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Best Workable Alternatives

Written by Steph Leung

Product & Operations Lead

Edited by Paddy Stobbs

Co-Founder & CEO

Updated onMar 14, 2025
Workable is a popular applicant tracking system (ATS) in the competitive recruitment software landscape, offering organizations a streamlined approach to managing their hiring processes. Its intuitive interface and comprehensive feature set provide tools for job posting, candidate screening, and interview coordination. However, as recruitment needs grow increasingly specialized, several alternatives have emerged that excel in specific areas where Workable may fall short. Teamtailor delivers superior employer branding capabilities with its advanced careers page builder and multilingual support. Breezy HR outshines with sophisticated workflow automation that reduces manual tasks. Lever proves more effective for high-volume hiring scenarios with its powerful candidate management features. Greenhouse Recruiting offers deeper analytics and reporting flexibility for data-driven teams. Meanwhile, Applied provides advanced candidate evaluation tools with anti-bias features that promote more equitable hiring. Each alternative presents distinct advantages that may better align with specific organizational requirements than Workable’s more generalized approach.

Best alternatives to Workable

For employer branding focus:

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Teamtailor

Stackfix Rating:

8.9 / 10

Teamtailor excels over Workable for employer branding with its superior careers page builder, enhanced candidate experience features, and comprehensive branding customization options. The platform’s careers page builder functions like a modern web designer, allowing companies to create engaging, fully customizable landing pages with features like team stories, video content, and instant candidate chat. While Workable offers basic careers page functionality, Teamtailor provides an immersive employer brand experience. Teamtailor also enhances employer branding through its job posting capabilities by enabling rich media content like videos and GIFs that showcase company culture. Additionally, Teamtailor supports employer branding across 34 languages compared to Workable’s 6, enabling global brand consistency.

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For workflow automation requirements:

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Breezy

Stackfix Rating:

6.7 / 10

Breezy’s workflow automation capabilities make it a more compelling choice than Workable for organizations seeking to streamline their hiring processes. While Workable offers only basic templated automation, Breezy provides comprehensive ‘stage actions’ that automatically trigger emails, questionnaires, feedback requests, and background checks as candidates move between pipeline stages. The system also enables customized email sequences and nurture campaigns to maintain candidate engagement. Breezy allows hiring teams to create more sophisticated, efficient recruiting workflows while reducing manual tasks.

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For high-volume hiring with 3+ positions open:

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Lever

Stackfix Rating:

6.7 / 10

Lever excels for high-volume hiring with 3+ open positions through superior automation capabilities and robust candidate management features. Its workflow automation enables recruiters to create custom email sequences and automatically assign tasks to hiring teams when candidates move between stages – capabilities Workable does not offer. Lever’s talent pool functionality also allows better management of large candidate volumes by automatically resurfacing past candidates for new positions and maintaining an organized database of potential hires. Additionally, Lever’s customizable interview pipelines and evaluation frameworks provide more structure for assessing numerous candidates consistently across multiple open roles.

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For custom reporting and analytics requirements:

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Greenhouse Recruiting

Stackfix Rating:

6.0 / 10

Greenhouse Recruiting distinguishes itself from Workable through robust custom reporting and analytics capabilities in three key areas. First, while Workable offers pre-built reports covering fundamental metrics, Greenhouse empowers users to construct intricate custom reports that segment metrics across any data field. Second, Greenhouse’s reporting provides direct access to nuanced insights like conversion rates by application source and candidate sentiment by hiring manager – data that would demand manual manipulation in Workable. Finally, Greenhouse offers over 40 pre-built report templates compared to Workable’s more constrained selection, providing users with a comprehensive analytics foundation.

