Spreadsheets and Notion: free, flexible, and abandoned
A Google Sheet or Notion board costs nothing and bends to any workflow. Its weakness is the same as its strength: nothing is automatic, so the record is only as good as your discipline on the worst day of the search. If you apply to a handful of roles a month and enjoy the ritual, a sheet - start from this free job application tracker template - is genuinely the right tool. If you apply to dozens, it is the tool most people quietly stop updating.
Huntr and Teal: the established boards
Huntr is a job search CRM - a board, a browser extension for saving postings, contacts, and resume tooling. Teal is best known for its resume builder, with a tracker and extension alongside it. Both are mature and both are strongest when you want to build documents inside the tool. Both work on the save-first model (Huntr vs Teal goes deeper): you clip a posting to the board, then apply. Their free tiers and prices change; check their sites for current limits.
Simplify: autofill first
Simplify built its reputation on filling application forms, and added a tracker around that. If your bottleneck is retyping the same details into Workday for the fortieth time, autofill is the feature to optimise for. Apptracka also fills contact, address, work-authorisation and link fields from a saved profile, but Simplify has spent longer on the long tail of enterprise forms.
Apptracka: record-on-submit
Apptracka is built around one difference: it records the application when you submit it, not when you save the posting. The extension watches for evidence of a submission on 40+ boards and applicant tracking systems and saves the job with its details and date; viewing a posting never creates a record. Tracking is unlimited and free, every AI tool is on the free plan, and applications that go silent move to Ghosted on their own. On Pro it builds a resume tailored to a saved posting, and every application keeps its own contacts and interview rounds - but there is no template-driven resume editor or standalone contacts CRM. It is the right choice if the thing that kills your tracking is the act of tracking; it is the wrong choice if you want to design resumes by hand inside the tool.
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Frequently asked questions
Which tracker is best for a high-volume search?
One that removes the per-application cost. Auto-tracking (Apptracka) or autofill (Simplify) both do that in different places; a spreadsheet does not.
Which is best if I mostly need a resume builder?
Teal or Huntr, for their template-driven editors. Apptracka builds a resume tailored to a saved posting on Pro, but it is not a manual resume editor.
Do these tools read every site I visit?
Apptracka runs only on the boards it supports unless you opt in to all websites; check each competitor's permissions and privacy policy for their behaviour.