Open Recruiter Tools

Free, open-source tools for recruiters that run on your own machine. Candidate data never leaves it.

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MIT licensed · no accounts · no analytics · no uploads

More tools

LinkedIn Toolkit

Search, research and outreach on LinkedIn from your own logged-in browser — an MCP server and a Chrome extension, driven by you or by your AI agent, with a human approval queue before anything is sent. An open-source alternative to Waalaxy and PhantomBuster.

Never sends: your session, your prospects, your messages. Everything stays in your browser and a local database.

LinkedIn Unfollow

Unfollow everyone in your feed in one click, connections included, at human pace. A Chrome extension that quiets the feed without disconnecting you from anybody.

Never sends: anything. No account, no server, no analytics.

Google Slides Builder

Build Google Slides decks from Python without the API's EMU maths and field masks — candidate shortlists and client decks written as plain code.

Never sends: nothing beyond your own Google account.

Why this exists

Recruiters handle some of the most sensitive personal data there is: CVs, salaries, home addresses, right-to-work documents. Every day it gets pasted into whatever free tool comes up first on Google. Merge two PDFs? Upload the CV. Redact a name? Upload it. Automate outreach? Hand your account and your prospect list to a cloud service. Most of those services keep the files, some train on them, and almost none are covered by the data agreement you signed with your client or your candidate.

It happens because the tools recruiters actually need are small, boring utilities nobody bothered to build properly. There should be a place for the other kind: tools that do one recruiting job well, run on your own machine, and send nothing anywhere. Open source, so you can read exactly what they do. Free, because a PDF merge should not cost money or a candidate's privacy.

How every tool here works

It runs locally

In your own browser, as an extension you load yourself, or as a program on your own laptop. There is no server in the middle, because there is no server.

It is free, and MIT licensed

No account, no trial, no seat. Fork it, change it, run it inside your agency if that is what you need.

You can read the source

No telemetry, no analytics, no third-party requests. Where a tool can avoid a build step it does — what you install is what is in the repository.

Help build it

This is meant to be built with recruiters, not just for them. Three ways in, and the first one matters most:

  • Tell us what you need. Which tool do you upload candidate data to today because there is no alternative? Ask for it and describe it. The most-asked-for tool gets built next.
  • Contribute. A free tool is one file with one exported object — CONTRIBUTING.md walks through adding one in four steps. Recruiters who cannot code are just as useful: try a tool and say where it confused you.
  • Share it with a recruiter who is still uploading CVs to random websites.