A practical look at setup, job tracking, reminders and price.
Workspaces
Trello is a general-purpose kanban tool — great for any kind of project, but not built for the specifics of a job search. WaitingRoom is a kanban board too, purpose-built for tracking applications, interviews and offers.
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Workspaces
Notion can do almost anything, including a job application tracker — if you're willing to build one. WaitingRoom gives you the finished version: the database, the kanban view and the job-specific logic, without an hour of setup.
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Job trackers
Huntr is a dedicated job search tracker, much closer to WaitingRoom than Trello or Notion — a kanban board with a browser extension and contact tracking. The real differences are what's bundled in, like AI resume tools, and what it costs once your search grows past a handful of applications.
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Job trackers
Teal pairs a kanban job tracker with a resume builder and career CRM. Its free tier is genuinely generous — unlimited tracking and the browser extension are both free — so the comparison comes down to whether you want a resume builder bundled in or a tool that just tracks.
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Spreadsheets
A spreadsheet is the default starting point for almost every job search — free, familiar, and infinitely flexible. The tradeoff is that a spreadsheet has no memory of its own: it won't remind you an application has gone quiet or a listing is about to close. You have to build and maintain all of that yourself.
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