Product updates
The 16 updates to Applystead that went live for every member on .
The Queue used to call two different counts "Ready to apply": the jobs it had prepared for your review and the larger list of jobs you can apply to in one tap. The top count now reads "ready for you", and the info button beside it says how many are ready to review and how many are ready to apply, so each number tells you what it counts. Nothing else about your queue changed.
The Mac app's interview menu now includes interviews whose time is not set yet and ones more than two weeks away, alongside your next rounds. Choose one while a call is recording and the call is saved with that interview, with the round added at the time you recorded.
Your answers › About you now tells you whether new applications show your Applystead number or the phone you saved, and links straight to the setting where you choose. Applications already sent keep the number they went with.
When you reply by email to a message we forwarded, we check that the reply really came from you before passing it on. For some mail services that check can't finish by itself. Those replies now wait in your Mailbox: we email you, you tap Review and send, and the employer gets your reply from your Applystead address.
Assistant settings have two new boxes. Your context takes text you paste, such as your résumé or notes on the role, and the Assistant reads it with every answer. System prompt lets you replace the prompt we give the Assistant with your own, and go back to ours at any time. The Mac app has both under More, Prompt and context, from version 1.4.0: the app updates itself, or download it again.
When an interview is linked to one of your applications, its briefing now uses that job's description to say what the role asks for, instead of telling you no job description was saved. Interviews you already have pick it up the next time you open Applystead, and upcoming calls get a fresh briefing.
Applications are prepared and sent faster, and the page that lists them loads quickly. Your queue follows a changed search sooner. Replies from employers and video-interview requests reach your own inbox reliably, even if you have a very large application history.
The screens now draw the same way: choices in a popover, records in a panel that keeps your place, and the sidebar's search (⌘K, or Ctrl+K elsewhere) finds what the screen already holds. Today opens with what needs you, your day and your time budget, and is listed first when you have an interview, a job in your time budget or a calendar connected. Account is now Settings, with a search.
Employers ask how to reach you, often in their own words, from a phone number to whether texts are welcome. More of those questions are now answered from the details and choices you already gave us, so more of your applications can go out.
Mail sent to your Applystead address is now handled several messages at a time instead of one by one. Employer replies, interview invitations and verification codes usually show up in your Mailbox within seconds, even at busy times, instead of waiting in line. The sign-in and verification emails we send you also go out right away.
When an employer invites you to an assessment and you open that invitation later, the sign-in link or code it sends now appears in your Inbox instead of staying out of view. That includes an invitation you opened days after it arrived, up to 30 days.
A job you added by its link could disappear from your queue for good after you changed your search, your profile or a queue option. It now returns to your queue within minutes of the change, as long as your settings still allow it. Jobs that had dropped out this way are back.
Plans and free trials that end because we retired or changed them no longer open a 'what made you cancel?' question about a cancellation you never made. When a cancellation is your own, we still ask for an honest reason, and your answers go straight to the team.
While a domain you own is being connected for Applystead to handle its mail, its setup screen now says your applications, and the résumés we make for them, move to your new address on their own once it's connected, and use your current address until then. It also says the test message we send to your new address usually arrives within minutes, and that if it doesn't, we send another every hour.
Connected your own domain and kept your current inbox? You can now apply from a subdomain you keep just for your job search: open your domain in Mailbox settings, choose Apply from a subdomain and add the DNS records we list. Once it's live, you send from it in Applystead, employers see an address at your own domain and their mail comes to your Mailbox. Your usual inbox keeps working as before.
Links to jobs on a startup accelerator's company job pages, and to job pages that staffing and recruiting agencies share from their applicant portals, now find the job when you paste them into Add a job, instead of saying we can't apply on that site yet.