LoopCV
HireAIScore rates LoopCV 50 out of 100 (grade F, Substantial gaps) under rubric js-v1.0, last reviewed July 17, 2026. LoopCV ranks 5 of 11 vendors rated in Auto-apply tools, against a category average of 48. That score is drawn from 14 evidence items across 7 rubric criteria for LoopCV — 12 with a cited source, 2 recording that nothing was located.
Score breakdown
LoopCV, 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
55
+11.0
Data & Credential Safety
Weight 20% · category avg 50
40
+8.0
User Control & Transparency
Weight 15% · category avg 54
60
+9.0
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Weight 15% · category avg 45
38
+5.7
Effectiveness Evidence
Weight 12% · category avg 38
35
+4.2
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Weight 10% · category avg 47
65
+6.5
Support & Accountability
Weight 8% · category avg 53
68
+5.4
Total weighted score
49.8(rounded to 50 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
Support & Accountability
68raw / 100
Contributes 5.4 to the total. 68 against a 53 category average.
Weakest criterion
Effectiveness Evidence
35raw / 100
Contributes 4.2 to the total. 35 against a 38 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
- 14
- Documentation
- 6
- Public statement
- 5
- Product feature
- 1
- Absence
- 2
- With a source URL
- 12 of 14
- Source hostnames
- 6
- Fewest items
- 1
- Employer & ATS Legitimacy
These figures measure how thoroughly LoopCV was reviewed, not how LoopCV performed — an absence row, recording that nothing was located, is counted like any other item.
Application Honesty
3 items55
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Applications are sent under the user's name with their own uploaded CV and details, with no rewriting or inflation of the resume itself.
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
The Premium 'AI Answering' feature auto-generates answers to job-specific screening questions with no published guardrail against inaccurate or inflated responses.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No published no-fabrication policy or explicit honesty guardrails were found on LoopCV's website or Freshdesk help center.
Data & Credential Safety
3 items40
- Product featureCaptured Jul 17, 2026
LoopCV instructs users to enter their Gmail SMTP App Password (host smtp.gmail.com, port 587) into their LoopCV profile so it can send emails from the user's own account.
https://loopcv.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/103000257680-smtp-settings-b2b
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
The privacy policy allows data download/deletion via support@loopcv.com and shares data with third parties to complete applications, but states no encryption standard or credential-handling detail.
- AbsenceCaptured Jul 17, 2026
No SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other security audit/certification was found; encryption and no-sell claims appear only on marketing/regional mirror pages, not the official privacy policy.
User Control & Transparency
2 items60
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Provides a 'One-Click Apply' mode to review each matched job before applying as an alternative to full auto-apply, plus pause, company-exclusion and filter controls.
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
In full-automation mode applications and recruiter emails are sent without per-application review, and reviewers report mismatched or irrelevant sends.
https://www.adzuna.com/blog/loopcv-review-and-the-best-alternatives/
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
1 item38
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Reviews document a large gap between matched jobs and actual submissions plus 'Easy Apply button not found' failures on enterprise ATS like Workday and Greenhouse.
Effectiveness Evidence
2 items35
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Homepage claims users get '3x more interviews' / 'find your job 3x faster' and interview-rate figures with no cited study, methodology, or data source.
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
A third-party review cites users matched to 1,800+ jobs with zero actual applications and a 2.0/5 Product Hunt score, contradicting the outcome claims.
https://www.adzuna.com/blog/loopcv-review-and-the-best-alternatives/
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
1 item65
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Publishes transparent pricing (free-forever tier, paid from EUR 9.99/mo) with a stated 7-day refund policy conditioned on under-10% quota usage.
Support & Accountability
2 items68
- Public statementCaptured Jul 17, 2026
Trustpilot rating of 3.9/5 across 123 reviews with support repeatedly praised as responsive (named staff), alongside 20% 1-star reviews.
https://6figr.com/blog/loopcv-review-is-it-worth-your-money-in-2026-631
- DocumentationCaptured Jul 17, 2026
The former UK entity LOOPCV LTD (incorporated 2020) was dissolved on 27 January 2026, leaving the current operating legal entity undisclosed.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12844959
Editorial notes
Company overview
LoopCV is a job-search automation platform founded in 2019 and based in Thessaloniki, Greece, that continuously scans 30+ job boards, matches a user's uploaded CV to new postings, and applies on their behalf through ATS form-fills, LinkedIn Easy Apply (via a Chrome extension), and templated emails to recruiters, with a dashboard that tracks opens/replies and A/B-tests CVs. It runs a genuine free-forever tier (no card required) plus paid plans from roughly EUR 9.99/mo (Standard) to EUR 29.99/mo (Pro), and claims 50,000+ users across 90+ countries. Its former UK company, LOOPCV LTD, was dissolved in January 2026, so the current operating legal entity is not clearly disclosed on the site.
Regulatory exposure
The main job-seeker risks here are credential and reputational rather than resume fabrication: LoopCV uploads the user's own unaltered CV, but to send recruiter emails it asks users to store a Gmail SMTP App Password in their LoopCV profile, meaning LoopCV holds a revocable-but-full send/read credential to the user's inbox, and its official privacy policy names no encryption standard, SOC 2, or ISO certification. Its high-volume auto-apply and mass recruiter emailing draw complaints of spam-like, mismatched outreach (reviewers report emails to CEOs and closed roles), and LinkedIn automation can conflict with LinkedIn's no-bots terms, putting the user's account at some risk. Premium 'AI Answering' auto-fills job-specific screening questions with no published honesty guardrail, and a widely reported gap between thousands of 'matches' and few actual submissions makes real outcomes inconsistent.
Path to a higher score
LoopCV is a real, multi-year company with transparent pricing, a free tier, and self-service cancellation, and is safest used in its 'One-Click Apply' review-each-job mode rather than blind full-automation, and with a dedicated, revocable Gmail App Password rather than a primary account credential. To raise its score it should publish concrete security detail (encryption at rest, any audit or certification) and explain how the stored SMTP credential is protected, add explicit honesty guardrails and a review step for AI-generated screening answers, provide account-safety guidance for LinkedIn and job-board automation, and substantiate its '3x interviews / 3x faster' marketing with real outcome data.
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
LoopCV against its nearest-scoring peers.
The closest scores in Auto-apply tools, side by side.
- Side-by-sideLoopCV vs Massive50F
- Side-by-sideLoopCV vs Sonara49F
- Side-by-sideLoopCV vs Jobright.ai46F
- Side-by-sideLoopCV vs AIApply43F
Ranking
Others rated in Auto-apply tools
Ranked 5 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.
- #2LandEarly62D
- #3Simplify (Simplify Jobs)59F
- #4Massive50F
- #5LoopCVThis profile50F
- #6Sonara49F
- #7Jobright.ai46F
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