The 6 Best Testimonial Software Tools for Recruiting Firms (Compared for 2026)
Most recruiting firms have one testimonials page.
But they sell to 2 different people.
The hiring manager who pays your fee wants proof you fill roles like theirs while the candidate wants proof you won't vanish after the first call.
When both sets of quotes share one page, neither reader finds theirs. And on plenty of recruitment agency websites that page still shows 3 old testimonial quotes.
So the best testimonial software for recruiting firms has to do 2 things.
It asks at the moments recruiting already has, like an accepted offer or a 90-day check-in. And it keeps client proof and candidate proof apart so each lands on the page its reader visits.
I compared 6 testimonial tools for recruiters on those 2 jobs, plus what each one costs a month for a 10-recruiter firm.
Here's the TLDR;
- Famewall if you want a client wall and a candidate wall on your own site, with video. Free to start, then $29/mo on Professional.
- Great Recruiters if you want reviews tied to each recruiter and sent from Bullhorn or Avionté. $30/mo for one recruiter and paid company plans from $300/mo.
- ClearlyRated if you want measured client and talent satisfaction plus a shot at a Best of Staffing award. Pricing on request, billed yearly.
- TopRec by Refari if you run JobAdder or Loxo and want feedback after every interview and placement. A$25/mo per recruiter.
- Boast if you want the ask sent for you by email and text after each placement. From $59/mo.
- Vocal Video if you want edited client and candidate videos and can pay $99/mo for a full year.
| Tool | What goes on your site | A 10-recruiter firm pays | Clients vs candidates |
|---|---|---|---|
Famewall | A wall per audience or desk, text and video | $29/mo on Professional | A separate wall and link for each |
Great Recruiters | Recruiter profiles and review cards | $750/mo on Pro, 10 recruiters included | Reviews tied to each recruiter |
ClearlyRated | Ratings and testimonials on your ClearlyRated profile | Quote only, billed yearly | Separate client and talent ratings |
TopRec by Refari | Testimonial widgets | About A$250/mo plus a go-live fee | Client-only or candidate-only widgets |
Boast | Video and text widgets | $119/mo on Team | A form for each audience |
Vocal Video | Edited videos in galleries | $99/mo, billed yearly | A video collector for each |
How we judged the best testimonial software for recruiting firms
Every tool on this list can put a happy client's words on your website.
5 things decide which one fits a recruitment agency.
1. Clients and candidates need their own proof
A hiring manager wants to know you fill roles like theirs and how fast.
A candidate wants to know you'll prep them and keep them posted.
A quote about great interview prep does nothing for the client and a quote about time-to-hire does nothing for the candidate.
So client testimonials belong on your employer pages and candidate testimonials on your jobs page or careers page.
Check whether a tool keeps the 2 apart in how it asks and in what it shows on your site.
2. The ask should land at the placement milestones
Recruiting already has the right moments.
The offer is accepted, the candidate starts and the 30, 60 and 90-day check-ins come round.
Each one is a natural time to ask while the candidate or client is still pleased.
Some tools trigger the ask from your ATS when a stage changes while others give you a link to paste into the placement email you already send.
3. Each desk or vertical needs its own wall
A finance director wants to hear from other finance teams you've hired for. A nurse wants to hear from other nurses you placed.
If you run separate desks for IT, finance or healthcare, each one needs its own wall of proof on its sector page.
Some tools split proof by recruiter instead. That helps each recruiter's own profile more than your sector pages.
4. Some candidates and clients can't be named
A candidate who just moved jobs may not want their old employer to see them thanking a recruiter.
Plenty of companies also stop staff from endorsing suppliers in public.
A role and a kind of firm keeps the proof without the name, like "Head of Finance, mid-size logistics company".
Check how each tool signs a testimonial and get the person's OK in writing either way.
5. The price shouldn't grow with your recruiter headcount
Recruiter review tools usually charge per recruiter, so every new hire raises the bill.
Testimonial tools mostly charge by wall, form or response, so headcount matters less.
Among the 5 tools with public prices, a 10-recruiter firm pays from $29 to $750 a month.
Here's a list of the 6 Best Testimonial Software Tools for Recruiting Firms
1. Famewall - It gives clients and candidates their own wall and takes video in the browser
Famewall is testimonial software built around first-party collection so the social proof comes straight from your own clients and candidates.
People send text, video or audio from one link.
It shows up on your website as a wall or a testimonial widget with no developer.
For a recruiting firm that means 2 walls with 2 links.
One link goes to clients once a hire has settled in and one goes to candidates after they start.
Add a wall for each desk if you run IT, finance or healthcare separately.
Jumpstart, a UK startup hiring platform, runs its candidate wall this way.
It sits on the homepage, the testimonials page and every role page, with a "Send a Testimonial" button above it.
