Comparison
HackOffer vs LockedIn AI
A copilot on every platform there is, against one desktop app built for the call. Compare what you can learn about the price before signing in, what the stealth mode covers, and where the call audio ends up.
The short version
LockedIn AI is the broadest product in this category. It runs 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; it integrates with coding-assessment platforms, helps with online assessments, and sells a human remote-assist option called LockedIn Duo. On reach we are not close — HackOffer is one desktop app.
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. Nine interface languages and ten transcription languages, counted from the code the product runs on. And an audio path that ends outside us entirely, because your own machine holds the transcription socket and the sound never reaches our servers.
~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)
9
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 | Desktop app only | |
| Says in writing where the hiding stops | The docs say to do a dry run every time | |
| Where the call audio goes | Straight from your machine to the transcriber, never our servers | To AssemblyAI, Azure OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Pinecone |
| 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, headphones or not | System audio, with Screen Recording permission |
| 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 general guarantee; the EU and UK 14-day right, settled pro rata | 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 | Desktop, web, iOS and Android |
| Operating systems | macOS 13+ on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows 10+ | Windows 10+, macOS 13 (the docs and the site disagree on the point release) |
| Interface languages | 9 | 1 |
| Transcription languages | 10 | 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”. We publish no general money-back guarantee and say so on the pricing page. Cancelling is two clicks in Billing, the plan runs to the end of the period you paid for, and EU and UK consumers keep their 14-day withdrawal right, settled pro rata.
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 ships one surface, and the exclusion is a property of it: 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. We also state where it 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. HackOffer’s audio never arrives at our servers at all, because the desktop app holds the transcription socket itself with a short-lived grant minted for that one session. 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: nine interface locales and ten 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 nine 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.
The hiding is a property of the window, on every plan. Their documentation says stealth mode is desktop-only, which leaves the web app, the mobile apps and the browser extension out of it. We ship one surface, exclude it from capture at the operating-system level on every plan including the free one, and write down where that stops.
The audio never reaches us. Their privacy policy names AssemblyAI, Azure OpenAI, ElevenLabs and Pinecone as service providers and sets no transcript retention window beyond deleting inactive accounts after a year. Our client holds the transcription socket itself, so the sound goes from your machine to the transcriber and nowhere else, and the transcript is deleted after 30 days.
Nine 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 ten, translate the interface into nine, 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.
- Stealth mode is desktop-only by their own documentation, so the web app, the iOS and Android apps and the browser extension are not covered by it, and the docs advise 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 to know where the call audio goes, would rather it never reached the vendor at all, and want a retention period written down.
Choose LockedIn AI if
- You need it on a phone, a tablet or in a browser — they have iOS and Android apps, a web app and a Chromium extension, and we are desktop only.
- 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?
If you do, LockedIn AI is the answer and this page is a short one: iOS, Android, a web app and a Chromium extension against our single desktop app. Note only that their own documentation calls stealth mode a desktop-only feature, so the surfaces that make them broader are the surfaces it does not cover.
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 ten, name them, translate the interface into nine, 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.