The free interview copilot — and exactly where the free part ends
Most tools that call themselves free ask for a card, start a countdown, or hand you a demo that never touches a real call. Interview Copilot has a free tier with no card at all: you download the app, sign in with an email, and the overlay works on a live interview the same way it works for a paying user. What is limited is how much you use, not what you get — and this page says where the line is before you download anything.
What the free tier gives you
Five minutes of live speech recognition and five coding screenshots, per account, with no card and no expiry date. Inside those limits nothing is crippled: the overlay is the same native window, hidden from screen share; answers still start on their own when the interviewer stops talking; follow-up questions still continue the previous answer instead of restarting; all 16 interface and answer languages are available, and the question and the answer do not have to be in the same language. There is no watermark, no “upgrade to see the full answer”, and no bot joining your call.
Why five minutes is longer than it sounds — and shorter than you hope
The counter runs on recognised speech, not on wall-clock time. It does not tick while you answer, while the interviewer reads your CV in silence, or while the call is connecting — only while a question is actually being spoken. Five minutes of pure question time covers roughly fifteen to twenty spoken questions, which is a full mock interview or a real screening round. What it will not cover is a two-hour on-site loop. Be honest with yourself about which one you are preparing for.
What is deliberately not in the free tier
Two things. First, the model: free answers are generated by fast open models (Groq, with Google Gemini as a fallback), while Pro runs on the latest Claude — the difference shows up on system design and on anything that needs a long, structured answer rather than a definition. Second, personalisation: on the free tier your resume and the job description are not sent anywhere, so answers are correct but generic. On Pro they become session context, and the answer starts speaking in terms of your own projects.
No card, because a card is the actual trick
The usual pattern is a “free trial” that takes your card first and renews itself quietly a week later. There is no card field in the free tier here, so there is nothing to cancel and nothing to forget. Paid access works the same way: one payment buys one month, it does not auto-renew, and when the month is over the app simply drops back to the free tier instead of billing you again.
How to spend the free quota well
Do not burn it on your first real interview. Run a mock call with a friend, or play an interview recording out loud, and watch two things: whether the transcript survives your interviewer’s accent, and whether the answer arrives fast enough to be useful while someone is looking at you. Those two questions decide whether any tool of this kind works for you — and both are answerable inside the free tier, before money is involved.
FAQ
Do I need a credit card for the free tier?
No. Sign-in is by email or Google, and there is no card field anywhere in the free flow. Nothing starts billing on its own.
Is it a trial that expires after a few days?
No. It is a quota, not a countdown: five minutes of recognition and five screenshot solutions that stay available until you use them. An account left unused for a month still has them.
Which AI answers on the free tier?
Fast open models hosted on Groq, with Google Gemini as a fallback. Pro answers come from the latest Claude, which is noticeably better on system design and on long structured answers.
Is the free version visible during screen share?
No, and this is not a paid feature. The overlay is a native window excluded from screen capture at the operating system level, on the free tier exactly as on Pro.
What happens when the free quota runs out?
Recognition and screenshots stop; the app keeps working and asks whether you want a month of Pro. Access is 25 $ for one month, paid once, with no subscription and no auto-renewal.