JobAnvil — Your inbox does the homework. You do the interviews.
Job search · on autopilot

Your inbox does the homework. You do the interviews.

JobAnvil sources jobs from your inbox overnight, scores every listing against your profile, tailors a unique resume and cover letter per match, and delivers a ranked digest by morning. Local-first. A real free tier — BYOK forever, or subscribe and we handle the AI.

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JobAnvil is a Windows desktop app. Open jobanvil.io from a Windows PC to install. macOS and Linux on the roadmap.
How it works
Trial Free 7-day trial · no card
Privacy first Local-first storage. No cloud account.
Automated sourcing Daily, on your schedule
Platform Windows
Mechanic · three steps

From an inbox you already check
to a packet you already wrote.

01

Connect your inbox.

Read-only access to the job-alert folders you already have. Read on-device, never uploaded.

Reads any inbox
Gmail Outlook iCloud Yahoo IMAP
02

JobAnvil scores and tailors overnight.

Every listing is matched to your profile. Top candidates get a tailored DOCX resume and cover letter. Runs headless — the app doesn't need to be open while you sleep.

03

Wake up to a ranked digest.

Your top matches, scored, with the tailored packet attached. Open one. Apply before your coffee.

Features · five deep-dives

What JobAnvil actually does.

Path one Inbox capture

From your inbox.

Most listings reach you the same way: as alert emails from job boards you've already subscribed to. JobAnvil reads those emails locally — Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, or any IMAP provider — and turns each alert into a structured listing in your pipeline. No portal to log into, no new feed to manage, no inbox forwarding rules.

  • Works with any inbox: Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo, or IMAP
  • Plus any RSS / Atom feed — Hacker News Jobs, company tech blogs, niche specialty boards
  • Reads locally on your machine — credentials encrypted with Windows DPAPI
  • Listings extracted to title / company / link / description — searchable from the Jobs tab
Inbox · scout
Path two Browser extension

From your browser.

When you spot a listing while browsing LinkedIn, Indeed, Greenhouse, Lever, or Workday, the JobAnvil extension captures it into your local pipeline with one click. Same destination, different on-ramp.

  • One-click capture from 5 supported sites
  • Job text + URL stored locally, scored on next pipeline run
  • Listed on Chrome Web Store · free · no separate account
Extension · Chrome
Path three Target companies

Watch the companies on your shortlist.

Paste a Greenhouse, Lever, or Workday URL — JobAnvil monitors that company's careers page directly and pulls new listings into your pipeline as they post. Same scoring, same tailoring. No alert email to wait for, no portal to remember to check.

  • Add as many target companies as you want — no caps
  • Greenhouse · Lever · Workday URLs supported today; more sources on the way
  • Polled on your pipeline schedule — no extra setup
Targets · monitored
AI pass

Every listing scored — with the WHY, not just a number.

JobAnvil reads each captured listing against your profile and assigns a 0–100 match score with a structured breakdown of why: matched keywords, missing keywords, seniority gap, salary mismatch, dealbreaker conflicts. The score tells you whether to apply; the breakdown tells you what to fix first. For listings above your threshold, JobAnvil generates a per-job DOCX resume and cover letter — picking the most relevant base template from your library and rewriting it to match the role.

  • Per-listing reasons + concerns breakdown — matched vs missing ATS keywords surfaced
  • Per-job DOCX resume — generated from your uploaded templates
  • Per-job DOCX cover letter — generated alongside the resume
  • Doc quality audit — every draft is reviewed back through the AI before delivery
Tailor · 8s
The morning digest

Wake up to a ranked digest, not 47 unread.

JobAnvil runs your pipeline overnight on a schedule you set. By morning, your top-scoring matches arrive in one digest email — each with a tailored resume and cover letter already attached. You decide which to apply to before your coffee is done.

  • Digest delivered to whichever email you choose
  • Each match comes with score + structured reasons-and-concerns breakdown
  • Tailored DOCX resume + cover letter already generated per match
Digest · today
After the apply

Track every job, see every pattern.

Once you start applying, JobAnvil keeps the pipeline alive. Every job is tracked in the Jobs tab with status, salary, industry, contacts, and full application timeline. The Insights tab turns your activity into a funnel — where you're getting interviews, which industries respond, what's actually working in your search.

  • Unlimited job tracking — no row caps, custom statuses + industries
  • Per-job timeline: phone screens, interviews, rejections, offers
  • Insights tab: funnel, source breakdown, application volume over time
  • Bulk filter, search, and delete — manage 100+ tracked applications without slow scrolling
  • Resume + cover letter library, browsable per-job
  • Excel import for existing tracked jobs
Insights · pipeline
Why JobAnvil

Four differences that compound.

The four pieces below sit at the heart of the product. Each exists in some form elsewhere — but nobody else stacks them like this.

01

Email-based discovery

The only tool that reads what already arrives. No portals to keep tabs on.

02

Local-first privacy

Your inbox, your resume, your match data — all on-device. No cloud account.