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For advanced candidate evaluation needs:

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Applied

Stackfix Rating:

7.0 / 10

Applied distinguishes itself as a strong choice for advanced candidate evaluation with its comprehensive anti-bias features and structured assessment capabilities. The platform’s interview kits require standardized approaches for each question, ensuring consistent evaluation across all candidates. Its innovative ‘chunking’ approach breaks applications into segments and randomizes review order, effectively reducing confirmation bias. Applied’s pre-built cognitive assessments covering numerical reasoning, data interpretation, and analytical thinking provide objective measurements of candidate capabilities. Additionally, the platform’s unique ‘sift’ questions focus on evaluating practical skills rather than traditional experience metrics, offering deeper insights into candidate competencies. While Workable offers basic evaluation tools, Applied’s sophisticated mechanisms deliver more thorough and equitable candidate assessments.

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Meet your expert: Steph Leung

Stackfix Product & Operations Lead

After building HR tech and spending countless hours on vendor selection in my previous roles, I discovered how painful it is to find the right business software. Now at Stackfix, I've dedicated over 800 hours to testing and reviewing software solutions so others don't have to go through the same struggle. I have a particular love for beautiful, opinionated products that do one thing exceptionally well and just work.

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Workable

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Teamtailor

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Breezy

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Lever

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Greenhouse Recruiting

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Applied

Our rating
Functionality
7

Functionality

7/10

<p>Workable offers most features required for low-volume hiring, including creating job openings, posting to job boards, tracking candidates, and setting up interview processes.</p><p>It also has some additional useful features such as an integrated HRIS and native video interviews &amp; assessments. However, for high-volume hiring, its automation, reporting, and career site/job posting features are notably weaker than competitors.&nbsp;</p>
9

Functionality

9/10

<p>Teamtailor offers all the functionality that most SMBs will need for hiring. In addition to core ATS features (track applicants over a pipeline, create job ad), Teamtailor allows you to compare candidates side-by-side, create highly customisable career pages with a no-code wbe builder, nurture candidates by sending them email sequences and more.</p>
7

Functionality

7/10

<p>Breezy has a strong level of functionality offering a CV parser, pre-screening questions, data analytics/reporting, interview scheduling, scorecards and reusable interview pipelines.</p><p><br></p><p>It lacks a few useful time-saving integrations that its more heavyweight ATS competitors have. Most notable of these is a chrome extension allowing users to import candidate profiles directly from linkedIn and other job boards. Breezy requires candidates from external job boards to be added manually.</p>
8

Functionality

8/10

<p>Lever offers most functionality SMBs will need for recruiting. Besides essential ATS features like job posting, interview scheduling, and candidate tracking, Lever also allows you to nurture candidates with email sequences, review applications in bulk, create interview kits and scorecards and more.</p><p>However, it lacks some advanced features like buffer times for interview scheduling.&nbsp;</p>
9

Functionality

9/10

<p>Greenhouse is a legacy, heavyweight ATS that offers all functionality that most companies, including enterprises will need.</p><p>The only features missing are the more delightful touches for candidate experience (e.g. allowing candidates to upload a video on their application form) or granular reporting functionality offered by newer ATS, such as Teamtailor and Ashby.</p>
7

Functionality

7/10

<p>Applied offers most of the functionality most companies will need. In addition to core ATS functionality (e.g. posting your job ad to external job boards, scheduling interviews, tracking candidates over a pipeline)</p><p>Applied also have plenty of anti-bias functionality. For example, a mark scheme attached to each interview or pre-screening questions to standardize marking and the ability to anonymise screening.</p><p><br></p><p>However, a few advanced features are missing. Most notably, a CV-parser, candidate nurturing campaigns and a chrome-extension to add candidates from linkedin with one click.</p>
Ease of Use
8

Ease of Use

8/10

<p>Workable is straightforward and easy to use. The learning curve is gentle. An average SMB employee should be able to master key functionalities within 30 minutes with minimal guidance. However, some workflows are slightly less intuitive than competitors, such as setting up automations in a separate "Settings" section rather than within the hiring workflow.&nbsp;</p>
9

