HeardBack watches your inbox for replies and reminds you to check the portals you applied through.
HeardBack is a free personal job-application tracker for Gmail. It uses read-only inbox access to detect replies from companies you've applied to and notifies you the moment one arrives.
Applications scatter across inboxes and career portals. The email that changes your week lands between a promo and a bank alert, so you either dig through everything daily or find the good news late.
Inbox
47 unread
Found it three days later.
Your Google sign-in is also the permission. HeardBack can read new mail to spot replies, and that is the whole deal. It can never send, delete, or move a thing.
HeardBack asks for
Change your mind anytime: revoke access from your Google account.
no-reply@clevry.com
Your KCB Group assessment
Domain gate
New sender. Pass it up.
Keyword check
Your KCB Group assessment
AI read
It's the KCB assessment invite. Not the bank statement.
KCB Group
Data Analyst
Applied Jun 30 · via email
Assessment due Friday. Noted.
HeardBack read it, understood it, and updated your tracker while you slept.
Friday, July 10
6:47
HeardBack
now
KCB Group wrote back
Assessment due Friday. Tap to open your tracker.
You'll know before your coffee does.
"If you don't hear from us within two weeks..." often means never, and never is a hard thing to wait for. HeardBack counts the days, and when the window closes, it says so. The waiting ends either way.
KCB Group
Window expiredTheir two-week window has passed. Consider it closed, and spend the energy on the next one.
HeardBack is a free personal job-application tracker for Gmail. It watches your inbox for replies to jobs you've applied to and alerts you the moment one arrives.
HeardBack watches your inbox for new mail and checks whether it's related to a job you've applied for, even when the reply comes through a third party like an assessment platform. When it finds a match, it flags the reply and updates your tracker automatically.
No. HeardBack only ever reads your inbox, using read-only Gmail access, so it can't send or delete anything. You can revoke that access anytime from your Google account settings.
You can set a response window when you log an application, matching whatever the portal promised. When that window closes with no reply, HeardBack marks it Window Expired, so you get closure instead of waiting indefinitely.
No, HeardBack is free to use.
HeardBack works with Gmail. Other providers aren't supported yet.
It installs straight from the browser, no app store needed. The whole thing takes about ten seconds.
Tap the install prompt
HeardBack offers it as a small card. If you closed it, open Chrome's menu and choose Add to Home Screen.
Find it on your home screen
HeardBack lands next to your other apps. Same icon, its own window, no browser around it.
Allow notifications
Say yes once and you're done. From then on, replies reach you the moment they land.
Notifications work on Android even without installing. Installing means they arrive under HeardBack's own name and icon.
Tap Share in Safari
It's the square with the arrow, in the bar at the bottom of the screen.
Choose Add to Home Screen
Scroll the sheet a little to find it. Tap it, then tap Add.
Open it and allow notifications
Launch HeardBack from your home screen and say yes when it asks.
On iPhone and iPad, installing is required for notifications. Apple's rule, not ours.
Click the install icon
It sits at the right end of the address bar. HeardBack's own prompt works too.
HeardBack opens in its own window
Clean and separate, ready to pin to your taskbar or dock.
On a computer, notifications work from a plain browser tab too. Installing is a comfort, not a requirement.
One sign-in and it starts listening. Free to use.