A swipe job app that learns from what you save

DonutApply deals the open US postings closest to your resume as cards. Swipe right to shortlist one, left to pass, and every swipe shapes the cards that come next. Nothing gets applied to from here.

Thumb through jobs on the bus.

The postings nearest your resume, one at a time. Swipe right to save, left to pass, and each swipe moves the next cards toward what you saved.

A phone shows job cards dealt one at a time: one swipes right and is saved, the next swipes left and is passed, and the stack moves up.

How a round goes

  1. It starts from your record

    The deck is dealt from your default resume, or from your notes or profile if you have not uploaded one, together with the roles you said you want next. With none of those it has nothing to go on, and it asks you to add one first.

  2. One card at a time

    Each card shows the company, the title, where it is and how closely it matches you. Tap a card to read the whole posting before you decide.

  3. Right keeps it, left drops it

    A swipe right is the same as "Save to tracker" in Browse: the job lands on your shortlist. A swipe left is "Not interested". The buttons under the card do the same, and so do the arrow keys on a computer.

  4. Applying happens later, on a computer

    Swiping only decides which jobs are worth your time. The shortlist is the queue you work through at a desk, where the extension fills each form and you review it. A swipe never applies to anything.

Each swipe moves the next cards

When you save a posting, the deck leans toward others like it. When you pass, it leans away. A pass counts for less than a save, because "not this one" can mean the wrong city or a company you have already ruled out, not a whole kind of job.

One swipe barely changes anything. It takes a handful before you see the order shift, and only your recent swipes count, so the deck follows you if what you want changes.

Your own record stays the anchor. No run of swipes can pull the deck away from what your resume and your target roles say.

A short list of upcoming jobs reorders itself. After a save of a GRC analyst role, the compliance and audit roles move up. After a pass on a sales engineer role, the engineering sales role sinks to the bottom.

Narrow it the way you narrow Browse

The deck and the Browse list read the same filters, so switching between List and Cards keeps your search. Set the date posted, a pay floor or the workplace, and the cards follow. The deck opens on whichever view you used last, and on a phone it starts as cards.

A saved search can be dealt as a deck too: pick one from the deck's Saved menu and swipe through what it finds.

What you will not be dealt

  • Postings the company has closed.
  • Anything already on your shortlist, or already passed.
  • Postings that look like reposts the company never fills.
  • Companies you chose to hide.

The same three filters stay in place while three jobs change from rows in a list into a stack of cards, and back.

What it costs

Free: the deck, swipes, filters, saved searches and undo. Opening or saving a posting in full counts toward 100 a day on Free.

Pro, $19 a month: no daily cap on full postings, and the Rising companies filter on the deck.

Questions about swiping

Is this Tinder for jobs?

The gesture is the same: right to keep, left to pass. The difference is that nothing is sent to anyone. A swipe right puts a real, open posting on your own shortlist, and a swipe left just stops showing it to you.

Can I undo a swipe?

Yes. The Undo button, or U on a keyboard, takes back your last few swipes in the order you made them. Undoing a save removes the job it added to your shortlist, and undoing a pass puts the posting back in the deck.

Does a pass hide a posting for good?

It leaves the deck and the Browse list. Browse has a "Show passed" switch if you want to look again, and undo works right after the swipe.

Does it work on a computer?

Yes. The right arrow saves, the left arrow passes, Enter opens the posting and U undoes. You can also drag the card with a mouse.

Why does it ask for a resume first?

The cards are chosen by how close a posting is to your record. With no resume, notes or profile there is nothing to compare, so DonutApply asks for one rather than dealing a random pile.

Donut apply so hard.

Go take a nap.
We’ll keep looking.

Fresh jobs keep arriving while you sleep. When you're up, the forms fill in minutes and the tracker keeps itself tidy.

Start on Free; Pro is $19 a month when you want it.