A real dashboard — eight live counters, your pipeline by stage, the four things due next and four charts — sitting on a 17-column sheet that fits a normal screen without scrolling sideways. No macros, no add-ins, nothing fetched from the internet, and no email required to download it.
Free, no macros, no signup, yours to keep. The file downloads the moment you click.
Both shots are the real Excel file, opened and rendered — not a mockup. The figures come from the six 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, the next things due, and four charts covering months, sources, countries and work mode. 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.
Two versions below. Take the standard one unless you know you have Microsoft 365 — it does everything the other does, minus the country flags and company logos, and it opens cleanly in Excel 2016+, Excel for the web, LibreOffice Calc and Google Sheets. Apple Numbers is the exception, and the FAQ says why.
Company, position, the date, and which CV went out — while you still remember. Six example rows show the idea; overwrite them. Country, status, source, work mode and CV are all dropdowns.
"Follow up", "send the take-home", and a date. The Needs you now panel on the Dashboard is built from those two columns, so anything without a due date quietly vanishes from your day — and the Signals panel counts how many you've left blank.
Eight counters, your pipeline by stage, the next four things due and the silence worth chasing — all of it recalculated from the Applications sheet. Work top-down through Needs you now and close the file. That's the system.
The standard one, unless you know you're on Microsoft 365 or Excel 2021+. Both have the same dashboard, columns and logic. The 365 edition adds two decorative columns — a country flag and a company logo — that use Excel's IMAGE() function, which older Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets don't have. The standard file makes no internet requests at all.
Yes — both were tested by opening and recalculating the file, not assumed. Everything survives: the dashboard counters, the charts, the dropdowns, the colour-coding and the conditional formatting. It uses only COUNTIF, COUNTIFS, INDEX and MATCH, which every spreadsheet app has had for twenty years.
Not at the moment, and we would rather say so than let you find out. Numbers 14.2 quits while loading the file — it fails inside its own chart engine on the four charts this dashboard uses. Everything else in the file is fine by it; the charts are the problem, and we are working on a version Numbers will accept. Until then, on a Mac the honest options are Excel, LibreOffice Calc (free), or the Google Sheets copy, which opens in any browser.
None, in either version. No macros, no add-ins, no scripts. The standard file also makes no external requests, so nothing about your job search leaves your machine. Your antivirus can relax.
It counts the days since the last thing that happened on each application — their reply if there is one, otherwise the day you applied. It turns amber at 14 days and red at 21, and it goes blank once the application is closed, so it only ever nags you about things still worth chasing. It's the one number a tracker can genuinely work out for you.
Click any cell in the Status column and pick from the ten stages: Saved, Preparing, Applied, Assessment, Interview, Final stage, Offer, Rejected, Ghosted, Archived. Each one colour-codes its own cell, closed applications grey out their whole row, and every count and chart on the Dashboard reads this single column. The list lives on a hidden Lists sheet — edit it and the dropdowns follow.
Yes — the ten stages are deliberately the same ten Erioun uses, so nothing has to be renamed. Save the sheet as CSV and use Erioun's import; your history comes across as applications. From there, replies file themselves instead of waiting for you and column F.
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 native .numbers file, not a converted spreadsheet. For the Mac crowd.
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.