Screen resumes, move candidates through hiring stages, and adapt interview workflows to your process, all on one applicant database.




Set up only the hiring views and workflows you need today, then adapt your applicant tracking system as recruiting processes change over time.






Start with Softr Databases for applications, resumes, and feedback, or connect Airtable, Google Sheets, and other sources with real-time sync.
Give recruiters and hiring managers tailored views of candidate records. Set up secure logins, user groups, and granular permissions for every hiring role.
Give recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers tailored access to the candidate information they need.
Give recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers tailored access to the candidate information they need.
Trigger native automations when applications arrive, candidates change stages, or interview feedback is submitted.
Review applications, update hiring stages, and submit interview feedback from any device.
Use Google, email, or SSO logins to give recruiters and hiring managers secure access to candidate records.
Keep candidate and interview data protected with SOC 2 Type II compliance and granular access controls.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.

Generate candidate intake and resume screening in minutes, with no complex configuration or dev time.

Adapt hiring stages, interview scheduling, and feedback records as recruiting processes change.

Keep applications, resumes, interviews, and funnel reports together instead of adding more HR tools.
Co-build with AI
Simply describe what you need. Let Softr handle everything - Interface, database, workflows.
Iterate with AI or visually
Control most critical parts of your app yourself - roles, permissions, security.
Ship the same day
Invite team members or external clients and partners right away. No developer handover.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to build a portal that looks sleek and modern out of the box. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your workflows evolve.




