heartsome
warm-hearted; cheering; giving comfort and care to the people around you.
Your team is growing. From four to ten, maybe ten to fifteen. You don't have an HR department, and hiring someone just for it isn't on the cards yet. You handle it on the side.
That works. Until it doesn't.
Take sick leave. You report someone ill and think: sorted. And then, weeks later, it turns out you should have filed a UWV report. Or that you can no longer remember which portal you were supposed to log into.
It goes the same way with the rest. Leave requests come in by email. Employee details are scattered across three platforms and two folders on Drive. And when someone leaves, a lot of knowledge walks out the door with them.
Most HR software is built for companies with an HR manager and a budget to match. You pay for features you never use, sit through weeks of onboarding, and end up with a system that costs more effort than it saves.
Meanwhile you're doing HR on the side, on top of everything else you actually do. The last thing you want is extra steps. You want things simply handled once they're set up.
That is exactly what Heartsome is built for. Simple enough to start today, complete enough to grow with. And affordable: from €1 per employee per month.
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
Staff records for employees and freelancers alike, in one place instead of twelve.
Kelly van den Harten
🌴 Vacation · 3 days
Balance
✓ Approved
to let someone rest
They request time off, you approve, the balances update themselves - and sick leave is tracked step by step.
“Honestly? A bit underwater this month.”
🙁 Workload6.8 ↓ 0.6
to notice
Reviews, surveys and pulse checks - a team mood you can read, before someone leaves.
to bring the right person in, kindly
Post the role for your next hire, follow candidates 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 →
just enough
“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.”
fair
A price with no asterisks: €1 per employee per month, €1 per open role per day.
Every feature is included, nothing hidden behind a pricier tier. 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
Mission-driven non-profit?
free
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.
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. That is not a humble-brag. 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 Heartsome cost?
- €1 per employee per month for HR, and €1 per open role per day for hiring. Every feature is included. No tiers, no hidden fees, no annual contract.
- Do I have to sign a contract?
- No. You can cancel monthly, whenever you like.
- What size company is Heartsome for?
- From your very first employee. There is no minimum and no maximum, you just pay for what you use. Heartsome is built for small teams, not enterprise.
- Can I try it first?
- Yes. Every account starts with a two-week free trial. No credit card, no strings attached. Setup takes about five minutes.
- Do you run HR for us, or is it software we use ourselves?
- Software you use yourself - you and your team log in and keep everything up to date. Want us to do the initial setup? We can, through our concierge service - free, ready within one or two working days.
- Is our data safe?
- Heartsome is GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted and encrypts all data. Your data is yours - export or delete it whenever you want.
- Can employees log in themselves?
- Yes. Employees have their own space where they can request leave, see their own details and fill in reviews.
- Does Heartsome work for freelancers and contractors too?
- Yes. You can add freelancers and contractors too, for example to keep their contact details and agreements. You decide which features are visible to them.
- What if we are a non-profit with ANBI status?
- Then Heartsome is completely free. See our non-profits page for the details.