Hirify or Metaview: the choice for a French recruitment team

If you are comparing the tools that capture and structure what comes out of an interview, Metaview will show up very quickly, and it deserves to be taken seriously. It is a full recruitment platform, not a simple note-taking tool: it brings together a sourcing agent, application review, a notetaker with scorecards, reports, and the rediscovery of candidates already present in the ATS. Built by a British company founded in 2018 in London and backed by a Series B led by GV (Google Ventures), it counts names like Sony, Deel and Brex among its customers.

Let us be blunt before going further: on core functionality, Metaview and Hirify overlap heavily. Both structure the interview, write back to the ATS, can reactivate a dormant talent pool and accept natural-language searches over the database. This comparison does not try to invent a technical advantage where there is real parity. It places the gap where it actually exists: the target market, the language, the hosting and the way prices are displayed.

Hirify, which publishes this guide, is one of the tools compared. Every factual point about Metaview is sourced and dated from its public pages, and reproduced in the table at the bottom of the article.

What both tools do the same way

The reflex in a comparison is to look for the feature the other side lacks. On this topic, honesty calls for the opposite starting point: three capabilities you might think are unique to Hirify are in fact present on both sides.

Talent pool rediscovery first. Metaview has an explicit feature that digs into the ATS for profiles already met, the short-list runners-up, the near-misses, and cross-references them with transcripts of past interviews to re-engage them. That is, give or take, the subject Hirify puts at the center of its pitch. The angle differs slightly, since Metaview mixes this internal rediscovery with external web sourcing while Hirify stays on the pool already built, but you cannot say Metaview ignores this ground.

Writing back to the ATS next. Metaview's Greenhouse integration is documented in both directions: it reads the ATS (scheduled interviews, scorecards, candidate profile) and writes to it (one-click publishing of notes, automatic filling of parts of the scorecards, comments on the profile). Hirify also enriches your ATS bidirectionally after the interview. Neither one owns this flow exclusively.

Natural-language search finally. Metaview's candidate search accepts voice or text queries and can query the ATS and past conversations, not just the web. That is close to Hirify's chat over the candidate database, of the kind "find me 5 SOC profiles available in Paris." The nuance is in the packaging: with Metaview, this search is presented as much as a sourcing agent as a query over the internal database.

Three shared capabilities, then. If you read a comparison that presents these three points as exclusives of one camp, be wary.

The differences that remain, and that are factual

Once parity is acknowledged, three verifiable gaps remain. None is a value judgment: these are facts of location, language and display.

The provider's hosting and jurisdiction

This is the clearest gap. Metaview's privacy page states that data is hosted on an AWS environment in the United Kingdom, and its Trust Center names AI subprocessors for the language model and transcription. No data residency option in France is publicly documented.

Hirify hosts on Scalingo, a French company, with a Paris datacenter, and no candidate data leaves France. For an agency or an IT services firm (ESN) whose DPO must be able to name the cloud provider and its jurisdiction, the gap reads in a single line. Metaview, for its part, is SOC 2 Type II, declares itself a processor under the GDPR and claims AI Act compliance: the difference is not a matter of compliance, but of the provider's jurisdiction. This subject is explored in our guide on interview data hosting.

Language and commercial presence

Metaview's transcription covers more than 50 languages including French, and its summaries can be written in French. It would be wrong to say it does not handle our language. However, no French interface, no .fr site and no commercial presence in France are publicly documented: headquarters in London, announced expansion to San Francisco, customers cited internationally.

Hirify is designed, sold and supported in French, for French teams. When you pick up the phone to support, you talk to people who know the vocabulary of an agency or an IT services firm (ESN).

Price clarity

Here the point is not who is cheapest, it is the display. Metaview bills in dollars, across two distinct products (the notetaker on one side, the agentic sourcing on the other), and the figures reported vary depending on third-party sources. At the time of consultation, its official page displayed the pricing of the Sourcing product, in dollars, and pointed to the same page for the notetaker details. Reconstructing a total price therefore means cross-referencing two grids and a foreign currency.

