LinkedIn Recruiter vs HubSpot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LinkedIn Recruiter
This app helps talent professionals find and engage ideal candidates quickly. Search and connect with a vast network, review profiles, and manage your recruitment pipeline from anywhere. It offers AI-powered messaging and smart filters to streamline the hiring process.
- Search entire LinkedIn talent pool
- AI-generated messages for higher acceptance rates
- Real-time candidate response notifications
- Manage job posts and applicants
- Collaborate with team members
- Access ATS data on candidate profiles
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Find your ideal candidate faster with the LinkedIn Recruiter app. Stay on top of recruiting while you’re on the go by searching and connecting with our entire network of 1 billion+ members, right from your phone. Review profiles, reach out and respond to candidates, and manage your pipeline, whenever and wherever you’d like. With the LinkedIn Recruiter app, you can: • Be notified in real-time when candidates respond to your messages • Increase InMail accept rate by 40% with AI-generated messages • Search the entire LinkedIn talent pool using Spotlights, smart filters and keywords • Review best-matching candidates using Recommended Matches and Spotlights • Stay on top of important tasks with Suggested Actions • Post, update and manage your job posts and applicants • Access and edit your recent searches easily • Collaborate with your team by tagging them in Notes and starting a conversation • Easily share candidate profiles with your hiring manager/client for feedback • View information from your ATS directly on candidate profiles with Recruiter System Connect The LinkedIn Recruiter app requires a Recruiter or Recruiter Lite account, which is a paid LinkedIn subscription for talent professionals. If you are interested in learning more about LinkedIn Recruiter, please visit: https://business.linkedin.com/talent-solutions/recruiter LinkedIn is committed to making its products and features accessible. Please find our statements to support this commitment at https://linkedin.com/accessibility/reports.
HubSpot
This app unifies customer-facing teams on an AI-powered platform, offering a comprehensive customer view and enabling quick actions from any location. It includes an AI assistant to provide insights, draft communications, and support deal closing while on the move.
- AI-powered CRM platform
- Unified customer view
- Actionable insights
- Draft communications
- Deal closing tools
- Mobile accessibility
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The HubSpot mobile app keeps sales and marketing teams moving, wherever the day takes them. Keep campaigns on track, act on leads the moment they come in, and walk into every meeting ready. Every contact, deal, and email is right there when you need it, no desktop required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HubSpot at none against LinkedIn Recruiter's shown. HubSpot also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (46% vs 25%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for LinkedIn Recruiter against 4.7 for HubSpot. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9.2K and 16K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of LinkedIn Recruiter's written reviews are positive against 46% of HubSpot's.
LinkedIn Recruiter ships an update every 5 weeks, HubSpot weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LinkedIn Recruiter | HubSpot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.2K ratings) — better | 4.7 (16K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.2% of reviews | 45.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.2K | 16K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 159 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LinkedIn Corporation | HubSpot, Inc. |
Customer experience
LinkedIn Recruiter
HubSpot
User reviews
LinkedIn Recruiter
From 9.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Efficient for on-the-go recruiting
- 👍 Convenient messaging and notifications
- 🚀 Clean and intuitive interface
- 👍 Helpful suggested actions
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
- 🔒 Login issues and password problems
- 🔍 Limited search and project management functionality
- 🔍 Lack of desktop parity
- 💡 Need for more customization options
HubSpot
From 16K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple to use
- 🚀 Ease of use
- 🚀 Intuitive user interface
- 🚀 Streamlined workflow
- 👍 Great business tool
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy app with crashes
- 🐛 Unreliable search function
- 🔒 Lack of security features
- 🔒 No biometric or PIN protection
- 👎 Limited functionality compared to desktop
Bugs and requests
LinkedIn Recruiter
Reported bugs
4 issues- Messages not sending properly
- Profiles and projects not loading correctly
- Push notifications not working as expected
- Incompatibility with newer devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to edit message templates
- Option to select candidate relocation preferences
- More granular distance search filters
- Expanded city/location database
- Direct access to job applicants and pipelines
HubSpot
Reported bugs
4 issues- Conversations tab not working
- Notifications not showing up
- Inability to log in on mobile
- Data loss and account deletion issues
Requested features
6 requests- Ability to attach files to emails
- More customization options
- Better integration with other tools
- Improved mobile optimization
- Access to service tickets and support
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- Easier task and pipeline management
In-app purchases
LinkedIn Recruiter
No in-app purchases
HubSpot
No in-app purchases
Questions
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