# ApplicantStack review (2026): is it worth $29.99 a month? > Low-cost applicant tracking with optional onboarding Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. ApplicantStack is an applicant tracking system sold by active job count. It posts jobs to boards and social media, scores candidates with questionnaires, schedules interviews and collects team feedback. A bundle adds new-hire onboarding with forms, e-signatures and a portal. - **Category:** Hiring & Applicant Tracking - **Made by:** Swipeclock - **Website:** https://www.applicantstack.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you hire often: Starter allows 1 active job and Growth 3. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, ApplicantStack is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $29.99 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $29.99 per month | 1 active job at a time, 1 admin seat and 5 hiring manager seats. | | Growth | $49.99 per month | Up to 3 active jobs, with the same 1 admin and 5 hiring manager seats. | | Recruit | $109.99 per month | Unlimited active jobs; extra admin and hiring manager seats can be added. | | Bundle | $159.99 per month | Recruit plus onboarding: HR checklists, new hire forms, e-signatures and a new hire portal. | Read from https://www.applicantstack.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ApplicantStack before buying. ## Key features - **Job posting:** Posts to the major job boards and social media, with a branded careers page. - **Candidate scoring:** Questionnaires, prescreen and knock-out questions, and candidate stages and process tracking. - **Interviews and feedback:** Schedule interviews and hire as a team with standardized feedback. - **Texting:** Candidate texting is offered for an additional fee, with a premium option. - **Onboarding:** On the Bundle: new-hire checklists, W-4 and I-9 forms, e-signatures and payroll records. ## Good for - Small companies with a few open roles at a time - Teams that want ATS and onboarding in one bundle - Businesses that want a posted monthly price ## Worth knowing - Starter and Growth cap you at 1 and 3 active jobs; Recruit is the first with unlimited jobs. - Candidate texting, including premium texting, costs extra. - Every plan includes 1 admin seat and 5 hiring manager seats; extra seats are only on Recruit and Bundle. - The page does not say whether prices are billed monthly or yearly. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. ApplicantStack is applicant tracking from $29.99 a month, with job posting, scoring, interviews and optional onboarding. The cheap plans cap you at 1 or 3 active jobs, and unlimited jobs start at $109.99. - **Value for money: B.** $29.99 a month for 1 active job, under 60% of the cheaper quarter of hiring tools ($60). Unlimited jobs start at Recruit, $109.99, a little over the middle ($83). - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day free trial, and the page doesn't say a card is needed. There's no free plan. - **Features: C.** Job posting, candidate scoring, interviews, texting and onboarding on the top bundle. But Starter and Growth limit active jobs to 1 and 3, and texting costs extra. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You set up jobs, scoring and your job-board links before it's useful. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it posts to Indeed, LinkedIn, Google for Jobs, ZipRecruiter and Glassdoor, and links to Criteria. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ApplicantStack's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among hiring and applicant tracking tools - ApplicantStack's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 39 of the 48 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 41 of 48) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $29.99 a month, against a middle price of $84.17 for the category: 3 of the 25 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 2 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/hiring ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace ApplicantStack you would be making jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.4 is higher than 39 of the 48 other hiring and applicant tracking tools we grade. It costs $359.88 a year. - You could make: Applicant tracking and employee records: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Jobs posted to dozens of job boards at once, which takes an agreement with each board. - You could not: Texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Indeed, LinkedIn and Google for Jobs among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Indeed, LinkedIn, Google for Jobs, ZipRecruiter, Glassdoor, Criteria, Spark Hire, Verified First **Tags:** Applicant tracking, Job board posting, SMS marketing, Employee records ## Alternatives - [JazzHR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jazzhr): Applicant tracking for small businesses at a flat yearly price. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/applicantstack-vs-jazzhr) - [Breezy HR](https://toolgpa.com/tools/breezy-hr): Flat-priced applicant tracking with a free one-job plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/applicantstack-vs-breezy-hr) - [Workable](https://toolgpa.com/tools/workable): Applicant tracking and HR software priced by company size. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/applicantstack-vs-workable) - [Tellent Recruitee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/recruitee): Applicant tracking system with a careers site builder, by quote. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/applicantstack-vs-recruitee) - [Homerun](https://toolgpa.com/tools/homerun): Applicant tracking and simple HR for small teams, priced in euros. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/applicantstack-vs-homerun) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.applicantstack.com/pricing/ - https://www.applicantstack.com/ - https://www.applicantstack.com/partners/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/applicantstack Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).