Candidates record a video in the browser on their phone with your questions on screen. There's nothing to install and they can redo it until they're happy.
Not every candidate is a writer.
On Professional the AI Composer asks your questions, takes short typed or spoken answers and drafts the testimonial for them to confirm.
Recruiters' LinkedIn recommendations can go on a wall too.
Add one with the person's name, title and photo, or import a LinkedIn post from its link.
For people who can't be named, you decide how each testimonial is signed.
Matrix360, a Toronto search and talent management firm, signs its client testimonials with a first name, a role and a kind of firm.
You approve everything before it goes live. Each wall embeds on WordPress, Webflow or whatever your site runs on.
It also gets a hosted page you can link in business development emails.
Pricing:
There's a free plan with 1 wall, 10 testimonials and 1 video. Standard is $15/month for 4 walls, unlimited text testimonials and 6 videos.
Professional is $29/month, or $299 yearly, for 15 walls, unlimited video, 3 team seats and the AI Composer.
That's the plan a recruiting firm needs once clients, candidates and desks each have a wall.
Recruiters don't need a seat to send the link so the price stays the same at 5 recruiters or 50.
Best for:
Recruiting firms that want client proof and candidate proof on their own website, with video, on one flat monthly bill.
The catch:
Famewall doesn't plug into your ATS or send reminder emails. You paste the link into your placement email template yourself.
It doesn't build a public review profile for each recruiter either.
2. Great Recruiters - It ties every review to a recruiter and sends the ask from your ATS
Great Recruiters is review software built for staffing firms.
It connects to Bullhorn, Avionté, LaborEdge and Tracker and asks candidates and clients for a review at set points in their journey.
Every review is tied to the recruiter who earned it.
Each recruiter gets a public profile in the Great Recruiters marketplace with a star rating, a recommend score and the words candidates use about them.
When a good review lands it becomes a Testimonial Card that recruiters can share on LinkedIn.
Managers get a dashboard and a leaderboard for the whole team.
On your own website the widgets show recruiter profiles and review cards.
Pricing:
A single recruiter can sign up for $30/month, with a 15-day free trial.
For companies there's a free Starter plan with recruiter and company reviews.
Growth starts at $300/month for 5 recruiters and Pro at $750/month for 10.
The plan table matters more than the price.
Website widgets, public recruiter profiles and video testimonials (still in beta) start on Growth.
Custom review questions, reviews about placements and end clients and the third-party review booster are Pro only.
So a 10-recruiter firm that wants its own questions lands on Pro at $750/month.
Best for:
Staffing firms on Bullhorn or Avionté that want every recruiter to build a public review record.
The catch:
The proof is built around recruiters rather than desks or clients. Your own questions, end-client reviews and data exports all need Pro.
3. ClearlyRated - It surveys clients and talent and turns happy answers into testimonials
ClearlyRated runs satisfaction surveys for B2B service firms, and staffing is one of its main industries. It connects to Bullhorn and Salesforce.
It measures client and candidate experience with surveys at set milestones.
A talent survey asks things like whether the candidate was treated well where they were placed.
Happy respondents are asked for a testimonial. ClearlyRated's staffing page says 48% of ClearlyRated clients choose to share one.
The results show on your profile in ClearlyRated's directory first.
Client ratings and talent ratings sit side by side, and a testimonial can be signed "A Client".
You can export testimonials for your website and LinkedIn.
Firms that beat the industry average on these surveys can also earn a Best of Staffing award to show on their site.
Pricing:
Every plan is quote-only and renews yearly. Prices are tiered by your number of full-time employees.
The plans differ in how many audiences you survey, from 1 on Establish to 3 on Transform.
So surveying both clients and candidates needs Expand at least which is also where Best of Staffing eligibility starts.
The automatic sync with your ATS or CRM is on Transform.
Best for:
Mid-size staffing firms that want measured client and candidate satisfaction and an award to show for it.
The catch:
You can't see a price before a sales call. And it's a survey program first, so testimonials come as a by-product of NPS.
4. TopRec by Refari - It asks after every interview and placement and splits clients from candidates
TopRec is the feedback product from Refari, a company that builds recruitment websites, job boards and widgets.
It connects to JobAdder, Seven20, RecruitWizard and Loxo.
It asks for feedback at 3 stages your ATS already tracks: the internal interview, the external interview and the placement.
A 5-star rating at the placement stage comes with a written testimonial that you approve before it goes public.
Lower ratings come back as comments you can follow up.
Candidate testimonials are credited to the recruiter on the candidate record and client testimonials to the job owner.
On your site the testimonial widget can show only client testimonials or only candidate testimonials.
Some firms install it twice one for each audience and it can also filter to chosen recruiters.
You pick a design in the Refari dashboard and paste 2 snippets of code into your site.
If Refari built your website, the widgets come built in.
