Your Job Search. <br> Your Terms.
Organize every lead, application, and interview in one place. No messy spreadsheets. No data selling. No recruiter dashboards.
Free forever. No credit card required.
Spreadsheets weren’t built for this.
When you’re juggling multiple applications, deadlines, and interviews, everyone seems to preach the same gospel: “just open Excel or Google Sheets and log every lead.” It works—until it doesn’t.
- Spreadsheets don’t remind you to follow up, flag stale leads, or tell you which sources are working.
- Notes, meeting links, and interview prep end up scattered across apps where they’re too easily forgotten.
- The more applications you add, the harder they are to maintain—and the less useful they become.
JobJournal flips that script.
Instead of babysitting cells, every opportunity becomes a living record. Follow-up suggestions and stale job lead alerts surface on your dashboard automatically. Notes stay attached to the stage they belong to. Insights show which sources actually convert. And universal search finds anything instantly.
Focus on your workflow, not managing rows. JobJournal scales from a single dream role to 100 concurrent applications—without breaking your flow or compromising your privacy.
Your dashboard at a glance
See where you stand—instantly.
Job Leads This Week
12
+4 from last week
Applications This Week
7 / 10
+3 from last week
Interviews This Week
3
+1 from last week
Average Rating
Track every opportunity
From first lead to final offer.
Status. Tags. Notes. A complete timeline. One opportunity, one place, nothing lost. Interviews and notes stay anchored to where they belong, not buried in separate tabs.
Built for you.
Not for companies.
Recruiter tools serve companies. Job boards serve advertisers. JobJournal serves you—keeping you in control of your job search and your data.
100% Free.
Forever.
JobJournal is free forever—because a tool for your job search shouldn’t profit from your job search. No trials, no paywalls, no “upgrade to unlock”, no subscriptions, and no hidden fees.
Your Data is Truly Yours.
JobJournal is privacy-first by design—no third-party sharing, no data selling, no recruiter analytics. Your data stays scoped to your account, you can export it all as JSON or CSV whenever you like, and you can delete it all at any time.
Everything exactly where it should be.
Attach notes directly to job leads and interviews. Prep for interviews, jot down reflection notes, and track offer details without ever losing context.
Nothing falls through the cracks.
Upcoming interviews surface automatically. Stale leads you forgot to apply to are flagged for you. After every application and interview, a nudge to follow up appears.
See what’s actually working.
Track leads, applications, and interviews week over week. Set a weekly application goal and watch your progress. See which sources produce interviews and offers—and which are wasting your time.
Bring your spreadsheet. Take everything with you.
Import your job search from a CSV: match your columns, review every row, and choose what happens to leads you already have. Export everything as JSON or CSV whenever you like. No lock-in, ever.
Along with everything else you’d expect—and more.
Job Lead Management
Company, title, salary, contact, location: everything about a job in one place. Follow it from lead to accepted on a timeline you can edit, and add as many notes as you want.
Autofill From URL
Paste a job posting link and we’ll fill in the company, title, location, and more. Works with Indeed and LinkedIn, with more on the way.
Interview Tracking
Log the interviewer, date, and call link, add it to your calendar in one click, then rate how it went.
Installable App
Add JobJournal to your iPhone home screen or your desktop and it opens like any other app, in its own window. Nothing to download from an app store.
Smart Search & Filters
Search leads, interviews, and notes at once. Filter by tag, status, date, or archived.
Tags
Tag leads however you like, filter by them, and rename or merge tags as your search changes.
Account Security
See every device signed into your account and sign any of them out. We email you about every new sign-in.
Ready to ditch the spreadsheet?
Stay organized, stay motivated, and stay private—free forever.