§ The result
LoopCV leads Interview Sidekick on all 7 criteria.
LoopCV finishes 20 points clear of Interview Sidekick under rubric js-v1.0 — 50 against 30 — across the Auto-apply and Live interview cohorts. LoopCV leads every one of the 7 criteria, Interview Sidekick none of them, and the closest of the 7 is Effectiveness Evidence, Interview Sidekick 25 to LoopCV 35. Application Honesty is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (Interview Sidekick 18, LoopCV 55, 20% weight), but it accounts for only 38% of the weighted advantage LoopCV holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Interview Sidekick
Interview Sidekick is a desktop AI interview assistant that offers mock-interview practice and a 10,000+ question bank before interviews, and during live interviews transcribes the interviewer's questions and feeds the candidate suggested answers through an on-screen overlay it markets as invisible to screen sharing.
Vendor profile
LoopCV
LoopCV is a job-search automation platform that continuously matches a job seeker's CV to postings across 30+ job boards and applies on their behalf via ATS form-fills, LinkedIn Easy Apply, and templated emails to recruiters.
§ The record
Interview Sidekick is filed under Live interview assistance, LoopCV under Auto-apply tools. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | Interview Sidekick | LoopCV |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Low |
| Headquarters | US | GR |
| Founded | 2024 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 38% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Interview Sidekick 18 · LoopCV 55
7.4 weighted points to LoopCV
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Interview Sidekick 42 · LoopCV 60
2.7 weighted points to LoopCV
15% weight · 65% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Interview Sidekick 20 · LoopCV 38
2.7 weighted points to LoopCV
20% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Interview Sidekick 28 · LoopCV 40
2.4 weighted points to LoopCV
10% weight · 86% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Interview Sidekick 48 · LoopCV 65
1.7 weighted points to LoopCV
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Interview Sidekick 48 · LoopCV 68
1.6 weighted points to LoopCV
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Interview Sidekick 25 · LoopCV 35
1.2 weighted points to LoopCV
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -19.7 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.7 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -20 beside that -19.7.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Interview Sidekick minus LoopCV.
| Category | Weight | Interview Sidekick | LoopCV | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 18 | 55 | -37 | -7.4 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 28 | 40 | -12 | -2.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 20 | 38 | -18 | -2.7 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 25 | 35 | -10 | -1.2 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 48 | 65 | -17 | -1.7 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 48 | 68 | -20 | -1.6 |
| Total | 100% | 30 (F) | 50 (F) | -20 | -19.7 |
§ 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 | Interview Sidekick | LoopCV | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 12 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Interview Sidekick has 34 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 6 documented absences; LoopCV has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for Interview Sidekick and LoopCV sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 48 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 34 for Interview Sidekick, across 4 distinct source domains, and 14 for LoopCV, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Interview Sidekick last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LoopCV last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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