An applicant tracking system is a secure workspace where recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates can log in to manage recruitment work. It brings together job openings, applications, candidate profiles, resumes, interview notes, scorecards, and hiring timelines. Instead of searching through email threads and spreadsheets, your recruiting team gets one place to review applicants, move them through stages, and keep every hiring decision connected to the right role.
Recruiting teams gain a clear view of every opening, applicant, interview, and offer without waiting for a developer to assemble the system. Softr is an AI app builder for business software: describe your hiring workflow in plain language, and it generates the database, pages, and logic, already connected and secure. No code is needed at any point. You can start by generating an app with AI, selecting a recruiting template, or building from scratch. Run candidate records in Softr Databases, or connect external tools such as Airtable, Google Sheets, or HubSpot, depending on your plan. You still control the layout, hiring-manager access, recruiter views, and employer branding through visual editing.
A recruiting team can combine these capabilities in one editable app:
- **AI inside the app:** Ask AI can answer questions about open roles and candidate stages, while Database AI Agents can classify resumes by required skills or flag applications that need recruiter review.
- **Custom candidate experience:** A Vibe Coding block can create a tailored interview scorecard component with a weighted evaluation view for hiring managers.
- **Automated recruiting workflows:** Softr Workflows can trigger when an application changes stage or when a recruiter clicks a button, such as notifying an interviewer that a scorecard is ready.
- **Access control:** Recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers can log in and see only the openings or candidate records assigned to them.
- **Structured intake:** Forms can collect applications, resumes, and interview feedback with file uploads and conditional logic.
- **Recruiting visibility:** Dashboards and charts can show time-to-stage, open requisitions, and candidate volume on live data.
- **Pipeline management:** Lists, filters, tables, kanban boards, and detail views help teams review profiles and move applicants through the hiring process. Every block remains editable later.
Vibe coding means describing what you want and letting AI build it. For recruiting, you might ask for a system that tracks requisitions, candidate profiles, interview scorecards, and offer stages. Softr creates that workflow on a production-ready foundation, handling authentication, database logic, and security natively. Other tools can leave you maintaining fragile generated code, where a change to an interview stage breaks candidate visibility or recruiter access on Day Two. If you use a Vibe Coding block for a custom scorecard or pipeline component, every prompt and edit is versioned, so you can roll back a change instead of re-prompting until the hiring workflow works again.
Yes. Keep recruiting, engineering, sales, and finance hiring in one app while each user sees only the openings and candidate records assigned to their role. Recruiters can manage all applications, hiring managers can review their requisitions, and interviewers can access only the scorecards they need to complete.
You can start without an existing applicant spreadsheet or recruiting database. Softr Databases is built into the platform, so you can create tables for job openings, candidate profiles, interviews, and offers as you define the workflow. If your team already tracks applicants in a spreadsheet, you can connect Google Sheets, or use Airtable, Notion, Coda, or another supported source. HubSpot, monday.com, Supabase, and SQL connections are also available on the plans that support them, while the REST API connector covers other systems. Either way, you decide how candidate data is structured and how recruiters see it.
Softr Databases is the recommended starting point for an applicant tracking system. It is a native relational database built for business apps, so candidate profiles, requisitions, interviews, and offer records run with high performance and can trigger automations instantly without a third-party API in the way. Softr also connects to 21+ external data sources, including Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, SmartSuite, and BigQuery. You can use several sources in one recruiting app, such as keeping candidate records in Softr Databases while displaying hiring requests from another system. Most supported sources provide real-time two-way sync.
Recruiting teams can control the full experience, from navigation and page layout to the records shown after login. For example, recruiters may view every requisition, candidate profile, and interview scorecard, while hiring managers see only candidates assigned to their department and cannot edit recruiter-only fields. Interviewers can receive access to their assigned scorecards without seeing compensation details or other teams' applicants. Views can also filter records by the logged-in user. Before publishing, the built-in preview lets you open the app as a recruiter, hiring manager, or interviewer, so you can confirm access without creating test accounts.
Your recruiting team, hiring managers, and candidates can use an applicant tracking system branded for your company. Add your logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain, then remove Softr branding. This keeps application forms, interview workspaces, and candidate updates aligned with the employer brand people already recognize.
The visual builder lets you arrange the recruiting workspace around the way your team hires. Adjust colors, fonts, spacing, navigation, and page structure, then decide what recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers see when they log in. Useful blocks include:
- **Table:** compare requisitions, applicant names, stages, and application dates.
- **List or Card:** give recruiters a quick view of candidate profiles and open roles.
- **Detail View:** show a resume, interview history, recruiter notes, and scorecards together.
- **Forms:** collect applications, referrals, and structured interview feedback.
- **Charts:** track applicants by stage, department, or hiring source.
- **Calendar:** coordinate interviews and display upcoming hiring events.
You can change the arrangement later without rebuilding the candidate pipeline.
Candidate resumes, interview feedback, compensation details, and hiring decisions need more than a shared spreadsheet. Softr encrypts data in transit with TLS and at rest on secure infrastructure. Role-based permissions, users managed in your data source, visibility rules, and global restrictions help ensure that recruiters, hiring managers, and interviewers see only the records and fields appropriate to them. With Softr Databases, recruiting data stays in Softr's secure environment, hosted in Europe in Germany, and the database is SOC 2 Type II compliant. When you connect an external source, Softr stores nothing and displays live data according to your access settings. Authentication, access control, and monitoring follow industry best practices.
Production for a recruiting team means real recruiters can manage real candidates, hiring managers can review real scorecards, and access rules continue working as applications move toward offers. Softr is fully production-ready because it builds on a stable business-grade foundation rather than leaving you with fragile custom code. Authentication, secure hosting, and granular permissions are handled natively, which reduces the Day Two problem of repairing a system after hiring activity begins. You can generate the applicant tracking system with AI, then refine requisition pages, candidate stages, and interview workflows visually before giving it to users.
Pure vibe coding tools generate custom code that can become fragile when recruiters add a new hiring stage or change who can view interview notes. Traditional no-code tools usually require extensive manual configuration before a candidate pipeline is usable. Softr takes a hybrid approach: describe the recruiting workflow, and it generates the database, app, and logic in minutes, then refine requisition pages, candidate profiles, and scorecards with visual controls. Authentication, roles, permissions, hosting, and other business infrastructure are already in place, so non-technical teams can move from an initial workflow to production without rebuilding the foundation. Softr apps are also agent-ready through MCP. A logged-in recruiter can operate the app through an AI assistant exactly as the interface allows, while the same user groups and candidate restrictions apply, with no second permission model to build or audit.
A common first automation is moving a candidate from application review to interview coordination when a recruiter changes the application stage. Softr Workflows can automate tasks inside the applicant tracking system when a record changes or a button is clicked, such as notifying a hiring manager that a candidate profile is ready or creating an interview follow-up. Softr can also sync with tools such as Stripe and Intercom. For advanced recruiting workflows, REST API connections and webhooks can send candidate data to another system, trigger an external automation after a user action, or display information from another tool. These workflows do not require code.
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