What is the best job app for Switzerland?

The Swiss job portals at a glance

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   1. SwissJobs.appOur app

   Over 21,000 open Swiss roles from ATS systems, company sites and LinkedIn in one place — and from any advert, straight into a CV, a motivation letter, a CV check and interview prep. The RAV job-search-efforts form fills itself from your application tracker. Free to use; the account is asked for at save.

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   2. jobs.ch

   The best-known board in German-speaking Switzerland and the largest index in the country. Owned by JobCloud AG — as are jobup.ch and JobScout24.

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   3. jobup.ch

   The standard in French-speaking Switzerland and the first place to look for the Romandie — but the same JobCloud AG as jobs.ch.

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   4. JobScout24

   A third brand from the same company. Searching all three to widen your search means searching one provider three times.

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   5. Indeed Switzerland

   The broadest aggregation, because Indeed also collects from other boards — at the cost of many duplicates of the same advert.

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   6. LinkedIn Jobs

   The best reputation for English-speaking and international roles in Switzerland. Considerably thinner for trades, care and commercial roles.

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   7. jobagent.ch

   A meta-search across the Swiss job boards, "every job in Switzerland at a glance". Its strength is the Job-Abo: a saved search that mails you new adverts from every portal it covers. Salary calculator and application guides alongside.

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   8. SwissDevJobs

   IT and software only, and thorough about it: "183 IT & Software developer jobs in Switzerland", filtered by technology (C#, Java, Python, DevOps, ML) rather than by industry. Publishes salary statistics and lists the companies that disclose their ranges. The site itself is in English.

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The tools compared directly

As of 4 September 2026. Every figure for another tool comes from that tool's own site; "n/s" means it was not readable there — not that the feature is missing. Our row comes from the code and from walking the live flow.

The question to answer first: are you here yet?

Most English-language readers of a page like this are either about to move to Switzerland, already living here on a B or C permit, or commuting across a border. That distinction decides which apps are worth installing today, and no international listicle makes it.

Two of the seven require a Swiss identity before they do anything. Coople's own sign-up page asks for a CV, bank details, an AHV number and a work-permit check before you can apply to a shift. Job-Room is the platform of the public employment service, and its full value depends on being registered with an RAV — the regional employment centre — which in turn depends on living here. Install those when you arrive, not before.

The other five work from anywhere. And one thing worth knowing before you start: a Swiss application is not a US-style resume. Employers expect Arbeitszeugnisse (written employer references for every past job), a photo is conventional rather than discouraged, language skills are stated as CEFR levels rather than "fluent", workload is a Pensum given in per cent, and non-Swiss applicants are expected to state their permit status. No app on this list formats any of that for you — they list vacancies, they do not write your dossier.

SwissJobs.app

What it is: a Swiss job search with application tools attached, in German, French, Italian and English, running in the browser. We are not in the App Store and not on Google Play. On a phone you add the site to your home screen; it opens full-screen like an app, because we ship the web manifest for it.

What it costs: searching, filtering and the daily job alert by email are free and need no account. The application tools — a CV built against one specific advert, a fit check against that advert, a motivation letter — cost CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year, with seven days free.

Who it suits: people applying continuously who want a different CV per advert without pasting the advert text in from somewhere else, and anyone searching in French or Italian who wants an interface in that language. It is also the only entry here where English-language adverts are not a second-class citizen: across the postings we hold whose language is identified, English is the second most common language of the advert.

Where it stops: no store app and no push notification. Our alert is an email, and an email does not land on your lock screen. If you want the immediate ping when a matching advert appears, jobs.ch and Indeed do that and we do not. We are also not a brand a Swiss hiring manager recognises — jobs.ch is, and that is worth something when you mention where you found the advert.

Indeed Jobs

What it is: the broadest aggregator. Indeed carries its own adverts and, in its own store description, "job postings from other online job sites" as well.

What it costs: free for job seekers.

Who it suits: almost everyone as a first app, and especially anyone who needs an interface in Italian. Its listing shows about thirty languages, which makes it the only app here covering all four Swiss national languages. It is also the only one that scores well on both systems: 4.65 in the Swiss App Store from nearly eight thousand ratings, 4.60 on Google Play from 13.6 million.

Where it stops: because part of the inventory is republished from elsewhere, you will meet the same advert several times across several apps, and applying often means being handed off to the original source. It needs iOS 16 and about 210 MB. And it models nothing Swiss: no Pensum field, no permit line, no CEFR language levels, and salary shown however the advertiser happened to write it.

LinkedIn

What it is: a professional network that also shows jobs, not a job board with a network attached. That ordering matters for how you use it.

What it costs: free; Premium is a subscription and is rarely necessary for searching alone.

Who it suits: international, English-language and senior roles, and anyone who would rather be found than search — recruiters work here, and for a relocating candidate that is often the fastest route in. It carries 4.66 in the Swiss App Store from more than twenty-five thousand ratings, the most-rated app on this list.

