LazyApply vs Apiva: volume, or a confirmation? (2026)

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Everything here about LazyApply comes from their own pricing page, their refund policy, their Chrome Web Store listing, and their public Trustpilot page, all read September 2026. Their prices are on a public page, which most of this category is not, so go and check them yourself before you spend money on either of us.

The 10-second version

LazyApply: a Chrome extension that mass-submits applications on Indeed, LinkedIn, ZipRecruiter, Greenhouse and Dice. Basic is $99 a year for 15 applications a day. Ultimate is $999 a year for 1,500 a day, the biggest daily ceiling anyone in the category is quoting. Annual only, Gmail account required at checkout. Their public Trustpilot page sits at 2.1 out of 5 from 110 reviews.

Apiva: we get the job applied to, and confirmed. Software does what software can, a person finishes what it can't, and the credit only counts when a submission is confirmed. Free tier of 25 confirmed applications a month, no card. Paid from $19 a month.

Need to fire off 500 attempts this week and comfortable paying for the year upfront? Them.

Want each application to only count once it landed? Us.

What LazyApply actually is

A Chrome extension that clicks the buttons you would click.

Its own homepage says it will "automatically apply to all the jobs on platforms like Greenhouse, Dice, Indeed and Ziprecruiter." One click, hundreds of jobs, day after day, up to whichever daily cap you paid for. It runs in your browser, in your Gmail-linked session, on your machine.

The company is PEVE VISIONS PRIVATE LIMITED, registered in Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Chrome Web Store lists the developer as Vivek Dwivedi at the same address. Version 0.8.93 shipped July 19, 2026. Their site claims "Over 10000+ users"; the Chrome Web Store listing shows 20,000 installs and 3.2 out of 5 from 215 ratings, read September 2026.

Their pricing page is a real thing you can look at without booking a call, and their pack sizes are the ones everyone else here wishes they could quote. If reach is the whole point for you, this is the tool that promises the most reach for the least money on the sticker.

What the reviews actually say

LazyApply's Trustpilot page, trustpilot.com/review/lazyapply.com, read September 2026, is 2.1 out of 5 from 110 reviews, labelled "Poor". 58% are one-star. 37% are five-star. There is almost nothing in the middle. Only 12 of those 110 reviews arrived in the last 12 months, and Trustpilot's own panel notes the company has "no recent history of asking for reviews" and "hasn't replied to negative reviews."

The one-stars all say a version of the same three things.

One: fields fill wrong or not at all. A February 2026 review: "on my first 25 applications it could not even enter my First Name and/or Last Name." A May 2026 review reports the LinkedIn first and last name fields blanked out and the visa-sponsorship and veteran-status questions defaulted to "yes" against the profile.

Two: support does not reply. Multiple reviewers describe sending three or more emails and getting no answer. A June 2026 one-star: "I asked for a refund within the 30-day window, and to cancel my membership, and it took two weeks to even get a response to let me know I was in the Queue."

Three: the refund policy is real but narrow. Their refund policy requires the request within 30 days of the initial purchase, applies to first-time buyers only, requires you to have applied to fewer than 100 jobs, and is granted only when the product "demonstrably fails to function as advertised." The policy is governed by the laws of India. So even the users with the strongest case have to establish product failure to a company answering three emails a fortnight.

The category has three shapes we've written about now. At one end, free tools that autofill but you still submit yourself. At the other, human-assistant services that submit for you but ask a full year's fee upfront. LazyApply is the third: mass submit at software speed, in your own browser, with no receipt.

What Apiva actually is

You approve jobs from a feed built by scanning tens of thousands of US career pages every day. Or you paste any US job link you found on your own.

Software fills in the application with your résumé rewritten for that role, and you can review what changed before it goes anywhere. When a form fights back, a person takes over and finishes it by hand. On a question where an unsupported answer is worse than a pause, it pauses.

Then the part that carries this whole post. The credit is only spent when the submission is confirmed. A failed application costs you nothing. There is no refund to chase, because nothing was charged. Confirmation is a saved screenshot of the success page, and often the employer's own receipt email in an inbox you can read.