Ease of Use

9/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(9, 9, 11);">Despite its very rich functionality, Teamtailor is very user-friendly. Key workflows such as creating a job opening, customizing an interview pipeline and setting up automations are all very straightforward and intuitive. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(9, 9, 11);">An average SMB employee should require around an hour and minimum guidance to use the product proficiently.</span></p>
6

Ease of Use

6/10

<p>Breezy is easy to use once you know where to find all the relevant customisations and functionality. These feature, however, are often buried in a settings menu which can be overwhelmingly long.</p><p>That being said, once you have gained familiarity with the location of different features, these features are very intuitive to use.</p><p><br></p><p>In our experience, the average SMB employee would require one day to master all functionalities of the product.</p><p>This number would likley be higher, but the very informative 'how to' videos and other self-serve documents speed up the process greatly.</p>
7

Ease of Use

7/10

<p>Despite Lever's rich functionality, users we've spoken to consistently agreed that Lever's primary strength is that it's intuitive, user-friendly, and takes no time to locate key information.&nbsp;</p><p>It takes significantly less time to train team members to become proficient with the platform compared to other heavy-weight ATS's like Greenhouse.&nbsp;</p>
3

Ease of Use

3/10

<p>Users we've interviewed (and ourselves) find Greenhouse very complex, and difficult to locate key information. There are too many buttons to click to do something, so everything takes longer than it needs to.</p><p>Teams need to invest significant upfront time for training to fully utilize Greenhouse.&nbsp;</p>
9

Ease of Use

9/10

<p>Applied is exceptionally easy to use due to its well-structured UI.</p><p><br></p><p>An average start-up employee would require less than 1-2 hours and very minimal guidance to maters all key functionalities.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Key information and processes are where you would expect them to be and are highly intuitive to use.</p>
Look and feel
6

Look and feel

6/10

<p>Workable's interface is visually acceptable but pages take 2 seconds to load, which is slower than some competitors.&nbsp;</p>
10

Look and feel

10/10

<p>Teamtailor <span style="color: rgb(9, 9, 11);">has a vibrant, modern design and instant load times that will be an absolute joy to use, for both your hiring team and candidates. </span></p>
5

Look and feel

5/10

<p>Certain features of Breezy have a somewhat dated look. The Kanban dashboard new is sufficiently sleek, however the side bar - where many of the functionalities are found - has a tired look to it.</p><p><br></p><p>Loading times are not exceptionally fast either - but acceptable. Changing between dashboards can often take 2 seconds which can become frustrating.</p>
4

Look and feel

4/10

<p>Lever has a slightly dated and plain appearance compared to other ATS. Its interface can feel overwhelming at times, with information densely packed onto the screen and minimal color coding to distinguish different elements.</p>
5

Look and feel

5/10

<p>We find Greenhouse visually acceptable but looks a bit tired/ dated both in its internal and external facing elements.</p>
7

Look and feel

7/10

<p>Applied has a visually appealing software, although at times it can look slightly childish.</p><p>Loading times are fast - usually ~ 1 second.</p>
Customisability
6

Customisability

6/10

<p>Workable gives you the usual customization options—like adding custom data fields, tweaking interview pipeline stages, and building your own reports.</p><p>That said, its flexibility has limits when it comes to career pages, candidate scorecards, and application forms. For example, on scorecards, you’re stuck with just three predefined scoring options: “Definitely,” “Yes,” or “No.”</p>
8

Customisability

8/10

<p>You can customise most things with Teamtailor, from interview stages, job application forms, reports to widgets on the homepage. It also offers best-in-class customisability for careers pages.</p><p>The only things missing are more advanced customisability with reports and interview scheduling.</p>
8

Customisability

8/10

<p>Breezy boasts a high level of customisation. Career pages can have customised by appearance, messaging (including language) capabilities, displaying social media, listing perks, displaying testimonials, general media and layout. Custom CSS/JavaScript can also be added.</p><p><br></p><p>Similarly, interview pipelines can be customised per position. They can be saved under a particular name or job title and reused again. As many stages as required can be added or removed to new or existing pipelines.</p><p><br></p><p>Usefully, new team members can be added to teams or an entirely new teams can be created to oversee a particular job position.</p>
7