Where it stops: on Google Play it sits at 3.95 from 3.5 million ratings. For much of the Swiss market — retail, hospitality, care, trades, and small employers outside the cities — LinkedIn is thin, and those vacancies run through the boards or through staffing firms instead.

jobs.ch

What it is: the largest Swiss job board, run by JobCloud, with the oldest app here — in the App Store since 6 October 2010. Its own store text calls it "die Nummer eins unter den Stellenbörsen in der Deutschschweiz", the number one job board in German-speaking Switzerland.

What it costs: free, including job alerts and applying through your profile.

Who it suits: anyone searching in German-speaking Switzerland who wants an app that pings them, and anyone who wants the brand a Swiss employer will recognise. On iPhone it is the best-rated large Swiss board: 4.71 from more than five thousand ratings, last updated 22 August 2026.

Where it stops: on Android the same app rates 2.29 out of 5 from about three thousand ratings. That is the single largest discrepancy on this page, and if you carry an Android phone you should try it before building your search around it. It also has no Italian, in the app or on the site — a real gap if any part of your search is in Ticino.

jobup.ch

What it is: JobCloud's French-speaking sister board, and the standard in the Romandie. The app is French and English only.

What it costs: free.

Who it suits: anyone relocating to Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, Fribourg, Sion or Valais, and French frontaliers commuting in. It calls itself "la plateforme d'emploi n°1 en Suisse romande" and promises "postulez en un clic" — apply in one click. It rates 4.77 in the Swiss App Store, the highest score on this page.

Where it stops: it is regional by design, so it is the wrong app for Zurich, Basel or Bern. And the Android gap appears here too, if less brutally: 3.81 on Google Play from about one thousand ratings. Of the postings we hold in Romandie locations, 27.2 per cent are written in English — worth knowing if you are relocating and do not yet have French.

Coople Jobs

What it is: not a listings app but a staffing firm that operates through one. Coople states it plainly: "Arbeitest du über Coople, so werden wir zu deinem gesetzlichen Arbeitgeber" — if you work through Coople, they become your legal employer — and "Die App ist also unerlässlich", the app is essential. Sectors are hospitality, retail, logistics, healthcare, events and office work.

What it costs: free. Coople earns from the businesses; wages, social-security contributions, holiday compensation and pension contributions run through them.

Who it suits: anyone who wants to work by the hour or for a few weeks — students, people on a partial Pensum, anyone re-entering the market. It is the most-rated job app in the Swiss App Store: 4.75 from more than fifteen thousand ratings, more than jobs.ch and jobup.ch combined, which says something about how much of Swiss work is actually flexible.

Where it stops: it is the wrong tool for a permanent position. And you cannot use it from abroad — the sign-up asks for a CV, bank details, an AHV number and a permit check before you can apply to anything. Install it once you have a Swiss address, not while you are planning the move.

Job-Room (arbeit.swiss)

What it is: the platform of the Swiss public employment service. Under Art. 35 para. 1 let. b of the Employment Services Act (AVG), it exists among other things to give sight of open vacancies and of vacancies subject to the reporting duty.

What it costs: free.

Who it suits: everyone registered with an RAV, for whom it is not one option among many; and everyone else as an extra source, because vacancies appear here that the private boards do not carry.

Where it stops: there is no app. Searching the Swiss App Store for "Job-Room", "RAV" and "arbeit.swiss" on 26 August 2026 returned nothing published by the Confederation, and arbeit.swiss links to no app from its homepage. You use it in a mobile browser.

And the part that involves money, so it is worth stating exactly: under Art. 26 para. 2 AVIV, proof of your job-search efforts must be submitted for each control period by the fifth day of the following month at the latest; efforts submitted after that deadline are no longer taken into account unless you can show an excusable reason. That submission goes through Job-Room or your canton's form. A list kept in any other app does not count — including ours: our application tracker is a preparation step, not a submission. A private developer publishes an unofficial app called "Easy JobRoom" that collects applications and helps fill the form in (4.22 from 27 ratings, in the store since February 2025); it is not official and it does not replace the submission. What counts as proof in your canton is a question for your RAV.

Which one to pick

Still abroad and planning a move: Indeed and LinkedIn first, plus jobs.ch or jobup.ch depending on the language region you are aiming at. Skip Coople and Job-Room until you have an address here.

Already living here, applying continuously, and wanting a CV per advert: SwissJobs.app, accepting email alerts instead of push. Wanting an app that pings you, on an iPhone: jobs.ch. On an Android phone: try jobs.ch, but read the 2.29 on Google Play as the warning it is, and keep Indeed as the fallback. Searching in Italian: Indeed, because jobs.ch does not speak it.

Wanting hourly or short-term work while you settle: Coople. Registered with an RAV: Job-Room in the browser, on top of everything else — and submit your job-search efforts there or on your cantonal form, never in an app.

Two apps are almost always enough: one broad, one that matches your situation. Seven apps means the same advert notifying you seven times.