What's new with FreeApply

Clearer tools for your AI app (22 instead of 25), a Needs you tab that asks each question once in plain words, and problem reports you can send, each only with your OK. Remove jobs from the dashboard. The Privacy Policy changed, so you'll be asked to accept it again.

New

• Remove a job from the dashboard: Applications → Remove deletes it with its notes, form answers and recorded emails, after you confirm. Only you can remove jobs; your AI app has no way to.
• Saved answers from the conversation. When you answer a form question in chat, your AI can save the answer and reuse it on later forms (and remove it again if you ask).
• Needs you: a question several jobs ask now shows up once, and your answer goes to all of them. FreeApply no longer stops to ask something you already answered, and a similar question comes with your earlier answer filled in for you to check.
• Needs you: jobs whose account is made on the same sign-up page share one card, and one "I made the account" sends them all back in the queue. Different employers on a shared careers site keep separate cards.
• Problem reports: when something in FreeApply goes wrong, it is noted under Settings → Data sharing → Problems, with your name, contact details, resume text, profile links and home-folder path removed. Each report shows exactly what would be sent and goes to FreeApply only if you tick "I agree to share this report with FreeApply" and press Send; Dismiss deletes it. Nothing is ever sent on its own.

Changed

• FreeApply now gives your AI app 22 tools instead of 25: the résumé, Gmail reply-check and data-sharing tools were each merged into one. Every tool has a clearer description, a title, an explanation of each setting with its allowed values, and marks for what it can change, so your AI picks the right step more often (for example, recording an employer email rather than only setting the outcome). Each tool also says exactly what it returns, and long job lists can be read page by page.
• The signed instructions your AI follows were updated for the new tools. FreeApply 1.0.0 keeps its own instructions until you update.
• FreeApply's source code is now released under the MIT License (LICENSE in the repository). The FreeApply name and logo are not covered, and the Terms of Service still govern use of FreeApply and of the services we host.
• Needs you: questions are written as short, plain questions you answer by typing, from a dropdown or by picking options; the form's own wording and FreeApply's notes are under Advanced. Blocked jobs say plainly what the site asked for (a "prove you're a person" check, a code, a warning) and offer "I applied myself", "Try again later" and "Skip this job". The account email is picked on the card instead of in a pop-up.
• Dashboard: the Terms, Privacy Policy, Disclosures and Recruiter Terms now open from a footer at the bottom of every page, in both Simple and Advanced view, instead of from tabs in the top menu.

Legal

• Privacy Policy: a new "Problem reports" part says what a report contains, that each one is sent only with its own consent, and that sent reports are deleted from our server after 90 days. Because the text changed, you are asked to accept the documents again.

Upgrading

Open the dashboard once and accept the updated Privacy Policy; FreeApply's tools wait until you do.

The first public release. FreeApply finds jobs that fit your settings, applies through the AI app you already use, tracks every application in a dashboard on your computer and checks Gmail for employer replies.

What's in FreeApply

• Finds jobs that fit. Searches the job sites you choose for roles that match your targets, pay floor and locations, and skips jobs and reposts it has already tracked.
• Applies for you on employer sites and job boards with your real details, your résumé and answers you saved once. Submissions are paced, and a job site that signs you out or shows its own daily limit is paused while the others continue.
• Never invents experience. Cover letters and answers are checked against your résumé and settings. Anything it can't back up is refused, and it asks you instead.
• Knows when to stop. CAPTCHAs, new accounts, passwords and questions your settings don't answer go to the Issues tab for you. It never types a password, creates an account or solves a CAPTCHA.
• Dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:7878, reachable only from your computer: Overview, Applications, Replies, Issues and Settings, with charts, search and CSV export.
• Reply checks. With your AI app's Gmail connector it checks for employer replies every 4 hours (you can change this), records acknowledgements, assessments, interviews, rejections and offers, and stars or labels them as you choose.
• Unattended runs within the time and application limits you set.
• Signed workflow. The agent's procedures and limits ship signed with our release key. Any edit locks the tools until the official copy is restored, and an update is installed only when its signature checks out.
• Data sharing is your choice, in Settings → Data sharing, where you can preview exactly what would be sent and delete everything already shared. Your résumé and contact details leave your computer only if you join the Recruiter Talent Pool.
• One sponsored card in the dashboard, labeled "Sponsored" and chosen on your computer. No ad scripts, no trackers, and no data sent to show it.
• Works with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf.

New since the 0.3 previews

• The app and its legal documents now share one version number, starting with 1.0.0. The Terms were 1.0 and the Privacy Policy 1.8.
• Accepting the Terms carries over to later versions. The dashboard asks you again only when the text of a legal document changes, not with every update.

Legal

• Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Disclosures and Recruiter Terms: version 1.0.0, effective October 27, 2026.
• Changed text: Terms section 13 (General) and Privacy Policy section 10 (Changes) now say that the version number is the FreeApply release the document ships with, and that the dashboard asks you to accept again when the text changes. Nothing else changed.

Upgrading from a preview (0.3.x)

• Claude Desktop: download freeapply.mcpb from https://www.mybotsai.com/install/ and install it the same way as before.
• Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf: run the install command from https://www.mybotsai.com/install/ again.
• Your data in ~/.freeapply stays as it is. The dashboard asks you once to accept the 1.0.0 Terms and Privacy Policy, and the agent tools wait until you do. Your data-sharing choices are kept.

Requirements

• Claude Desktop: nothing else. It runs FreeApply on its own built-in Node.js.
• Other apps: Node.js 22.13 or newer.
• Windows, macOS or Linux.