Pricing:
Prices are in Australian dollars and exclude GST. TopRec is A$25 per user a month on a month-to-month term, or from A$20 on a 24-month term paid upfront.
With Refari's job board and widgets it drops to A$12.50 month to month. A one-time go-live fee is quoted on top.
Best for:
Recruitment agencies on JobAdder or Loxo that want feedback from every stage and separate client and candidate widgets.
The catch:
It only asks when the ATS stage changes and the record has the right fields filled in. If a candidate has more than one recruiter on the record, TopRec sends nothing.
Its feature pages describe star ratings and written testimonials but no video.
5. Boast - It sends the ask for you by email and text after a placement
Boast collects video and text testimonials through forms and sends the requests for you with automated sequences.
For a recruiting firm, set up one form for clients and one for candidates. Then add each placement to a sequence and Boast sends the emails and reminders.
Contacts can be tagged by staff member and location, so feedback is split by recruiter or office.
You approve the best answers with one click and widgets put them on your site.
Pricing:
Basic is $59/month for 50 responses a month, 5 forms and 5 staff, with email-only sequences.
Team is $119/month for 150 responses, 20 staff and text messages too. Paid yearly, those drop to $50 and $100/month. There's a 14-day free trial.
A 10-recruiter firm needs Team at $119/month because Basic stops at 5 staff.
Best for:
Recruiting firms that want the ask sent automatically after every placement, by email and text.
The catch:
Every plan caps responses, so a busy temp desk can hit the limit.
It has no ATS integration of its own either, so placements reach a sequence by upload or through Zapier.
6. Vocal Video - It turns client and candidate answers into edited video, billed yearly
Vocal Video collects video testimonials from a link and edits them for you.
Music, captions and your branding are added automatically.
ClientMind, a recruiting firm, uses it for client videos.
One client answers 3 questions on screen about the support, the results and whether he'd recommend them.
Each audience can be its own video collector with up to 5 questions.
So clients and candidates get different prompts and record from a link or QR code on any device.
The finished videos go into galleries and walls you embed on your site.
Pricing:
There's no monthly plan. Essential is $99/month billed yearly ($1,188) for 5 video collectors and 1 editor seat.
Pro is $149/month billed yearly ($1,788) and adds workspaces and custom legal releases. The free plan publishes 5 watermarked videos.
Best for:
Recruiting firms that want polished placement stories on video for their site and business development emails.
The catch:
It's video first, so written testimonials aren't really the point.
Candidates have to be happy on camera, which rules out anyone keeping a job move quiet. And yearly billing means paying $1,188 up front.
How to pick the best testimonial software for your recruiting firm?
Start with whose reputation you're building.
If each recruiter's name is the brand, a recruiter review tool fits. Great Recruiters works from Bullhorn and Avionté, and TopRec from JobAdder and Loxo.
If you want measured satisfaction and an award to show for it, ClearlyRated runs the surveys.
If you want proof on your own site for clients and candidates separately, that's the job testimonial collection software is built for. Famewall does it from $29/month.
Plenty of firms run both. The review tool feeds each recruiter's profile while a client wall and a candidate wall sit on the site.
If edited video is the whole job, the Vocal Video comparison shows when a broader tool is enough. The Boast comparison does the same for automated asks.
If the gap is your Google, Indeed or Glassdoor rating, that's a reputation suite like Birdeye or Podium.
And if you're hiring for your own company, employee stories on your careers page are employer brand work, a different corner of recruitment marketing.
Employee video testimonials work differently from proof for a recruitment agency.
Frequently asked questions
How do staffing firms collect candidate testimonials?
They ask when the candidate is happiest, like the accepted offer, the first week and the 30, 60 or 90-day check-in. Send one link with 2 or 3 questions and let them answer in text or on video. You can also ask placed candidates for a LinkedIn recommendation and add it to your candidate wall later.
What should you ask candidates and clients for a testimonial?
Ask candidates what their search was like before you and how the new role is going. Ask clients which role you filled, how long it took and how the hire is doing now. These testimonial questions give you more to copy.
Is recruiter review software the same as testimonial software?
Not quite. Recruiter review software like Great Recruiters rates each recruiter and builds a public review record for them.
Testimonial software for staffing agencies collects stories from clients and candidates and puts them on your own website. Many firms use one for each job.
What if a candidate or client can't be named?
Ask how they'd like to be credited before you publish. A role and a kind of firm like "Finance Director, mid-size logistics company" keeps the proof without the name. Famewall lets you edit the name and title on each testimonial, and ClearlyRated testimonials can be signed "A Client".
Put last month's placements on your website
Famewall gives clients and candidates their own collection link and their own wall. People send text or record video from one link, with nothing to install. Start free with one wall, then move to Professional at $29 a month when every desk has one.
