Comparison
HackOffer vs LockedIn AI
A copilot on every platform there is, against one built for the call — in a desktop app, a browser tab or on a phone. Compare what you can learn about the price before signing in, and what the stealth mode covers.
The short version
LockedIn AI runs almost everywhere: as a desktop app on Windows and macOS, as a web app, on iOS and Android, and as an extension in Chrome, Edge, Opera and Brave. It lets you pick between ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and Grok, integrates with coding-assessment platforms, helps with online assessments, and sells a human remote-assist option called LockedIn Duo. HackOffer reaches the three places that matter on the day — a desktop app, a browser tab and a phone beside the laptop — with nothing to install from a store.
What is harder is checking anything about it. The pricing page renders its plans after sign-in, so no figure is readable in advance; their own comparison page says $54.99 a month and a rival’s says $119.99. The homepage advertises “116ms Avg Speed” without saying what is being measured. The language count is 50+ in one place on the homepage, 99+ in another, 42 in a feature tile and 42+ on their comparison page. Trustpilot has made their rating unavailable, citing a breach of its guidelines, while their homepage displays 4.8 from 2,739 reviews under the words “Rated on Trustpilot”.
HackOffer answers those questions on the page instead. Three prices, printed: $49 a week, $89 a month, $349 a year, with thirty free minutes and no card first. One latency figure, ~1.3 s, defined as the end of the spoken question to the first word on the panel. Eighteen interface languages and nineteen transcription languages, counted from the code the product runs on.
~1.3 s
From the end of the question to the first word (LockedIn AI: 116 ms claimed)
30 min free
To get started (LockedIn AI: Not in the page)
18
Languages the interface is in (LockedIn AI: 1)
HackOffer vs LockedIn AI, row by row
| Feature | HackOffer | LockedIn AI |
|---|---|---|
| What is visible, and what leaves your machine | ||
| Hidden from a screen share | In the desktop app, and a phone is never on the screen; a browser tab is not hidden | Desktop app only |
| Says in writing where the hiding stops | The docs say to do a dry run every time | |
| How long the transcript is kept | Transcript 30 days, delete it sooner yourself | No period; deleted after a year of inactivity |
| During the call | ||
| From the question to the first word of the answer | ~1.3 s, end to end | 116 ms claimed, with no definition of what it measures |
| Nothing joins the meeting | ||
| Hears the interviewer without a headset trick | The system mixer in the app, headphones or not; a shared tab or screen in a browser | System audio, with Screen Recording permission |
| Tells your voice from the interviewer’s on one microphone | On the device, from a few seconds of your voice that never leave it | None described in the phone mode |
| Price, and how you buy | ||
| Cheapest paid plan | $49/week, $89/month, $349/year | Not in the page; the plans load after sign-in |
| Every price on a page you can read before signing up | ||
| Free tier | 30 minutes, no card | 10 minutes, as 5 credits |
| Can be bought by the week | ||
| Minutes, sessions or credits | Unmetered on the paid plan | Credits: half a credit per use, one credit is two minutes |
| Cancelling | Two clicks in the app, runs to the end of the period | Self-serve in settings; reviewers report no working button |
| Refunds | No refund once paid, used or not; only billing errors on our side | Monthly and quarterly non-refundable; annual, partial, within 7 days |
| What the answer is built from | ||
| Your resume and the job description | ||
| Answers about what is on your screen | ||
| Coding questions | ||
| The system design drawn as a diagram | Design mode on the paid plan: a brief, an architecture diagram and a data model | Text answers; their blog sends you to Miro or Excalidraw to draw it |
| Models you can switch between | 2, switchable, on every plan | ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek and Grok |
| Platforms and languages | ||
| How it runs | Desktop app, a browser tab, or a phone beside the laptop | Desktop, web, iOS and Android |
| Operating systems | App: macOS 13+ on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows 10+. Browser: Chrome or Edge, Linux too. Phone: iPhone and Android | Windows 10+, macOS 13 (the docs and the site disagree on the point release) |
| Runs in a browser, nothing to install | Chrome or Edge on any computer, Linux too; share the meeting tab, not the screen | A Chromium web app; tab audio only on macOS; no stealth |
| Phone mode: a phone beside the laptop | Mobile web on iPhone and Android, no app to install; phone and in-person interviews too | Phone Interview mode, in the web version only |
| Interface languages | 18 | 1 |
| Transcription languages | 19 | 42, 50+ or 99+, depending which page you read |
Every cell about LockedIn AI is taken from their own public pages and checked in September 2026; where a figure comes from somewhere else, the cell says where. A question their pages do not answer is left out of the table rather than guessed at.
