Every European applicant tracking tool reviewed
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2016
Published plans per month
Free trial
Best for: Small teams who hire a few times a year and care what the candidate sees
Homerun B.V. in Amsterdam built an applicant tracking system around the part most of this category treats as a template: the page the candidate actually lands on. Job pages are designed rather than generated, the application flow is short, and the whole product assumes a company of twenty or fifty people hiring a handful of times a year rather than a recruiting operation processing thousands.
That focus is why it leads this list and also where its limits are. There is no client or placement model, so an agency should not look at it.
The reporting is proportionate to the size of company it targets rather than deep, and a business hiring at real volume will outgrow it. What it does that almost nothing else here does is publish its price and let you start without a sales conversation, which for a small team is the difference between buying software and thinking about buying software for six months.
What Homerun does well
- Careers and job pages are the product, not a template
- Published pricing and a free trial, no sales call required
- Dutch company, EU hosting
- Short application flow that candidates actually finish
Where Homerun falls short
- Not built for high-volume recruiting
- No agency or client-placement model
- Reporting is light next to the enterprise options
Standout feature. The candidate's view first: for a company hiring a few times a year, the applicants you lose on a bad job page cost more than the software.
Zagreb, Croatia
Founded 2017
Published plans per month
Free trial
Best for: Small and mid-sized companies wanting sourcing, tracking and an offer flow at a published price
AdoptoTech in Zagreb sells TalentLyft as a full recruitment stack for companies that cannot justify an enterprise contract: sourcing and a candidate pipeline, job posting out to boards, a careers page, structured interview scorecards and reporting, all on published monthly plans with a free trial. For a Croatian company competing against American vendors with sales-led pricing, transparency is the strategy, and it works.
The trade-off is scale and visibility. It is a smaller vendor than Teamtailor or Recruitee, the integration catalogue is shorter, and outside central and eastern Europe the brand carries little weight with candidates — which matters more in recruiting than in most software, because the careers page is public. The product itself is broader than its price suggests, and for a company of fifty people the gap between it and the well-known options is smaller than the gap in price.
What TalentLyft does well
- Sourcing, tracking, scorecards and reporting in one product
- Published monthly pricing with a free trial
- Croatian company, EU hosting
- Broader feature set than the price suggests
Where TalentLyft falls short
- Smaller vendor with a shorter integration catalogue
- Limited brand recognition outside central Europe
- Support is thinner than the larger names
Standout feature. Enterprise scope on a published price: the feature list reads like a sales-led product and the pricing page does not.
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2000
Per user per month, quoted
Demo on request
Best for: Recruitment agencies and staffing firms placing candidates at client companies
Carerix BV in Rotterdam is the odd one out here, and deliberately so: it is built for agencies rather than employers. That means the data model has clients in it, and vacancies belonging to those clients, and placements with a commercial value attached — the things an in-house ATS has no reason to model and that an agency cannot work without. It has been doing this since 2000, largely in the Dutch and Belgian staffing market.
Read that as a warning as much as a recommendation. If you are an employer filling your own roles, Carerix is the wrong shape and you will pay for a client model you never touch.
If you run a desk, everything else on this list will have you rebuilding the client side in custom fields. Pricing is quoted per user rather than published, which is normal for agency software, and the interface shows a product that has been in the market a long time.
What Carerix does well
- Built for agency work: clients, vacancies, placements and the commercial side
- Long track record in the Dutch and Belgian staffing market
- Dutch company, Dutch hosting
- Deep customisation for how a desk actually runs
Where Carerix falls short
- Wrong product for an employer hiring in-house
- Quoted pricing, no published plans
- Interface reflects its age
Standout feature. Clients and placements in the data model: the one product here that knows recruiting can be a business rather than a task.
Berlin, Germany
Founded 2003
Quoted per company
Demo on request
Best for: German mid-sized and larger employers who need volume hiring and candidate feedback
softgarden e-recruiting GmbH has been building recruiting software in Berlin since 2003, and it is aimed further up the market than most of this list: multi-site employers, high application volumes, and hiring processes with more than one approval in them. Job distribution to boards, a careers portal, structured selection and reporting are all there, and the German market focus shows in how closely it fits works-council-shaped processes.
