LinkedIn adds profile summaries based on connected app activity
LinkedIn’s new connected apps feature can show profile visitors app-specific descriptions of how a user works with supported tools.
By Maya Lindqvist · Senior Technology Correspondent
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LinkedIn is adding a profile feature that can display how members use certain workplace apps, giving recruiters and professional contacts a more specific signal than a listed skill. LinkedIn says the new “connected apps” section links supported services to a user’s profile and generates short descriptions based on activity in those apps.
The feature expands LinkedIn’s push to make skills and software experience easier to verify on profiles. According to LinkedIn, the descriptions are meant to show a concrete use case for an app rather than only confirming that a person has access to it or has named it on a résumé.
LinkedIn says 19 connected apps are available at launch. The company’s earlier integrations with Duolingo, Descript, Lovable, Relay.app and Replit are being moved into the new connected apps area, alongside 14 additional supported apps.
The new group includes Buffer, Fiverr and HubSpot, according to LinkedIn. The company says more integrations are planned, including Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Fullcast/Copy.AI, GitHub Copilot, Gong, OpusClip, Riverside, Sprinklr, Webflow and Zapier.
How the summaries work
LinkedIn says each connected app supplies a brief, specific statement describing how the profile owner uses that service. For HubSpot, for example, a profile could show that a user creates and sends segmented email campaigns through Marketing Hub, or that the user works with HubSpot’s marketing automation tools to engage customers.
Those statements are generated by the system and cannot be rewritten by the LinkedIn member, according to LinkedIn. The company says the descriptions change in real time when the user’s activity in the connected app changes.
At first, LinkedIn says the summaries may update without sending an alert to the user. That means a profile’s app-use descriptions can shift as the connected service reports new or different activity.
What LinkedIn is trying to show
The change builds on LinkedIn collaborations announced in January 2026, when the company introduced ways for users to verify skills through partners such as Duolingo, Descript, Lovable, Relay.app and Replit. The new section places those app-based signals in one area of the profile and broadens the number of tools involved.
For job seekers, the feature gives LinkedIn another way to turn software use into profile evidence. For employers and recruiters, it could make app claims more detailed by tying them to activity descriptions supplied through supported integrations.
LinkedIn has not said in the available announcement when every planned integration will arrive beyond saying additional apps are “coming soon.” The first version centers on supported partners and on automatically generated descriptions rather than user-written claims.
This story draws on original reporting from The Verge.