Treegarden vs. Breathe

Treegarden is an advanced recruitment and human resource management platform that unifies applicant tracking and HR operations into a single, integrated system. It enables organizations to manage the full employee journey, from initial application to onboarding, performance tracking, and offboarding, without switching between tools. The platform’s ATS includes features such as AI-powered job creation, candidate scoring, Kanban pipelines, interview scheduling, and multi-board job distribution. Its AI component, Edera AI, enhances hiring by providing match scores, deep CV analysis, and automated interview frameworks while maintaining compliance with regulations like the EU AI Act. Beyond recruitment, Treegarden offers a complete HR suite that includes employee profiles, onboarding workflows, performance evaluations, leave tracking, compensation management, and document storage. The system ensures that candidate data flows directly into HR records, eliminating duplication and preserving context. Additional features such as analytics, workflow automation, and team collaboration tools help organizations make data-driven decisions and optimize hiring processes. With transparent pricing and no per-seat fees, Treegarden is designed for growing teams seeking an efficient, scalable, and compliant HR solution.

If your employee details are spread across spreadsheets, emails and disconnected apps, Breathe brings them together. It's a UK HR platform launched in 2012 for small and medium-sized businesses. More than 17,000 of them use it, along with over 1,000 UK HR consultancies. Three everyday HR problems Breathe fixes Information everywhere: one central, accurate record for every employee. Endless chasing: staff book leave, sign documents electronically and follow shared workflows. A small HR team: start with the essentials and add more as you grow. The essentials: Core HR Store records and documents securely, manage holiday and leave, track sickness and absence, and let staff update their own details. Collect e-signatures, set goals, run one-to-ones and reviews, and spot trends with built-in reports. Optional extras Rota, Time and Attendance: plan shifts and track hours Expenses: claims, receipts and manager sign-off Recruitment: advertise roles and follow each candidate Health and Safety: risk assessments, incidents and compliance evidence e-Learning: assign UK-specific courses and see who's completed what Breathe is also building an AI Assistant to answer HR and policy questions, and plans to launch payroll in late 2026. Who gets the most from it UK organisations with up to 200 people, particularly charities, schools, healthcare, retail, start-ups and professional services firms with lean HR. If you need multinational payroll, global compliance or enterprise workforce planning, weigh it up first. Pricing, support and security Plans start from £24 a month for your whole organisation, with no long-term contracts or hidden fees. Try it free for 14 days, with UK-based support from setup onwards. Breathe holds ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 accreditation and keeps your data in UK data centres, protected by encryption and access controls.