The best job application trackers in 2026, and what each one stops short of
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Every price, free-tier limit and review figure below was read from the vendor's own live page on 1 November 2026, and the pages are linked so you can check them yourself. Two of the four keep their prices somewhere other than a pricing page, and we say where. Prices in this category move, so click through before you spend anything.
The 10-second version
Four products get called the best job application tracker, and they do not sell you the same thing. Teal organises a search around a résumé builder and a spreadsheet view, and it has the best free plan here. Huntr gives you a kanban board and unlimited autofill for nothing. Careerflow bundles a tracker, an autofill, a LinkedIn optimizer and a mock interview into one subscription. Simplify is the only one of the four whose own pages describe sending the application for you.
Apiva: you approve each job, our AI fills and submits it, and a credit is spent only once the submission is confirmed. 25 applications a month are free.
Want your whole search in one place, and you are happy pressing submit yourself? Teal, free.
Want each application confirmed as received before it costs you anything? Us.
What counts as a job application tracker here
The word covers three different jobs, and the price is usually for the cheapest of them.
A log is a row you make yourself. You applied, so you type "applied". The status column is a note to yourself, and it says exactly as much as you remembered to write.
Autofill is a typing shortcut. An extension fills the fields on a form you already opened, and then you press send, which means the software is not in the room when the application actually goes. Huntr and Careerflow stop there.
Submission is the third thing. Simplify's Autopilot does it. So do we.
Then there is the unit on the price tag, and this is the part most roundups skip. Jobs tracked. Applications attempted. Submissions confirmed. Only the last one is something an employer received, and most trackers bill on the first.
The honest baseline is a spreadsheet. It is free, it takes an afternoon, and it has every weakness on this list at once: nothing fills itself, nothing sends, and the record of what happened is whatever you typed. A free job tracker beats a spreadsheet easily. That is a low bar, and most of these clear it.
Each entry below says what the product is, what it costs, and one thing it does better than we do.
Teal
Teal sells a tracker wrapped in a résumé builder. Its pricing page prices résumés, templates, email templates per application stage, contacts, notes and checklists, and its job tracking page lists keyword extraction, enrichment ratings, a spreadsheet view, note taking, checklists and follow-up dates. Postings get saved into it from job boards with the Chrome extension, which the Chrome Web Store showed at 4.7 from 3.2K ratings and 200,000 users on 1 November 2026.
The free plan is the best free plan on this page, and it is not close. Tracking is unlimited, which no other free plan here says. You also get one base résumé, ten templates, one résumé packet, one email template per stage, five résumé-builder AI credits and two summary credits.
Teal+ is $13 a week, $29 per 30 days or $79 per 90 days, and starting on the free plan needs no card. Nothing on that page is billed in the ordinary monthly way.
Nothing on either page describes submitting an application. Organising the search is the product, and it is a good one.
Better than us: the whole search in one place, free, with no cap on the part that matters. We track applications too, and we build no résumés, no checklists and no contacts database. We compared the two at Teal vs Apiva.
Huntr
Huntr is the kanban board. Its pricing page describes saving jobs from job boards and employer sites, moving each one through stages, keeping a todo list per application, and storing notes against the people you talk to.
Autofill is included free and without a cap. The page lists unlimited application autofills on the free tier, and the Chrome Web Store listing says the extension "auto-fills application forms for you, drawing from your Huntr profile", at 4.6 from 1.3K ratings and 90,000 users on 1 November 2026.
Free caps the log at 100 jobs and gives you two job-tailored résumés, two application packets and 100 document uploads. Pro is $40 a month, or $30 a month billed as $90 every three months, or $26.66 a month billed as $160 every six. There is no free trial, because the free plan is the trial.
The unit is worth noticing. Huntr caps what you keep for free and does not cap what it types for you, which tells you which of the two costs them less.
Huntr has the best review record of the four. Trustpilot showed 4.6 out of 5 on 1 November 2026, from 22 reviews on a profile claimed since March 2025, with 9 of those in the last twelve months. Twenty-two reviews is a small sample, and Trustpilot's own page notes the company has not invited customers recently, so read it as a good sign rather than a measurement.
Better than us: autofill that is free and unlimited, and a review record we cannot match. We have no reviews to show you yet. The longer comparison is at Huntr vs Apiva.
