HireTale

HireTale turns Google Sheets into a full recruiting platform with resume parsing, candidate tracking, and a color-coded hiring pipeline. It's designed for startups, small businesses, and freelancers who want hiring tools without expensive software or training. The interface works through forms and a sidebar rather than direct cell editing, with built-in protection against accidental changes.

Key features include automated resume parsing from 12 file types, a pending candidates view to prevent missed follow-ups, fully customizable stages and fields, and unlimited team collaborators on a single spreadsheet. The maker says it was built with Claude through dozens of iterations. A forever-free tier includes 30 monthly resume parses, with paid plans adding more parsing capacity and recent candidate history.