LazyApply
HireAIScore rates LazyApply 37 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric js-v1.0, last reviewed July 17, 2026. LazyApply ranks 10 of 11 vendors rated in Auto-apply tools, against a category average of 48. That score is drawn from 17 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for LazyApply — 14 with a cited source, 3 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
LazyApply, criterion by criterion
Each rubric criterion is scored out of 100 on the cited evidence, then weighted into the total.
Weighted contribution shown to the right of each bar.
Application Honesty
Weight 20% · category avg 49
32
+6.4
Data & Credential Safety
Weight 20% · category avg 50
50
+10.0
User Control & Transparency
Weight 15% · category avg 54
33
+5.0
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Weight 15% · category avg 45
25
+3.8
Effectiveness Evidence
Weight 12% · category avg 38
35
+4.2
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Weight 10% · category avg 47
42
+4.2
Support & Accountability
Weight 8% · category avg 53
42
+3.4
Total weighted score
36.9(rounded to 37 for display)
Category avg is the mean raw score on that criterion across the 11 Auto-apply tools vendors in scope of this rubric, this one included.
Strongest criterion
Data & Credential Safety
50raw / 100
Contributes 10.0 to the total. 50 against a 50 category average.
Weakest criterion
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
25raw / 100
Contributes 3.8 to the total. 25 against a 45 category average.
Cited evidence
The evidence behind the score
Every score is backed by at least one cited piece of evidence. Open a criterion to see what was found, when, and where.
Download diligence recordEvidence ledger
- Items
- 17
- Documentation
- 8
- Public statement
- 6
- Absence
- 3
- With a source URL
- 14 of 17
- Source hostnames
- 4
- Fewest items
- 2
- User Control & Transparency
These figures measure how thoroughly LazyApply was reviewed, not how LazyApply performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Application Honesty
3 items32
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Hands-on review documents LazyApply mapping profile fields to forms by pattern-matching and systematically entering wrong answers (incorrect salary and H-1B visa-sponsorship status) with no accuracy or truthfulness controls.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Homepage markets 'Job GPT' AI autofill that 'personalizes' applications but publishes no anti-fabrication or answer-accuracy guardrails.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No statement preventing inflated or false answers found across the homepage, FAQ, terms or privacy policy.
Data & Credential Safety
3 items50
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Privacy policy states 'We do not sell the Personal Information of our users' and uses SSL, but discloses up-to-6-year retention and sharing with advertisers, marketing partners and analytics providers, with no SOC 2/ISO certification or resume-storage encryption detail.
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Review notes LazyApply operates as a Chrome extension within the user's already-authenticated browser session, so it does not require or store LinkedIn/job-board passwords.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No SOC 2 or third-party security audit and no disclosure of how resume/PII is encrypted at rest were found on the site.
User Control & Transparency
2 items33
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Review confirms no review-before-submit step exists; LazyApply is blind mass-apply and users discover errors only through post-hoc audit or employer rejections.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Marketing emphasizes one-click bulk application across platforms with no described per-application approval, edit, or AI-use disclosure step.
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
2 items25
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
LazyApply appears on a public blacklist of 461 LinkedIn-ToS-violating plugins; LinkedIn prohibits automated apply tools and enforcement escalates from 24-48h restrictions to permanent deletion.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Terms provide the service 'AS IS,' disclaim all responsibility for third-party sites' terms and practices, and reserve the right to terminate at any time, shifting account-ban risk entirely to the user.
Effectiveness Evidence
2 items35
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Independent review provides no response-rate data and notes that incorrect autofilled answers produced zero employer responses for qualified candidates in observed cases.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No third-party-validated outcome data (response or interview rates) was found for LazyApply.
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
2 items42
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Pricing is publicly listed ($99/$149/$999 per year) but billed annually upfront with no monthly option and no free trial.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
The 30-day refund requires the user to have applied to fewer than 100 jobs and the product to 'not function as expected'- a threshold a normal user crosses within a day, effectively voiding refund eligibility.
Support & Accountability
3 items42
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Support is email-only (team@/info@lazyapply.com); priority support is reserved for the $999 Ultimate tier, and the site's /about page returns a 404.
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Reviews repeatedly report ignored refund requests and unresponsive customer support as a top complaint theme.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Company is identifiable and has a track record - Peve Visions Private Limited, founded 2020 in Rewa, India, co-founded by Prakhar Gupta - providing some accountability despite the support complaints.
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Editorial notes
Company overview
LazyApply is a browser-extension mass-apply bot founded in 2020 and operated from Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, India by Peve Visions Private Limited (co-founder Prakhar Gupta), marketed primarily to job seekers in the US and Canada. It auto-fills and submits applications across LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Dice and Greenhouse from a saved profile using an autofill feature it brands 'Job GPT,' sends automated referral emails, and tracks submissions in an analytics dashboard. Plans are annual and billed upfront: Basic $99/yr (15 applications/day), Premium $149/yr (150/day) and Ultimate $999/yr (1,500/day), with no monthly option and no free trial.
Regulatory exposure
The core job-seeker risk is account safety and output accuracy. LazyApply automates LinkedIn applications, which LinkedIn's terms prohibit; it appears on a public blacklist of ToS-violating plugins, and reviewers report temporary restrictions or permanent account deletion from heavy use, a risk LazyApply's own terms disclaim entirely (service provided 'AS IS,' no responsibility for third-party sites). Because it maps profile fields to forms by pattern-matching with no review-before-submit step, independent hands-on testing found it silently entering wrong answers (e.g., salary expectations and H-1B visa-sponsorship status), which can misrepresent the candidate and suppress responses. On data, the extension rides the user's already logged-in browser session rather than harvesting job-board passwords (a relative positive), but its privacy policy permits sharing with advertisers/marketing partners and retention of up to six years, and it carries no SOC 2 or disclosed resume-encryption practices.
Path to a higher score
To become recommendable, LazyApply would need a genuine review-and-edit step before each submission, published anti-fabrication/accuracy safeguards, an end to (or explicit warning about) LinkedIn-ToS violations that endanger user accounts, a recognized security certification (SOC 2) with clear resume-data handling and deletion, a 30-day refund that is actually attainable under normal use, and demonstrably faster support. Until then it is a high-risk, volume-over-quality tool; job seekers who use it should confine it to lower-enforcement boards (Indeed/ZipRecruiter), avoid LinkedIn, and manually verify every autofilled field before trusting it.
Risk frame
What applies to auto-apply tools.
Highest job-seeker risk: mass auto-submission can violate job-board / ATS terms and get accounts flagged, and blind applying can send fabricated or mistargeted material under the seeker's name. Credential handling and a review-before-submit step matter most here.
Keep reading
Compare
LazyApply against its nearest-scoring peers.
The closest scores in Auto-apply tools, side by side.
- Side-by-sideLazyApply vs Jobright.ai46F
- Side-by-sideLazyApply vs AIApply43F
- Side-by-sideLazyApply vs JobsAICopilot42F
- Side-by-sideLazyApply vs Verve AI29F
Ranking
Others rated in Auto-apply tools
Ranked 10 of 11 by weighted total under rubric js-v1.0. The ordering is arithmetic on the rubric and carries no view on which tool suits a given hiring process.
- #7Jobright.ai46F
- #8AIApply43F
- #9JobsAICopilot42F
- #10LazyApplyThis profile37F
- #11Verve AI29F
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