Comparison

LinkedIn Recruiter vs Crelate

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Crelate

This business app keeps sales and recruiting teams connected to their platform of record on mobile. It allows for immediate reflection of interactions within your Crelate account, ensuring data is always on hand.

Highlights
  • Mobile access to platform of record
  • Real-time interaction syncing
  • Data on hand for clients and candidates
  • Supports staffing and recruiting workflows
  • Integrated with Crelate ATS/CRM
Features
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Recruiting does not wait until you are back at your computer. A candidate calls, a hiring manager needs an answer, and the details are sitting in a system you cannot reach. Crelate, the AI Recruiting Platform, puts your records on your phone. Look someone up between meetings, log the call while it is fresh, and see where a role stands before you walk in. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Search every contact, company and job in your Crelate account • Open a contact and see their history, their resume, and the jobs they are active for • Log a call, a note or a meeting the moment it happens • Call, text or email straight from the record • Fix a phone number or an email address on the spot • Work your calendar: complete, update or reschedule what is booked • Filter by the custom lists and views your team already uses Everything you record syncs to your Crelate account immediately, so the rest of your team sees it without anyone writing the same note twice. WHAT YOU NEED A Crelate account. Text messaging requires an active text messaging license. ABOUT CRELATE Crelate is the AI Recruiting Platform that turns the relationships and data you already own into your next hire. Applicant tracking, recruiting CRM and sourcing sit in one open platform, built for how recruiters work and open to the rest of your stack. More than 25,000 recruiting professionals have used Crelate since 2012. crelate.com

Screenshots

LinkedIn Recruiter4 screens
Crelate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LinkedIn Recruiter at 4.8 against Crelate's 3.6. LinkedIn Recruiter also leads on ratings volume (9.2K vs 36). Crelate's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LinkedIn Recruiter holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LinkedIn Recruiter has 9.2K ratings behind it against 36, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of LinkedIn Recruiter's written reviews are positive against 43% of Crelate's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

LinkedIn Recruiter ships an update every 5 weeks, Crelate monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
LinkedIn Recruiter versus Crelate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLinkedIn RecruiterCrelate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (9.2K ratings) — better3.6 (36 ratings)
Positive reviews25.2% of reviews42.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings9.2K — better36
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB158 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLinkedIn CorporationCrelate, Inc.

Customer experience

LinkedIn Recruiter

All ratings9,161 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral2.4%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews321 reviews
Positive25.2%
Neutral6.5%
Negative68.2%

Crelate

All ratings36 ratings
Positive61.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral14.3%
Negative42.9%

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

Crelate

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

LinkedIn Recruiter

No in-app purchases

None

Crelate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is LinkedIn Recruiter free?
LinkedIn Recruiter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crelate free?
Crelate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, LinkedIn Recruiter or Crelate?
LinkedIn Recruiter is rated higher. LinkedIn Recruiter averages 4.8 out of 5 from 9.2K ratings, while Crelate averages 3.6 from 36 ratings.
Do LinkedIn Recruiter or Crelate have ads?
LinkedIn Recruiter shows ads; Crelate does not.
Which is updated more often, LinkedIn Recruiter or Crelate?
LinkedIn Recruiter ships an update every 5 weeks, and Crelate monthly. Most recently, LinkedIn Recruiter was updated on September 22, 2026 and Crelate on September 16, 2026.

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