What is an alternative to Huntr?

Feature comparison

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Pricing side by side

As of 4 September 2026. "not stated" means it could not be read on their own site — not "does not exist". Our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow, not from marketing copy.

Huntr

What it is: the most built-out product in this list. Job tracker with a board view, contact tracker, interview tracker, job-search metrics, a map view for the commute, the Chrome Job Clipper, application autofill, and a resume tool with keyword matching, scoring and AI cover letters.

Price: the free plan tracks up to 100 jobs and includes the clipper, unlimited contact management, unlimited application autofills, up to 100 document uploads, unlimited base resumes with free PDF export and two job-tailored resumes. Pro is USD 40 a month, USD 90 for three months or USD 160 for six — at the Swiss National Bank monthly average, roughly CHF 32, CHF 73 and CHF 129, or CHF 32, CHF 24 and CHF 21.50 per month. The vendor states there is no free trial of Pro, and that cancelling costs you no data.

Who it suits: people running many processes at once over months who want to read their own funnel. Nothing else here holds several contacts and several interview rounds per employer as well. The limit: it is built around the American application, in English, priced in dollars. A Pensum in per cent, an Arbeitszeugnis (the Swiss employer reference), the residence-permit line and CEFR language levels have no field in it — and nothing in it corresponds to the Swiss record of job-search efforts.

SwissJobs.app — the application list

What it is: a board with four columns — saved, applied, interview, offer — living in the same account as the job search. That is why entries are not typed: a saved advert is already in the list with employer, role, link and date attached. Each card shows how long it has sat untouched, interview cards carry the date and time, and each stage carries a count you can read the conversion off.

Price: included in a free account. Nothing closes at a hundred jobs and nothing expires after fourteen days.

Who it suits: anyone searching Swiss adverts who wants the retyping gone. Because the adverts are already here, capture is solved without an extension having to read somebody else's page — and that matters more in Switzerland than the same claim would elsewhere. The limit, and it is real: no contact management, no autofill, no browser extension. An application you found on another platform is added by hand. If you need months of metrics and several interview rounds per employer, Huntr does that and we do not.

Teal

What it is: Huntr's nearest relative with the pricing logic inverted. Tracking jobs is free and unlimited; the resume editor is what you pay for. The vendor cites over four million users.

Price: Free Forever covers unlimited tracking, unlimited resumes, ten templates, matching on the top five keywords and a thin AI allowance — ten credits for bullet points, two for a summary, two for a cover letter. Teal+ is USD 13 every seven days, USD 29 every thirty or USD 79 every ninety, roughly CHF 10.50, CHF 23.50 and CHF 64. Leave the weekly plan running for six months and you pay several times the ninety-day rate.

Who it suits: anyone who only wants the overview and refuses to pay for a tracker — on that specific point Teal is the better free offer, because Huntr stops at a hundred jobs. The limit: no German, French or Italian, and the keyword matching works best against English postings. Two adverts in ten here are in English; four in ten are in German.

Simplify

What it is: primarily a browser extension that fills in application forms, with a tracker and job matches attached. The vendor writes that the base version including «unlimited job tracking and autofill» is and will be free forever, and that it earns its money from employers posting roles.

Price: free. There is a paid tier called Simplify+, for which the site publishes no price — you see it once you have an account.

Who it suits: high-volume applicants aiming at internationally structured employers, which in Switzerland means pharma, tech and the large groups headquartered in Zurich, Basel or Zug. If you are applying into Switzerland from abroad and mostly targeting multinationals, this is the most useful of the imported tools. The limit: what the extension does not recognise never reaches the list, and a price you cannot see before signing up is a poor basis for a comparison.

LinkedIn Job tracker

What it is: the candidate most people overlook because they already have it. LinkedIn's Job tracker moves a role through five stages — saved, in progress, applied, interview and archive — takes notes, filters by date posted and shows which of your connections could introduce you.

Price: free on an ordinary account, no Premium needed.

Who it suits: anyone whose search already runs through LinkedIn, and anyone at the start of a search of unknown length. The limit, and it weighs more in Switzerland than in the United States: only Easy Apply applications advance by themselves. For jobs where you are redirected to the employer's own site you must save the job first, then move it manually — and that is where the majority of Swiss applications go. Entries also drop out of the tracker after a year.

Airtable

What it is: not application software but a database with a spreadsheet face. You define the fields yourself, which is the whole argument here: a column for Pensum in per cent, one for the language the advert is written in, one for the contact person and phone number, one for how you applied. No off-the-shelf American tracker ships with those.

Price: the vendor describes the free plan as formulated for individual users, very small teams or lightweight needs. Team is USD 20 per person per month billed annually, roughly CHF 16; Business is USD 45, roughly CHF 36. On the free plan the vendor states that if you hit the record limit you keep all your data but cannot add more until you upgrade.

Who it suits: people who want a spreadsheet with more structure — views per canton, a form for the phone, reminders. The limit: it is an empty tool. It knows no advert, fills in nothing, and reminds you of nothing you did not set up yourself. The half hour of building comes before the first application.

Excel and Google Sheets

What it is: the answer Huntr writes against on its own homepage — «No more messy spreadsheets». It earns its place anyway, because it does three things nothing else in this list does together: it calculates, it prints, and it belongs to you.

Price: both are free in the browser. Microsoft 365 Single is CHF 99.95 a year or CHF 9.95 a month, Family CHF 139.95 a year or CHF 13.95 a month.

Who it suits: anyone who has to print the list, keep it, or show it in an advisory appointment — and anyone who does not want a cancelled subscription to take their overview with it. The limit is transcription: employer, role, link and date are typed for every application, and the file is exactly as current as you are disciplined. Three weeks in, that is where most lists stop.

Job-Room — the official Swiss channel

What it is: the official platform run by arbeit.swiss. Jobseekers get eServices for job-search efforts, incapacity to work and jobseeking documents, plus job alerts and watchlists. Using them takes two steps: sign on with the regional employment centre (RAV) through the eService for that, then register for a Job Room account.

Price: free, because it is part of unemployment insurance.

Who it suits: anyone registered with an RAV — and there it is not an alternative at all, it is the channel. arbeit.swiss puts it on its homepage: «Private online services can support job searches and applications. However, information and documents subject to deadlines must be submitted via the eServices on Job-Room or through a channel designated by the regional employment centre or the unemployment insurance fund.» Neither Huntr nor we nor anything else here replaces that. The limit for readers arriving from outside Switzerland: it presupposes a Swiss registration you cannot complete before you are here, so for a search run from abroad it is simply not yet available.

Which one to pick

Applying to Swiss adverts and mainly want the retyping gone: our application list, free. Registered with an RAV: Job-Room, in addition and never instead — deadline-bound documents belong there and no private tool changes that.

Want unlimited free tracking and work in English anyway: Teal. Running a long, large search with many contacts and interview rounds, and CHF 21.50 to CHF 32 a month is worth it to you: stay on Huntr, which does that better than we do. Applying heavily into multinationals: Simplify, for the autofill. Search already on LinkedIn: the tracker you already have. Want your own fields for Pensum, language and contact person: Airtable, or simply a spreadsheet.

One point applies to every imported tool, and it is why this question resolves differently in Switzerland than in the US or the UK. A Swiss dossier carries things none of these trackers models. Just over seven adverts in ten here state the languages they require, usually as CEFR levels rather than «fluent»; just over two in ten state a Pensum, the workload written as a percentage rather than full-time or part-time; and applicants without a Swiss passport are expected to state their permit. It is a CV, not a resume, and no kanban view fixes the difference.