Huntr Review 2026: Is "Trello for Job Search" Still Enough?

If you are still tracking your job applications in an Excel spreadsheet color-coded with "Red" for rejection and "Green" for interviews, you know the pain. It’s messy, it’s depressing, and it breaks the moment you forget to update a row.

Enter Huntr, one of the original tools designed to fix the "Spreadsheet Fatigue."

I spent two weeks using Huntr to manage a mock job search. Here is the breakdown of whether it’s the right command center for your next career move.

The Good: Visualizing the Pipeline

Huntr’s core value proposition is simple: It takes your messy list and turns it into a clean Kanban Board.

If you have used Trello or Jira, you will feel at home. You create columns (Wishlist, Applied, Interview, Offer), and you drag cards from left to right.

There is a genuine psychological benefit to this. Dragging a card from "Applied" to "Interview" feels like a win. It gamifies the progress in a way that changing a cell in Excel never could. The interface is clean, minimal, and does exactly what it says on the tin.

The Chrome Extension

Huntr offers a browser extension that lets you "clip" jobs from LinkedIn or Indeed. It grabs the title, company, and URL. It works reasonably well on major sites, saving you from copy-pasting the basics.

The Limitation: The "Data Entry" Tax

While Huntr is a massive upgrade from a spreadsheet, it still feels... manual.

The extension captures the basics, but if you want to log specific details—like the salary range, the hiring manager's name, or your specific notes on the role—you are doing a lot of typing.

It acts as a Passive Container. It holds the information you give it, but it doesn't necessarily help you get the job. It doesn't analyze your resume against the job description, and it doesn't give you strategy advice. It just holds the card.

Verdict

Huntr is the "Digital Filing Cabinet" of job searching.

If your main struggle is just organization—keeping track of where you applied so you don't double-apply—it is a fantastic, low-cost tool.

However, if you are looking for a tool that actively helps you optimize your materials or automate the follow-up process, you might find Huntr a bit too "static" for a high-volume search.

Rating: 3.5/5 - Great for organization, light on automation.