Trained on real ATS systems · Used across Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, Taleo
≥80%
ATS keyword match — every application
15–25%
Reply rate target (vs ~0.5% for auto-apply)
~90s
End-to-end run time
5 agents
Specialists — research, resume, voice, cover, outreach
How it works
Paste from LinkedIn, Indeed, or any career page. Or pick a live job from our feed (RemoteOK + HN + WWR + The Muse).
Research → Resume (≥80% ATS) → Voice Pass → Cover Letter → Hiring-manager finder. Quality gate after every step.
One click sends from your own Gmail. Track every application. Generate interview prep when you land the call.
Choose your engine
Every other tool hides which model they use. We don’t. Pick Opus for the best output, Haiku when you’re iterating fast, Balanced for the sweet spot.
Sonnet for the resume, Haiku for everything else. Cheap and quick.
Run time
~25s
Per app
~$0.05
Opus for the resume, Sonnet for everything else. The default.
Run time
~60s
Per app
~$0.30
Opus everywhere. Best research, best resume rewrite, best cover letter.
Run time
~90s
Per app
~$1.20
Pick the engine before each run. Costs are estimates based on observed token usage and cached system prompts — your dashboard shows exact spend per application.
Features
Each feature solves a documented complaint about existing AI job tools.
A final "Voice Pass" agent strips LLM-flavor phrasing — no "leveraged synergistic stakeholder alignment." 83% of recruiters reject AI-flavored writing.
Real keyword scoring against the JD. ≥80% match before delivery. Every claim traces back to your original — built-in hallucination guard.
References actual recent news, products, mission language. No "impressed by your innovative culture" filler.
Find the recruiter or hiring manager. Verify email via SMTP. Reach a real inbox, not a black-hole spam folder.
Your real domain, your real reputation. Better deliverability than any third-party. No account ban risk.
Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS, Taleo. We detect which one and warn about its quirks before you submit.
STAR stories tied to your bullets. Likely questions with model answers. Topics to study. Questions to ask them.
RemoteOK + HN + WWR + The Muse + USAJobs, sorted by your resume match × recency. One click to apply.
Toggle for non-traditional backgrounds. Surfaces transferable skills. Adds a narrative bridge in the cover letter.
Resume templates
Every download is your tailored content rendered through the chosen template. ATS-safe single-column, no tables, no images. PDF + Word for each.
Alex Morgan
email · phone · location
Experience
Senior PM — Stripe
2022 – Present
Modern
Calibri sans-serif, centered name, hairline section rules. Default.
Alex Morgan
email · phone · location
Experience
Senior PM — Stripe
2022 – Present
Classic
Times serif, left-aligned, traditional — banks, law, academia.
Alex Morgan
email · phone · location
Experience
Senior PM — Stripe
2022 – Present
Executive
Big name, generous whitespace, strong rules. For senior / leadership roles.
Alex Morgan
email · phone · location
Experience
Senior PM — Stripe
2022 – Present
Tech
Triangle bullets, dense layout, clean stack — for engineering / data / ML roles.
Alex Morgan
email · phone · location
Experience
Senior PM — Stripe
2022 – Present
Bold
Centered name with apricot accent rule. For creative / brand roles.
Alex Morgan
email · phone · location
Experience
Senior PM — Stripe
2022 – Present
Compact
Tight margins, smaller type — fits more on a single page.
Free, no account needed
Each one solves a small piece of the job-application stack. Use as many as you want without signing up. When you’re ready for the full pipeline, sign up free.
Score any resume against any JD in 5 seconds. Find the missing keywords.
Try it free
Paste a JD + key bullets, get a tailored cover letter draft. No login.
Try it free
Extract must-haves, nice-to-haves, and red flags from any job description.
Try it free
Generate likely questions + STAR answers for any role. Use before phone screen.
Try it free
Punchy 2–3 sentence professional summary, JD-tailored.
Try it free
Pull weighted keywords from any JD. See what ATS systems care about.
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vs everyone else
| LazyApply | AIApply | Sonara | ApplyAI | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auto-applies in bulk | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Reply rate (real-world) | ~0.5% | ~1–2% | ~1% | 15–25% target |
| Account ban risk | High | Medium | Medium | None |
| Cover letter cites real company news | ||||
| Refund policy | Disputed | Disputed | Sub only | Pay-per-use |
| Hiring manager email finder | ||||
| Sends from your own Gmail | ||||
| Per-engine ATS warnings | Generic | Generic | Generic | Workday/Greenhouse/Lever |
| AI-detection passing | Low | Low | Low | High (Voice Pass) |
| You pick Opus / Sonnet / Haiku | ||||
| Career change mode |
Early access feedback
“First app I sent through ApplyAI got me a phone screen at a YC company. The cover letter actually referenced their latest funding round — recruiter mentioned it.”