Careerflow
Careerflow is the bundle. Its homepage carries the pricing, because there is no pricing page: careerflow.ai/pricing returned a 404 on 1 November 2026. For the money you get a résumé builder, a job tracker, an autofill, a LinkedIn optimizer, a networking tracker, an ATS score checker, a mock interview and a job description summarizer.
Free is a taster. The tracker is listed as limited, the autofill is listed as limited, document storage is limited, and the extension is included.
Premium is $23.99 a month, $8.99 a week, $54.99 a quarter or $172.99 a year, which the page presents as $14.41 a month. Premium Plus is $44.99 a month, $19.99 a week, $119.99 a quarter or $299.99 a year, shown as $24.99 a month. Every billing period is live, which is more flexible than anything else on this list.
No auto-apply appears anywhere on that page. Nothing Careerflow offers sends an application.
Trustpilot showed 3.8 out of 5 on 1 November 2026 from 20 reviews, on a profile claimed in February 2026, with 70% at five stars against 25% at one. The page invites customers to review and the company has replied to most of the negative ones. Their own headline claims over 1.2 million job seekers. That is their figure, and we cannot check it.
Better than us: breadth per dollar, plus weekly and quarterly billing nobody else here sells. The annual Premium at $14.41 a month is the cheapest full toolkit on this page. We compared them at Careerflow vs Apiva.
Simplify
Simplify is the one that submits.
Free gets you Copilot autofill, a résumé builder, a job tracker and Gmail integration. Copilot fills supported fields and hands the form back to you to review and send.
Simplify+ adds Autopilot, which their own help page describes as submitting without a review step. That is a real submission, and the same end state we produce.
Getting the price takes a detour. simplify.jobs/pricing returned a 404 on 1 November 2026. The numbers live in that help article and are quoted per period: $19.99 for one week, $39.99 for one month, $89.99 for three months. Each renews until cancelled, and the article notes the amount is charged for the full period rather than as a daily rate. That is more disclosure than the per-week pricing elsewhere on this list manages.
Simplify+ includes 20 credits a week. One credit covers a successfully submitted application and its document preparation. A failed or cancelled run does not use one, and unused credits do not roll over. That is the same unit we bill on, and it is a fair one.
Trustpilot showed 2.8 out of 5 on 1 November 2026, from 21 reviews on an unclaimed profile, with 52% of them at one star. That is the weakest record on this page, and it sits under the product that does the most.
Better than us: free autofill, a résumé builder and a tracker in one place, and a paid tier that charges per confirmed submission the way ours does. The full comparison is at Simplify vs Apiva.
Where Apiva fits
We are the newest and smallest thing here, and we are last on purpose.
Free is 25 applications a month, no card. Starter is $19 a month for up to 200, Pro is $39 for 600, and Scale is $99 for 1,500. Quarterly prices of $49, $79 and $239 are published but not purchasable yet; they arrive when quarterly billing opens.
What we do that none of these four does is settle the bill on the last step. You approve a job from a feed or paste in a link, our AI fills the application and rewrites your résumé for that role, and a credit is held when you add the job, spent only once the submission is confirmed, and returned when an attempt fails. That is a billing rule rather than a promise in the copy.
What we do not do is organise your search. There is no kanban board, no résumé builder, no LinkedIn optimizer and no mock interview. If you want one place to run the whole hunt, Teal and Careerflow both do that better than we do.
The coverage claim is any US job posting, and it holds because a person finishes the applications software should not guess at. On its own the automated path is narrower. When a form asks something only you can answer, we stop and ask you rather than guess.
Bottom line
Three of the four are a reasonable buy, for three different people.
Teal if you want the best free tracker and you will do the applying yourself. Huntr if unlimited autofill matters more than unlimited tailoring. Careerflow if you want résumé, LinkedIn and interview prep in one subscription and you like paying weekly. Simplify if you want the submission done for you and you will pay more for the weaker public record.
If what you want is each application confirmed as received before it costs anything, that is what we sell, and you can try 25 free applications a month with no card. The plans are on the pricing page.
Whoever you use, keep one habit. Pick five applications from last week and sign in to your candidate account on the employer's own site. If four of the five are missing, you have learned something no tracker dashboard will tell you.
Checked November 2026. Spot something outdated or wrong about any of these tools? Tell us and we'll fix it.
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