LockedIn AI is a trademark of its owner. This page is an independent comparison written by HackOffer; it is not endorsed by, affiliated with or reviewed by LockedIn AI.
The price is not on the pricing page
LockedIn AI’s pricing page builds its plan cards in the browser from an API call, which means there is no price in the page to read, quote or compare before you have an account. The plans are named — Unlimited, Credits and Lifetime, each split into General and Professional, billed monthly, quarterly or yearly — and so are the discounts, up to 10% for students, veterans, first responders and the recently laid off. The figures are not. Their own comparison page puts their price at $54.99 a month; a rival’s comparison page puts it at $119.99. Their pricing FAQ carries the heading “Why does a subscription cost more in the mobile app?”, so at least two prices exist for the same subscription. There is no weekly plan.
The free tier is 5 credits, which their site describes as 10 Copilot minutes, and their documentation gives the arithmetic: “Each use of a service deducts 0.5 credits, so one credit is two uses, or two minutes.” Credits never expire, which is the good half of a credit system; the other half is doing division in the middle of an interview. HackOffer’s paid plan is unmetered — nothing to top up, no balance to watch — and the free tier is thirty minutes of the same product, given once, with no card and no cap on any single call until the half hour is gone.
Their refund terms say monthly and quarterly plans are non-refundable once started, and that an annual plan is eligible for a partial refund if cancelled within 7 days of purchase; the same pricing page carries a “Money-back guarantee” badge. On Trustpilot, Ciaran Raymer wrote in August 2026 that it is “Almost impossible to cancel — the docs are out of date and do not reflect the actual way to cancel”; juanerpa wrote in July 2026 of an automatic renewal “without any advance notification” and “no clear or functional ‘Cancel Subscription’ button”; Laura Lebezinskaite wrote in June 2026 that a refund requested less than an hour after purchase “was declined multiple times”. HackOffer states its position on the pricing page: thirty free minutes before any payment, cancelling in two clicks in Billing with the plan running to the end of the period you paid for, and no refund once you have paid.
What the stealth mode covers, and where the audio goes
Their marketing says nothing appears in tab bars, share strips or window switchers during an interview screen share, and describes “no visual footprint”. Their documentation draws the boundary: “Stealth Mode hides the LockedIn window from screen recording and screen share. It’s a desktop-only feature.” The reach they sell — the web app, the iOS and Android apps, the browser extension — sits outside it, and a meeting held in a browser tab is exactly the case a browser extension is for. The same documentation tells you to do a dry run every time.
HackOffer runs in three places and says which one the exclusion belongs to. In the desktop app the panel is a separate always-on-top window that macOS and Windows leave out of the capture stream, on by default on every plan and on the free thirty minutes. A browser tab has no such flag — ours is as visible to a full-screen share as anyone’s, so share the meeting tab alone — and a phone beside the laptop is never on the shared screen at all. We also state where the exclusion stops, in the same words on the site and in the terms — it hides pixels, not the process. A phone camera pointed at your screen sees it, and proctoring software that enumerates running processes finds the app. Private, not undetectable.
Their privacy policy names AssemblyAI for speech-to-text, together with Microsoft Azure OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Pinecone, as service providers, and says they collect “audio captured during your sessions — your microphone audio and, on desktop, any meeting or system audio you choose to share”. Retention is “as long as necessary to provide our services”, with automatic deletion only if an account stays inactive for over a year; there is no transcript retention window. The finalized transcript is deleted after 30 days, you can delete a session sooner, and the interim text that rewrites itself while someone is still speaking is rendered and thrown away.
Four language counts and one undefined millisecond
Their homepage states “50+ Languages” in the stat block and “99+ Languages & Accents” in the privacy block below it; a feature tile on the same page says 42 languages, and their comparison page says 42+. Their sitemap has no locale-prefixed URLs at all, while the homepage declares a Spanish hreflang alternate with no Spanish pages behind it. Their own documentation lists “The AI answered in the wrong language” as, in its words, their most common report.
HackOffer’s two counts come from the code the product runs on: eighteen interface locales and nineteen transcription languages. The two lists are deliberately different sizes, because a language we can hear is not the same claim as a screen we have translated. Each of the eighteen had to satisfy two conditions before it shipped — the transcription model handles it, and our sign-in provider has a dictionary for it, so nobody is dropped into an English password form halfway through signing in. The answer comes back in the language the call is held in.