One thing it does that the others do not is take candidate feedback seriously as a product feature rather than a survey — asking applicants about the process and feeding that back. That is genuinely useful for an employer whose problem is reputation rather than throughput. The limits are the usual ones for this end of the market: pricing is quoted, implementation involves a project, and outside German-speaking Europe both the brand and the fit thin out.
What softgarden does well
- Built for volume hiring and multi-step approval processes
- Candidate feedback treated as a feature, not an afterthought
- German company since 2003, German hosting
- Strong fit with German works-council reality
Where softgarden falls short
- Quoted pricing and an implementation project
- Strongest in German-speaking markets
- More system than a small team needs
Standout feature. It asks the candidates: structured feedback from applicants, which is the only reliable way to find out why good ones drop out.
Switzerland
Founded 2018
Free tier / paid plans per month
Free tier
Best for: Companies that want to post a vacancy widely without paying for an ATS first
JOIN Solutions AG comes at this from the job-distribution end. The free tier lets a company publish a vacancy, push it out to a wide set of boards and aggregators, and manage the applications that come back, with paid plans adding the pipeline and collaboration features. For a company hiring occasionally, that ordering is right: the problem is reach first and process second.
Two things to weigh. The company is Swiss, which is Europe and covered by an adequacy decision but sits outside the EEA, so if your requirement is strictly EU-established this is not it — the German GmbH in the same imprint is a subsidiary rather than the contracting party. And a free tier in recruiting usually means the money is made on paid job promotion, so read what is included before assuming the distribution is free too.
What JOIN does well
- Free tier that actually publishes and distributes a vacancy
- Wide job-board and aggregator reach out of the box
- Fast to start, no implementation
- Swiss company, EU hosting
Where JOIN falls short
- Swiss rather than EU-established, which matters for some procurement rules
- Paid job promotion is where the model earns, so check what the free tier covers
- Lighter on structured selection than softgarden or Teamtailor
Standout feature. Reach before process: it solves getting the vacancy seen, which is the actual bottleneck for companies that hire twice a year.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded 2015
Published plans per month
Free trial
Best for: Growing companies that want collaborative hiring without an enterprise contract
Recruitee B.V. on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam built its product around hiring as a team activity rather than a recruiter activity: hiring managers in the pipeline, structured feedback from interviewers, and a careers site that a marketing team can edit. It publishes its plans, which puts it in the minority in this category, and it scales further than Homerun without moving into quoted-enterprise territory.
It is the most conventional choice on this list, in the sense that it does what Greenhouse does at a European address and a lower price, and there is nothing wrong with that.
What to check is the same thing as everywhere here: retention configuration for rejected candidates, and how much of the automation you actually need versus how much moves you up a plan. The impressum also lists a German GmbH alongside the Dutch B.V., so confirm which entity your contract names.
What Recruitee does well
- Built around collaborative hiring, not just the recruiter
- Published plans rather than a quote
- Dutch company, EU hosting
- Scales from small teams to real volume
Where Recruitee falls short
- Automation features push you up the plans quickly
- Two entities in the imprint, so check which one your contract names
- Less distinctive than the tools at either end of this list
Standout feature. Hiring managers in the product: the people who actually decide are first-class users rather than email recipients.
Stockholm, Sweden
Founded 2013
Quoted per company
Demo on request
Best for: Employers whose hiring problem is employer brand rather than process
Teamtailor AB in Stockholm sells the careers site as much as the applicant tracking, and for a large part of its market that is the right emphasis. The pages are genuinely good, the content is editable by people who are not recruiters, and the tracking underneath is competent rather than remarkable. It is used well beyond Sweden and is one of the few European names in this category that candidates recognise.
The pricing is the thing to plan for. It is quoted per company rather than published, and it sits at the higher end of this list, which is defensible for an employer where a better careers site changes who applies and hard to justify for one hiring three people a year. Check what is included at your headcount before comparing it with the published-price options above, because you will be comparing a quote with a list.