Side by side

The money

Their pricing is public, all three tiers billed once a year. The prices below are the discounted numbers they show today, next to a struck-through higher figure:

Basic is the entry point. At 15 attempts a day for $99, that is under 30 cents per day averaged over the year, and 5,475 attempts if you actually used every slot every day. On raw price per attempted click, this is genuinely cheap. What the number cannot tell you is how many of those attempts made it into an employer's applicant tracking system with the right answers on it.

Two things about the money the page does not lead with.

The Gmail requirement is not on the pricing card. It is on the payment box. One recent Trustpilot reviewer (June 2026) paid, discovered his Hotmail address was locked out after the fact, and could not get anyone to switch him. Read the small print before you enter a card.

The lifetime tier that was sold in earlier years appears to have been unwound. A January 2026 Trustpilot review reports: "If you started off with a lifetime service they reduce the jobs from unlimited to just 150 per day." We couldn't independently test that. Old lifetime customers should ask before assuming anything about their tier.

Apiva's free tier is 25 confirmed applications a month, no card. Paid plans are Starter at $19 a month for up to 200 confirmed, Pro at $39 for 600, and Scale at $99 for 1,500. Quarterly prices of $49, $79 and $239 are published. Every tier is the full product, and every cap counts confirmed submissions, not attempts. Details on the pricing page.

Our top tier and their entry tier both sit at $99, which is a fair comparison and also, structurally, the wrong one. Ours is $99 a month for 1,500 confirmed submissions, cancel anytime. Theirs is $99 a year for 5,475 attempts, upfront, no cancel. Two different things, and the word doing the work between them is "confirmed."

Where LazyApply wins

Sticker price on the entry tier. $99 a year to have an extension click submit for you 15 times a day is genuinely cheap. If clicks were all that mattered, we would have nothing to say back.

Daily ceiling. 1,500 applications a day is the biggest number anyone in this category is quoting on a public page. If your idea of a search is a wide net and you have already decided quantity is the way to fill it, they are the tier for that shape.

Public prices. Whatever you think of the numbers, they publish them without asking you to book a call. That is more transparency than most of this space bothers with.

A refund policy that exists. Narrow, and slow to actually collect, but written down in plain English. Compare to the tools that refuse refunds outright.

Where Apiva wins

Something confirms. Every submission Apiva makes leaves a saved receipt taken from the employer's own portal. LazyApply's number is the extension's tally of the times it thought it had finished. Those are not the same number, and the gap between them is what the one-star reviews are actually about.

You pay for outcomes. Nothing is charged until the submission is confirmed. An application that died on page two of a portal costs you nothing, so there is no 30-day window to race, no "fewer than 100 applications" clause, and no burden of proving product failure to a company that isn't answering.

A free tier that involves no card. 25 confirmed applications a month, forever. Their equivalent for a new buyer is the 30-day refund. You have read the terms.

A person, when it matters. The moment the form asks something where guessing would get it wrong, a human finishes that one by hand. Same credit. Not a separate tier, not a queue on WhatsApp, just how the product works.

Monthly billing, cancel anytime. A real search takes a few months, not a year. Cancel the day you're hired. LazyApply's cheapest way in is a year's commitment on a Gmail account, upfront.

Bottom line

If you're comfortable with an extension that reports a click as an application, and the total number of clicks matters more to you than which ones went through, LazyApply's Basic plan is $99 a year and it will click a lot of submit buttons on your behalf.

If you'd like each application to only count when there is a saved confirmation for it, and you'd rather not front a year on an unknown, that is what Apiva is for. Testing it is free: 25 confirmed applications a month, no card.

Whichever tool you pick, verify a handful by hand. Log into the employer's own portal, look for your application, and check that the status your tool reports is the status the employer sees. Ten minutes, and it is the only way to know what your tool's number is actually worth.

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

LazyApply and its logo are trademarks of their owner, PEVE VISIONS PRIVATE LIMITED, shown here to identify the product under comparison. We aren't affiliated with them and they haven't endorsed this.