§ The result
AIApply leads LockedIn AI by 16 points.
AIApply finishes 16 points clear of LockedIn AI under rubric js-v1.0 — 43 against 27 — across the Auto-apply and Live interview cohorts. AIApply leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Application Honesty, while LockedIn AI leads 1, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness. Application Honesty is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (AIApply 42, LockedIn AI 12, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 37% of the weighted advantage AIApply holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
AIApply
AIApply is an AI job-search suite for job seekers that auto-applies to matched jobs on their behalf and generates tailored resumes and cover letters plus real-time interview coaching.
Vendor profile
LockedIn AI
LockedIn AI is a real-time interview copilot that listens to a job seeker's live interview, coding round or online assessment and displays AI-generated answers, code and coaching on their screen, alongside free resume, cover-letter and job-tracking tools.
§ The record
AIApply is filed under Auto-apply tools, LockedIn AI under Live interview assistance. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | AIApply | LockedIn AI |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2024 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 36% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
AIApply 42 · LockedIn AI 12
6.0 weighted points to AIApply
15% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
AIApply 38 · LockedIn AI 10
4.2 weighted points to AIApply
12% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
AIApply 33 · LockedIn AI 10
2.8 weighted points to AIApply
15% weight · 86% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
AIApply 50 · LockedIn AI 40
1.5 weighted points to AIApply
20% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
AIApply 55 · LockedIn AI 48
1.4 weighted points to AIApply
10% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
AIApply 27 · LockedIn AI 33
0.6 weighted points to LockedIn AI
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
AIApply 44 · LockedIn AI 40
0.3 weighted points to AIApply
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +15.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 16.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +16 beside that +15.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is AIApply minus LockedIn AI.
| Category | Weight | AIApply | LockedIn AI | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 42 | 12 | +30 | +6.0 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 55 | 48 | +7 | +1.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 50 | 40 | +10 | +1.5 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 38 | 10 | +28 | +4.2 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 33 | 10 | +23 | +2.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 27 | 33 | -6 | -0.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 40 | +4 | +0.3 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 27 (F) | +16 | +15.6 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | AIApply | LockedIn AI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 26 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
AIApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; LockedIn AI has 30 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 26 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LockedIn AI sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 47 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for AIApply, across 6 distinct source domains, and 30 for LockedIn AI, across 3 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- AIApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LockedIn AI last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next