ApplyTrac

The best job application tracking tools, compared

Seven tools that job seekers actually use, judged on the four things that decide whether a tracker survives a busy week: capture, autofill, pipeline and analytics.

We build ApplyTrac, and it is first on this list. The categories where another tool is the better pick are called out as such below — a comparison that only flatters its author is not worth reading.

Last reviewed: July 2026

At a glance

ApplyTrac

One-click job capture
Application form autofill
Remembered screening answers
Kanban pipeline
Spreadsheet grid over same data
Resume version per application
Response-rate analytics
Unlimited tracking on free plan

Huntr

One-click job capture
Application form autofill
Partial
Remembered screening answers
Kanban pipeline
Spreadsheet grid over same data
Partial
Resume version per application
Response-rate analytics
Unlimited tracking on free plan
Varies

Teal

One-click job capture
Application form autofill
Partial
Remembered screening answers
Kanban pipeline
Spreadsheet grid over same data
Partial
Resume version per application
Response-rate analytics
Partial
Unlimited tracking on free plan
Varies

Simplify

One-click job capture
Application form autofill
Remembered screening answers
Partial
Kanban pipeline
Partial
Spreadsheet grid over same data
Resume version per application
Response-rate analytics
Unlimited tracking on free plan
Varies

Careerflow

One-click job capture
Application form autofill
Partial
Remembered screening answers
Kanban pipeline
Spreadsheet grid over same data
Resume version per application
Partial
Response-rate analytics
Partial
Unlimited tracking on free plan
Varies

Notion / Airtable templates

One-click job capture
Application form autofill
Remembered screening answers
Kanban pipeline
DIY
Spreadsheet grid over same data
Resume version per application
DIY
Response-rate analytics
DIY
Unlimited tracking on free plan

Google Sheets

One-click job capture
Application form autofill
Remembered screening answers
Kanban pipeline
DIY
Spreadsheet grid over same data
Resume version per application
Response-rate analytics
DIY
Unlimited tracking on free plan

“DIY” means the capability exists only if you build and maintain it yourself. “Varies” means the free-tier limit changes often enough that you should check the vendor's current pricing page.

The tools in detail

1

ApplyTrac

— Tracking as a by-product of applying

Best for: An active search where you are applying several times a week

Strengths

  • The browser extension captures the posting and writes the record on submit, so the board does not depend on your discipline
  • Autofill built around Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and iCIMS, including the multi-page flows
  • Screening answers remembered per question — you type "work authorisation" once
  • Kanban board and a sortable data grid over the same records, not two exports
  • The exact resume file you submitted is stored against each application
  • Unlimited tracked applications on the free plan

Trade-offs

  • Chromium only today — no Firefox or Safari extension
  • Contacts CRM is still being built
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Huntr

— The long-standing Kanban job board

Best for: People who want a mature, well-known board and document tooling

Strengths

  • Established product with a large user base and a polished board
  • Resume and cover-letter tooling built in
  • Clipper extension for saving jobs

Trade-offs

  • Saving a job is a deliberate action; the pipeline still drifts if you skip it
  • Form autofill is not the centre of the product
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3

Teal

— Resume builder first, tracker second

Best for: Tailoring a resume per application and scoring it against the posting

Strengths

  • Strong resume builder with per-job keyword matching
  • Job tracker attached to the resume workflow
  • Large free tier for the tracking side

Trade-offs

  • The best features sit behind the paid tier
  • Optimised for resume iteration rather than high application volume
Full ApplyTrac vs Teal comparison
4

Simplify

— Autofill-led application copilot

Best for: Volume applying where filling the form is the bottleneck

Strengths

  • Autofill across a wide range of application portals
  • One-profile-many-forms model
  • Job matching surfaced alongside the extension

Trade-offs

  • Pipeline and analytics are lighter than a dedicated tracker
  • Less emphasis on the record of what you submitted
Full ApplyTrac vs Simplify comparison
5

Careerflow

— LinkedIn optimisation plus a tracker

Best for: Improving profile visibility alongside tracking

Strengths

  • LinkedIn profile review and optimisation tooling
  • Job tracker and extension included
  • Broad free feature set

Trade-offs

  • Wide surface area means the tracker is one feature among many
  • Less depth on portal-specific form handling
Full ApplyTrac vs Careerflow comparison
6

Notion / Airtable templates

— Build exactly the tracker you want

Best for: People who genuinely enjoy maintaining their own system

Strengths

  • Total control over fields, views and automations
  • Free, and it lives next to the rest of your notes
  • Hundreds of ready-made job-search templates

Trade-offs

  • Every record is manual data entry — no capture, no autofill
  • Maintenance is the first thing dropped in a busy week
Full ApplyTrac vs Notion / Airtable templates comparison
7

Google Sheets

— The default everyone starts with

Best for: A search of ten or twenty applications, total

Strengths

  • Zero setup, zero cost, works everywhere
  • Nobody needs to be taught how to use it

Trade-offs

  • No capture, no autofill, no reminders, no resume versioning
  • Response rate needs a formula you will not write
  • Goes stale within weeks in almost every real search
Full ApplyTrac vs Google Sheets comparison

How to choose

Work out which step is actually costing you the hours. Job seekers usually assume the problem is organisation, and it is almost never organisation — it is the twenty minutes per application spent retyping a work history the resume already contains.

If that is your bottleneck, weight autofill and capture heavily and treat the board as a bonus. If instead you are applying to a small number of high-value roles and rewriting the resume each time, weight the resume tooling and ignore autofill entirely. And if you are twelve applications into a search, open a spreadsheet and come back when it stops working.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best job application tracking tool?

It depends on where your time actually goes. If filling in the same Workday form for the ninth time is the bottleneck, pick a tool built around capture and autofill — ApplyTrac or Simplify. If rewriting your resume for every posting is the bottleneck, Teal is built for that. If you are applying to fewer than twenty roles in total, a spreadsheet is genuinely fine and anything else is overhead.

Is there a free job application tracker?

Yes, several. ApplyTrac tracks unlimited applications free forever, including the pipeline board, data grid, resume vault and analytics, with 50 extension autofills and 50 AI drafts per month. Notion and Google Sheets templates are free but entirely manual. Most other tools offer a free tier with caps that vary — check the current plan page before committing.

Do I need a job tracker if I only apply to a few jobs?

Probably not. Below roughly twenty applications a spreadsheet holds up and you can remember most of it. The case for a tracker starts when the volume is high enough that patterns exist — which source converts, which resume version gets replies — and you cannot see them by scrolling.

What should a job tracking system record for each application?

At minimum: company, role, source, date applied, current stage, and the resume version you submitted. The two most commonly skipped and most useful are the exact resume file and the screening answers you gave, because both are what you need when the recruiter finally calls back six weeks later.

Can a job tracker apply to jobs for me automatically?

ApplyTrac does not, by design — the extension fills the form and you review and submit. Fully automated mass applying tends to produce volume without replies, and it is against the terms of several major job boards.

More on how ApplyTrac works: the job application tracker, the autofill extension and pricing.