Hirify publishes three prices in euros excl. VAT, on a single product line. You know what you are paying before the first call.

Prices, as the official sources display them

The table below reproduces only what appears on Metaview's official site, in dollars. The notetaker figures vary depending on third-party sources and are therefore not reproduced here: refer to their pricing page for the full grid.

On the Hirify side, interview transcription is the entry point at 29 EUR excl. VAT per user per month. The Hub, which carries the talent pool and the chat over the database, is 59 EUR excl. VAT monthly and 49 EUR excl. VAT annually.

Evaluation: two cautious stances, not a contrast

At this stage, you might expect a paragraph contrasting opaque scoring with virtuous evaluation. That would be dishonest, because both vendors hold the same cautious line. Metaview applies the principle "AI drafts, the human decides": no matching percentage assigned automatically, a directional scale filled in by the recruiter, backed by verbatim evidence drawn from the interview. It is a defensible stance, and it should be recognized as such.

Hirify produces no percentage score either. Reports are structured from customizable, unlimited templates, auto-generated from the job description, and everything stays explainable. On this point, the gap between the two tools is thin. If you read a comparison that presents one of the two as a black box and the other as transparent, it is overstating the case. The real dividing line remains the one from the previous sections, not this one. The regulatory framework is detailed in our article on the AI Act and recruitment.

Who each tool is the right choice for

Metaview is a coherent choice for an international English-speaking team, already set up on an Anglo-Saxon ATS, that wants to bring sourcing and note-taking together in a single platform and has no France data residency constraint. Its functional depth and institutional backing are real, and for this profile, they matter.

Hirify is aimed at a French team, a recruitment agency or a tech IT services firm (ESN), that wants a product and support in French, candidate data that stays in France, and a clear price in euros on a single grid. The starting point is the same as Metaview's, capturing and structuring the interview, but Hirify extends it by making the internal pool already built the center of the subject, as we describe in the dormant talent pool.

Frequently asked questions

Does Metaview tap into the ATS candidate pool?

Yes. Metaview has a documented feature for rediscovering dormant talent in the ATS, combining profiles already present with transcripts of past interviews. It is ground Metaview covers head-on, just like Hirify.

Is Metaview available in French?

Metaview's transcription covers more than 50 languages including French, and summaries can be generated in French. However, no French interface or commercial presence in France is publicly documented. Hirify is built, sold and supported in French.

Where does Metaview host interview data?

Its privacy page states hosting on an AWS environment in the United Kingdom, with AI subprocessors named in the Trust Center. Hirify hosts on Scalingo, a French company, with a Paris datacenter, and no candidate data leaves France.

How much does Metaview cost?

The official site publishes the pricing of its Sourcing product in dollars: Free, Pro at 100 dollars per month, Max at 300 dollars per month, Enterprise on quote. The notetaker pricing is on their pricing page. Hirify publishes its prices in euros excl. VAT: 29, 49 and 59 euros.

Which kind of team is Metaview a good fit for?

An international English-speaking team, already running an Anglo-Saxon ATS, that wants to bring sourcing and note-taking together in a single platform. Hirify is for a French team that wants a product in French, data kept in France and a clear price in euros.

Key takeaways

• Metaview is a full recruitment platform (sourcing, notetaker, scorecards, reports, ATS rediscovery), not a simple note-taking tool.
• On core functionality, talent pool rediscovery, bidirectional writing to the ATS and natural-language search, the two tools overlap.
• The three factual gaps are hosting (AWS United Kingdom versus Scalingo Paris), language and commercial presence, and price clarity (USD across two products versus euros on one grid).
• On evaluation, both vendors are cautious: no percentage score, the human decides. This is not a dividing line.
• Metaview suits an international English-speaking team; Hirify a French team that wants its data in France and a price in euros.