Mercer Mettl vs ExamSoft - Hiring Tests vs Pro Exams
Mercer Mettl is a browser-based assessment platform used heavily for pre-employment testing, IT certification, and enterprise hiring. ExamSoft (Examplify) is a desktop app used for high-stakes professional exams. Their overlap is essentially zero, which is the point of comparing them.
Mettl runs everything in the browser: a Chromium-based "Mettl Secure" wrapper or a Chrome extension. Live proctoring is delivered through a partner integration, recording is browser-WebRTC. ExamSoft's Examplify is a thick desktop app that handles encryption, lockdown, and (with ExamMonitor) recording all in-process. Two different architectures, but on Mac both rely on the same OS capture stack and both honor the same per-window privacy mechanism. The overlay is invisible to either.
It depends on whether the assessment is proctored. Many Mettl hiring tests are unproctored honor-code only; in that case no overlay is needed.
Yes - Examplify ships universal binaries. The overlay also runs natively on Apple Silicon.
No - they are separate vendors with separate exam delivery contracts.
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Fracture runs a native floating overlay that sets the macOS window privacy flag. It is 100% excluded from screen capture feeds, window lists, and proctor recordings.