Dover

🎯 Should you use Dover?

Buy if: You need a working ATS that costs zero dollars and you hire fewer than 10 people per year.

Skip if: You run a recruiting agency, hire across multiple entities, or need actual customer support when something breaks.

⚡ In practice

• ●Setup: 20 minutes to connect job boards and email
• ●Job posting: Posts to 8 boards automatically, saves 40 minutes per role
• ●AI sourcing: Searches LinkedIn profiles, enriches 60% of contact data accurately
• ●Candidate tracking: Basic kanban board, no custom fields or advanced reporting

⚠️ Where it breaks

• ●Email bounce rate sits around 25-30% because enrichment pulls stale data from aggregators.
• ●No multi-company support, so agencies and holding groups hit a wall immediately.
• ●Support is slow (48+ hour response times) and product updates break workflows without warning.

💸 Is it worth the money?

Free tier handles 5 active jobs and basic pipeline management. Paid tier pricing is not published, but user reports suggest $400-600/month once you exceed job limits or need AI sourcing credits.

🆚 If not this

• ●Ashby -> when you need actual reporting, multi-entity support, and reliable uptime
• ●Greenhouse -> when you hire 50+ people per year and need structured interview scorecards
• ●Loxo -> when you are an agency and need CRM, ATS, and sourcing in one paid system

🎯 Final verdict

Free ATS that works for tiny startups who hire occasionally and tolerate missing features, but outgrow it fast.