Customisability

7/10

<p>Lever offers good levels of customisability across data fields, interview stages, job application forms, and more.</p><p>However, it lacks the ability to fully customise your careers page beyond basic stylistic changes, unless your purchase their careers site builder add-on.</p>
8

Customisability

8/10

<p>Greenhouse offers high customizability. Users can customize fields, dashboards, alerts, scorecards, and even use custom CSS for external elements.&nbsp;</p>
6

Customisability

6/10

<p>Most of the Applied product can be customised. For example, interview kits can include custom questions and custom mark schemes for each questions.</p><p>However, more sophisticated customisability like CSS or the ability to move candidates to different stages of the pipeline depending on their responses to pre-screen questions are not available.</p>
Ease of Setup
7

Ease of Setup

7/10

<p>Workable offers a free trial without needing to speak to sales first, however, you do need to speak to sales before making a purchase. It takes &lt;30mins to complete basic setup (posting first job opening, adding hiring team members, configuring basic hiring stages). Workable being straightforward and easy to use makes fully customizing key features very intuitive, taking approximately 1 business day.</p>
8

Ease of Setup

8/10

<p>Teamtailor offers a free trial without needing to speak to sales. However, to make a purchase, you have to speak to sales due to the custom pricing. It takes &lt;30mins to complete basic setup (posting first job opening, add hiring team members, configure basic hiring stages). Fully customize key features (creating custom workflows, configuring integrations, branding the platform) takes &lt;1week.</p>
7

Ease of Setup

7/10

<p>Breezy offers a free trial that doesn't require speaking to sales. Purchasing after the free trial also doesn't require speaking to sales. it takes &lt;30mins to complete basic setup (posting first job opening, adding hiring team members, configuring basic hiring stages). Fully customizing key features takes &lt;1week.</p>
5

Ease of Setup

5/10

<p>Lever does not offer a free trial and making a purchase requires speaking to sales due to their custom pricing. However, Lever has a very intuitive and user friendly interface making basic setup not very time-consuming; &lt;30mins. Fully customizing key features takes &lt;1 week.</p>
4

Ease of Setup

4/10

<p>Greenhouse does not offer a free trial and purchasing requires you to talk to sales. Due to Greenhouse's unintuitive user interface, it takes 30-60 mins to complete basic setup. Fully customizing key features takes approximately a week.</p>
6

Ease of Setup

6/10

<p>Applied doesn't offer a free trial and requires speaking to sales before purchasing due to their custom pricing model. However, the platform has a well-structured UI making basic setup simple; &lt;10mins. Fully customizing the platform takes approximately 1 business day.</p>
Customer Support
7

Customer Support

7/10

<p>Workable provides in-app live chat with human agents. However, when tested, agents weren't particularly helpful/ knowledgeable.</p><p>On the positive side, we find their help centre to be of high quality.&nbsp;</p>
10

Customer Support

10/10

<p>Teamtailor provides excellent in-app customer support during UK and US hours. Our testers found it super easy to connect with human agents, who are always friendly, helpful and willing to go above and beyond.</p>
8

Customer Support

8/10

<p>Breezy has excellent self-services materials under their 'ATS help centre' to help you with any functional queries you may have. These span 6 categories, with up 47 articles in each category. They include how-to's on all functionality that Breezy offers so rest assured that if you are unable to find a feature, Breezy's help centre will almost always be able to help you. The amount of self-serve materials can make it difficult to know where to look for advice, but they do follow an intuitive structure and flow such that in our experience it does not take too long.</p><p><br></p><p>Breezy offers both email and live chat when communicating with customer support. Replies are fast, friendly and personalised. It usually takes &lt;1 hour to receive a reply and the Breezy team are always willing to work to find solutions.</p>
8

