Career Advice
hirecomb vs Wobo AI (2026): Free Forever and Unlimited, With One Catch
David Eric ·
Wobo AI sells unlimited applications for $34.99 a month. On that plan, you still pick every single job yourself.
Pick Wobo if you want to spend nothing to start, you apply from outside the US, and you are happy doing the choosing by hand at the cheaper tiers. Pick hirecomb if you want the choosing done for you on every paid plan, each application sent from your own Chrome so the company receives it from you, and a résumé per posting that has been checked for invented claims.
I build hirecomb, so weigh that. Every Wobo fact here is off their own pricing page on September 8, 2026, and where the page says nothing, this post says "not published." The rest of the field is in our 22-tool comparison.
What Wobo AI actually is
A cloud bot. Their servers do the applying, and Wobo says it "applies through each company's own career portal" rather than through aggregator listings, drawing on "50+ sources." No individual ATS is named. It works globally, with the US, Europe, Canada, and Australia called out.
Three tiers. Free is free forever with no credit card, capped at 5 jobs a day; Unlimited is $34.99 a month; Autopilot is $44.99. The page says you "save more with quarterly," but the quarterly prices are not in it, so the monthly numbers are the only reliable ones. Autopilot has a five-day free trial.
Then the part worth reading before you pay. Free and Unlimited are swipe-to-apply: Wobo surfaces jobs and you choose each one. Only Autopilot, at $44.99, has Wobo choosing what to apply to. The middle plan buys unlimited volume rather than unlimited automation. Nothing else is published: no tailoring detail, no approval step, no refund policy.
What hirecomb actually is
A web app plus a Chrome extension. The applying happens inside your own Chrome session: it opens the posting, fills the form from your profile and a résumé tailored to that posting, attaches the file, submits. On a captcha or odd form it hands the tab back with the fields filled and you click submit. We never ask for job-site passwords.
We apply on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workday, plus the guest-apply forms careers pages wrap around them. Every posting is scored against your actual résumé, the résumé is rewritten in that posting's wording, and a verification pass strips invented skills, tools, and numbers before you see the draft. You approve every version.
You set a daily background cap of 10, 20, 25, or 50 applies, and we hard-cap at two roles per company per day, because ATSes penalise ten applications to one company in an afternoon. Everything sent lands in Applied Jobs with a live status and follow-up reminders.
Plans: Basic $50/mo for 750 auto-applies, Pro $100/mo for 1,500, Ultra $150/mo for 3,000. Pro is free for seven days with 20 auto-applies; cancel before day seven and pay nothing. The honest limitation: nothing sends while Chrome is closed, and we do not touch LinkedIn Easy Apply.
Side by side
| Feature | hirecomb | Wobo AI |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Web app + Chrome extension | Cloud bot, swipe-to-apply plus an autopilot tier |
| Where the applying runs | Your own Chrome | Their servers |
| Submits for you? | Yes, on every paid plan | Yes; it also picks the jobs only on Autopilot |
| Price | $50 / $100 / $150 per month | Free / $34.99 / $44.99 per month; quarterly prices not published |
| Application cap | 750 / 1,500 / 3,000 a month; 10 to 50 a day, your setting | 5 a day on Free; "unlimited" on both paid tiers |
| Free tier / trial | Free matching, no card; 7-day Pro trial, 20 applies | Free forever, no card; 5-day Autopilot trial |
| ATS or board coverage | Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday + guest-apply forms | "50+ sources", company career portals; no ATS named |
| Résumé tailoring | Per posting, with a fabrication check | Not published |
| Control before send | You approve every résumé; odd forms handed back | You pick each job on Free and Unlimited |
| Restrictions | Chrome must be open; no Easy Apply | Job selection is automated only on the $44.99 tier |
Where Wobo AI wins
→ The free tier is a plan, not a countdown. Five jobs a day, forever, no card. Ours is a seven-day trial, so if you want to test auto-apply before spending anything, theirs is the better door.
→ Unlimited beats any per-application price. At $34.99 for unlimited applications, a heavy applier pays less than they would anywhere with a cap, including us.
→ It applies while your machine is off. A browser agent structurally cannot.
→ It works outside the US. Europe, Canada, and Australia are named. Plenty of tools here are US-only and say so late.
Where hirecomb wins
→ Automation on every paid plan. Our cheapest plan applies in the background without you picking each posting. On Wobo you either do the choosing yourself or move up to the $44.99 tier.
→ The application is authentically yours. It leaves your own browser at a human pace, the opposite of the traffic pattern career sites are tuned to filter, and each send is logged with a live status.
→ Nothing gets invented for you. Every tailored résumé passes a check that removes skills and numbers you never claimed, and you approve it before it goes.
→ A cap is a feature. Two applications per company per day, 10 to 50 a day total, aimed at a market where a chunk of the postings are not real. Unlimited is the opposite of a pace.
Who should pick which
Pick Wobo if budget is the constraint. Free forever at 5 jobs a day costs nothing to try, $34.99 buys unlimited applications, $44.99 hands over the choosing. If you are applying from Europe, Canada, or Australia, that coverage outweighs any feature comparison, because a US-only tool is unusable to you. Go in knowing the middle tier still expects you to pick every job.
Pick hirecomb if you want the decisions made well rather than fast. Every posting is scored against your real résumé, the résumé is rewritten per posting and checked for invented claims, applications go out of your own Chrome on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workday, two per company a day, every send logged. You pay more per application and your Chrome has to be open.
FAQ
Is Wobo AI free?
There is a genuinely free tier: 5 jobs a day, forever, no credit card. Paid is $34.99 a month for Unlimited and $44.99 for Autopilot, which has a five-day free trial. Their page mentions a quarterly discount without publishing the quarterly prices.
Does Wobo AI actually pick and submit jobs for you?
It submits on all tiers, from its servers, through each company's own career portal. It only picks the jobs on Autopilot at $44.99 a month. On Free and Unlimited you swipe through matches and choose each one, so the middle plan is unlimited sending rather than unlimited automation.
What's the difference between hirecomb and Wobo AI?
Wobo is a cloud bot with a free tier, unlimited paid volume, and job selection automated only on its top plan. hirecomb applies from your own Chrome on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and Workday, tailors a résumé per posting with a fabrication check, and applies in the background on every paid plan at a capped pace. Wobo costs less and works with your laptop closed; hirecomb costs more and each application comes from you.
Sources: wobo.ai/pricing, checked September 8, 2026. hirecomb details from our own live pricing. The full 22-tool table is in hirecomb vs every other auto-apply tool. Prices in this category change monthly; check the vendor page before relying on a number.