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Moving on from Applied? Keep hiring fairly.

Applied is closing in 2027. Screenloop is an all-in-one ATS and Interview Intelligence platform built for structured, fair hiring, with a migration path from Applied and special pricing for Applied customers.

The Applied switcher package

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A guided migration path for your jobs, candidates and documents

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Onboarding and DEI reporting set up with our team

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Special pricing for organisations moving from Applied

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Rated 4.9/5 on G2

43 reviews, Oct 2026

SOC 2 certified

Independently audited

AI does the admin

Humans make the decisions

Blind screening

Anonymised early review stages

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO APPLIED

Applied is closing. Your hiring process doesn’t have to start again.

Applied is closing. Your hiring process doesn’t have to start again.

Applied (beapplied.com) was acquired by Phenom in February 2026. Phenom has described Applied as an assessment solution, and customers have been told the applicant tracking system is being switched off in 2027. The Applied website now redirects to the login page.

If you chose Applied for anonymised sifting, structured scoring and diversity reporting, the question is not whether to move but where to, and how to keep the fair-hiring process you built. That is what this page is for.

(Dates to confirm with Applied before publishing.)

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Illustration of a person shrugging between two candidate cards, surrounded by question marks

Feb 2026

Phenom acquires Applied

Announced 10 February 2026. Applied joins Phenom’s skills-assessment offer.

2026

Customers told the ATS will close

Renewals stop and the marketing site comes down. Teams start reviewing alternatives.

Now

Plan the switch

Export your data, choose a fair-hiring ATS, and set a go-live date that beats your contract end.

2027

Applied switches off

Anything still in Applied is gone. Be live elsewhere well before this.

ANONYMISED SCREENING

Blind first reviews, built into your hiring workflow

Blind first reviews, built into your hiring workflow

Blind first reviews, built into your hiring workflow

Choose which stages are blind. While a candidate is in them, your hiring team reviews what they’ve written and done, not who they are: name, contact details, location, current company and personal details in the CV are hidden. Their details return back when they advance through the stages.

Choose the blind stages

Turn on anonymised screening for any stage without an interview, such as Applied and Application Review, in your job workflow.

Profile and CV redacted

Names are masked in the pipeline. Contact details, location, experience and current company are hidden, and personal details are redacted from the CV.

Details return when they progress

Move a candidate on to a phone screen or interview stage and the hiring team sees their full profile.

Get a full product tour

Screenloop candidate profile showing scorecard activity, rating and tags

Fairness-first hiring, in one platform.

Screenloop brings applicant tracking, structured interviews, Interview Intelligence, Pulse surveys, reference checks and Data & Analytics into one place. AI does the admin. Humans make the decisions.

Screenloop candidate profile showing scorecard activity, rating and tags

Fairness-first hiring, in one platform.

Screenloop brings applicant tracking, structured interviews, Interview Intelligence, Pulse surveys, reference checks and Data & Analytics into one place. AI does the admin. Humans make the decisions.

Screenloop candidate profile showing scorecard activity, rating and tags

Fairness-first hiring, in one platform.

Screenloop brings applicant tracking, structured interviews, Interview Intelligence, Pulse surveys, reference checks and Data & Analytics into one place. AI does the admin. Humans make the decisions.

APPLIED ALTERNATIVE, LIKE FOR LIKE

What you used in Applied, and what it becomes in Screenloop

What you used in Applied, and what it becomes in Screenloop

In Applied

In Screenloop

Anonymised sift of application answers

Blind screening on the stages you choose: name, contact details, location, experience, current company and CV details stay hidden until the candidate moves on

Structured, scored assessments

Structured interviews with rating cards, plus Interview Intelligence: every interview recorded, transcribed and summarised

Diversity data and pipeline reports

Optional equality and diversity questions at application, Pulse surveys and Data & Analytics to see where candidates drop out

Candidate feedback by email

Pulse surveys to candidates and hiring teams at the right moments, with Candidate NPS (cNPS)

Interview scheduling by hand

Smart Scheduling: candidates pick their own slot from your team’s availability

Job board posting

Post to job boards from Screenloop and track where candidates come from

‘Hired’ webhook to your HRIS

Integrations with your HRIS and calendar, plus reference and background checks inside the candidate record

Video interviews via a separate tool

AI Notetaker works with Zoom, Teams and Google Meet. No new video platform

Illustration of two hands holding up candidate cards
Illustration of two hands holding up candidate cards
Anonymised early stages

Hide names, contact details and other identifying details while you sift, so the first look is about the answers.

