Answerly vs Simplify: which one should you actually install?
Simplify is the extension most people already have installed, and for good reason, it's free, it works on a lot of sites, and it does the basic job of not making you retype your resume. If you're comparing it to Answerly, the honest answer is they overlap less than you'd think.
What Simplify does well
Simplify's free tier autofills job applications on a wide range of sites, tracks every application you submit in one place, and pulls job listings from a large number of company career pages. It also has an AI suggestion feature for open-ended application questions, not just basic fields.
Coverage is Simplify's real strength. It works on more sites than Answerly's autofill, which is verified on a specific set of ATS platforms rather than attempting to support everything.
Where Simplify gets inconsistent
Multiple reviewers report that Simplify's AI suggestions for less common or custom questions ("describe a challenge you overcame," unusual free-text fields) aren't always reliable, sometimes skipped, sometimes filled with leftover text from a different application. Worth double-checking those fields before you submit, same as you should with any autofill tool.
The deeper AI features, resume tailoring, ATS scoring, cover letters, and networking emails, live behind Simplify+, reported at around $20 a week or roughly $40 a month if you pay monthly (Simplify doesn't publish a plain pricing page, so treat this as an approximate, not confirmed figure).
What Answerly does differently
Answerly's autofill covers fewer platforms, verified on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, BambooHR, Rippling, and a handful of others rather than as many sites as possible. In exchange, the AI features, resume tailoring, cover letters, interview prep, and LinkedIn tools, are included in an affordable paid tier instead of a separate premium product priced closer to $40-50 a month.
That pricing gap is the real reason I built this. I kept seeing job search tools charge that much for people who are unemployed and need it most, and it never sat right with me. Autofill itself is free and unlimited on every Answerly plan, and the paid AI tiers start at $6.99 a month.
Answerly also never submits an application on its own. It fills the form and drafts the content, you review and click submit yourself, a real feature, not a marketing line, and one Simplify's autofill shares in spirit since neither tool auto-submits for you.
Which one to install
If your applications are spread across a lot of different, smaller company career pages and broad coverage matters most, Simplify's reach is a real advantage.
If you're applying mostly on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, or the other platforms Answerly covers, and you want the AI features without a $40-50 a month bill, Answerly is built for that tradeoff instead.
Plenty of people could reasonably run both, Simplify for the sites it covers that Answerly doesn't, Answerly for the AI depth at a fraction of the price. Neither one is lying about what it does, they just made different bets on where to spend the engineering effort.