FastApply Review: Credits, Tailoring Add-On, Refund Reports

FastApply is an auto-apply bot that finds jobs, can rewrite your resume for each one, and submits applications from its servers or from a Chrome extension. It is inexpensive at its caps: before tailoring, the Pro plan works out to 5.8 cents an application and Elite to 4.9 cents. The catches are in the details. Tailoring is a paid add-on on every plan, its list of supported systems is its own claim, one of its settings is called Stealth, and its public ratings are a 2.4 on Trustpilot and a 3.2 on the Chrome Web Store. This review covers each of those, as of 9 November 2026 unless a date says otherwise.

A disclosure first: ApplyEze makes a competing product. It also tailors a resume, writes a cover letter when the form asks, and completes applications, so FastApply and ApplyEze compete for the same job seekers. FastApply has a lower entry price, claims more systems, and keeps running when your laptop is closed. This post says so where it matters.

What FastApply does

FastApply sells two ways to apply, described on its pricing page and homepage:

• Apply for Me runs "on our servers". The page says "Nothing needs to stay open. Close the tab, close the laptop.", and that it "Only applies above the match score you set". Each automation targets one job profile with its own filters.
• Browse & Apply runs in the Chrome extension. You pick jobs or set a search and start a run, and the extension fills the forms.

Inside those, a separate AI auto apply page now describes "Two modes, plus Apply for Me". Its FAQ says: "Co-pilot fills the whole application in the Chrome extension, then pauses so you can review and submit it. Auto-pilot fills and submits on its own while the extension tab is open." It adds that "Stealth and Full Autonomous are settings you turn on inside Apply for Me."

The homepage title is "Free AI Job Application Tool, Auto-Apply on 20+ Job Sites", and the bot applies on job boards such as Indeed, Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter as well as on company applicant tracking systems.

Pricing and cost per application

Prices as of 9 November 2026, in US dollars, from the FastApply pricing page:

Max is new since we first read the page on 17 October, and a separate Enterprise page covers teams. The plan cards show $12.67, $25, $44 and $80 a month, which are the Sprint prices divided by three, with a lower Sprint add-on price of $6.33, $10.67, $17 or $26 a month. The FAQ also says yearly plans "save up to 40% on USD plans", with Pro at $17.34 a month billed yearly, and mentions local pricing in rupees and naira. A credit is one application, and "Only applications actually submitted use a credit."

Cost per application at each cap, worked out from those figures:

The Sprint rows assume the same monthly credits for three months, which matches the per-application figures FastApply prints on its Sprint cards.

Monthly and yearly plans are limited differently. Monthly plans carry a monthly allowance. Yearly plans carry a ceiling of 100, 170, 200 or 400 a day. Yearly Pro at $17.34 a month and 170 a day, used every day, comes to about 0.34 cents an application with no tailoring, which is arithmetic on a ceiling and not a forecast. When the credits run out, the FAQ says "Applications pause until the credits reset at the start of your next billing period, or you upgrade to a plan with more."

On 17 October the AI auto apply page carried a claim worth checking against the plans. It said most searches land interviews from 50 to 80 applications a day, "so Starter is enough for most people." The line was gone on 9 November. At 50 a day, Starter's 200 credits last 4 days, and even Elite's 1,000 last 20 days at 50 a day or about 12 at 80. FastApply gave no source for the 50 to 80 figure. For scale, Huntr's 2025 job search report, built from job seekers' own tracked applications, puts the median at roughly 16 applications a week. Our post on how many applications it takes to get a job goes through that data.

The free plan was described three ways on 17 October. On 9 November the pages agreed: up to 5 jobs a day for 7 days through the Chrome extension, with your own resume and no card. Expect a short trial, not a standing free tier.

For how these numbers compare with 20 other tools, see what AI auto-apply costs per application.

Tailoring by tier

The pricing FAQ is clear: "Any paid plan, with the AI Tailoring add-on: +$7 a month on Starter, +$12 on Pro, +$19 on Elite and +$29 on Max. Before each application the AI rewrites your resume against that posting and writes a cover letter for it, using only what your profile verifies. Without the add-on, FastApply applies with the resume you uploaded."

