Pick Simplify if filling in forms is eating your week and you want roles matched to you and applications sent on your behalf. Pick Huntr if your search has grown messy and you want every job, contact and interview on one board, or if you're a coach or career centre managing several job seekers. Plenty of people will happily use a bit of both.
What's slowing your job hunt down right now? If it's the hours spent pasting the same details into application forms, you want one kind of tool. If it's losing track of who you spoke to, which roles you've applied for and when the next interview is, you want a different kind. This pair splits neatly along that line.
Straight to my advice
Go with Simplify if your bottleneck is time spent on forms and you'd like an AI to match you with roles, tailor your resume and submit applications for you. Go with Huntr if your bottleneck is organisation, or if you're a coach, bootcamp or university career centre looking after other people's searches. Both state a free plan, so you can start with either and see which habit sticks. Many job seekers could use the autofill from one and the tracker from the other.
For the rest of this page I'll call the first one the auto-apply platform and the second one the tracker, because those labels describe what each one leads with.
Who presses submit: the control question
This is the difference that matters most, and it's easy to miss if you only skim feature lists. The auto-apply platform can send applications on your behalf. Its Autopilot feature tailors your resume, writes cover letters, fills forms and submits them, and the vendor says you can apply to 50 jobs in 5 minutes.
The tracker doesn't do that. It's a place you work from yourself: a Kanban board for every opportunity, with contacts, notes, documents and interview dates kept together. You decide what goes out and when.
Neither approach is wrong. Handing over submission saves you a lot of typing, but it also means less hands-on review of each application. Keeping it all in your own hands is slower, but nothing leaves without you seeing it. Think honestly about which trade-off you're comfortable with before you pick.
Feature by feature
| What you need | Simplify | Huntr |
|---|---|---|
| Main idea | Automation: Autopilot applies to jobs for you | Organisation: job, contact and interview trackers for the search |
| Finding jobs | Matches roles to you, adds fresh jobs hourly and offers curated job lists | Saves jobs you find elsewhere with a Chrome Job Clipper that works on thousands of sites |
| Keeping track | Applications sent through Copilot are saved to a dashboard automatically | Full Kanban board, activity timeline, notes, salaries, documents, contacts and a map view |
| Autofill | Copilot extension autofills applications in one click and drafts AI answers | Job Application Autofill as a Chrome extension feature |
| Resume help | Scores your resume against each job description and tailors it per role | AI resume builder, resume checker, keyword scanner, bullet and summary generators |
| Beyond job seekers | An Employers section and a Talent Scout area | Plans for bootcamps, career centres, coaches, workforce development and outplacement |
| Free plan | Stated on its site | Stated as well |
Finding roles versus saving them
The auto-apply platform brings jobs to you. It matches roles to your profile, adds fresh openings hourly across different functions and offers curated job lists. If you don't know where to look, that's helpful.
The tracker assumes you're already finding roles on job boards and company sites. Its Chrome Job Clipper saves listings from thousands of sites straight onto your board. It doesn't describe a job feed of its own, so you'll still do the hunting.
Resumes and cover letters
Both help here, in different ways. The auto-apply platform scores your resume against each job description and tailors it to the role, which fits its idea of doing the whole application for you.
The tracker offers a wider set of separate tools: an AI resume builder, a resume checker, a keyword scanner and generators for bullets and summaries. If you like to work on your resume piece by piece, that toolkit gives you more to play with.
A short checklist before you sign up
- Applying to lots of similar roles? The auto-apply platform will save you the most time.
- Juggling recruiters, referrals and several interview stages? The tracker's board keeps it straight.
- Need someone to suggest jobs? Only the auto-apply platform describes a job feed.
- Coaching or supporting other job seekers? The tracker has a whole organisation side for that.
- Want to check every application before it goes? Use autofill rather than full auto-apply, or stick with the tracker.
If you'd like a wider view first, our round-up of the best job application trackers compares more organisers, and the list of job search apps worth trying covers tools that help you find roles in the first place.
For coaches and career centres
This part is easy to overlook. The tracker sells to organisations as well as individuals: bootcamps, university career centres, career coaches, workforce development teams and outplacement services. If you're managing several job seekers, it's built with you in mind.
The auto-apply platform has an Employers section and a Talent Scout area, which points it towards the hiring side rather than people who support job seekers.
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Worth a look as well
Teal
Best for: Resume and job search tools with AI resumes and a job tracker, plus a Chrome extension to bookmark jobs from over 40 job boards.
Jobscan
Best for: An ATS resume scanner that scores your resume against a job description, with a builder, cover letters and interview practice.
Careerflow
Best for: A job search toolkit with resume builder, tracker and cover letters, with a LinkedIn Optimizer for anyone who wants profile help.
Rezi
Best for: Mainly a resume builder, with an AI resume agent and checker tools for people who need little more than a strong resume.
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Using the pair together
You don't have to choose just one. Plenty of job seekers will use the auto-apply platform's autofill to speed through forms and keep the tracker's board as the single record of everything they've sent, who they've talked to and what's next. Both state a free plan, so trying that split is low risk.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Simplify apply to jobs for me?
Yes. Its Autopilot feature tailors your resume, writes cover letters, fills forms and submits applications. The vendor says you can apply to 50 jobs in 5 minutes.
Does Huntr apply to jobs automatically?
No. It's a tracker you work from yourself, with a Kanban board, contacts and interview tracking. It does offer Job Application Autofill as a Chrome extension feature.
Which one is better for tracking applications?
The tracker goes much deeper, with a Kanban board, activity timeline, notes, salaries, documents, contacts and a map view. The auto-apply platform saves applications sent through its extension to a dashboard.
Is there a free plan on either?
Both vendors state a free plan. The auto-apply platform also describes its Copilot extension as free.
Which suits a career coach or university career centre?
The tracker, because it sells to bootcamps, career centres, coaches, workforce development and outplacement teams. The auto-apply platform's extra sections point at employers instead.
