At a glance.
Feature coverage.
What ApplyArc is.
ApplyArc is a UK-based AI job-search suite that launched in July 2025, pricing in British pounds with a roughly $24 USD per month Pro tier. The product bundles 17 or more AI tools around a job-application tracker, including cover letter generation, resume optimization, interview prep scripts, and a salary negotiation helper. The free tier tracks up to 50 jobs and allows 10 AI generations per month. ApplyArc Pro at £19 per month (about $24 USD) removes the AI cap and adds an AI Career Coach feature with daily briefings, mock interview sessions, and weekly analytics. The product is newly launched and has not yet disclosed public user counts as of April 2026.
Pricing, head to head.
On pricing, ApplyArc Pro at roughly $24 USD per month is $4-5 more expensive than Orbyt Unlimited at $19.99 per month. Free tiers favor Orbyt: ApplyArc free caps AI generations at 10 per month and tracking at 50 jobs, while Orbyt free has no tracking cap and includes the core CRM. Price-for-price on paid tiers, ApplyArc bundles more individually-branded AI tools (the "17+ tools" count) while Orbyt bundles a more unified system (CRM, runway, wellness, interview prep, salary data, resume tailoring). The choice is between a toolkit of 17+ features and a cohesive job-search CRM with fewer items but tighter integration.
Orbyt wins.
Seventeen tools, or one system.
Built AI-native from the ground up. Not a chatbot bolted onto a feature list.
Built-in agents that think, reason, and act on your search in real time. A living system, not a stack of dumb screens.
Start a job on your phone at lunch. Finish it on your laptop that night. Nothing gets lost.
Every contact you meet is tied to the job they came from. Follow-ups remember what you talked about last time.
When the search grinds you down, Orbyt notices. Mood tracking, breathing, burnout detection, built in.
Know how many weeks your runway has left. Plan like a founder, not a passenger.
Your own AI key. Your own costs. Your own data. No markup, no scraping.
When offers come, the War Room shows you what each one really costs before you say yes.
ApplyArc is 17 tools in a trench coat. Orbyt is one honest product.
Feature by feature.
ApplyArc's strategy is feature count: advertise seventeen-plus AI tools and let the reader assume more tools means better outcomes. That works for marketing; it does not always work for daily use. Running a job search from ApplyArc means clicking into one of seventeen separate tools depending on what you need — cover letter generator here, resume optimizer there, interview prep script somewhere else. Orbyt's approach is fewer features more tightly coupled: your job card links to your tailored resume, your contacts tied to each role, your follow-up reminders firing from the relationships, your interview prep pulling the specific company's known questions. Orbyt is also older, more mature, and has salary data for 3,500-plus roles and interview prep for 600-plus companies — depth ApplyArc does not yet match at its 2025 launch scale.
Game. Point. Match.
Side by side.
| Feature | Orbyt | ApplyArc |
|---|---|---|
| Job pipeline tracker | Auto-filled | |
| Drag-and-drop Kanban board | ||
| Offer tracking & comparison | ||
| Activity timeline & history | ||
| Browser extension | Chrome & Safari | |
| Stale job & deadline alerts | ||
| AI resume tailoring | Basic | |
| ATS keyword scoring | ||
| AI job search assistantDecisive | ||
| AI job description parsing | Basic | |
| AI contact capture | ||
| Semantic search (AI) | ||
| AI persona customization | ||
| Contact CRM | ||
| Smart follow-up reminders | ||
| Email template library | ||
| Interview prep tools | ||
| Offer negotiation tools | ||
| Calendar integration | ||
| iCalendar feed subscription | ||
| Push notifications | ||
| Career wellness coachDecisive | ||
| Mood tracking & journaling | ||
| Financial runway plannerDecisive | ||
| Goals, streaks & badges | ||
| Shareable milestone cards | ||
| Morning Brief (daily mood-adaptive greeting) | ||
| Quiet Mode (auto-adapts on rough days) | ||
| Week in Review (Sunday summary) | ||
| Career Mode (post-hire retention) | ||
| AI coaching emails | ||
| Shareable coaching insights | ||
| Weekly career tips | ||
| Application timing intelligence | ||
| Cross-device sync | ||
| Dark & light themes | ||
| Multi-language (8 languages) | ||
| Full data export & backup | CSV | |
| Passkey (WebAuthn) login | ||
| Free plan | Free forever | Limited |
Based on publicly available feature lists. Updated regularly.
Who each tool is for.
Use ApplyArc if you are an early adopter who enjoys evaluating new AI tools and wants to test a product with a 17-tool surface. The free tier is adequate for light use, and Pro is affordable. Use Orbyt if you want a proven, mature job-search CRM with deep salary data, interview prep for specific companies, a runway module, and a wellness surface. Orbyt has a longer shipping track record, a clearer product center, and a unified architecture. For most job seekers in 2026, that maturity is more valuable than a higher feature count in a new product.
The bottom line, in 2026.
As of April 2026, ApplyArc is a promising 2025 launch with a broad AI-tool surface and unproven product maturity. Orbyt is the established player with a unified CRM architecture and deeper data (3,500+ roles, 600+ companies). Price-for-price, Orbyt Unlimited is cheaper than ApplyArc Pro and delivers more coherent value. Revisit ApplyArc in a year if it is still around and shipping; for now, pick the tool with the track record.
Common questions.
How to migrate from ApplyArc to Orbyt.
Moving from ApplyArc to Orbyt takes about ten minutes once you export your tracker. ApplyArc is new enough that the export flow is simple.
- In ApplyArc, open your job tracker and use the export option to download your list as CSV.
- Sign up for Orbyt at orbytjobs.ai on the free tier.
- Import the CSV via Orbyt's Getting Started panel. Map ApplyArc's columns to Orbyt's Jobs fields.
- Download any ApplyArc-generated resumes and cover letters as PDF or DOCX; upload them to Orbyt's Resume tab.
- Cancel ApplyArc Pro if you were paying. Orbyt Unlimited at $19.99 covers the paid feature set at a lower price.
Migration is quick because ApplyArc is a relatively new product with a straightforward data model. Most users are fully moved within the lunch hour.