Simplify vs Apiva: autofill you submit, or a confirmed submission? (2026)

We make Apiva. Read this knowing that.

Everything about Simplify here comes from their own pages, their help centre, their Chrome Web Store listing and their Trustpilot page, all read on 12 September 2026. One thing to know before the numbers. They publish no pricing page. simplify.jobs/pricing returns a 404, and no pricing URL appears in their sitemap or the llms.txt file they maintain for machine readers. The prices below come from their help centre instead, which is the only place we could find them.

The 10-second version

Simplify: a free browser extension fills job application forms from your profile, across "100,000+ company career sites" by their own count. You review what it wrote and you press submit.

Apiva: software applies to the jobs you approve, a person finishes the forms it should not guess, and a credit is spent only once the submission is confirmed. Free tier of 25 applications a month, no card.

Need every form filled in seconds, and you are happy to check each one yourself? Them.

Want the submission confirmed before it costs you anything? Us.

What Simplify actually is

Autofill, and quite good autofill. That is the product most people are buying.

The extension is free. You install it, it reads your profile, and on a supported application page it fills the contact details, the work history, the education and the links. Their help centre says it covers "80% of job application websites". The marketing pages say 100,000+ career sites. Both numbers are theirs, from two different pages, and they are measuring different things.

Then you take over. Their own instructions are explicit about the handover:

Review the completed application, make any edits you want, and submit the application yourself.

That is step five of five in the help article titled Using Copilot to Autofill Applications, read September 2026. After you submit, Copilot logs the job in your tracker. The tracker records what you did, not what the software did, and it has no way to know whether the employer received anything.

There is a second surface, and it says something else. Their AI job search page describes a six-stage pipeline that is "fully automated" and says the AI "applies, all automatically" and "can apply on your behalf". Stage five of that same pipeline is described as autofill with Copilot. We are reporting both because both are on their own site, and we cannot tell you which one describes what you would get. Ask them before you pay.

The reviews land in the same place. On Trustpilot they score 3.2 out of 5 from 18 reviews, read September 2026. The recurring complaint in the recent one-star reviews is that the automation did less than the advertising implied, and one August 2026 reviewer wrote "I was still doing most of the work myself". That is the gap this section describes, in their customers' words rather than ours.

What the price is attached to

Here is the structural difference between these two products, and it is the only one that matters.

Simplify+ is sold as a window of access. One week, one month, or three months. The price does not move whether you submit five applications inside that window or five hundred. You are buying time in the tool.

Apiva is sold as submissions. A plan carries a number of them, and a credit is spent when one is confirmed. The price per application is knowable in advance because there is a count attached to it.

Neither model is dishonest. But they fail in different directions, and you should know which failure you are exposed to. On a window, a quiet month costs you the same as a busy one, and a month where nothing lands costs you the same as a month where everything does. On a count, a quiet month costs less, and a form that defeats the software costs nothing at all.

We have written about both ends of this market already. Teal is the best free tier in the category. LazyApply is the opposite bet, volume sold cheaply with little verification. Simplify sits closer to Teal than to LazyApply, and further from both than its own pricing page would suggest.

What Apiva actually is

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

Software fills the application, with your résumé rewritten for that role. You review what changed before it goes anywhere.

When a form fights back, a person takes over and finishes it by hand. It pauses rather than guess, because a guess submitted under your name is worse than a pause.

Then the part we would argue matters most. 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.

Side by side

The money

Their help centre lists three Simplify+ plans, all with the same features and a different length of access:

There is no application count anywhere in that table. That is the whole point of it.

So do the division yourself, because they do not. On the monthly plan, 100 applications in that month works out to about 40 cents each. Push 400 through and it is about 10 cents each. Same bill either way. If you are fast and disciplined, Simplify+ is cheaper per application than we are. If your search is slow, or you hit a rough month, you pay the same and get less.

Apiva's free tier is 25 applications a month. No card, no onboarding fee, credits reset monthly and do not roll over.

Paid plans are live: Starter at $19 a month for up to 200 confirmed applications, Pro at $39 for up to 600, and our top tier at $99 for up to 1,500. That is 9.5 cents, 6.5 cents and 6.6 cents per confirmed application. Quarterly prices are published too, $49, $79 and $239, and they go live when quarterly billing opens. Every plan is the full product, and the caps count confirmed submissions rather than attempts.

Where Simplify wins

Scale and staying power. 500,000 users on the Chrome Web Store, against a live counter of ours in the low hundreds. They are not going anywhere, and their extension works today.

A genuinely free product. Copilot autofill costs nothing. Our free tier stops at 25 applications a month. For a student applying in bursts, theirs is the better deal and it is not close.

A rating they earned. 4.9 out of 5 from 3,800 ratings on the Chrome Web Store, last updated 9 September 2026. We have no public rating at all.

A wider tool kit. Résumé tailoring, cover letter generation, a job board, a tracker, networking. Ours is a narrower product by design, and that is a real trade.

Where Apiva wins

The charge is tied to the confirmation. This is the entire reason we exist. Everywhere else in this category, including Simplify, you pay first and look for proof afterwards.

A plan, not a window. $19 a month for up to 200 confirmed submissions against $19.99 for 7 days with no application count attached. Cancel the day you are hired.

A person on the hard forms. Software that fills an enterprise portal badly is worth less than nothing. Ours hands the form to a human instead of submitting a guess.

Proof you did not create. Their tracker entry is written by the act of you submitting. Our confirmation is written by the submission itself. Those are different kinds of evidence and only one is independent of you.

A starting cost of zero. 25 applications, no card, no trial to remember to cancel.

Bottom line

If you want a free extension that removes the typing from job applications, and you are willing to review and submit each one yourself, install Simplify. The 4.9 rating is real and the free tier is generous. There is no reason for you to pay us anything yet.

If you want applications submitted without you sitting in the tab, and you want the money to move only when one is confirmed, that is what Apiva is for. It is free to try, 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. That advice is worth more than this entire comparison.

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

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