Opening Hunch drops you into a three-minute setup that feels more like chatting than form-filling. You can speak or type to explain what kind of work you're after, and the AI picks up on natural language without needing you to memorize job title taxonomies or category dropdowns. Tell it you want marketing roles that let you work remotely, and it gets to work.
The interface looks like a dating app. Job cards show up daily with a percentage match score that compares your skills against what the role actually needs, and you swipe right or left. It aims to feel less exhausting than scrolling LinkedIn or Indeed, where listings blur together and the sheer volume creates decision paralysis. The swipe mechanic forces a yes or no (no lingering).
When you match with a job, Hunch writes a custom CV and cover letter in seconds. These aren't templates with your name swapped in. The software pulls from the job description and reshapes your experience to highlight what that specific employer cares about. You can edit before it goes out, but the baseline version usually lands close to what you'd write after staring at a blank page for twenty minutes.
The auto-apply feature sends applications without you clicking through company portals or re-entering your address for the fiftieth time. Hunch searches 1.5 million jobs and handles the repetitive submission work. There's also a ghost job buster that flags listings that look fake or stale, which saves time on roles that were never real openings.
The interview simulator permits you practice answering questions, and the smart tracker shows where each application stands. Everything lives in a drag and drop dashboard that doesn't require a tutorial to figure out. The whole system assumes you'll spend about ten minutes a day swiping and reviewing what the AI queued up.
With 10,000 users and a 4.8 rating across 14,000 reviews, it seems to work for graduates breaking into tech, finance, marketing, and design. The friction shows up when you want more control over which jobs even make it to your card stack. You're trusting the AI's judgment on what counts as a good match, and if its taste doesn't align with yours, you'll waste swipes on irrelevant roles.
There's a free plan that includes daily job matches, automatic CVs and cover letters, the interview simulator, tracking, and access to the full 1.5 million job database. Most features aren't paywalled.