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Free job application tracker
Track job applications in one place: every job you've applied to, what stage it's at, and when to follow up. Add jobs yourself or import a spreadsheet. Lives in your browser, needs no account.
Signed in, every job you apply to through HiringNow lands here on its own, the Chrome extension adds the rest, and a tailored resume is one click from the row. The free tracker below is for the ones you send yourself.
Applications
12 this week- Interview Thu
Product Designer, Dashboard
Stripe
Posted Mon, 9:12 amApplied Mon, 11:40 am· Interview Thu - Recruiter replied
Product Designer, Design Systems
Anthropic
Posted Tue, 2:05 pmApplied Tue, 3:30 pm· Recruiter replied - Applied
Senior Product Designer, Editor
Figma
Posted Wed, 10:15 amApplied Wed, 10:52 am· Applied - Applied
Senior Interaction Designer, Google Meet
Google
Posted Today, 8:48 amApplied Today, 9:20 am· Applied
Free job application tracker, no account needed.
Add your first job below, or import your existing spreadsheet as a CSV. Your list is saved in this browser, so you can come back to it without creating an account.
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Track applications automatically with HiringNow.
When you apply through HiringNow, the job is added to your tracker automatically. You can also save jobs from other sites and prepare a resume or cover letter from the same place.
Fresh match
Checked 4 min agoProduct Designer, Dashboard
StripeUS / Canada
Posted 38 min ago · careers page
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Applications
12 this week- Recruiter replied
Product Designer, Design Systems
Anthropic · applied Yesterday
- Applied
Senior Interaction Designer, Google Meet
Google · applied Tuesday
Two rows the agent wrote earlier. Press Apply on the left to add the third.
Your HiringNow applications are added for you
HiringNow shows you jobs from employers' own career pages. Like one, click apply, and the row appears in your tracker on its own, marked Applied, with the time the job was posted and the time you applied. Try it above.
Add jobs from any job site with the Chrome extension
On LinkedIn, Indeed or a company's careers page, one click clips the job into the tracker: title, company, link, date. The same extension fills application forms from your profile, so the form and the record happen together.
Tailor the resume and cover letter from the row
Open a tracked job and ask for a resume and a cover letter written for it, from your profile and the posting. The free account includes one of each; the paid plans make it unlimited and, on Autopilot, do it for every application the agent sends.
What a job application tracker is for.
A job application tracker, or job search tracker, keeps a record of the jobs you’ve applied to, their current status, and your next steps. You can save recruiter details, interview notes, follow-up dates, and the resume you sent for each role.
When a recruiter gets in touch, you can find the application without searching through your inbox. When it’s time to follow up, you can see when you last heard from them.
HiringNow also lets you check posting dates and whether listings are still available on supported company careers sites.
How to track job applications in four steps.
Add each application when you send it, then update the details as you hear back.
Step 1
Add the job
Company, title and the link, before you close the tab. Paste the link here and the tracker fills in the title and the date the employer actually posted the job, which tells you how long it has been open.
Step 2
Note which resume went, and to whom
The file name of the resume you sent and anyone you spoke to. When the recruiter calls three weeks later, this is the row you'll be glad you kept.
Step 3
Set one follow-up date
A week out is the default. Follow up once, by email, inside two weeks; that's what HR managers say they want. After an interview, a thank-you the same day.
Step 4
Review the list once a week
Move rows to their new stages, check which jobs have quietly closed, and look at the pattern. If nothing is answering, the fix is usually the resume or the targeting, not more applications.
If the weekly look shows a lot of silence, run your resume through the free ATS resume checker before the next batch goes out.
What to track for every job application.
Keep the details you’ll want to refer to before a follow-up or interview.
Company and title
The two things you'll be asked on the phone. The recruiter says "it's about the analyst role" and you need to know which of three analyst roles.
The link
Where the posting lives. Paste it and the tracker reads the employer's hiring system for the title, the real posting date and whether the job is still up.
Stage
Saved, applied, interviewing, offer, rejected, withdrawn. Six is enough. A tracker with fourteen stages gets abandoned by week two.
