If you're running an active job search in 2026, your inbox is probably a graveyard of half-tracked applications, your resume has six versions floating in Google Drive, and you've manually typed your work history into 40 different application forms this month. Huntr is built to fix exactly that — a Kanban-style tracker bolted to an AI resume builder and a Chrome autofill extension. After spending real time inside it, here's the honest read.
What Huntr Actually Is
Huntr is a job search operating system. It started as a glorified Trello board for job applications and has steadily grown into an AI-assisted workflow: clip a job posting from any site, drop it on your pipeline, generate a tailored resume against the JD, autofill the application form, and track every interview and contact through to offer.
It's not a generic CRM repurposed for hiring. The data model — jobs, contacts, interviews, documents, pipeline stages — is built around how a job search actually flows. That focus is the main reason it works.
Key Features
Kanban Job Tracker + Chrome Clipper
The board is the heart of the product. Drag jobs across stages (Wishlist → Applied → Interview → Offer), attach notes, contacts, and documents to each card. The Chrome clipper is the unlock: hit the extension button on a LinkedIn or company careers page and the job lands in your board with the description, salary, and location parsed out. No copy-paste.
AI Resume Builder With JD Tailoring
The Pro-tier resume builder reads the job description and rewrites bullets to match the keywords. This is the feature that justifies the upgrade for most people — ATS systems are still keyword-driven in 2026, and manually optimizing each resume eats hours. Huntr does it in seconds.
One-Click Application Autofill
The Chrome extension fills out application forms — name, work history, education, custom fields — across most major ATS platforms (Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby). When it works, it shaves 5-10 minutes per application. When it doesn't, you're back to typing.
AI Cover Letters and Bullet Generators
Generate a cover letter or rewrite a weak bullet point against a specific JD. Useful as a draft starter, not as a final product.
Contact & Interview Pipeline
Track recruiters, hiring managers, and referrals against each role. Log interview rounds, prep notes, and outcomes. The pipeline metrics (applications → interviews → offers) give you actual conversion data on your search.
Pricing Breakdown
| Plan | Price | What You Get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | Full job tracker, Chrome clipper, contact & interview tracker, limited AI resume features |
| Pro | $5/mo | Unlimited AI resume builder, AI cover letters, JD tailoring, keyword scanner, autofill, job search metrics |
At $5/mo, Pro is one of the cheaper AI-assisted job search tools on the market. For context, most resume-tailoring SaaS products charge $20-40/mo for the same capability. If you're applying to more than a handful of roles a month, the Pro tier pays for itself in saved time on the first day.
The free tier is unusually generous — you can run an entire job search on it if you don't need the AI features. That's rare in this category.
Pros
- Purpose-built, not retrofitted. The whole data model assumes you're running a job search. Every feature compounds.
- JD-tailored resumes that actually beat ATS filters. The keyword scanner is honest about what's missing and the rewrites land closer to the JD than a generic resume ever will.
- Chrome extension makes capture-and-apply fast. Clip a job, autofill the form, move on. That's the dream workflow for high-volume search.
- Free tier covers core tracking. No paywall on the basic job board. You can evaluate it without committing.
- $5/mo is a fair price. Cheaper than its closest competitors for comparable AI features.
Cons
- AI resume output still needs editing. Don't take the generated bullets verbatim — they read as templated and recruiters can spot it. Treat the AI as a first draft, not a final.
- Autofill accuracy varies. Greenhouse and Lever work well. Workday is hit or miss. Custom application forms often fail entirely. Budget time to fix fields manually.
- Limited job board integrations. The clipper handles most major sites, but niche industry boards and some startup careers pages aren't supported. You'll still hand-enter some jobs.
- No mobile app. Web and Chrome extension only. If you triage applications from your phone, this is a real gap.
- Cover letter generator is mid. Generic and forgettable. You'll want to rewrite most of what it produces.
Who Huntr Is For
Buy Pro if: You're actively applying to 10+ jobs a week, you're targeting ATS-screened roles where keyword matching matters (large companies, tech, finance), and you want a single source of truth for your search instead of a spreadsheet and seven browser tabs.
Stick with Free if: You're passively looking, applying to a handful of roles per month, or relying on referrals and recruiter outreach rather than cold applications. The free tracker alone is better than most paid alternatives.
Skip it if: You're a senior or executive candidate working primarily through your network and recruiters. The volume tooling doesn't add much when you're applying to 2-3 roles a quarter through warm intros.
Verdict
Huntr is one of the better-executed products in a category full of half-built tools. It's not magic — the AI resume output needs human editing, autofill misses on weird forms, and there's no mobile story — but the fundamentals are solid and the price is right. For active job seekers running real volume, the Pro tier at $5/mo is one of the easier purchases to justify in your stack.
Rating: 7.2/10. Recommended for active searchers; pass if you're not in market.
Try the Huntr free tier first — there's no friction in evaluating it, and you'll know within a week whether the workflow fits how you actually search.