Manatal review

Manatal is recruiting software for sourcing candidates, managing hiring pipelines and coordinating hiring. It combines applicant tracking with tools for finding and screening candidates, rather than focusing only on storing resumes.

Recruiters can source candidates from job boards, LinkedIn, referrals and other channels, then organize applicants in customizable pipeline stages on a drag-and-drop Kanban board. Manatal says it enriches profiles with information from more than 20 social and public platforms and uses AI to score candidates against job requirements and recommend matches.

Other features include branded career pages that teams can create or connect without development work, plus automated interviews available around the clock. The AI Interviewer is listed as a paid add-on, not as a standard plan feature. The fit depends on how your team hires: a Reddit commenter describes Manatal’s workflow as geared more toward staffing agencies than in-house recruiting, though that is one user’s assessment, not a product-wide rule.

The price is the clearest argument for considering Manatal. According to the pricing page, Professional costs $19 per user per month with monthly billing, or $15 per user per month billed yearly. It includes up to 15 jobs per account, up to 10,000 candidates and unlimited hiring managers. That gives smaller teams a defined entry point before they need an enterprise ATS.

The feature set covers much of the day-to-day recruiting workflow: candidate sourcing, pipeline management, profile enrichment, AI recommendations and career pages. Teams can also use automated interviews through the AI Interviewer add-on. One Reddit commenter praised the value at the $15 annual rate, while others said Manatal does what they need; those are individual reports, not a guarantee of fit.

The higher tiers add room to grow. Enterprise is $39 monthly or $35 yearly per user and includes unlimited jobs and candidates, plus workflow automation. Enterprise Plus is $59 monthly or $55 yearly and adds an advanced report builder, Open API, single sign-on and priority support. For teams that need a basic ATS without paying for a larger platform’s full feature set, that tier structure is worth comparing.

Professional has firm ceilings: 15 jobs per account and 10,000 candidates. Teams that exceed either limit need to move to Enterprise, which costs $39 per user monthly or $35 yearly. Hiring managers are unlimited on Professional, but jobs and candidate records are not. There is no free plan listed; whether a free trial is available is not published on the vendor's site.

Some useful extras are separate or less clear on cost. The AI Interviewer, custom-domain Guest Portal branding and posting through existing job contracts are listed as add-ons, but their prices are not published. Custom pricing is required for teams that need custom integrations; that plan includes a dedicated account manager and phone support, but the price is also not published.

Workflow fit is another question. A commenter on r/recruiting says the flow is geared toward agency work, with clients and job ads rather than job requisitions, and calls the matching and interface weak. Other Reddit users disagree about the experience, so treat those comments as mixed anecdotes. In-house teams should confirm that the pipeline and reporting suit their process before switching.

Manatal starts at $15 per user/month with annual billing. The pricing page lists Professional at $19 monthly or $15 annually, with a limit of 15 jobs and 10,000 candidates per account. It includes unlimited hiring managers.

Enterprise costs $39 monthly or $35 annually. It removes the job and candidate caps and adds workflow automation. That is a $20-per-user monthly increase over Professional on either billing schedule. Enterprise Plus is $59 monthly or $55 annually, adding an advanced report builder, Open API, single sign-on and priority support. Custom pricing is for teams needing custom integrations.

Annual billing has lower listed rates; Singaporean tax residents may also owe GST. There is no free plan, and a free trial is not listed on the vendor's site. Add-ons include AI Interviewer, custom-domain Guest Portal branding and posting through existing job contracts; prices for all three are not published.

We can’t give a reliable migration-effort estimate from the published materials: they don’t specify import formats, migration services, export formats or an exit process. Before moving candidate records and hiring history, ask Manatal what can be imported and exported, in what format, and whether any fees or plan restrictions apply. The Open API is listed for Enterprise Plus and Custom, but that alone doesn’t establish what data you can retrieve or how easily.

The published published material contains no Reddit posts, so we can’t substantiate claims about why users leave or how they describe switching. Treat lock-in and migration risk as open questions, not settled facts. Get written answers about data ownership, bulk export, attachments, notes and pipeline history before committing. If you’re switching from Manatal, confirm export access and timing with the vendor first; the available information doesn’t document either.