Apply Wisely: Declutter your LinkedIn job search — entirely on your device.

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LinkedIn's job search gets noisy fast: postings you've already seen or applied to keep resurfacing, listings show up in languages you don't read, and there's no quick way to stop seeing a company again. ApplyW — Apply Wisely — is a small Chrome extension that fixes that, directly on the search results page — no account, no server, no data leaving your browser.

Works on both of LinkedIn's job search results pages (linkedin.com/jobs/search/... and .../jobs/search-results/...) — other LinkedIn job pages aren't supported yet. Hide, and Hide Applied / Hide Viewed, work on both; Block, the Language filter, and the Keyword filter aren't yet available on the newer page design.

Features

• Hide any job with one click — it stays hidden across reloads
• Block a company — open a job and block it; every listing from them disappears, immediately and from then on
• Keyword filter — require or exclude specific words from a job's title or description (e.g. only show listings mentioning "Java", or hide anything mentioning "Junior")
• Hide Applied / Hide Viewed toggles, right next to LinkedIn's own filters (Date Posted, Experience level, ...)
• Language filter — see only jobs written in the languages you actually read, picked from a searchable multi-select list. Detected locally from the real job description, not guessed from the title
• Hidden jobs list — every job you've hidden, with its title, company, location and when you hid it. Bring back any single one, or all of them at once
• Blocked companies list — everything you've blocked, unblockable in one click, with a search box once the list gets long
• Metrics — see which of your filters is actually doing the work, ranked, with a breakdown of how many listings each excluded word caught. One click from the popup, shown on the website and read straight out of your own browser

Language and keyword filters, in LinkedIn's own filter bar

Everything you've hidden, one click from coming back

Install

Chrome Web Store: Install ApplyW

From a release: download applyw.zip from the latest release, unzip it, then in Chrome: chrome://extensions → enable Developer mode → Load unpacked → select the unzipped folder.

From source:

git clone https://github.com/ApplyW/extension.git
cd extension
npm install
npm run build

Then in Chrome: chrome://extensions → enable Developer mode → Load unpacked → select the dist/ folder.

Privacy

Everything runs locally. ApplyW has no backend, no analytics, no account, and requests exactly one permission (storage) beyond reading LinkedIn pages — though it only actually reads or changes anything on the job search pages above. Hidden jobs, blocked companies, and your filter settings are saved in your browser's own extension storage and never sent anywhere. Full details: Privacy Policy.

Status

Early and free. The plan is to earn real users and real feedback on the core experience before spending time on anything like account sync — not because that's ruled out, but because building it before anyone's asked for it would be solving a problem nobody has yet.

Development

See CLAUDE.md for the project structure and conventions.

npm install
npm run dev     # Vite dev server with HMR
npm run build   # production build, outputs to dist/

Related repositories

• website — the landing page at applyw.app, and the metrics page

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome — open an issue for a bug or a feature idea.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.