Heartsome
An HR toolkit built for the one person at a small company who ends up doing HR on top of their real job — employee records, time off, hiring, all in one simple place.
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Description
At companies under 50 people, HR is rarely a dedicated department — it's usually one person juggling it alongside another role, using a messy mix of spreadsheets, email threads, and sticky notes. Heartsome is built specifically for that situation: a single, simple system for employee records, leave requests, hiring pipelines, and team check-ins, without the enterprise complexity (or price tag) of tools built for 500-person HR departments.
The platform bundles employee profile and leave management, pulse-check engagement surveys, a recruitment pipeline with candidate tracking and interviewer scorecards, and GDPR-compliant EU-hosted data storage with full export/portability. Pricing is transparently usage-based (per employee, per open role) rather than tiered plans with hidden add-ons, and there are no annual contracts required.
💬 Our review
The short version: Heartsome is a good fit if you're the one person doing HR at a small company and just need employee records, leave tracking, and a hiring pipeline without paying for a platform built for a much bigger org.
Against BambooHR, Workable, or Greenhouse, Heartsome's whole pitch is simplicity and price transparency — those bigger platforms are built for HR teams with dedicated headcount and often bundle features (compensation benchmarking, complex approval workflows, deep integrations) that a solo HR generalist at a 20-person company will never touch. At roughly €1/employee/month, Heartsome is genuinely cheap for what it covers, and GDPR-compliant EU hosting is a real plus if you're a European company. The tradeoff is that it explicitly won't scale with you past small-team complexity — if you grow past 50 employees and need approval chains, compensation bands, or deep ATS integrations, you'll likely outgrow it and need to migrate to a bigger platform anyway.
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€1/employé/mois (fonctions RH), €1/poste ouvert/jour (recrutement) ; essai gratuit 2 semaines ; gratuit pour les associations à but non lucratif
Pros
Tarification transparente à l'usage, sans engagement annuel
Hébergement UE conforme RGPD
Regroupe RH, engagement et recrutement en un seul outil
Gratuit pour les associations à but non lucratif
Cons
Pas conçu pour scaler au-delà d'une petite équipe
Pas de workflows d'approbation complexes ni de grille de rémunération
Peu d'intégrations profondes avec d'autres outils RH/ATS