Why we built Jobloggr
By Ben Glasser · Apr 12, 2026 · 3 min read
It started with a spreadsheet
Every job search I've seen — including my own — starts the same way. You open a new Google Sheet, add some column headers (Company, Role, Applied Date, Status, Notes), and tell yourself this time you'll keep it up to date.
A few weeks in, the spreadsheet is a mess. Half the rows are stale. The "Status" column has 12 different values because you kept adding new ones. You can't remember if you followed up with that company from three weeks ago or if you're still waiting on them to respond.
The spreadsheet isn't the problem. The problem is that job searching is genuinely hard to track with a general-purpose tool. You need something that understands what a job search actually looks like.
We tried the existing tools
There are job-tracking apps out there. I tried most of them.
Some felt like they were designed for recruiters, not job seekers — lots of fields for things you'd never need, and missing the things you actually care about. Others had good ideas but buried them behind paywalls that made no sense for someone who is, by definition, not currently earning a salary. A few charged weekly — which felt genuinely predatory when targeting unemployed people.
The apps that felt closest to right were usually abandoned, unmaintained, or about to get acquired and shut down.
None of them felt like something built by someone who had actually been through a long job search.
What makes Jobloggr different
Jobloggr is built around a simple pipeline: Backlog → Applied → Interviewing → Offer → Accepted / Rejected. That's it. Those are the stages a job goes through. Everything in the product is designed around moving jobs through that pipeline and making sure nothing falls through the cracks.
A few things we care about that other tools don't:
- Next action dates. Every job in flight should have a date attached to it — when to follow up, when to expect a decision, when to send a thank-you note. Jobloggr surfaces overdue actions so you don't have to remember.
- Contact tracking. Hiring managers, recruiters, and references matter. Keeping them linked to a job rather than floating in your notes makes a difference.
- Unemployment export. If you're collecting unemployment benefits, you may be required to report applications. Jobloggr can export your job log in a format designed for that.
The ethical-monetization stance
Jobloggr is free to use for your entire job search. We mean that. The free tier isn't a gimped demo — it's a complete tool for managing your search.
We don't charge weekly. We don't put core features behind a paywall. If you want to support the project after you land a job, there's a one-time Lifetime Pass. That's our business model: earn your support, then ask for it.
This isn't charity. It's just the right way to build a tool for people who are already under financial pressure.
We're building Jobloggr because we wanted it to exist. We hope it helps.