Illustration of a person on a video call with a recorded interview on screen
Illustration of a person on a video call with a recorded interview on screen
Structured interviews

Every interview follows the same questions and rating cards, and is recorded, transcribed and summarised.

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Illustration of a person presenting charts and insight cards with ticks
DEI reporting

Capture equality and diversity data at application and see where candidates drop out, stage by stage.

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Illustration of a happy person working at a tidy desk
One platform

Jobs, pipelines, Smart Scheduling, surveys, references and analytics in one place. Fewer tools, fewer logins.

Illustration of a person sending candidate feedback by paper plane
Illustration of a person sending candidate feedback by paper plane
Candidate experience, measured

Pulse sends short surveys to candidates and hiring teams at the right moments, including Candidate NPS (cNPS).

Illustration of a person running a video interview while a small robot takes notes
Illustration of a person running a video interview while a small robot takes notes
Humans make the decisions

Our only AI is the notetaker. AI writes the notes, not the verdict.

ATS

Pipelines you can tailor to your processes, not the other way round.

Build your pipeline, post your jobs, let candidates pick their own interview slot, and keep every candidate in the loop. Anonymised stages sit where you need them.

Screenloop pipeline board with candidates grouped by stage and pass-through rates
Screenloop pipeline board with candidates grouped by stage and pass-through rates
Interview Intelligence flow in Screenloop: record, transcript, summary, saved into the ATS
Interview Intelligence flow in Screenloop: record, transcript, summary, saved into the ATS

INTERVIEW INTELLIGENCE

Decide on what was actually said, not just on what was remembered.

Interview Intelligence records, transcribes and summarises every interview, so your hiring managers get the evidence they need to make the right decisions, fast. Summaries are saved straight into the candidate record.

PULSE

Candidate experience measured, not guessed at.

Pulse sends short surveys to candidates and hiring teams at the right moments, to show you what’s working and what to improve. Measure and improve your Candidate NPS.

Candidate Pulse surveys sent at each stage: applied, interviewed, rejected, dropped out and hired
Candidate Pulse surveys sent at each stage: applied, interviewed, rejected, dropped out and hired
Spreadsheets, calendar invites, manual emails, survey forms and reference chasing replaced by one Screenloop platform
Spreadsheets, calendar invites, manual emails, survey forms and reference chasing replaced by one Screenloop platform

ONE PLATFORM

One platform. Fewer tools. Lower costs.

Every tool you add to your hiring stack adds a licence, a login, a new system to learn and a gap where information gets lost. Screenloop brings applicant tracking, interview intelligence, scheduling, surveys, references and analytics into one platform.

AI WITH HUMANS IN THE LOOP

AI does the admin. Humans make the decisions.

AI does the admin. Humans make the decisions.

If you left Applied’s candidates unranked by algorithm on purpose, you’ll want to know this: Screenloop’s only AI is the notetaker. It writes the notes, transcripts and summaries. It never scores, ranks or screens a candidate. Your team interviews, scores and makes the decisions.

Interview data is never used to train AI models. Candidates are told in advance what’s captured and why, with easy, optional opt out.

AI does the admin, humans make the decisions: Screenloop's notetaker writes notes, transcripts and summaries while the hiring team decides
AI does the admin, humans make the decisions: Screenloop's notetaker writes notes, transcripts and summaries while the hiring team decides

THE APPLIED SWITCHER PACKAGE

What’s in the Applied switcher package?

What’s in the Applied switcher package?

What’s in the Applied switcher package?

Everything you need to move, set up and keep hiring fairly, without starting from scratch.

Migration help

A guided path with help from people who care.

Leaving Applied checklist

What to download before your account closes, and in what order

DEI and blind screening

DEI and blind screening

Diversity questions, reporting and anonymised stages configured with you from day one

Diversity questions, reporting and anonymised stages configured with you from day one

Onboarding

Your team trained, your pipelines and templates set up

Special pricing

Quote APPLIED2027 when you get in touch

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One person at Screenloop for the whole move

HOW THE MOVE WORKS

From Applied to live on Screenloop in four steps

From Applied to live on Screenloop in four steps

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Illustration for “Talk to us”

1. Talk to us

A 30-minute call about your roles, your process and what you need to keep from Applied. Quote your code.