What Teamtailor does well
- Careers site and employer branding are genuinely strong
- Editable by marketing without involving a recruiter
- Swedish company, EU hosting, recognised beyond its home market
- Solid tracking underneath the branding
Where Teamtailor falls short
- Quoted pricing at the higher end of this category
- The tracking is competent rather than distinctive
- Overkill for a company hiring a handful of times a year
Standout feature. The careers site as the product: if your problem is who applies rather than how you process them, this is where the money goes.
Hamburg, Germany
Founded 1987
Applicant management from €785 per month (unlimited users and job ads); onboarding from €1,020/month; career pages from €399/month; VAT treatment not stated; one-off implementation workshops charged extra
14-day free test access after a demo
Best for: German employers who want the vendor to run the machines their candidate data sits on
d.vinci HR-Systems GmbH sells applicant management, onboarding and career pages from Nagelsweg in Hamburg, registered at the Amtsgericht Hamburg under HRB 93221 and describing itself as a family business with no investor or parent named anywhere on its own pages.
The group goes back to 1987, when it was the management consultancy delphi; the applicant management product dates from 2000 and the delphi and d.vinci brands were merged in 2014, so 1987 is the age of the house rather than of this software.
It sits above softgarden here for one reason: it is the only vendor in this directory that names the building its customers’ data is in and administers the machines itself.
The servers are d.vinci’s own, managed by nobody else, in the pop-interactive data centre in Hamburg — not a region rented from a hyperscaler. It has held ISO/IEC 27001 since 2011, with the current certificate dated 13 November 2024, which no other tool on this list publishes. And it prints its prices: applicant management from €785 a month with unlimited users and job advertisements.
The cost of that is the entry ticket. €785 a month is a floor, not an introductory rate, and onboarding (from €1,020 a month) and career pages (from €399 a month) are separate modules priced on top; the implementation workshops are charged separately again, so the first year is not the monthly figure times twelve.
How VAT is treated is not stated. The trial is fourteen days of test access that only opens after a demo, so there is no self-serve start, and the product is pitched at the German-speaking market. The source code is closed.
What d.vinci does well
- Own servers in a named Hamburg data centre, administered by d.vinci and nobody else
- ISO/IEC 27001 since 2011, certificate dated 13 November 2024
- Published price: applicant management from €785 a month, unlimited users and job ads
- Hamburg family business with no investor or parent company named
- Onboarding and career pages available from the same vendor
Where d.vinci falls short
- €785 a month is the starting price, which rules it out for a team hiring twice a year
- Onboarding (€1,020) and career pages (€399) are priced as separate modules on top
- Implementation workshops are charged extra, so the first year costs more than the monthly figure
- Test access only comes after a demo — nothing self-serve
- VAT treatment is not stated on the pricing page
Standout feature. It owns the hardware: the one vendor here that names the data centre and administers the servers itself, rather than renting a region from an American cloud.
Gdynia, Poland
Founded 2014
Published monthly plans from €79 per month (Start: 2 open jobs, 2 users) up to Growth (10 open jobs, unlimited users); Enterprise on request; VAT treatment not stated
14-day free trial account
Best for: Polish in-house teams and small agencies that pay per open vacancy rather than per recruiter
TRAFFIT sp. z o.o. was entered in the Polish KRS on 3 March 2014 under number 0000500186 and works from Gdynia.
The shareholder list in the register is short and entirely Polish: three individuals holding 105 shares between them and JIT SERVICES sp. z o.o. sp.k. holding 57, with no foreign party anywhere in the extract. One oddity worth knowing before you sign: the address in the register (ul. Kielecka 5/20) is not the address in the privacy policy (Legionów 112/21), though both are in Gdynia.
What separates it from the rest of this list is the meter. Plans are priced per open job rather than per user: Start covers two open jobs and two users from €79 a month, Growth covers ten open jobs with unlimited users, and Enterprise is quoted.
A five-person recruiting team running two vacancies pays for two vacancies. Read the pricing page carefully, though — those figures are shown struck through beside higher list prices (Start €99, Growth €249), so what you see is a campaign rate rather than the list, and VAT is not mentioned. A fourteen-day trial account starts without a sales call.
The hosting is where it loses ground to the tools above it.
