Hiring Team vs SmartBen NOW
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hiring Team
This app empowers hiring teams to manage recruiting tasks efficiently on the go. It facilitates real-time collaboration, interview scheduling, and candidate feedback submission, streamlining the hiring process for better talent acquisition and candidate experience.
- View interviews and candidate profiles
- Real-time messaging between interviewers
- Interview day synchronization
- Submit candidate feedback
- Screen candidates
- View interviewer feedback
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Jobvite’s Hiring Team app for iPhone and iPod Touch provides hiring teams with the tools they need to accomplish critical, time-sensitive recruiting tasks on-the-go. With collaboration built-in and at its core, hiring teams will spend less time chasing people down, and more time hiring the right talent, while providing the best candidate experience. Recruiters and recruiting coordinators will love how the app takes the pain out of making sure hiring teams stay on schedule for interviews, and makes them submit candidate feedback on time. It's recruiting, reimagined. The app provides the following capabilities for the entire hiring team: - View upcoming interviews and candidate profiles - Message other interviewers in real-time - Stay synchronized on day of interview via check-in, check-out - Get reminders, submit feedback on candidates - Screen Candidate functionality - for Hiring Managers - View interviewer's feedback - for Hiring Managers Note that this app is not intended for jobseekers and you'll need an existing Jobvite account to login to the app.
SmartBen NOW
Access your employer-provided benefits information conveniently on your mobile device. Review plan details, make enrollment changes, and explore additional resources all within a single application.
- Access benefits information
- Review plan details
- Enroll or change benefits
- Explore benefit resources
- Up-to-date information
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Have access to your most important benefits information, right at your fingertips. SmartBen NOW is an all-in-one benefits app that allows you to access up-to-date information about your employer-provided benefits. Once logged in, you can access your personal benefit information wherever and whenever needed. Use this app to: - Review your benefits and plan details - Enroll or change your benefits - Explore other benefit resources all in one place
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SmartBen NOW at 4.5 against Hiring Team's 2.4. SmartBen NOW also leads on review sentiment (31% vs 13%) and ratings volume (869 vs 31). Hiring Team's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SmartBen NOW holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmartBen NOW has 869 ratings behind it against 31, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Hiring Team's written reviews are positive against 31% of SmartBen NOW's.
Hiring Team ships an update every 6 weeks, SmartBen NOW every 3 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Hiring Team | SmartBen NOW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.4 (31 ratings) | 4.5 (869 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews | 30.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 | 869 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jobvite Inc. | HodgesMace, LLC |
Customer experience
Hiring Team
SmartBen NOW
Bugs and requests
Hiring Team
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SmartBen NOW
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cannot download bank statements
- Cannot enter values in certain sections
- Login issues across devices
- Credentials not working
- Paycheck download function not working
Requested features
5 requests- Easier way to access tax forms and insurance info
- Add phone numbers for support
- Improve chat support knowledge
- Make important contact info more user-friendly
- Provide confirmation of successful enrollment
In-app purchases
Hiring Team
No in-app purchases
SmartBen NOW
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Hiring Team free?
Is SmartBen NOW free?
Which has better reviews, Hiring Team or SmartBen NOW?
Do Hiring Team or SmartBen NOW have ads?
Which is updated more often, Hiring Team or SmartBen NOW?
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