Comparison

Second Shot vs Nextstep Jobs

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Second Shot

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Find Your Path. Build Your Future. Career Prep Toolbox is your personalized career discovery and development platform. Whether you're just starting out or seeking a new direction, our 24-question career assessment helps you uncover the right path — with five tailored career recommendations based on your unique strengths and interests. Dive into detailed career profiles, explore real-world roles, and gain insights that guide your next step. Build your resume, track your journey, and access tools that make it easier to grow with confidence. With Career Prep Toolbox, your next opportunity isn’t a guess — it’s a guided decision. Key Features: > Personalized 24-question career assessment > Tailored career recommendations > In-depth career profiles and related roles > Resume builder > Community success stories > Clean, user-friendly experience > Take your Second Shot — your future starts here. EULA Link: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Nextstep Jobs

Features
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Nextstep is an AI-powered career coaching platform that guides students from career exploration to employment while replacing multiple disconnected career services tools with one affordable, outcome-driven solution. Students enroll in college with one primary objective: building a successful career. Yet most struggle to answer fundamental questions about their career path, the skills employers want, how to communicate their value, and how to stand out in a competitive hiring market. Universities attempt to solve these challenges through a collection of disconnected tools—career assessments, resume builders, job boards, interview platforms, and career readiness software—resulting in a fragmented experience, lower adoption rates, increased costs, and missed opportunities. Nextstep consolidates the entire student career journey into one integrated platform. Our framework is simple: Discover → Build → Search → Apply → Get Hired. At the center of the platform is the Storyboard, a living career database that grows with the student throughout their academic journey. It captures experiences, skills, accomplishments, projects, certifications, leadership activities, volunteer work, coursework, internships, and professional development in one continuously evolving profile. The Storyboard becomes a student’s professional memory bank and powers every other function inside Nextstep. Students begin with targeted AI-powered career exploration, then continuously build their Storyboard as they progress through college. Nextstep uses this data to identify job opportunities that align with each student’s evolving story. The platform generates ATS-compliant resumes directly from the Storyboard, tracks applications, and provides a direct pathway from education to employment. Universities choose Nextstep because it increases student engagement, improves retention, strengthens employment outcomes, reduces software costs, and simplifies the career technology stack. Instead of managing multiple disconnected tools, institutions provide students with one unified career ecosystem designed around a single mission: helping students get hired faster. Terms of Use: https://app2.mynextstep.jobs/terms Privacy Policy: https://app2.mynextstep.jobs/privacy

Screenshots

Second Shot4 screens
Nextstep Jobs3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Nextstep Jobs at none against Second Shot's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Second Shot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Nextstep Jobs sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Second Shot versus Nextstep Jobs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSecond ShotNextstep Jobs
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSecond-Shot Technologies LLCKevin Duncan

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Second Shot

Subscriptions2
  • Premium (Monthly Plan)$7.991 Month
  • Premium (Yearly Plan)$95.991 Year
4 purchases

Nextstep Jobs

Subscriptions4
  • Nextstep Plus$9.991 Month
  • Nextstep Pro$14.991 Month
  • Nextstep Plus$99.991 Year
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  • Nextstep Pro$149.991 Year

Questions

Is Second Shot free?
Second Shot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nextstep Jobs free?
Nextstep Jobs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Second Shot or Nextstep Jobs have ads?
Second Shot shows ads; Nextstep Jobs does not.

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