03

AI included, or BYOK

Paid tiers bring the AI for you. Free tier brings your own key from any of five providers.

04

Real DOCX output

Editable .docx — not a PDF, not a screenshot. Open in Word, tweak, ship.

JobAnvil vs the rest

Every other tool helps with one piece. JobAnvil automates the whole pipeline.

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Feature
JobAnvil
Teal
Huntr
Jobscan
Rezi
JobAnvil compared with Teal, Huntr, Jobscan, and Rezi across 11 features and pricing.
Automated overnight pipeline ✓ — — — —
Email-based job discovery ✓ — — — —
Local-first · no cloud account ✓ — — — —
AI included for subscribers ✓ — — — —
Bring your own AI key ✓ — — — —
AI resume tailoring ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
DOCX output (formatted) ✓ — — — ✓
AI cover letters ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓
Job tracker + timeline ✓ ✓ ✓ Basic Basic
Pipeline analytics ✓ Basic — — —
Browser extension ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ —
Pricing $9.99/wk $34.99/mo list $39.99/mo $13/wk$29/mo —$40/mo —$49.95/mo —$29/mo
Pricing · simple

Free forever, or we bring the AI for you.

Paid tiers include AI. Free tier brings your own — full feature parity, no card. Compare the per-month math: Astroloy is the cheaper monthly.

Every install includes a 7-day full-access trial — no card. The trial starts at your first pipeline run, not at install.
Free
$0forever

Bring your own AI key. For tinkerers who want to feel the mechanic before paying.

Pipeline runs
5 runs / week
AI tokens
BYOK*
Download free
Spark
$9.99/ week

For the active sprint. Cancel any time, start again when you're back in the market.

Pipeline runs
~250 runs / week**
AI tokens
750,000 / week
Start free trial
Most popular
Crucible
$39.99$34.99/ month

The default. Most users land here.

Pipeline runs
~1,130 runs / month**
AI tokens
3.25M3.4M+5% bonus
Start free trial
Best value
Astroloy
$199.99$169.99/ 6 months
$28.33 / mo effective

The serious search. Best value if you're hunting for more than a month.

Pipeline runs
~7,150 runs / 6 mo**
AI tokens
19.5M21.5M+10% bonus
Start free trial

Every plan includes:

  • Job match & ATS scoring
  • AI resume tailoring
  • AI cover letters
  • Daily digest email
  • Job tracking & management
  • Insights & analytics
  • Unlimited Doc Storage
  • RSS & career boards
  • Browser extension
  • Automated scheduling

*BYOK = Bring Your Own Key. Connect an API key from any of 5 supported AI providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, or Groq). AI calls go directly from your computer to your provider — JobAnvil never sees them. Most providers offer free starter credits.

**Estimated number of runs based on normal usage. A typical tailored resume + cover letter pair uses about 3,000 AI tokens.

Email support on every tier — free included. No tiers, no premium queue.

Questions

Things people ask before downloading.

No. JobAnvil reads your personal inbox locally. No outgoing traffic to your employer's network, no LinkedIn "open to work" badge, no third-party tracker. The only outbound calls are to the AI provider when generating a packet — and you can route those through your own API key.

Only the minimum required text to generate a packet is sent to the AI provider — and only at the moment of generation. Your inbox, full resume history, and match data never leave your machine. BYOK users keep the AI traffic on their own keys.

Download, install, run. Your 7-day full-access trial starts at first pipeline run — not at install — so you get a real week of use, not seven calendar days of setup time. No card needed. After the trial, the app drops to the Free (BYOK) tier and keeps working. Subscribe any time you want the AI back.

Tokens are the units of AI work — roughly one word of generated text per token. A single tailored resume + cover letter uses ~3,000 tokens. Spark's weekly cap (750,000 tokens) covers ~250 tailored packets per week. Crucible's monthly cap (3,400,000 tokens) covers ~1,130 per month. Astroloy's 6-month cap (21,500,000 tokens) covers ~7,150. Most paid users use 20–30% of their cap in a typical week — the caps exist to prevent abuse, not throttle active job seekers.

Windows-only today. macOS is on the roadmap but not yet in development. Linux is not planned.

On paid tiers, JobAnvil handles the AI for you — no keys, no setup, no surprise bills. The underlying models can rotate as quality and pricing shift, so we don't commit publicly to a specific provider. On the Free tier you bring your own key from any of five providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, or Groq — most have free tiers, so you can run JobAnvil at zero cost.

Refund requests go through Lemon Squeezy's standard refund window. Email hello@jobanvil.io with your license key and we'll handle the rest.

Yes — the Chrome extension lets you capture any listing from LinkedIn, Indeed, Greenhouse, Workday, or Lever directly into your local pipeline. Email is the default; the extension is the manual backup when you spot something on a portal.

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Start free. Pay later. Or never.

5-step setup, about 10 minutes. The trial starts at your first pipeline run, not at install.

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JobAnvil is a Windows desktop app. Open jobanvil.io from a Windows PC to install. macOS and Linux on the roadmap.