Autofill vs auto-apply: they are not the same thing
One fills in boxes. The other presses submit. That difference decides how much of your evening you get back.
Autofill tools fill in the fields on an application form, then stop. You still sign in, check everything, answer the odd questions and click submit. Auto-apply tools do the whole thing, including submitting. Some let you approve each application first.
What autofill actually does
Autofill is usually a browser extension. You open the application, it reads the page and drops your saved details into the fields it recognises: name, email, phone, work history, education. Anything it does not recognise is yours. So is the account creation, the upload that fails twice and the free-text questions.
It's useful. It's also still you, sitting at the form at 11pm.
What auto-apply does
An auto-apply tool takes a job, opens the application, fills it, answers the questions it can, attaches your documents and submits. The careful ones show you what was sent. The careless ones spray your resume at anything with a submit button.
The difference that matters: who presses submit
| Row | Autofill | Auto-apply |
|---|---|---|
| Who opens the form | You | The tool |
| Account creation | You | Usually the tool |
| Free-text questions | Mostly you | The tool, from your saved answers |
| Who submits | You | The tool, sometimes after you approve |
| Your time per application | Less than manual | Close to none |
| Risk | Low. You see everything. | Depends on the review controls |
Where HUNT sits
HUNT prepares applications and sends them through the company’s own portal. You press apply on the leads you want, or, on any paid plan, let a hunt apply by itself to jobs above a fit score you pick. Every application gets a status, so you never have to remember whether you applied somewhere. See pricing for the limits.
Is auto-apply against the rules?
Employers mostly care about what is in the application, not how the form was filled. Some job boards restrict automated tools in their terms, so read the terms of any platform you use. We would rather you send fewer, better applications than get an account flagged.
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