The terms commit to no transfer of data outside the European Economic Area, which is a real commitment, but the machines are Amazon’s: AWS eu-west-1 in Ireland, with the AI features on Microsoft Azure OpenAI in West Europe. That is two American providers holding European data under European law, which is not the same thing as a European host. There is no ISO 27001 or comparable independent certification published.
What TRAFFIT does well
- Published monthly plans from €79, with Start covering two open jobs and two users
- Priced per open job, so extra recruiters do not raise the bill on the Growth plan
- Polish owners only — three individuals and a Polish partnership, per the KRS extract
- Fourteen-day trial account, no sales call to begin
- Terms commit to no transfer of data outside the EEA
Where TRAFFIT falls short
- Hosted on Amazon Web Services in Ireland, with AI on Microsoft Azure OpenAI — two American providers
- No independent certification such as ISO 27001 published
- The prices shown are promotional, struck through beside higher list prices
- VAT treatment is not stated
- The address in the KRS register differs from the one in the privacy policy
Standout feature. The bill follows the vacancies: two open jobs cost the same whether one recruiter or five is working them.
Toulouse, France
Founded 2013
Quoted per company (size, hiring volume, modules), unlimited users and recruitments; prices excl. VAT
14-day free trial
Best for: French SMEs that want candidate data held on French infrastructure at a quoted price
TALEEZ SAS runs from 21 boulevard de la Marquette in Toulouse, with a share capital of €10,359.40, registered at the RCS Toulouse under 791 647 233 and created in 2013 according to the national register; Fabien Rigollier is president, and neither the register nor the company’s own pages name a fund or a parent above him.
The product covers the ordinary ground — applications, pipeline, a careers page — and posts vacancies out to more than ninety job sites, with unlimited users and unlimited recruitments in every quote.
The reason to look at it is where the data sits. The RGPD page puts candidate files in OVHcloud’s French data centres at Gravelines, with Amazon Web Services EMEA’s France region alongside it, and the CV matching and AI assistant run on Mistral inside the EU. For a French buyer who wants a French host named rather than implied, that is a clearer answer than most of this list gives.
Two things keep it at nine. The certificates that appear in its terms — ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, CSA STAR, SOC 2 — belong to OVH and AWS, not to Taleez, so there is no independent audit of Taleez itself to read.
And not everything stays in France: anonymised analytics go to Amplitude in the United States, with an EU server listed as planned for the second half of 2026, and one matching step sends a job title and description to OpenAI in the US, without candidate names or contact details. Pricing is quoted on company size, hiring volume and modules, excluding VAT, after a fourteen-day trial.
What Taleez does well
- Candidate data in France: OVHcloud at Gravelines, with the AWS France region alongside
- CV matching and the AI assistant run on Mistral, inside the EU
- Toulouse company since 2013 with the president named in the register and no fund above him
- Posts vacancies to more than 90 job sites
- Unlimited users and unlimited recruitments whatever the quote
Where Taleez falls short
- No published price at all: everything is quoted on size, hiring volume and modules
- The ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, CSA STAR and SOC 2 certificates in its terms are the hosting providers’, not Taleez’s own
- Analytics go to Amplitude in the United States; the EU server is listed as planned, not delivered
- One matching step sends the job title and description to OpenAI in the US
Standout feature. Gravelines, by name: the data is at a French host you can point at, not in an unnamed European region.
Warsaw, Poland
Founded 2007
START from PLN 249 per month excl. 23% VAT (up to 15 recruitment projects a year); CORE and PRIME quoted
Demo (demo.erecruiter.pl) or meeting on request
Best for: Polish employers who already recruit through Pracuj.pl and want the multiposting to come from inside the group
eRecruitment Solutions sp. z o.o. has been on ul. Prosta 68 in Warsaw since its KRS entry on 13 June 2007, and it is owned outright — 3,100 of 3,100 shares — by Grupa Pracuj S.A., the listed group behind Pracuj.pl.
