Best Job Application Trackers in 2026: Simplify vs Teal vs Huntr vs Notion vs a Spreadsheet

It depends on how you apply. I'm a technical recruiter at Simplify, so I'll say the obvious part first: we make one of these trackers. If most of your applications go through company career sites, Simplify adds them to a free tracker as you submit them and can update their status from your Gmail. If you save jobs from job boards and want contacts and follow-up templates next to each one, Teal is the most complete free option. Huntr suits people who like a drag-and-drop board and are tracking fewer than 100 jobs. Notion or a spreadsheet suits people who want full control and don't mind typing everything in.

Every price and feature below comes from each company's own website or help center, checked on November 12, 2026. We didn't run a hands-on test of each tool, and where a page didn't say something, I say so.

Why I care which tracker you use

Here's a question I ask in almost every early call: "Where else are you interviewing?" Candidates who track their search answer in a few seconds. Candidates who don't start scrolling through their inbox, and sometimes find out mid-call that they never heard back from half the places they applied.

A tracker won't get you interviews by itself. What it does is show you where your search is stalling, so you fix the right thing. That's the bar I used for everything below.

The short version

• Simplify if you want applications added to your tracker as you submit them, status suggestions from your inbox, and a chart of where your applications stop. The tracker is free.
• Teal if you mostly save jobs from job boards and want contacts, checklists and follow-up email templates next to each job. Tracking is unlimited on the free plan.
• Huntr if you want a Kanban board with contacts and a map of where you're applying. The free plan tracks up to 100 jobs.
• Notion if you want to design your own system and don't mind entering every application by hand.
• A spreadsheet if you're applying to a handful of roles and want something you fully control.

How they compare

Checked November 12, 2026 against each company's own pages: Simplify's help center, Teal's job tracker and pricing, Huntr's job tracker and pricing, and Notion's pricing.

	Simplify	Teal	Huntr	Notion	Spreadsheet
Free tracking limit	Free tracker, no limit stated	Unlimited	Up to 100 jobs	Free plan, with a template from the gallery	None
How jobs get in	Added when Copilot detects a submitted application; also save from matches and the job board, add by hand, or import a CSV	Save from 40+ job boards with the Chrome extension	Save with the Chrome Job Clipper	Typed in by hand	Typed in by hand
Views	Board you drag cards across, a list, and a chart	Spreadsheet-style view with statuses	Kanban board and a map view	Depends on the template	Rows
Updates from your email	Connect Gmail and get status suggestions from recruiting emails	Follow-up email templates; inbox sync not listed	Not listed	No	No
Contacts and reminders	Not offered; dates on each stage	Contacts, notes and checklists	Contacts and interview dates	Build your own	Build your own
Picture of your pipeline	Flow Chart from applied to offer, with response time and conversion rates	Not listed on its tracker page	Job search metrics	Charts on the Plus plan	Build your own
Autofills applications	Yes, free basic autofill with the Copilot extension	Not listed on its tracker page	Yes, unlimited on the free plan	No	No
Phone	iPhone app with the tracker and email suggestions	Not listed	Not listed	Notion app	Sheets or Excel app
Paid plan	Simplify+ from $19.99 a week, $39.99 a month or $89.99 every 3 months	Teal+ $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days, $79 every 90 days	Pro $40 a month, $90 every 3 months, $160 every 6 months	Plus $10 per member a month	None

Prices are the standard plans shown on each website. Offers and app-store prices can differ.

Simplify

Simplify's Job Tracker is free. The difference from the others is how applications get into it and how they stay current.

Applications go in as you apply. When you apply with the free Copilot browser extension, Copilot adds the application to your tracker when it detects a supported submission. If it doesn't detect one, you can add the application yourself, save it from your matches or the job board, or import a CSV of whatever you were tracking before. If you connect Gmail, Simplify also flags applications it finds in your email that aren't in your tracker yet, so you can add the ones you forgot.

Statuses update from your inbox. Once Gmail is connected, Simplify matches recruiting emails to your applications and suggests status changes, such as moving a job to interviewing or rejected. You accept or dismiss each suggestion, or all of them at once. This is the part I'd care about most as a candidate. The recruiting email that says "we'd like to move forward" is easy to read on your phone and forget to log.

What you get for free

• A Board view where you drag cards between stages, a List view for scanning rows, and a Chart view. You choose which optional columns to show, such as screen, withdrawn, ghosted and accepted.
• Search, filters for application date, job type, status and favorites, and sorting.
• A timeline for each application, with a date for each stage you reach.
• Notes, documents, salary details, saved application questions and a resume keyword match for each job.
• Bulk status changes, archiving and CSV export.
• Flow Chart, a picture of how your applications move from applied to screening, interviewing, offer and accepted, and where they end up ghosted, rejected or withdrawn. It shows your average response time, ghost rate, application pace and conversion rate between stages. You can save a chart, share a link or export it as an image.

The Flow Chart is the feature I'd point you to first. A list of 60 applications doesn't tell you much. A chart that shows most of them stopping before screening tells you to work on your resume and targeting. One that shows them stopping after interviews points to interview prep instead. Those are very different problems, and I see plenty of candidates rewriting a resume that was never the issue. Keep your statuses current, since the chart only knows what you've logged, and with a small number of applications, read the counts alongside the percentages.

The iPhone app has the tracker and the Gmail status suggestions too. The Flow Chart and CSV import are on the web.