Customer Support

8/10

<p>Lever provides excellent customer support. They offer friendly and helpful support with email response times under 15 minutes. The help centre is reported to be of high quality.</p>
6

Customer Support

6/10

<p>While we haven't been able to test this ourselves, users we've interviewed report that it takes longer for the support team to respond compared to competitors such as Lever and Workable.</p>
7

Customer Support

7/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Personalised Q&amp;A only available via Email. Response times vary from less than 1 hour to one business day. This will depend of the volume of tickets customer support are receiving. Support is generally helpful.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Self-serve materials are extensive and of high quality. Applied offers articles detailing how to use all of their core-functionality.</span></p>
Integratability
8

Integratability

8/10

<p>Workable offers 143 integrations with most relevant 3rd party tools across background checks, assessments, SSO, HRIS, etc. It also connects to 20 free job boards and 107 premium job boards, and has an API for custom integrations.</p>
9

Integratability

9/10

<p>Teamtailor offers 350+ pre-built integrations covering key areas like HRIS, assessments, background checks, e-sign tools, and video interviews. It also connects to 32 free job boards and 100+ premium ones. It also offers an API for custom integrations.</p>
8

Integratability

8/10

<p>Breezy has strong pre-built integrations for most functions that a hiring team will need. These include candidate assessments (e.g. Test Gorilla), background checks (e.g. Chekr), HRISs (e.g. Bamboo HR) and external job boards (e.g. LinkedIn and Indeed).</p><p><br></p><p>Breezy also has open API should your business want to add any custom integrations.</p>
9

Integratability

9/10

<p>Lever offers 360 integrations covering a wide range of tools including HRIS, assessments, background checks, e-sign tools, and video interviews. It also has an API for custom integrations.</p>
10

Integratability

10/10

<p>With 450 pre-built integrations with third-party tools and an open API, Greenhouse definitely has one of the richest integration ecosystem out of ATS's we've come across. It integrates with most HRIS's, screening and collaboration tools.</p>
4

Integratability

4/10

<p>There is some integrations, for example, 8 job boards to which your listings can automatically sync, thousands of further job board integrations through Broadbean, some HRIS integrations like BambooHR (here you can use API for a no code integration).</p>
Ease of Migration
8

Ease of Migration

8/10

<p>Exports of key data (candidate, job, employee data) are available via self-serve download to CSV. Most other data are available via API are on request.&nbsp;</p>
8

Ease of Migration

8/10

<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(67, 67, 67);">Exports of key data (candidate, job, employee data) are available via self-serve download to CSV. Most other data are available via API are on request. </span></p>
7

Ease of Migration

7/10

<p>On a paid tier (star-up, x or business) you can bulk export key candidate data into a CVS file. This includes: name, email, phone number, resume, address, source of application, date added and last activity (last stage completed).</p><p>A <strong>separate </strong>export of questionnaire responses can also be done into a CSV file.</p><p><br></p><p>However, non-candidate-specific data analytics (time to hire, time to fill, acceptance rates etc), despite being reported and visually displayed in a dashboard, cannot be exported.</p>
8

Ease of Migration

8/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(9, 9, 11);">Exports of key data (candidate, job, employee data) are available via self-serve download to CSV. Most other data are available via API are on request.&nbsp;</span></p>
6

Ease of Migration

6/10

<p>We've found the reporting module of Greenhouse lacks flexibility and is not user-friendly. Exporting crucial candidate information, such as DE&amp;I attributes, poses a challenge. Changes made to interview stages during the hiring process can also complicate data exports.</p>
6

Ease of Migration

6/10

<p>There is an extensive selection of self-serve analytics (especially DEI- related data) which are available to be exported with one click. There are no custom reporting features.</p>

Teamtailor: Workable alternative for employer branding focus

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Teamtailor

Stackfix Rating:

8.9 / 10

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Updated onMar 14, 2025
Teamtailor excels over Workable for employer branding with its superior careers page builder, enhanced candidate experience features, and comprehensive branding customization options. The platform’s careers page builder functions like a modern web designer, allowing companies to create engaging, fully customizable landing pages with features like team stories, video content, and instant candidate chat. While Workable offers basic careers page functionality, Teamtailor provides an immersive employer brand experience. Teamtailor also enhances employer branding through its job posting capabilities by enabling rich media content like videos and GIFs that showcase company culture. Additionally, Teamtailor supports employer branding across 34 languages compared to Workable’s 6, enabling global brand consistency.

