A real .numbers file, built in Numbers rather than converted from a spreadsheet — so it opens with a double-click and nothing arrives translated. Stages, countries and currencies are pop-up menus you pick from, every stage has its own colour, and the dashboard counts itself. No signup in front of it.
Free, no macros, no signup, yours to keep. The file downloads the moment you click.
Both shots are the real file, open in Numbers on a Mac — not a mockup and not a spreadsheet render dressed up as one. The figures come from the seven example rows it ships with.
Most free job application tracker templates are a blank grid with a status column. This one does four things on its own.
Eight live counters — applications, still alive, heard back, interviews, offers, offer rate, this month, and how many things need you today. Under them: your pipeline across all ten stages, a Needs you now list of what is due next, and a Signals panel counting overdue follow-ups, silence and applications with no next step. You never type a number into it.
Quiet counts the days since anything last happened on each application — their reply if there was one, otherwise the day you applied. Amber at 14 days, red at 21, blank once it's closed. It is the one thing a spreadsheet can genuinely work out on your behalf, and most templates don't.
Every row gets a next step and a due date. Overdue dates turn red, today's turn amber, and the Dashboard lists whatever is soonest. It also counts the live applications you've left without a next step — the ones that quietly fall out of a job search.
No macros, no add-ons, no scripts, and — in the standard file — not a single request to the internet. Nothing about who you're applying to leaves your machine. No email address is required to download it either.
The columns that answer “what did I send, to whom, and what's next?” — and not one more. Two of them fill themselves in.
The block that drives your day — and it fits on any screen without scrolling sideways.
The two dates that make the response rate and the silence-spotting work.
Context you'll want when three offers land at once — or when none do.
Status stages: Saved · Preparing · Applied · Assessment · Interview · Final stage · Offer · Rejected · Ghosted · Archived — the same ten stages Erioun uses, so moving up later is a rename-free experience.
Double-click the file. It is a real Numbers document, so there is no import step and no conversion warning to click through.
Company, position, the date, and which CV went out. Six of the columns are pop-up menus, so stage, country, currency, work mode, CV and source are a click rather than typing — which is also what keeps the dashboard's counts from drifting on a typo. Three sheets: the Dashboard reads itself, Applications is where you type, and How to use explains the system in five lines.
The Dashboard's Needs you now list is built from those two columns. An application with no due date quietly stops asking you for anything.
Eight counters, your pipeline by stage, what is due next and the silence worth chasing — all recalculated from the Applications sheet. Work top-down and close the file.
A real one. It was built in Numbers and saved as .numbers, so it opens with a double-click, keeps its formulas live, and does not greet you with a conversion warning. Roughly 1,250 formulas across the three sheets still calculate.
Because Numbers will not open it. Numbers 14.2 quits while loading that file, failing inside its own chart engine on the four charts the Excel dashboard uses. That is exactly why a native version exists rather than a "just import it" note.
The four trend charts are not in it — they are what Numbers chokes on. Everything that does the work is: the eight counters, the pipeline by stage, the Needs you now list, the Signals panel, the ten colour-coded stages and the Quiet column that counts days of silence. In exchange you get Numbers' pop-up menus, which are nicer to use than Excel's dropdowns.
Yes. Click a Status cell, then Format → Cell → Pop-Up Menu, and edit the list. Two things to know: the Dashboard's pipeline counts each stage by matching the label in its own left-hand column, so renaming a stage means renaming it on the Dashboard too — do both and the count follows you. And the Quiet column deliberately stops counting silence on Rejected, Ghosted, Archived and Offer, since none of those are waiting on a reply. Adding a stage is free; renaming one costs you one edit on the Dashboard.
It should — it is a standard Numbers document and iCloud syncs it between Mac, iPad and iPhone. We have tested it properly on macOS only, so we would rather say that plainly than promise a phone experience we have not sat with. The dashboard is laid out for a wide screen either way.
Numbers if you are on a Mac and want it to feel native. Excel or the Google Sheets copy if you want the four trend charts, or if you share the file with people who are not on Apple hardware. The columns and the ten stages are identical, so moving between them costs you an export.
Same columns, same statuses — only the typing surface changes.
The browser-native option. One click to copy, syncs on its own, works on your phone.
Ready now — no signupOne database, four views, and a column that spots ghosting. For people whose life already lives in Notion.
Ready now — no signupA dashboard, ten stages and a column that counts the silence. Works offline, stays on your machine.
Ready now — no signupErioun fills itself in — every application gets its own email address, replies file themselves and statuses stay current. You're always one tap from adjusting, and nothing is ever sent without you.