FreeApply 1.0.4

Released 2026-10-28. App, Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Disclosures and Recruiter Terms: version 1.0.4.

FreeApply now reads employer replies itself, with a Gmail app password that stays on your computer and that your AI assistant never sees. Setup asks you to connect email or to enter all passwords yourself.

New

• Track employer replies without a Gmail connector: connect Gmail in setup or in Settings → Email replies. FreeApply opens Google's app password page, you create one named FreeApply and paste it back, and it checks the connection right away. The app password is saved only on your computer, FreeApply reads your replies itself, and your AI assistant never sees it. Only emails that name a company you applied to, or that come from a hiring system, are passed to your AI assistant; newsletters and job ads stay on your computer. The Gmail connector still works if you prefer it.
• Job-site sign-ins: save your password in the browser your AI assistant uses and it fills it in when a site asks you to sign in. Your AI assistant clicks into the sign-in box so the browser fills it, then clicks Sign in, but never types, reads or stores a job-site password. If there's more than one account to choose from, it asks you which one to use, and it never uses "Sign in with Google" or similar buttons.
• If your AI app can't open web pages, the installer can add a free browser tool (Microsoft's Playwright) that works in your own Chrome or Edge with the sites you're signed in to.

Changed

• Setup now has an email step: connect your email so FreeApply can track replies, or choose "I'll enter all passwords myself" and sign in to every site yourself. FreeApply starts applying once you've chosen, and only you can make that choice.
• Searching, writing and form-filling helpers now read only the part of the instructions they need, load only the FreeApply tools they use, and one helper writes the cover letters for up to five jobs, so a job search uses fewer of your AI plan's tokens.
• FreeApply's instructions to your AI app about its own tools are about 14% shorter, with nothing left out, so each job-search session uses fewer tokens.

Fixed

• Recording the same employer email a second time no longer changes the job's outcome.
• The Replies tab shows when each email arrived in your own time zone, not in UTC.
• A cover letter now shows on an application only if it was really sent. When a form wanted the letter typed into a box instead of attached, the agent submitted without it but the record said it was sent. The agent now pastes the saved letter into such boxes.
• The honesty check on cover letters no longer rejects true statements made with a different form of a word your résumé uses (your résumé says "Leads a crew", the letter says "I led a crew"), or the job's own posting number.

Legal
The Terms of Service (Credentials) and the Privacy Policy now cover the optional email app password: kept only in a file on your computer, used only to sign in to your mail server, never sent to us or shown to your AI assistant.

Upgrading
Open the dashboard and accept the updated Terms. Then, in Settings → Email replies, connect your email or choose "I'll enter all passwords myself": FreeApply (and auto-run) applies again once you've chosen.