is no App Store rating on record.

   Zoho Recruit pricing and details

Ranked on Oct 18, 2026 from what each listing shows and what people say about the tool, not from our own testing. How we rank