Want to know more? See a detailed comparison of Workable vs. Teamtailor.

Pros

  • Good value for money

  • Rich functionality

  • Exceptionally user friendly and intuitive

  • Best-in-class careers page builder

  • Best-in-class customer support

Cons

  • Annual contract required

  • Limited LinkedIn Chrome Extension

  • Limited custom reporting

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Breezy: Workable alternative for workflow automation requirements

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Breezy

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6.7 / 10

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Breezy’s workflow automation capabilities make it a more compelling choice than Workable for organizations seeking to streamline their hiring processes. While Workable offers only basic templated automation, Breezy provides comprehensive ‘stage actions’ that automatically trigger emails, questionnaires, feedback requests, and background checks as candidates move between pipeline stages. The system also enables customized email sequences and nurture campaigns to maintain candidate engagement. Breezy allows hiring teams to create more sophisticated, efficient recruiting workflows while reducing manual tasks.

Want to know more? See a detailed comparison of Workable vs. Breezy.

Pros

  • Powerful workflow automation

  • Flexible interview pipeline setup

  • Highly customizable careers page

  • Strong integration capabilities

  • Reliable customer support

Cons

  • No LinkedIn Chrome Extension

  • Missing Candidate Feedback Surveys

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Lever: Workable alternative for high-volume hiring with 3+ positions open

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Lever

Stackfix Rating:

6.7 / 10

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Lever excels for high-volume hiring with 3+ open positions through superior automation capabilities and robust candidate management features. Its workflow automation enables recruiters to create custom email sequences and automatically assign tasks to hiring teams when candidates move between stages – capabilities Workable does not offer. Lever’s talent pool functionality also allows better management of large candidate volumes by automatically resurfacing past candidates for new positions and maintaining an organized database of potential hires. Additionally, Lever’s customizable interview pipelines and evaluation frameworks provide more structure for assessing numerous candidates consistently across multiple open roles.

Want to know more? See a detailed comparison of Workable vs. Lever.

Pros

  • Good customer support

  • Exceptional Integration Capabilities

  • Comprehensive Functionality

  • Easy to use Compared to Heavyweight ATS's

Cons

  • Unintuitive, weak reporting functionality

  • Dated and Overwhelming Interface

  • Lacks Advanced Scorecard Functionality

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Greenhouse Recruiting: Workable alternative for custom reporting and analytics requirements

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Greenhouse Recruiting

Stackfix Rating:

6.0 / 10

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Greenhouse Recruiting distinguishes itself from Workable through robust custom reporting and analytics capabilities in three key areas. First, while Workable offers pre-built reports covering fundamental metrics, Greenhouse empowers users to construct intricate custom reports that segment metrics across any data field. Second, Greenhouse’s reporting provides direct access to nuanced insights like conversion rates by application source and candidate sentiment by hiring manager – data that would demand manual manipulation in Workable. Finally, Greenhouse offers over 40 pre-built report templates compared to Workable’s more constrained selection, providing users with a comprehensive analytics foundation.

Want to know more? See a detailed comparison of Workable vs. Greenhouse Recruiting.