That parent is Polish-controlled: Przemysław Gacek holds 52.05% directly and through Frascati Investments, the MANageWell family foundation 8.35%, TCV Luxco Perogie 6.73% and the free float 32.87%. The multiposting to Polish job boards therefore comes from a sister company rather than an integration, which is the practical reason Polish employers buy it, alongside employee referrals and an onboarding module.
The entry price is public and unusually specific: START from PLN 249 a month excluding 23% VAT, covering up to fifteen recruitment projects a year. CORE and PRIME are quoted. There is no free trial — you get a demo environment or a meeting.
It ranks last of the five because of the one question this site asks first and cannot get an answer to here.
The privacy policy names Oktawave, Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud as hosting providers, mostly in Poland and the EEA, but never says which of them actually runs the ATS, and it states that some service providers are based outside the EEA without naming them. The AI features run on Microsoft Azure. No ISO 27001 or comparable independent certification is published. If you shortlist it, ask for the data processing agreement and the subprocessor list in writing before anything else.
What eRecruiter does well
- Wholly owned by Grupa Pracuj S.A., a Polish-controlled listed company, so the Pracuj.pl multiposting is in-group
- Entry price published: START from PLN 249 a month excluding VAT, up to fifteen recruitment projects a year
- Registered in Warsaw since June 2007
- Employee referrals and an onboarding module in the same product
Where eRecruiter falls short
- The hosting location of the ATS itself is never stated: Oktawave, Azure, AWS and Google Cloud are listed without saying which runs it
- The privacy policy says some service providers sit outside the EEA, without naming them
- No independent certification such as ISO 27001 published
- Only START has a published price; CORE and PRIME are quoted
- No free trial — a demo environment or a meeting is as far as it goes
Standout feature. Inside the Pracuj.pl group: the multiposting is a sister company rather than a connector, which is both the reason to buy it and the reason it would be awkward to leave.
Oslo, Norway
Founded 2013
Recruiter LITE (in-house ATS) €8.90, Recruiter (agency CRM) €115, Workforce €165, each per user per month; VAT treatment not stated
14-day free trial, no credit card
Best for: Nordic agencies that want a certified vendor and a cheap in-house ATS plan beside the desk software
RECMAN AS was incorporated on 1 February 2013 and sits at Karenslyst allé 4 in Oslo, organisation number 911 621 541, with terms written under Norwegian law.
Like Carerix it is agency software first: a recruitment CRM with invoicing and workforce management for staffing firms, with Recruiter LITE as the lighter plan for a company hiring for itself. The per-user prices are published — €8.90 for Recruiter LITE, €115 for the agency CRM, €165 for Workforce — and the trial runs fourteen days without a credit card.
It is the only one of the five newcomers with an independent audit to show. Its own Hosting and Security Overview, version 5.0 of 10 December 2025, claims ISO 27001 for five consecutive years and a SOC 2 Type 1 report. That document is also where the limits appear: Amazon Web Services is the sole host and the region is never named, only the assurance that the infrastructure "operates entirely within the EU/EEA".
Two more things to weigh before the price tempts you. Norway is in the EEA but not the EU, which some procurement rules and some public-sector buyers treat as a different thing. And nobody owns RecMan on paper as far as the public record goes: the footer says only "RecMan AS", the privacy policy and terms give no organisation number, and the Norwegian register lists no shareholders, so the question of who is behind it has no primary answer.
What RecMan does well
- Published per-user pricing: €8.90 for the in-house ATS plan, €115 for the agency CRM, €165 for Workforce
- ISO 27001 for five consecutive years plus a SOC 2 Type 1 report
- Agency CRM, invoicing and workforce management in one product
- Fourteen-day trial with no credit card
- Norwegian company under Norwegian law, incorporated in Oslo in 2013
Where RecMan falls short
- Norway is in the EEA but not the EU, which some procurement rules treat differently
- AWS is the only host and the region is not named — "entirely within the EU/EEA" is as specific as it gets
- No owner in the public record: the register lists no shareholders and the vendor names none
- Recruiter LITE is the light plan of an agency product; the depth is all on the agency side
- VAT treatment is not stated on the pricing page
Standout feature. Certificates and a price list together: ISO 27001 and SOC 2 on one side, €8.90 per user printed on the other, which is a combination nothing else here manages.