That is a change. On 17 October the same FAQ put tailoring on Pro and Elite with no add-on. The other pages now match: the AI auto apply page says "With the AI Tailoring add-on, every application uses a resume rewritten for that specific job's keywords", and the homepage says "AI Tailoring is a paid add-on."

So the monthly price with tailoring is $21 on Starter, $41 on Pro, $68 on Elite and $118 on Max. If tailoring is the reason you are looking at FastApply, compare those totals, not the headline price. FastApply does not publish how the rewrite works beyond "using only what your profile verifies", so read a few tailored resumes before you leave it running.

ATS coverage and the beta labels

FastApply names more systems than most bots. Its supported sites page lists, as of 9 November 2026:

• Job boards, in the extension: LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter, plus regional boards such as Naukri, Seek, Bayt, Reed and StepStone.
• Applicant tracking systems, in the extension and Apply for Me: Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Ashby, iCIMS, Taleo, SmartRecruiters, Personio and Oracle Recruiting Cloud.
• "Also supported", in the extension: Recruitee, Breezy, Paylocity, BambooHR, Jobvite, Rippling, JazzHR, Zoho Recruit, Comeet, Teamtailor and others.

On 17 October the homepage marked Workday, iCIMS, Oracle Cloud and Taleo "BETA". Those labels were gone on 9 November, and the supported sites page now says "iCIMS is fully supported." The pages do not say what changed.

Those four systems matter more than their number suggests. Jobscan's 2026 usage report found Workday at "Over 40%" of the Fortune 500, and detected an applicant tracking system at 97.4% of those companies (Jobscan). If your target employers are large companies, many of their forms sit on exactly the systems that carried the label three weeks earlier. These lists are FastApply's own claims and we did not test them, so try a few applications on the systems you care about before you rely on it.

Stealth, and what the pages say now

On 17 October FastApply was direct about the purpose of Stealth. Its homepage FAQ said the extension "mimics natural human behavior when submitting applications." The AI auto apply page, answering "Will recruiters know I used AI?", said: "Stealth mode also spaces out submissions across the day so it doesn't look like one person applied to 80 jobs at 3am." On 9 November neither line was there. The AI auto apply page now says only that "Stealth and Full Autonomous are settings you turn on inside Apply for Me."

Two things are worth weighing before you turn it on.

You are not watching. Apply for Me runs on FastApply's servers, so you see the result in the tracker, not the form as it was filled. Co-pilot mode is the opposite: it pauses so you can review and submit. FastApply's own FAQ calls starting in Co-pilot "a common path", and that is the sensible way to begin.

The employer still receives the application. Spacing submissions changes when they arrive, not what they contain. What a recruiter judges is the resume, the answers and whether they fit the role. A badly filled form reads the same at 3pm as at 3am.

Ratings claimed versus public

FastApply's pages carried their own rating badges when we first read them. Here is how they compared with the public listings, all read on 17 October 2026:

Neither page said where its 4.9 came from, and the two badges gave different counts (600+ users on one, 15+ reviews on the other). On 9 November 2026 neither badge was on those pages, Trustpilot still showed 2.4 from 8 reviews, and the Chrome Web Store showed 3.2 from 29 ratings. These are small samples, so none of these numbers proves much.

What users report

The Trustpilot reviews are few but consistent. Seven of the eight, dated March to September 2026, are one or two stars. Their themes:

• Refunds refused. A September 2026 reviewer says Apply for Me showed zero applications for more than three weeks, and that a promised refund was then refused under a no-refund policy because the service had been used. A June 2026 reviewer says a refund request got no reply.
• Support that does not answer. Several reviewers describe chat and email going unanswered for days, and one in March 2026 says support was reachable only through WhatsApp.
• Applications not going out. One September 2026 review reports zero applications submitted; another says automatic applications did not work.
• Weak matching. Reviewers say job matching searched only by job title, and that location filters lack state and radius options.
• Limits. A March 2026 reviewer on a paid annual plan says a "0/100" daily limit message appeared after about 30 applications.
• Praise. The one four-star review, from March 2026, credits the LinkedIn automation with two interviews.

