heartsome
warm-hearted; cheering; giving comfort and care to the people around you.
to look after
Everything Heartsome does is a kind of looking after. A few of its senses:
Mark Lieversten
Head of Design
🎂 Birthday tomorrow
to keep them where you can find them
Everyone’s details in one place instead of twelve.
Kelly van den Harten
🌴 Vacation · 3 days
Balance
✓ Approved
to let someone rest
They request, you approve, the balances update themselves.
“Honestly? A bit underwater this month.”
🙁 Workload6.8 ↓ 0.6
to notice
Reviews, surveys and a pulse you can read, before people leave.
to bring the right person in, kindly
Post the role, follow everyone through one calm pipeline, and treat each applicant like a person rather than a number in a funnel. Hiring, without the chaos and without the cruelty.
And those are just a few. Heartsome does dozens more. See everything →
people, looked after
“We looked at a lot of HR tools before landing on Heartsome. The others were either overbuilt or underwhelming. Heartsome hits the right spot for a company at our stage. What made the difference was how they handled our feedback: directly, quickly, without us having to push. That made onboarding feel like a collaboration rather than a hand-off.”
“This just goes to show, when you truly love what you’re doing, you can’t possibly go wrong. Heartsome is a small team and is more impressive than a few other HR tools at a much bigger scale.”
“What helps most is the overview. With Heartsome, you simply have just one system where you can do everything. That is really great.”
fair
Our entire price, with nothing underneath it.
Most software hides features behind tiers. See our comparison table →
heartsome
1 employee × 1 month
€1
1 open role × 1 day
€1
4 employees, not hiring?
€4/mo
Hiring for two weeks?
€14
that’s it. really.
Old English heorte, “heart”, and -sum, a quality you carry in you. The word fell out of use around the time HR became a department and people became “resources”.
We brought it back because we built the thing it describes.
Before this we spent more than a decade building hiring software. Heartsome is where that experience goes next, built for smaller companies and the whole job, not just the hiring.
We’re a small team, self-funded, with no investors and no board and no one in the building who wants growth at any cost. It is the reason the price is fair, the reason nothing hides behind a tier, and the reason we can give it away free to non-profits doing work that matters more than our revenue.
people as resources · surprise fees · upgrade-to-unlock · enshittification · growth at all costs
We built Heartsome to be the opposite of this list, and we mean to keep it that way.
usage notes
- How much does it cost?
- €1 per employee per month for HR, and €1 per open role per day for hiring. Every feature is included. No tiers, no add-ons, no annual contracts. Mission-driven non-profits use Heartsome for free.
- What if we’re a mission-driven non-profit?
- Then it’s completely free. Register with your ANBI number (or equivalent non-profit status) and you get full access to everything. No time limits, no feature restrictions. See our non-profits page →
- What size company is Heartsome for?
- Small teams, typically under 50 people, where one person looks after HR - often a founder or office manager doing it alongside their main job, sometimes someone whose whole job is HR. Either way, Heartsome fits. We’re intentionally not enterprise software. If you outgrow us, we’ll help you export your data and move on. See our small-business page →
- Is our data safe?
- GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted, and encrypted. HR data is sensitive and we treat it that way. Your data is yours: export it anytime, delete it anytime.
- Can I try it before committing?
- Every account starts with a two-week free trial. No credit card, no strings attached. Setup takes about five minutes. If it’s not for you, just walk away.