Pros

  • Richest integration ecosystem of all ATS's

  • Robust reporting functionality

  • Enforces structured hiring proceses

  • Robust Functionality Suite

  • Advanced Workflow Automation

  • Powerful Job Board Distribution

Cons

  • Expensive, and forces an annual contract

  • Inflexible and complex reporting functionality

  • Complex UX

  • Mediocre Customer Support

  • Limited No-Code Careers Page Customization

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Applied: Workable alternative for advanced candidate evaluation needs

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Applied

Stackfix Rating:

7.0 / 10

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Applied distinguishes itself as a strong choice for advanced candidate evaluation with its comprehensive anti-bias features and structured assessment capabilities. The platform’s interview kits require standardized approaches for each question, ensuring consistent evaluation across all candidates. Its innovative ‘chunking’ approach breaks applications into segments and randomizes review order, effectively reducing confirmation bias. Applied’s pre-built cognitive assessments covering numerical reasoning, data interpretation, and analytical thinking provide objective measurements of candidate capabilities. Additionally, the platform’s unique ‘sift’ questions focus on evaluating practical skills rather than traditional experience metrics, offering deeper insights into candidate competencies. While Workable offers basic evaluation tools, Applied’s sophisticated mechanisms deliver more thorough and equitable candidate assessments.

Want to know more? See a detailed comparison of Workable vs. Applied.

Pros

  • Excellent bias-free hiring functionality

  • Exceptionally Easy to Use Interface

  • Innovative Features for Job Advertisement Creation

  • Strong Workflow Automation

  • Robust Interview Pipeline Setup

Cons

  • Missing Critical Sourcing Features

  • Poor Integration Capabilities

  • No Resume Parsing Functionality

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How we test products

With so many Recruiting software options available, we focus on identifying the best solutions for small and midsize businesses. Our evaluation process reflects real-world usage, prioritizing functionality, ease of use, and overall value. Here’s how we do it:

Functionality

Recruiting software should streamline hiring workflows, improve candidate sourcing, and enhance the overall hiring process. We start by identifying key use cases—job posting, applicant tracking, interview scheduling, candidate communication, and analytics—then test how well each platform supports these needs. Tools that offer essential features without unnecessary complexity score highest.

User Experience & Onboarding

A great Recruiting tool should be intuitive for hiring managers and recruiters. We test each platform’s interface by navigating core features without prior training and track onboarding time—from account setup to managing the first job listing. Platforms that require complex setup or manual adjustments lose points.

Automation & AI Capabilities

Hiring teams need automation to manage high applicant volumes efficiently. We evaluate each platform’s automation features, such as resume screening, interview scheduling, and AI-driven candidate matching. Tools that enhance efficiency without adding unnecessary complexity score highest.

Integrations & Compatibility

Recruiting software must integrate smoothly with HR platforms, job boards, and communication tools. We test how well each product connects with essential business systems and assess whether native integrations or third-party connectors are required.

Pricing & Value

We compare pricing across competitors, analyzing what each plan includes and whether critical features are locked behind paywalls. Hidden costs—such as per-job posting fees, add-ons for AI-powered features, or required enterprise plans—are factored into our assessment. Platforms that offer strong core functionality at a fair price score highest.

Stackfix’s Fit Score

All of these factors contribute to Stackfix’s Fit Score, a proprietary ranking system that measures how well each Recruiting tool aligns with a buyer’s needs. It combines two key elements:

  • Requirements Met – How many buyer requirements the software fulfills
  • Stackfix Rating – Our expert assessment of the software’s overall quality, usability, and value

The result? A clear, data-driven recommendation that helps businesses choose the right Recruiting software—without hours of trial and error.

FAQs

What is Recruiting software?

Put simply, Recruiting software (also known as an Applicant Tracking System, or ATS) is a platform that helps businesses manage, track, and streamline the hiring process efficiently. It acts as a central hub for all recruiting activities, allowing teams to post jobs, source candidates, manage interviews, and track hiring progress—ensuring a seamless and organized hiring experience. The key features of recruiting software usually include:

  • Job Posting & Distribution: Tools to create job listings and automatically distribute them to multiple job boards and career pages.
  • Candidate Management: A structured system to track applicants throughout the hiring process, from initial application to final offer.
  • Resume Parsing & Screening: AI-powered tools that scan and categorize resumes to help recruiters quickly identify top candidates.
  • Interview Scheduling & Collaboration: Automated interview scheduling, integrated calendars, and shared feedback tools to keep hiring teams aligned.
  • Analytics & Reporting: Insights into hiring speed, candidate quality, and source effectiveness to optimize recruitment efforts.

