Huntr vs Apiva: a filled form, or a confirmed submission? (2026)

We make Apiva. Read this knowing that.

Everything here about Huntr comes from their own site, their pricing page, their help centre, their Chrome Web Store listing and Trustpilot, all checked October 2026. One catch worth knowing before you compare: their pricing page shows the numbers, but not the cancellation or refund terms, and their extension's autofill only works on employer sites that allow it. Prices change. Click through before you spend money on either of us.

The 10-second version

Huntr: a job tracker with a browser extension that autofills employer forms from a profile you build. Free tier tracks 100 jobs with unlimited autofills. Pro is $40 a month, or $90 a quarter, or $160 for six months. You still open each application, check every field, and press submit.

Apiva: software applies to the jobs you approve, a person finishes anything it cannot, and a credit is only spent when the submission is confirmed. Free tier of 25 confirmed applications a month. Paid plans from $19.

Want every form filled without retyping, and you are fine clicking submit yourself? Them.

Want to know it landed before it costs anything? Us.

What Huntr actually is

A job search tracker first. The extension is second, and the résumé tools come with it. Their homepage headline is "Less Hassle, More Interviews," and the product behind it is a Kanban board where each saved job moves from Wishlist to Applied to Interview to Offer.

The extension is the part people install it for. It reads your Huntr profile and fills the employer's form from it. Unlimited on the free plan. Works across thousands of sites, their copy says, including the big applicant tracking systems.

Their own words draw a line under all of it. In a comparison post on their own domain, their FAQ asks a plain question: "Does Huntr apply to jobs for you automatically?" The answer is one sentence long.

"Huntr does not auto-apply."

That is not a competitor's characterisation. That is Huntr describing Huntr, and it is the honest answer. Their extension listing uses louder language, "one-click quick apply" and "effortlessly submit job and internship applications online," and both descriptions are true at once. The extension fills. The person submits.

There is a limit they publish too, in their own help centre: "When a job site does not allow our extension, this autofill section will not populate any information." You find out which sites those are by trying.

A filled form is not a submission

This is the whole comparison, so it is worth being exact about it.

A filled form means the boxes on the employer's page hold your data. A submission means the employer received the application. Autofill gets you the first. It does not do the second, and Huntr says so.

Look at what stays with you after the extension runs. You open the posting. You click through to the form, because the autofill only fires where the form is already visible. You check each field, because a mapped-to-the-wrong-question answer is still wrong. You press submit. Then you mark the job applied, which their own help doc describes as a separate step: "Click Save Job to Applied Stage to save to Job Board."

That is not a knock. Plenty of people want to see every field before it goes, and autofill with a human check is a reasonable design. It is just not the same product as software that submits and then checks what happened.

We have written about both ends of this market already. Scale.jobs sells human assistants who fill the form for you. Simplify is a free autofill extension in the same family as Huntr's. Teal pairs a tracker with a free autofill and a résumé builder. All three leave the final click to you. The axis Huntr sits on is the one the whole category shares, and Huntr is the one honest enough to name it in an FAQ.

What Apiva actually is

You approve jobs from a feed, or paste a US job link you found yourself.

Software fills the application from your facts, with your résumé rewritten for that role. When a form fights back, a person takes over and finishes it by hand. It pauses rather than guess, because a wrong answer submitted under your name is worse than a stop.

Then the part that separates it from every autofill tool: the credit is only spent when the submission is confirmed. A failed application costs nothing. There is no refund to chase, because nothing was charged.

Side by side

The money

Their tiers, from their pricing page, read October 2026:

The pricing page lists no free trial, and it publishes no refund terms. If a refund policy matters to you, that is a question to ask before you pay, not after.

Ours is a plan, not a pack. The free tier is 25 confirmed applications a month, no card. Starter is $19 for up to 200 confirmed submissions, Pro is $39 for up to 600, and Scale is $99 for up to 1,500. Quarterly prices are $49, $79 and $239. Details on the pricing page.

Do the division and the units matter more than the totals. Huntr Pro is $40 a month for unlimited autofills. Apply to 100 jobs in that month and the subscription works out to 40 cents each, before you count the minutes you spend checking fields and pressing submit on every one. Apiva Starter is $19 for up to 200 confirmed submissions, which is about nine and a half cents each, and the checking is not your job.

Their free tier deserves its own sentence, because it is genuinely good: unlimited autofills and 100 tracked jobs for nothing. Our free tier is 25 confirmed submissions. If you need to fill 300 forms this month and pay nothing, Huntr wins that straight, and no honest comparison should pretend otherwise.

Where Huntr wins

The tracker. Kanban board, job clipper, contact management, map view, even weekly unemployment logging. It is a better organiser than anything we ship, and organising a search for months is most of the work.

The free tier. Unlimited autofill and 100 tracked jobs at no cost is the strongest free offer in this category.

Track record. Around 90,000 extension users and 4.8 out of 5 from about 1,300 ratings on the Chrome Web Store, plus 4.5 out of 5 from 21 reviews on Trustpilot, both read October 2026. Longer in market than us, with a public base we do not have.

You see every field. If you do not trust software to answer a screening question, an autofill you check yourself is the safer default.

Where Apiva wins

We submit. They fill. The credit is tied to a confirmed submission, not to a form with your name in the boxes.

Starting cost. $19 a month against $40, and ours is spent on submissions rather than on a subscription that runs whether you apply or not.

Coverage. Any US job posting, including the employer portals where an extension is not allowed to fire.

The proof. A saved confirmation per application, against a job marked Applied in your own board.

No flat monthly fee. Cancel the month you are hired. There is no term to work through.

Bottom line

If you want the best free job tracker in the category and you are happy to check each form and press submit yourself, Huntr is the pick. Their free tier is not a trial and their extension is the reason its rating is that high.

If you want applications submitted and confirmed before they cost you anything, that is the entire reason Apiva exists. Testing it is free: 25 applications a month, no card.

Either way, verify. Pick a few applications and check them in the employer's own portal, whoever you use. Huntr users can do it from the job's saved link. Ours are timestamped in your dashboard.

Checked October 2026. Spot something outdated or wrong about either service? Tell us and we'll fix it.

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