Already Hired vs Cluely

Cluely and Already Hired both put an AI assistant on your screen during a live call, and both stay off the participant list and out of your screen share. The difference is focus. Cluely is a general-purpose meeting assistant: one tool for every call you take all day. Already Hired is a live interview copilot: a specialist tuned for the one conversation where the stakes are your next job.

Here’s the honest side-by-side.

What Cluely is genuinely good at

Cluely is polished and broad. It transcribes your meetings in real time, generates notes and recaps, suggests follow-up questions, and hands you an answer on a keyboard shortcut, across Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and Slack, in a dozen-plus languages. It never joins the call as a bot, and its window follows your eyes so you can glance without looking away.

If your day is wall-to-wall calls (discovery calls, standups, customer syncs) and you want a single assistant riding along in all of them, Cluely is a strong choice. That generality is the point of the product.

Where Already Hired pulls ahead for interviews

An interview isn’t a normal meeting. You’re not taking notes. You’re being evaluated, in real time, on how well you specifically answer. That’s what Already Hired is built around:

• Every card is grounded in your own résumé and the exact role. It doesn’t hand you a generic best-practice answer; it hands you your best answer: the project, the number, the story from your background that fits the question that was just asked.
• Five kinds of card, not just “here’s the answer.” When the interviewer finishes speaking, Already Hired surfaces an Answer (a headline plus talking points you speak from), or a Code snippet, a crisp Define, a Clarify question to ask back, or a Trap to avoid. It’s coaching the move, not reading you a script. You sound like a sharp version of yourself, not a robot.
• Screen-share invisibility is included. On macOS and Windows, the card sits by your webcam and isn’t part of the capture when you share your screen. With Cluely, that same invisibility is reserved for the $149.99/mo “Pro + Undetectability” tier.
• Nothing is stored by default. Your audio is processed live and never saved; keys are encrypted on-device. Cluely, by design, saves notes and recaps so you can revisit meetings (great for work calls, less necessary when the “meeting” is your interview).

Pricing, honestly

Cluely is cheaper at the entry point: Free, $19.99/mo for unlimited answers and notes, and $149.99/mo to add screen-share invisibility (or ~$44.99/mo if you prepay a full year). Already Hired is a focused, premium tool: $19 for a single interview, $39 for a week of unlimited interviews, or $99/mo for the whole job hunt.

If you only need a general answer-on-a-shortcut for everyday calls, Cluely’s $19.99 plan is hard to beat on price. But if the thing you actually care about is the interview (where you want résumé-grounded answers and the screen-share invisibility that Cluely charges $149.99/mo for), Already Hired gives you both for less than that top tier, and it’s built for exactly that moment.

Tools like Cluely, and which one fits your round

Searching for tools like Cluely usually means one of two things. If you want the all-day meeting assistant, your real shortlist is Otter, Fathom and Granola. If you want help in a live job interview, the shortlist is different: Already Hired, Parakeet AI, Final Round AI, LockedIn AI, InterviewBee and Verve Copilot.

Two practical filters cut that list fast. Platform: Cluely is macOS only, so a Windows machine rules it out before anything else; Already Hired and Parakeet AI both cover Windows. Stealth: if you need the overlay to stay out of a screen share, check whether it is included or sold as an upgrade. Cluely puts it on the $149.99/mo plan. Already Hired includes it on macOS and Windows at the standard price.

Which should you pick?

• Pick Cluely if you want one assistant across every meeting you take, all day, and interviews are just one of many use cases.
• Pick Already Hired if you’re focused on landing the offer and want a copilot purpose-built for the interview: grounded in your résumé, coaching the traps and clarifiers, invisible on screen share out of the box.

They’re not really the same product. Cluely is the generalist. Already Hired is the specialist for the highest-stakes call you’ll take this year.