Apply Wisely: Declutter your LinkedIn job search — entirely on your device.
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, Block, and Hide Applied /
Hide Viewed work on both; the Language filter and the Keyword filter aren't
yet available on the newer page design. Block sits on each job card there,
rather than in the opened job's detail pane.
Features
- Hide any job with one click — it stays hidden across reloads
- Block a company — block it from a job card, or from the opened job; 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
Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome — open an issue
for a bug or a feature idea.
License
MIT — see LICENSE.