Date applied
Everything else hangs off this. How long you've waited, whether it's time to chase, whether a silence has gone on long enough to count as an answer.
Follow up on
A date, not an intention. The tracker puts it a week out by default and lists what's due at the top of the page.
Contact
The recruiter's name, the hiring manager, the person who referred you. Written down the day you learn it, because you won't remember it in three weeks.
Resume version
Which file went with this one. The field people most often wish they'd kept: the interview is in an hour and you can't remember whether they saw the pricing resume or the analytics one.
Notes
What they asked, what you said, what you'd do differently, the salary range they mentioned. The part that turns a list into a record you can learn from.
Keeping one resume per kind of role makes the resume column easy. The free AI resume builder saves each version as a Word or PDF file you can name to match.
Free job application tracker template for Google Sheets or Excel.
Prefer a spreadsheet? Download a template with columns for job details, application status, follow-ups, contacts, and notes. It also includes location, salary, and an example row to help you get started.
- Google Sheets: create a blank sheet, then File, Import, Upload, and choose the file.
- Excel or Numbers: open the file directly.
- Later: export the sheet as a CSV and import it into the tracker on this page. The columns line up, so nothing is lost.
Three things a job application spreadsheet can't do.
It reads the posting
Paste the job's link and the tracker asks the employer's hiring system what it knows: the title, the location, the day the job was first published, the closing date if one was set. A job board date tells you when the listing was refreshed. This is the date the employer set.
It tells you when a job quietly closes
Check the jobs in your list to see which postings have been removed. A removed listing doesn’t confirm the outcome of your application, but it gives you useful context when deciding what to follow up on.
It notices what you'd rather not
Applications that have stayed at “Applied” for 21 days are flagged for review. The flag doesn’t mean you’ve been rejected, and it won’t change the status you’ve chosen.
The posting checks use the same reader as our job posting date checker, which reads Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Recruitee, Teamtailor, Personio and Breezy. Job board links can't be read, so use the link on the employer's own site. Why the employer's date matters: our study of LinkedIn's “just posted” jobs.
What research says about hiring timelines and follow-ups.
These studies offer some context for your job search. Each covers a different group of employers or job seekers, so treat the findings as background rather than a prediction for your applications.
60 days
Average time to fill a job at the 6,000-plus companies on Greenhouse in 2025, up from 44 days in 2022. Applications per opening more than doubled over the same years, from 116 to 244.
61%
Of 2,500 workers in the US, UK and Germany had been ghosted after an interview. Not after applying; after an interview.
65%
Of HR managers want a follow-up within two weeks of the application, and 64% want it by email. Nobody in the survey said don't follow up at all.
+30%
More job offers for job seekers who wrote down a search plan, in a randomized trial. Weekly reminders on top of the plan added nothing. The plan was the thing, which is an argument for a list you keep rather than an app that nags.
Abel, Burger, Carranza and Piraino, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019
What you won't find here: a figure for the share of applications that never get an answer. Nobody measures it well, because the people who could, the hiring systems, don't publish it. The round numbers quoted for it elsewhere trace back to nothing we could find.
Job application tracker FAQ.
What is a job application tracker?
A job application tracker is a list of the jobs you've applied to, with the stage each one is at and what you mean to do next. People keep one in a spreadsheet, a notebook or a free tool like HiringNow's. The point is the same: past about fifteen applications, nobody remembers which recruiter said what, which resume went where, or which of the quiet ones is worth a nudge.
How do I track my job applications?
To track your job applications, log each one the day you apply: company, title, link, the date, and which resume you sent. Set one follow-up date about a week out, note anyone you speak to, and review the list once a week to update stages and spot jobs that have gone quiet. HiringNow's free job application tracker does this in your browser, with no account.
Is HiringNow's job application tracker free?
Yes, HiringNow's job application tracker is free in full: unlimited jobs, list and board views, posting date checks, CSV import and export. There is no account to make and no paid tier of the tracker. Signing in is for something else: HiringNow's agent, which applies to jobs for you and writes each record itself.