FastApply replied to two of the eight. To the March account complaint it said it had "not frozen or intentionally blocked" the account and pointed to a temporary issue or an account limit.

The refund reports match the written policy. FastApply's refund policy, updated 27 July 2026, says "All subscription fees are non-refundable, except where a refund is required by applicable law," and that FastApply "does not offer a 30-day (or any other) money-back guarantee based on interviews received." Cancelling stops renewals but "does not retroactively refund fees already paid." Billing errors such as duplicate charges are reviewed case by case. Know that before you buy a Sprint or a yearly plan.

Reddit offers little independent signal. FastApply turns up in lists of tools in job-search threads, but commenters in r/recruitinghell note how hard auto-apply vendors work to advertise there (thread), so treat a single "try FastApply" reply as weak evidence. FastApply also publishes its own comparison posts and a list of the best AI job search tools that ranks FastApply first (FastApply blog).

Who FastApply suits

A reasonable fit if you:

• want tailored applications at 5.9 to 10.5 cents each at full use, and will pay for the add-on to get the tailoring,
• apply mostly through job boards and the systems FastApply lists, such as Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workable,
• want something that runs with your laptop closed,
• will use Co-pilot mode, at least at first, to review what goes out.

A weak fit if you:

• target large employers on Workday, iCIMS, Oracle or Taleo and want more than the vendor's word, since those systems were labeled beta until recently,
• expect tailoring in the plan price, since it is an add-on on every plan,
• need a refund safety net, since fees are non-refundable,
• want to see each form as it is filled while Apply for Me runs on its servers.

How ApplyEze compares

ApplyEze lists Starter at $19 a month for 700 applications and Pro at $99 a month for 3,000. New accounts get 50 free credits, once per email address, with no card, and a credit is used only when an application is confirmed as submitted. FastApply also charges only for submitted applications, so that part is a tie.

At full use, 2.7 cents on Starter and 3.3 cents on Pro are less per application than FastApply's monthly plans, at 7 to 4.5 cents, or 10.5 to 5.9 cents with tailoring. But FastApply has the lower entry price, $14 against $19, and its yearly plans can work out lower on paper at about 0.34 cents on Pro, if every daily slot is used. ApplyEze has no yearly plan. Unused ApplyEze plan credits end with the month, and few people use a whole allowance anywhere.

What those plans include is different. A resume is written for every posting, as PDF and DOCX, and read back by a parser check before upload, and a cover letter is written when the form asks, with no add-on. ApplyEze completes applications on 12 named platforms: Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Oracle Recruiting Cloud, JazzHR, BambooHR, Rippling, Pinpoint and Recruitee (Workday and Oracle need a connected application inbox). It does not complete iCIMS, Taleo or LinkedIn Easy Apply, and it does not apply through job boards such as Indeed, so FastApply reaches places ApplyEze does not.

The sharper difference is where it runs. ApplyEze is a desktop app for macOS and Windows that runs on your own machine, with a visible browser by default, so you can watch every field being filled; headless is optional. A dry-run mode fills the form and never clicks Submit, and duplicate detection and a posting lock are built to stop double applications. The trade-off is that your computer has to be on, where FastApply's Apply for Me keeps going with the laptop closed. FastApply also says its tracker holds "any employer reply", where on ApplyEze you record replies yourself.

On keywords, know what you are getting. ApplyEze brings the posting's named skills and tools onto your skills line, even when your own record does not list them, which goes further than FastApply's "using only what your profile verifies". There is no step to remove one before a live run, so use a dry run to see what it writes, and be ready to discuss anything on the page. A certification the posting asks for is not added unless you hold it. Your employers, job titles, dates, schools, degrees and certifications come from your own record, and code rejects a rewrite that adds a figure, employer, school or credential your record does not hold. A wider comparison of bots, copilots and human services is in the best AI job application tools, and the LazyApply review covers another low-cost bot.