Recruiting · Alternatives
Firefish alternatives
As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Recruitee (3.5/5), Pinpoint (3.5/5) and softgarden (3.5/5) highest among the other 31 Recruiting products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Recruitee (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
European alternatives to Firefish
European by provenance (EU-made, EU origin with foreign ownership, or UK and wider Europe). Data hosting is stated only where the vendor’s own pages prove it.
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Recruitee
EU-MadePanel rating
Recruitee is a recruiting platform from Recruitee B.V., part of the Tellent group, with Recruitee GmbH in Düsseldorf contracting customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Pinpoint
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Pinpoint, an applicant tracking system from The Infuse Group Limited, scores strongest on AI screening control — a flat 8 — with AI opt-in and never on by default, OpenAI and Affinda named as providers, client data stated never used to train models, and humans as final decision-makers.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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softgarden
EU-MadePanel rating
softgarden is a German applicant-tracking system from softgarden e-recruiting GmbH in Berlin, aimed at the German Mittelstand.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
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JOIN
EU-MadePanel rating
JOIN, from JOIN Solutions AG of Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland, scored strongest on candidate pipeline and job distribution — both a uniform 7 — on organic multiposting to 10+ boards in every plan, 250+ paid placements bookable without markup, source attribution on every application, and a documented pipeline with scorecards and self-service interview scheduling.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Teamtailor
EU-MadePanel rating
Teamtailor is an applicant tracking system and employer branding platform from Teamtailor AB, registered in Stockholm.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Workable
UK / wider EuropePanel rating
Workable is a SaaS platform for recruitment and HR management, scored across seven criteria.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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d.vinci
EU-MadePanel rating
d.vinci is a recruiting suite for mid-sized and large employers — applicant management, onboarding and career pages from d.vinci HR-Systems GmbH of Hamburg, with a stated data center in Hamburg.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Homerun
EU-MadePanel rating
Homerun is an applicant tracking system from Homerun B.V.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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coveto
EU-MadePanel rating
coveto is applicant-management and recruiting software from coveto ATS GmbH (Nidda, Germany), offered as SaaS or on premises.
- Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
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MHM eRecruiting
EU-MadePanel rating
MHM eRecruiting, an applicant management system from MHM HR GmbH of Stuttgart, is strongest at job distribution, which scored 6 for multiposting to over 1,300 job boards through a fully integrated booking process, with StepStone products, Indeed campaigns without extra cost, and ad success measured by HR-ANALYTICS.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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BITE
EU-MadePanel rating
BITE GmbH of Ulm (HRB 722234) sells the BITE Bewerbermanager, a German-market applicant management system.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
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Talention
EU-MadePanel rating
Talention is an applicant-tracking and recruitment-marketing suite from Talention GmbH.
- Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
Other alternatives
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Jobylon
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Jobylon is an applicant tracking system from Jobylon AB; overall weighted verdicts span 4.9 to 6.0.
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VidCruiter
Provenance unknownPanel rating
VidCruiter is a video-interviewing and recruiting platform judged strongest on candidate pipeline, where scores cluster at 7 with no spread: requisition and offer approval workflows, competency-based interview guides with customizable rubrics, automated phase progression, and time-to-hire reporting per phase are all documented.
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Lever
Rest of worldPanel rating
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Breezy HR
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Breezy HR is an applicant tracking system from Breezy HR, Inc.
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Greenhouse
Rest of worldPanel rating
Greenhouse is a structured-hiring enterprise ATS, and by the bench's scoring it is strongest in the candidate pipeline and AI screening control, where scores cluster at 7-8: interview kits and scorecards, kickoff forms, org-level AI toggles with enterprise opt-in defaults, Talent Matching scoped by office, department or job, discrete categories not composite scores, and monthly Warden AI bias audits across ten protected classes.
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Manatal
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Manatal's captured pages document per-job configurable pipelines, multiposting to 36 named free boards, AI parsing, scoring and enrichment, and an open API.
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Ashby
Rest of worldPanel rating
Ashby is an all-in-one recruiting platform from Ashby, Inc.
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CleverConnect
Provenance unknownPanel rating
CleverConnect is a talent acquisition platform positioned to complement — not replace — an applicant tracking system, spanning career sites, a CRM with talent pools, employee referrals, talent campaigns and video interviewing.
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iCIMS
Provenance unknownPanel rating
The captured pages present iCIMS as a highly configurable enterprise applicant tracking system running requisition to hire — offer management, onboarding, text recruiting, time-to-fill and time-to-hire reporting — and candidate pipeline scores cluster at 4.
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JobAdder
Provenance unknownPanel rating
JobAdder is a software-as-a-service online recruitment management system (ATS/CRM).
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Eploy
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Eploy is an applicant tracking and talent acquisition platform; its captured pages show UK-only datacentres, ICO registration ZA248720, a UK GDPR processor role and copyright naming The Access Group.
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Tribepad
Provenance unknownPanel rating
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Bullhorn
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Bullhorn is an AI recruitment platform for staffing and recruitment firms, combining cloud applicant tracking and CRM.
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Paradox
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Paradox's conversational applicant tracking system is strongest where recruiting meets other systems: integrations and handover scored 6 to 6, naming Workday, SAP SuccessFactors and Indeed and delivering completed new-hire records to the HCM, while job distribution scored 5 to 6 on one-toggle Indeed posting with per-applicant or per-click budgets.
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JazzHR
Provenance unknownPanel rating
JazzHR, an applicant tracking system for small businesses from Employ Inc., earns its best marks on the candidate pipeline, where scores sit at 6: configurable stages per job, teammate ratings with structured comments, auto-scheduled interviews with calendar invites, automated templated emails.
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Oleeo
Provenance unknownPanel rating
Oleeo Recruit is a customizable applicant tracking system with AI add-ons, and the bench's persona-weighted verdicts run 3.4 to 4.1.
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SmartRecruiters
Rest of worldPanel rating
SmartRecruiters is an AI-powered recruiting platform — applicant tracking, CRM, onboarding, SMS messaging, job distribution and dynamic scheduling from the Essential tier upward — whose homepage states it is part of SAP SuccessFactors and natively integrated with SAP.
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CVWarehouse
Provenance unknownPanel rating
CVWarehouse sells an applicant tracking system, and its public footprint at capture is thin: the website was down for scheduled maintenance, and what was captured shows an ATS with logins for Recruiter, Candidate and HR Partner, a contact email, and policy links including a GDPR page.
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easy.cruit
Provenance unknownPanel rating
EasyCruit, an online recruiting product from MRD GmbH, scores highest where its homepage is clearest: candidate pipeline sits at 2 with no spread, crediting its positioning as an online recruitment solution for hiring managers and recruiters with a collaborative review platform to evaluate candidates.