What is the best free job application tracker?
The best free job application tracker is the one you keep using, so it should be quick to fill, let you export your data, and not hide features behind a trial. HiringNow's tracker is free with no account and no limit, reads real posting dates from employers' hiring systems, flags applications that have gone quiet, and exports to CSV whenever you want.
Where does HiringNow's tracker keep my data?
HiringNow's free tracker keeps your list in your browser's own storage, on your device, and never sends it to HiringNow's servers. That also means it can't be backed up for you: clear your browser data and it's gone, so export a CSV now and then. Pasting a job link sends only that link, to look up the posting date. When you wanted to track the jobs across the devices - you can create an account and track better.
Can I import the spreadsheet I already use?
Yes, HiringNow's tracker imports a CSV from Google Sheets, Excel or Notion. It reads the usual column names (company, role, link, status, date applied, follow up, notes, contact) and maps your status words onto its six stages. Dates that could be read either way are taken as month/day/year, so check any that look off.
What should I track for every job application?
For every job application, track the company, title, link, stage, date applied, follow-up date, who you've spoken to, which resume you sent, and notes. That's roughly what university career services tell students to keep. Salary and location are worth a word each. Skip anything you won't fill in: an empty column is the start of giving up on the sheet.
Can I just use Google Sheets or Excel to track job applications?
Yes, Google Sheets or Excel work fine as a job application tracker, and if you already use one, carry on. HiringNow offers a free blank template with the same columns, so a sheet you start today can be imported later. What a spreadsheet can't do is read the posting date from the employer's system or tell you a job has been taken down.
How is a job tracker different from a spreadsheet?
A job tracker like HiringNow's reads the employer's hiring system, which a spreadsheet can't: it fills in the title and real posting date from a link, and checks whether a job is still open, the question you most want answered three weeks in. It also keeps follow-ups in front of you instead of in a column you stop reading. A spreadsheet is still a fine tracker for many people.
When should I follow up on a job application?
Follow up on a job application once, by email, between one and two weeks after applying. That is what HR managers said when Robert Half asked 300 of them: 65% wanted to hear from you within two weeks, 64% by email, and none said never. After an interview, send a thank-you the same day, then wait for the date they gave you before asking again.
What does the "no reply" flag mean in HiringNow's tracker?
The "no reply" flag in HiringNow's tracker means an application has sat at "applied" for three weeks or more with no change. It isn't a rejection, and the tracker never changes the stage for you. It's there so a search with a lot of silence shows up as a pattern, which usually means the resume or the targeting needs work before the next batch.
Can I track LinkedIn and Indeed jobs in HiringNow's tracker?
Yes, you can track LinkedIn and Indeed jobs in HiringNow's tracker, but it can't read those sites, because they don't allow it. For the real posting date and the "still open?" check, paste the link you land on after clicking Apply on the company's own site, which is usually on a hiring system the tracker can read.
Does HiringNow's job tracker have a browser extension or reminder emails?
HiringNow's free tracker has no extension or reminder emails: it runs in your browser, and due follow-ups show when you open it, with nothing to install and nothing of yours on HiringNow's servers. The signed-in tracker is different: its Chrome extension clips jobs from LinkedIn, Indeed or a company's careers page, and it logs every job the agent applies to on its own.
What happens to the job tracker when I sign in to HiringNow?
When you sign in, the job tracker becomes part of HiringNow's agent. Jobs you apply to through HiringNow land in it as Applied, with the posted and applied times; the Chrome extension adds jobs from other sites; and from any tracked job you can ask for a tailored resume and cover letter. The free tracker stays free either way, and exports as a CSV you can bring with you.
How many job applications should I be tracking?
Track every job application you send; that's the point of a tracker. Looking back at a full list, most people are surprised by how few got any reply and how many went to jobs that had been open for months. The list is where you find that out, and where you decide to send fewer, better-aimed applications, or to apply earlier.
Page updated October 6, 2026.
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