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Illustration for “Export from Applied”

2. Export from Applied

Work through the Leaving Applied checklist below. We can do it with you on a screen share.

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Illustration for “Migrate and set up”

3. Migrate and set up

We help make the switch as smooth as possible for you and onboard you onto Screenloop.

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Illustration for “Go live before Applied closes”

4. Go live before Applied closes

Your next role opens in Screenloop with anonymised stages and structured interviews from day one. Applied can switch off; you’re already gone.

BEFORE YOUR ACCOUNT CLOSES

Leaving Applied: your data checklist

Leaving Applied: your data checklist

Leaving Applied: your data checklist

Applied has no API for candidate data, so your history leaves as files. Work through these six exports in order, and keep them somewhere safe. They are useful whichever ATS you choose.

Start step 1 now, even if your contract runs for months. Exports take longer than expected when you have many roles.

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Export each role

Download the Role Reporter CSV of candidates and statuses for every role, open and closed.

2

Save candidate documents

Export CVs, sift answers and interview summaries for the candidates you want to keep.

3

Download the Global Report

If your plan includes it, export all applications for your full history.

4

Keep your impact reports

Save your quarterly and annual DEI impact reports. Individual-level diversity data can’t be exported.

5

Copy your questions

Keep job descriptions, sift questions and interview questions as documents.

6

Note your integrations

List any webhooks, Zaps or job-board feeds that will stop when Applied closes.

Three people involved in hiring who use Screenloop
Three people involved in hiring who use Screenloop

WHO SWITCHES TO SCREENLOOP

Built for teams that hire fairly on purpose

Charities, social enterprises, think tanks, membership bodies and mission-led companies: usually 50 to 500 people, 10 to 50 hires a year, one small talent team and lots of hiring managers who need the process to be simple. If that is you, Screenloop was built with you in mind.

Talent leads get less admin and fewer drop-offs. Hiring managers get an interview experience they’ll love. Leadership gets a fair process and the reports that prove it.

QUESTIONS PEOPLE ASK WHEN THEY LEAVE APPLIED

Moving from Applied: your questions answered

Moving from Applied: your questions answered

Is Applied (beapplied.com) shutting down?

Applied was acquired by Phenom in February 2026 and customers have been told the applicant tracking system is being switched off in 2027. Check your own contract end date and plan to be live elsewhere before it. (Date to confirm before publishing.)

Can I move my data from Applied to Screenloop?

Yes. We help make the switch as smooth as possible: we’ll talk through what you want to bring across from Applied and onboard you onto Screenloop.

Will I lose my diversity data?

Applied only shows equality and diversity data in aggregate, so individual-level history can’t be exported by anyone. Keep your Applied impact reports as a record, and start capturing DEI data in Screenloop from your first role.

Does Screenloop do anonymised or blind hiring?

Yes. You choose which early stages are blind, and while candidates are in them their name, contact details, location, experience, current company and personal details in the CV are hidden from the hiring team. Details reappear when a candidate moves to an interview stage, where structured interviews with rating cards keep the process consistent. The walkthrough above shows it step by step.

Does Screenloop use AI to screen or rank candidates?

No. Screenloop’s only AI is the notetaker. AI writes the notes, not the verdict. Your team interviews, scores and makes the decisions, and interview data is never used to train AI models.

How much does Screenloop cost for Applied customers?

Organisations moving from Applied get special pricing and migration help: quote APPLIED2027 when you contact us and we’ll send a proposal based on the number of roles you hire for each year.

Is Screenloop a good Applied alternative for charities?

Screenloop is an all-in-one ATS and Interview Intelligence platform used by charities, social enterprises and mission-led organisations that want structured, fair hiring without a stack of separate tools.

How long does Screenloop keep candidate data?

You decide. In Settings › Data Privacy, set a retention period from 3 months to 2 years after a candidate is rejected, and Screenloop anonymises their data automatically when it ends. For an earlier deletion request, contact your Customer Success Manager.

Ready to leave Applied behind?

Ready to leave Applied behind?

Tell us about your roles and your contract end date. We’ll send a proposal and a migration plan within a few days.

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