What's paid

Simplify+ adds AI resume tailoring, cover letters, AI answers to application questions, AI email drafts, networking and Autopilot. Autopilot fills out and submits applications for jobs you choose, on supported application systems such as Greenhouse, Ashby and Workable, with 20 credits a week. It doesn't cover every site, Workday included, and it submits without a separate review step, so it suits people who've already decided where to apply but don't have time to fill every form.

Good to know: Simplify's tracker doesn't have a contacts list or reminders. If keeping recruiter and referral contacts next to each job matters most to you, look at Teal or Huntr.

Teal

Teal's Job Tracker lets you bookmark and track unlimited jobs for free. Its Chrome extension saves jobs from 40+ job boards, including Indeed, Glassdoor and BuiltIn, and picks up the pay listed in the job description.

Teal is strongest on organizing the work around each job: an excitement rating for prioritizing, notes on every job, contact and company, checklists for each stage, and email templates for following up. Its free plan includes one email template per job stage and the top 5 keywords from each job description. Teal+ unlocks unlimited keywords, unlimited templates and more resume analysis for $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days or $79 every 90 days, according to its pricing page.

If you're the kind of candidate who sends a thank-you note within a day and knows every recruiter's name, Teal is built for you.

Good to know: Teal's tracker page is about saving jobs from job boards. It doesn't mention autofilling applications or reading your inbox, so you'd update each job's status yourself.

Huntr

Huntr's Job Tracker is built around a Kanban board. You save postings with the Chrome Job Clipper and drag them through stages. It also tracks contacts, interview dates, documents and multiple resumes, and has a map view that shows where your potential employers are.

Huntr's free plan tracks up to 100 jobs and includes unlimited application autofills, according to its pricing page. Huntr Pro removes the 100-job limit and adds more job search metrics for $40 a month, $90 every 3 months or $160 every 6 months. Huntr says there's no free trial.

Good to know: 100 jobs sounds like plenty until internship season, when many students send far more applications than that. Check whether the free limit covers your search before you start.

Notion

Notion doesn't make a dedicated job tracker. You start from one of the community-made templates in its Job Application Tracking gallery, which lists more than 1,000, and customize it.

That flexibility is the appeal. You choose the columns, statuses and views. The tradeoff is that every application goes in by hand, and nothing updates when you apply or hear back. Notion's free plan covers personal use, and Plus costs $10 per member a month. Notion says the Plus plan with a one-member limit is free for students and educators.

A spreadsheet

A Google Sheet or Excel file is free, private and works offline. For a search of 10 or 20 roles, it's often all you need.

Gemini in Google Sheets helped create the example below, including its layout, status dropdowns and summary counts. You still have to organize your applications and update their statuses manually, which becomes more work as you apply widely. These columns are a useful starting point:

• Company and role
• Link to the posting
• Date applied
• Status (applied, screening, interview, offer, rejected, no response)
• Contact or referral
• Next step and date

To recreate this example, open a blank Google Sheet and, if Gemini is available in your account, paste the exact prompt below into Gemini. The companies and applications are fictional; replace them with your own details. You still need to organize your applications and update their statuses manually.

Make this into a nicely styled job application tracker:

Alder Labs, Software Engineer Intern, not applied yet, Saved, next step: apply by Nov 21, note: found via campus career fair
Birch Studio, Product Designer, applied Nov 3 2026, Applied, next step: follow up Nov 17, note: portfolio link included
Cedar Analytics, Data Analyst, applied Oct 28 2026, Screening, next step: recruiter call Nov 14, note: prep SQL examples
Maple Systems, Customer Success Associate, applied Oct 20 2026, Interview, next step: panel interview Nov 18, note: send thank-you note after
Willow Works, Marketing Coordinator, applied Oct 6 2026, Offer, next step: reply to offer by Nov 20, note: review benefits and start date

Which one should you use?

Start with how you apply. If most of your applications go through company career sites, a tracker that fills itself in as you apply and checks your inbox saves the most time, which is what Simplify is built for. If you mostly save postings from job boards and want help with follow-ups and contacts, Teal is the most complete free option. If you like a visual board and are applying to fewer than 100 jobs, Huntr's free plan works well. If you want full control, Notion or a spreadsheet will do, as long as you keep it updated.

Whatever you pick, update statuses when you hear back. A tracker is only as useful as its last update, and the candidates who keep theirs current are the ones who can tell me exactly where they stand.

Common questions

What is the best free job application tracker? It depends on how you apply. Simplify's tracker is free, adds applications as you submit them with its Copilot extension, and suggests status changes from your Gmail. Teal's free plan tracks unlimited jobs saved from job boards. Huntr's free plan tracks up to 100 jobs on a Kanban board.

Can a job tracker update itself from my email? Simplify's can. Once you connect Gmail, it matches recruiting emails to your tracked applications and suggests status changes for you to accept or dismiss. It also flags applications it finds in your email that aren't in your tracker yet.

How much do Teal and Huntr cost? Both trackers have free plans. Teal+ costs $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days or $79 every 90 days. Huntr Pro costs $40 a month, $90 every 3 months or $160 every 6 months, and removes the free plan's 100-job limit.

Can you use Notion as a job tracker? Yes. Notion's template gallery has more than 1,000 community-made job application tracking templates. You enter and update each application by hand.

Should I use a spreadsheet to track job applications? A spreadsheet works for a small search. Once you're applying to dozens of roles, a tracker that adds applications for you and shows where they stop saves time and keeps statuses current.

Try the free tracker

Install Simplify Copilot, apply to one job you were going to apply to anyway, then open your Job Tracker. If the application is already there, you've seen the difference.

Last verified November 12, 2026 against each company's website and help center. If a plan or feature has changed, email [email protected] and we'll update this page.