Product updates
The 20 updates to Applystead that went live for every member on .
Our homepage no longer says your applications are capped at a plan's daily limit, and no longer mentions other plans or a launch deal that has ended. It now describes Premium, the one plan, with no daily cap and everything it includes.
We laid groundwork so postings that don't say where the work is done can be judged by their own words. Searches for remote work only still leave out any job that says it's on-site or hybrid.
While your setup is waiting for approval, we now fill in more of your first matches in the background, and nothing is shown or sent before you approve. We also keep looking for new matches while your other applications are still in progress, instead of treating that work as all your search needs.
Choice questions such as work authorization and whether you're happy to receive texts, and date fields, are now filled from your saved answers on many employers' forms. When an application emails you a security code, it's picked up within seconds instead of minutes, and a few steps that used to stop partway now finish.
If you tried to set up an address at a personal inbox, such as Gmail, for your applications, that setup no longer waits a week before stopping: it closes right away and tells you why. A personal inbox can't carry your applying address. You can connect a domain you already have during your trial, and a new one comes with Premium after your first payment.
We now check employer job listings more often, so new roles are found sooner. We also sort through and understand new postings faster, so more of them get read and matched each hour. And when a newly found role matches what you are looking for, it can reach your queue within minutes rather than waiting for the next full pass over the listings.
Our public jobs page now leaves out postings once their closing date has passed. When an AI assistant searches Applystead for a role that has no job page yet, it now says so and suggests nearby searches. We also corrected outdated plan details on our comparison pages and improved how we measure our public pages.
Our most-read guides on hearing back and internships now let you check whether a job is still open, or what it pays, without leaving the page.
Each company page now links straight to the employer's own careers site, next to what its application asks and the roles it has open, so you can go from reading about an employer to its real postings in one step.
We published how quickly employers replied to job applications Applystead sent. Of first replies from a person that came within 14 days, the median arrived 2 days after the application and 91% within 7 days. These figures describe how quickly replies came when they came, not how often employers reply. The data is free to download and reuse.
Your website can now show a small “Made with Applystead” link at the foot of every page, in your site's own colors. It is off unless you turn it on in Website settings, and it appears on your live site after you publish.
When the applications lined up for one member stop moving, our checks now notice it sooner and get that queue going again before it holds anything up. More application forms are also filled from the details already in a profile, so fewer questions are left for you to answer by hand.
When you end a free trial, we now show the jobs that are ready to send and let you send them all in one tap before you go, so the applications you had already lined up aren't lost. You can look them over first if you would rather. How you continue after the trial is still your choice.
When jobs are ready to send, the top of your Queue now leads with Apply to all, so one tap applies to every job that is ready, with Review beside it when you would rather look first. When nothing is ready yet, your Queue tells you when your first applications go out.
When you turn Auto apply on for the first time, it now also applies to close matches when the jobs that match your settings run low, so your applications keep going instead of waiting. If a search finds nothing, Otto suggests settings that bring jobs back. You can turn close matches off in the setup whenever you like.
When an employer emails you a quiz from a service we support, the email now offers to take it for you. Choose Take this quiz for me for just that one, or Take quizzes automatically to have us take it and future quizzes like it. The email then shows that we're taking it. Quizzes that need a call, video, your camera or microphone stay with you.
When someone at an employer writes back to you, their message now lands in your Inbox more reliably, and interview invitations always appear there so you can answer quickly. Automated messages and forms stay out of the way as before.
When your plan has ended and an employer writes to you, your plan page now shows how many replies are waiting, and paying takes you straight back to the message you opened from our email.
When sending was slow, a message you sent from Mailbox could wait without going out and then show "Not confirmed". Now messages you send are handled first, and one that is held up is tried again automatically, so it goes out and shows as sent.
When you open your Queue, the jobs that are ready for you now come first, so you can act on them right away. Your other matches join them once they're ready.