LinkedIn Recruiter vs EXPO REAL
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.
EXPO REAL
Plan your trade fair visit effectively with this app. Discover exhibitors, browse the conference schedule, and organize meetings with other attendees. Stay organized and make the most of your event experience.
- Exhibitor search
- Conference program browsing
- Personal favorites list
- Integrated matchmaking
- Meeting organization
- On-site orientation
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The EXPO REAL app is your perfect companion before and during your visit to the trade fair. Whether it’s advance planning or quick orientation on site - the EXPO REAL app supports you with many useful services: search and find exhibitors, browse the conference program, add interesting companies and program items to your personal favorites and much more. In the integrated network area you can already reach out to other participants prior to the trade fair and organize meetings. This way, you can plan your EXPO REAL visit well in advance and keep a good overview at all times.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: EXPO REAL at free against LinkedIn Recruiter's paid. EXPO REAL also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (45% vs 25%). LinkedIn Recruiter's advantage is ratings volume (9.2K vs 20). On price, rating, 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
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 EXPO REAL. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LinkedIn Recruiter has 9.2K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 25% of LinkedIn Recruiter's written reviews are positive against 45% of EXPO REAL's.
LinkedIn Recruiter ships an update every 5 weeks, EXPO REAL every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LinkedIn Recruiter | EXPO REAL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.2K ratings) — better | 4.7 (20 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 25.5% of reviews | 44.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.2K — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LinkedIn Corporation | Messe München GmbH |
Customer experience
LinkedIn Recruiter
EXPO REAL
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
EXPO REAL
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LinkedIn Recruiter
No in-app purchases
EXPO REAL
No in-app purchases
Questions
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