What should I consider when buying Recruiting software?

Choosing the right recruiting software can make or break your hiring process—so it’s essential to find one that fits your hiring needs, integrates with your existing tools, and aligns with your budget. Here are the key factors to consider before making your decision.

  1. Your Hiring Needs. Start by assessing your current and future hiring requirements. Do you need simple recruiting software for occasional hires, or are you scaling rapidly and require automation, multi-channel sourcing, and advanced analytics? Identifying your priorities will help you choose the right tool.
  2. Ease of Use. Recruiting software should make recruiting faster and more efficient—not more complicated. Look for an intuitive interface that recruiters and hiring managers can use with minimal training. Overly complex platforms can slow down hiring and frustrate your team. That’s why Stackfix rates every recruiting software on ease of use—click into each product above to see how they compare.
  3. Integration with Your Tech Stack. Your recruiting software needs to work seamlessly with your HR software, email, video conferencing tools, and calendar apps. If you use Slack, Zoom, or an HRIS for onboarding, check if the ATS offers native integrations or requires third-party connectors.
  4. Scalability & Flexibility. As your business grows, your hiring needs will evolve. Ensure that the recruiting software can scale with your team, supporting multiple recruiters, departments, and hiring workflows. Look for features like customizable hiring pipelines, automation for repetitive tasks, and integrations with external recruiting agencies.
  5. Pricing & Hidden Costs. Recruiting software pricing varies widely, often based on per-user fees, job postings, or advanced automation add-ons. What seems affordable now could become expensive as your hiring volume increases. Check for extra costs related to resume parsing, advanced reporting, and integrations with premium job boards.
  6. Customer Support from the Vendor. Hiring is time-sensitive, so reliable customer support is essential. If something breaks or you need help setting up workflows, will the vendor be there? Look at response times, support availability (24/7 or business hours?), and self-service resources like help centers or community forums. Stackfix rates each recruiting software on support quality—click into each product to see how they compare.

What are the common mistakes to avoid when buying Recruiting software?

Avoiding common pitfalls when choosing Recruiting software can save you time, money, and hiring headaches down the line. Here are some of the biggest mistakes startups make—and how to avoid them.

  1. Choosing based on features, not usability. Some recruiting platforms have powerful features but a steep learning curve. Make sure you’re picking a tool that fits your team’s workflow, not just one with a long feature list.
  2. Ignoring automation. Many startups still manage recruitment manually when automation could significantly reduce workload. Look for tools that automate job postings, candidate communications, and interview scheduling.
  3. Overlooking collaboration features. Hiring is a team effort, and a lack of collaborative tools (like shared candidate feedback, scorecards, or hiring pipelines) can slow down decision-making.
  4. Not planning for scaling. Startups often pick recruiting software based on current needs, without considering future growth. Will the platform support multiple job openings, hiring managers, and applicant sources as you scale?
  5. Underestimating integration depth. A platform might claim to integrate with your HR software or email system, but does it sync real-time data properly? Always test integrations before committing to a tool.

How much does Recruiting Software typically cost?

Most recruiting solutions range from free to $700+ per month, with entry-level options starting around $70-100 and premium solutions exceeding $250 monthly. Most vendors structure pricing in tiers based on features and hiring volume, so be sure to enter your requirements as accurately as possible in our pricing calculator.

Many top-rated solutions (like Loxo, Breezy, and Zoho Recruit) offer free plans with core functionality, making it possible to start without investment.

For enterprise plans and above, you can expect to speak to sales for a bespoke price. These custom quotes typically factor in integration needs, hiring volume, and compliance requirements. To skip the demo calls, be sure to check out our pricing calculator.

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