The other number is “116ms Avg Speed”, on the homepage, with nothing beside it saying what starts and stops the clock. Nothing on the page says whether it begins at the end of a sentence or at a packet of audio, or whether it ends at a word of transcript or a word of answer. Those are different measurements by an order of magnitude, and the gap between them is where a live copilot is won or lost, because the transcript is the easy half. Ours is ~1.3 s and we say what it spans: the end of the spoken question to the first word streaming onto the panel. It is a design budget the pipeline is built to rather than a percentile from a dashboard, and saying which of the two it is seems more useful than a rounder number.
Why people move from LockedIn AI to HackOffer
Three prices you can read without an account. LockedIn AI’s pricing page loads its plans after sign-in; their own comparison page says $54.99 a month while a rival’s says $119.99. Ours are $49 a week, $89 a month and $349 a year, on the page, with thirty free minutes and no card before them.
On a phone, the two voices are told apart. LockedIn AI’s Phone Interview mode runs in their web version on the phone’s microphone and describes no way to tell your voice from the interviewer’s. Ours records a few seconds of your voice once, keeps it on the phone, and judges every line against it there, so the answer is written for the interviewer’s question rather than for your own reply.
Eighteen interface languages, counted once. Theirs is English, and the number of languages it hears is given as 42, 42+, 50+ or 99+ depending which page you read, while their documentation calls answering in the wrong language their most common report. We transcribe nineteen, translate the interface into eighteen, and answer in the language of the call.
LockedIn AI’s own blog tells you to draw the design yourself, in Miro, Excalidraw or FigJam. Design mode draws it: the architecture and the data model arrive beside the bullets, change only where the last question changed them, and copy out as Mermaid — which is the format Excalidraw imports.
What LockedIn AI does not do
- No price is readable before you sign in — the pricing page builds its plans from an API call, and the two published figures for the same subscription, theirs and a rival’s, differ by $65 a month.
- Monthly and quarterly plans are “non-refundable once started”, and only an annual plan is partially refundable, within 7 days. A “Money-back guarantee” badge sits on the same page.
- Trustpilot has made their rating unavailable, saying it is “unavailable due to a breach of our guidelines” and that it has “removed a number of fake reviews for this company”. Their homepage shows 4.8 from 2,739 reviews under the words “Rated on Trustpilot”; the Trustpilot page lists 120, 22% of them one-star.
- Their marketing promises “no visual footprint”, while their documentation limits stealth mode to the desktop app — leaving out the web app, the iOS and Android apps and the browser extension — and advises a dry run every time.
- No transcript retention period is published — data is kept “as long as necessary”, with automatic deletion only after a year of account inactivity — and the terms name no legal entity and no address, with a governing-law clause that says only “the laws of the United States”.
Choose HackOffer if
- You want to know what it costs before you create an account.
- You would rather pay for time than count credits at half a credit per use.
- You interview from a desktop and want the panel kept out of a screen share on every plan, the free one included.
- The interview is not in English, or you would rather read the interface in your own language.
- You want a retention period written down.
Choose LockedIn AI if
- You want a native app from the App Store or Google Play, or a Chromium extension.
- You are sitting an online assessment or a test on a coding-assessment platform, which they integrate with and we do not.
- You want a choice of five model families, or the human remote-assist option they sell as LockedIn Duo.
Three questions that settle it
Do you need it on a phone or in a browser?
Both of them now run in a browser and on a phone, so this no longer decides it on its own. LockedIn AI has native iOS and Android apps and a Chromium extension; HackOffer runs in Chrome or Edge on a computer and in the phone’s browser, with nothing to install. What differs is what the phone does with one microphone: their Phone Interview mode runs in the web version only and describes no way to tell the two voices apart, while ours judges each line against a few seconds of your own voice, on the phone, and never uploads the sample.
Do you want to know the price before you make an account?
Their pricing page builds its plan cards in the browser after you sign in, so there is no figure in the page to read. The two published figures for the same subscription are $54.99 a month on their own comparison page and $119.99 on a rival’s. Ours are $49 a week, $89 a month and $349 a year, on the pricing page, with thirty minutes free first.
Is the interview in English?
If it is, both of them transcribe it and the decision moves to price and privacy. If it is not, their documentation lists “The AI answered in the wrong language” as their most common report, and their site gives four different counts of how many languages it handles. We transcribe nineteen, name them, translate the interface into eighteen, and answer in the language the call is held in.
Questions people ask
Moving over from LockedIn AI?
Start with 30 free minutes. No card, and no trial that turns into a subscription — you find out whether it works on a real call before anything is charged.