Pick Huntr if you find roles yourself and want a Chrome clipper, autofill and resume tools. Pick HighCircl Job Search as a Huntr alternative if you send a lot of applications each week and want 280,000+ US roles found for you, each listed once, and recruiter emails to move your cards. We're in open beta, with no autofill, extension or mobile app, in the US only. Comparison as of November 2026.
HighCircl Job Search vs Huntr at a glance
| Compared | HighCircl Job Search | Huntr |
|---|---|---|
| Where roles come from | Employer ATS boards only, no reposts | Jobs you find elsewhere and save |
| Catalogue | 280,000+ US roles, refreshed daily | No catalogue of its own |
| Tracker | Board or table, Saved to Closed, applied date, logged steps | Kanban board, Map View, timeline, contacts, documents, metrics |
| Inbox updates | Yes: read-only, rules not AI | None |
| Autofill | None | Chrome extension; unlimited on the free plan |
| Mobile app | None | Listed in footer |
| Who sees your data | Employers never see your search | Profile shared with employers only if you consent |
| Price | Free during the open beta | Free to 100 jobs; Pro $40/month |
Where do the roles come from?
Huntr has no job catalogue of its own. It organises jobs you found somewhere else, which is a fair design if you already live on LinkedIn or company pages.
Job Search reads company careers pages on applicant tracking systems such as Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, once a day. There's nothing from Indeed or LinkedIn, so no recruiter copies of the same role. A role disappears when the company takes it down, and a role open in five cities appears as one listing with all five cities inside. You apply on the employer's own page.
The catch is size. The catalogue is 280,000+ open roles in the US from 20,000+ companies, and some aggregators list far more. If you want everything, we're not that.
How do the two trackers differ?
Take a new grad sending 15 applications a week, each one going on the tracker. At that pace the 100-job free cap on Huntr is gone in under seven weeks, and then the choice is to pay or to prune.
Huntr's tracker is feature-rich. You drag jobs across a Kanban board, clip them from other sites with the Job Clipper, see them on Map View, and keep contacts, documents, an activity timeline and metrics next to them. The contacts part is the same job as tracking the people around your applications, done inside one app.
Job Search is plainer. Saved, Applied, Interviewing, Offer and Closed, as a board or a table, with an applied date and the steps you log on each job. Any stage you change by hand stays yours. Nothing overwrites it.
If you'd rather keep it free of any tool, a spreadsheet with five stages has no cap at all.
What happens to recruiter emails?
Huntr describes no email integration, so status changes are typed in by hand. That's fine at 20 applications and tiring at 200.
Job Search opens your mailbox read-only. You connect it with an app password, a separate password your email provider issues for one connection, and Job Search stores it encrypted. It never sends, deletes or changes anything. Rules, not AI, read the mail, and only in English and Spanish, so a reply in another language won't move a card. A clear interview invitation moves the card, and an ambiguous message lands in an Updates list for you to place. Offer is never set from mail, so the stage you care most about stays your call.
It works with Gmail, iCloud, Yahoo, Fastmail and most IMAP providers. Outlook and Hotmail aren't supported, so if that's your only address, this part won't work for you yet.
What does each cost?
Huntr's free plan tracks up to 100 jobs, with unlimited autofills. Pro is $40 a month, $90 every 3 months or $160 every 6 months, and there's no annual plan.
Job Search has no price set yet and costs nothing during the open beta. We'll announce pricing before the beta ends.
Where is Huntr the better choice?
Autofill is unlimited on its free plan, and we have none. The Chrome Job Clipper saves a posting from other sites, and we have no extension. It has AI resume tailoring and a mobile app link in its footer. Huntr isn't in beta, and we are.
If your pain is the forms, Huntr is the stronger tool for the applying itself.
What this means for your search
Decide by volume and by where your time goes.
Under 100 jobs, applying by hand, finding roles on your own: Huntr free is enough. Stay.
Past 100, or tired of updating cards after every reply: try Job Search, or use both, with Huntr to apply and Job Search to follow the replies. The cap and the $40 matter only if you hit them, so look at your weekly count before you pay anyone. Once cards start moving by themselves, what to log per interview round tells you what's worth writing down.
More setups are in our job search tracking guides for tech roles.
Job Search for a search you can't keep up with
If replies are what you can't keep up with, Job Search is free during the open beta, which is open to 300 people in the US. Employers never see your search or your applications. You can try it at Job Search by HighCircl.
FAQ
Is Huntr free?
Partly. The free plan tracks up to 100 jobs. Pro is $40 a month, $90 per 3 months or $160 per 6 months.
Does Huntr read your email?
Its pages describe none. Job Search opens your mailbox read-only and moves clear updates.
Does Huntr have its own job listings?
No. You save jobs found elsewhere. Job Search lists 280,000+ open roles in the US.
Does HighCircl Job Search have autofill or a browser extension?
No. Huntr has both, and unlimited autofills on its free plan.
Who can use Job Search today?
It's an open beta for 300 people in the US, free while the beta runs. We'll announce pricing before it ends.