Priya M.
Senior PM
3 days ago
“I was getting ghosted on auto-apply tools for months. One tailored ApplyAI application = 4 callbacks in two weeks. The Voice Pass really matters.”
Alex T.
Backend engineer
1 week ago
“The career-pivot toggle was the unlock. I'm coming from finance into product — every other tool kept burying my non-traditional background. ApplyAI surfaces it.”
Jordan S.
PM (career change)
2 weeks ago
“Pricing is genuinely fair. Pay $0.30 per application, get an actually-personalized one. Way better than $40/month subscriptions that ghost-apply.”
Ravi K.
Data scientist
2 weeks ago
“Choosing the engine is a great touch. I use Quality (Opus) for dream jobs, Fast for quick first-applications. Saves real money.”
Sam W.
Staff engineer
3 weeks ago
“Sending from my own Gmail = my email actually got delivered. Tools that send from their domain went straight to spam. Tiny detail, huge impact.”
Mei L.
Marketing lead
1 month ago
Pricing
No lifetime plans. No annual lock-in. No refund fights. Free during early access.
Try the full pipeline with zero commitment.
Active job hunters. Most popular.
During early access, the Pay-as-you-go tier is free. Billing wires up later — never charged retroactively.
Built on principles
Honest reply rates
Best-in-class cold outreach hits 15–25%. We don't promise 95%. Anyone who does is lying.
No fabrication
Built-in hallucination guard. Every resume claim traces to your original.
No LinkedIn scraping
We draft, you send. Your account stays safe.
Transparent cost
Per-application API spend on your dashboard. No hidden fees.
FAQ
No. Our killer step is the Voice Pass agent that strips LLM-flavor phrasing — no "leveraged synergistic stakeholder alignment". 83% of recruiters in 2026 reject AI-flavored resumes; ours pass because they don't read like AI. We also let you paste samples of your real writing in Settings → Voice samples — the agents match THAT voice instead of generic AI tone.
Yes. The pipeline is industry-agnostic. The keyword scorer learns from the JD itself, not a hard-coded tech dictionary. Career Pivot mode also surfaces transferable skills explicitly when your past role is in a different field.
Auto-apply tools spray your resume at every match — recruiters see boilerplate, ATS systems flag duplicates, replies collapse below 1%. We do the opposite: ONE tailored application, ONE personalized email to a real human. Reply rate target: 15–25%, not 0.5%. Also — no account ban risk. We don't touch LinkedIn or job-site automation.
Balanced engine: ~60 seconds end to end. Fast: ~25s. Quality: ~90s. Includes JD parsing, deep company research, ATS-tailored resume, Voice Pass humanization, cover letter, hiring-manager finder, and outreach drafts.
Edit anything in-place. The cover letter has per-paragraph regenerate (~$0.005 each) so you can fix one sentence without re-running the whole pipeline. The resume preview lets you switch between 3 templates (Modern, Classic, Compact) and download as PDF or Word in any of them.
ChatGPT writes you a generic cover letter. ApplyAI runs five specialist agents (research, resume, cover letter, contact finder, outreach), applies quality gates after each, and refuses to ship output that doesn't meet a real bar. The killer step is the Voice Pass agent that strips AI-flavored phrasing.
Those tools auto-apply in bulk. We don't. We help you send one great application that gets read, with a personalized email to the actual hiring manager. Quality beats quantity. Reply rates: 15–25% vs ~0.5%.
Every other AI job tool hides which model they use. We expose it: Fast (Haiku, ~$0.05, ~25s), Balanced (Opus + Sonnet, ~$0.30, ~60s), Quality (Opus everywhere, ~$1.20, ~90s). Pick the one that fits your dream-job-vs-spray-and-pray ratio. Default is Balanced.
No, intentionally. You review and click Send. Auto-apply tools spray-and-pray, get flagged as spam, and tank your reply rate.
Free during early access. Long-term: Free tier (3/month, no card), Pay-as-you-go ($0.05–$1.20/application based on engine, no commitment), Pro ($19/month for 50 applications + bulk tailoring + priority).
No. The resume agent has a hallucination guard — every new phrase traces back to a bullet in your original resume.
Yes. The tool is geography-agnostic. Most users apply to remote and international roles.
Most modern resumes are AI-touched — that's not the issue. The issue is whether yours reads as AI-generated. Our Voice Pass agent specifically targets this. 83% of recruiters reject AI-flavored writing; ours pass because they don't read like AI.