Jobscan hands you the submit button. CoBlack presses it

What Jobscan built

James Hu started Jobscan in 2013 after his own job search, and the company has spent a decade on one question: does this resume match this posting. The scanner returns a match rate from hard skills, education, job title and keywords, and sets the bar on its own page: “A score of 75+ is the target.” Free accounts get five scans a month. Jobscan knows applicant tracking systems better than almost anyone selling to job seekers.

In June 2026 it added Auto Apply, its first move from scoring applications to sending them. Roles come from Greenhouse, Lever, Workable and what the page calls 20 or more applicant tracking platforms.

The review step is the product

Jobscan does not treat approval as a setting. It is the point. The Auto Apply page says “The Submit button is always yours” and “Nothing submits without your approval,” and the FAQ closes the question of whether that gate can be lifted: “No. Every application goes through a review step before submission.”

Its August 2026 comparison piece puts it in one line: “aiApply decides what to send. Jobscan drafts it and lets you decide.” Reviewing each application catches errors before they go out under your name, and stops you applying to a posting you have never seen. That argument has merit.

The gate has a price. Auto Apply is metered in credits, one per application. The Auto Apply page, read on 25 September 2026, gives Premium members two free credits a month, topped up rather than accumulated, with packs at $8.50 for five and $35.00 for twenty-five. That is $1.70 down to $1.40 an application, or roughly $1.12 to $1.36 with the 20 percent subscriber discount listed on the pricing page. The model is plain: “Pay only for what you submit.” Premium is $49.95 a month, or $29.98 billed quarterly at $89.95.

What the reviews say

Jobscan holds 4.3 out of 5 on Trustpilot across 341 reviews, read on 25 September 2026, with 83 percent of them at five stars. One from September 2026 credits the match score with surfacing keyword gaps in Workday scans that candidates miss.

CoBlack sells a competing product, so read this piece against its sources the same way.

Where CoBlack stands

CoBlack removed the step Jobscan built its product around. Submission runs server side, with no review screen, no final click, no extension and no tab to keep open. The only control is a toggle that pauses everything, not a queue asking you to approve each one.

Nothing is metered. Point is free and sends eight tailored applications a month with no card, Vector is $19.99 for 200 and Matrix is $39.99 for 400, described on the site as “flat and predictable, never metered by credits or tokens.” Openings come from employers’ own applicant tracking systems rather than public job boards, in the United States and Canada. Each one gets its own resume, built as a PDF from your structured profile.

Three things CoBlack does not do. It has no review step, so if approving each application is what you want, Jobscan is built for that and CoBlack is not. It does not score your resume against a posting you found yourself, which is Jobscan’s core product and a good one. And it does not guarantee that an employer received or reviewed an application.

Who each one is for

Jobscan suits someone who wants to see every application before it goes, wants a match report on a posting they found themselves, and will pay for each send. At two credits a month included, it is built for a few careful applications.

The same person at CoBlack sets up a campaign once and approves nothing after that. The first eight applications a month cost nothing, the next two hundred cost $19.99, and no send is charged on its own.

The difference is who presses submit, and what it costs each time.