11 background job apps in one list: the established products, and every new one as it launches.
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How many new background job apps arrive each month, to see at a glance whether the market is growing. 3 in the last 12 months.
What people type into Google when they look for background job apps, and what advertisers bid for a click. “background job” alone is searched 1,900 times a month worldwide.
| Search | Per month, US | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| background checks for job | 14,800 | $83.83 |
| job background screening | 14,800 | $73.04 |
| how long can a background check take for a job | 4,400 | $4.29 |
| how long do a background check take for a job | 4,400 | $0.89 |
| job no background check | 3,600 | $1.75 |
Cost per click is what advertisers bid for one visit from that search. Figures from Oct 2026.
The background job apps most recently added to this market, newest first. The latest is Servor.
| # | App | Added |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SE Servor One console for every server you run: web terminal, file editor, scheduled jobs, fleet-wide commands, 150+ install recipes, plus monitoring, phone alerts and status pages. No open port, and every command is signed in your browser. | |
| 2 | Cronhq Cron jobs fail in silence. Two servers run the same crontab and your billing job fires twice. A job dies and nobody notices for weeks. Cronhq is a scheduler built around one guarantee: exactly-once execution, enforced by Postgres locks — not best-effort. Around it: retries with backoff, HMAC-signed webhooks, heartbeat monitors for jobs we don't run, and alerts that fire once on failure and once on recovery. Rust on Postgres. MIT-licensed, self-hostable, same image we run. Free tier: 5 jobs. | |
| 3 | Seiri Know when your scheduled work goes quiet | |
| 4 | dispatched The Missing Background Queue for Your Serverless Apps | |
| 5 |  LambdaQueue Schedules and queues for serverless | |
| 6 | CR CronDev CronDev makes it easy to schedule webhook, cronjobs and scripts | |
| 7 | Crontab Guru Handy utility for devs to schedule cron job, even non techies can make use of this to make their lives efficient #PowerOfCron |
The kinds of background job apps here, grouped by what each app says it does. The largest group is Cron monitoring.
| Type | Apps | Share | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cron monitoring | 3 | 30.0% | CronDrive, Dead Man's Snitch, Seiri |
| Cron scheduling | 3 | 30.0% | CronDev, Cronhq, Crontab Guru |
| Background job queues | 2 | 20.0% | Loophook, RabbitMQ |
The frameworks and hosting background job apps are built on, as a share of the apps where each is known. Next.js is the most common framework.
Share of the 4 apps whose framework we could detect
Share of the 3 apps whose host we could detect
How background job apps charge, starting with whether they show their prices. 45% publish a pricing page.
| Measure | Apps | Share of 11 |
|---|---|---|
| Publish a pricing page | 5 | 45.5% |
A background job platform runs work outside the main request cycle so apps stay fast and reliable. You hand it tasks to do later or on a schedule, and it executes them safely in the background.
Common questions about background job apps, answered with the figures on this page.
| Search | Per month, US | Cost per click |
|---|---|---|
| background checks for job | 14,800 | $83.83 |
| job background screening | 14,800 | $73.04 |
| how long can a background check take for a job | 4,400 | $4.29 |
| how long do a background check take for a job | 4,400 | $0.89 |
| job no background check | 3,600 | $1.75 |
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