JobSync

Track every application, get AI resume reviews and job matches, and discover new openings automatically — free, open source, and your data never leaves your server.

🔒 Self-hosted · 🤖 Local AI via Ollama or any cloud provider · 🔌 MCP server for Claude Desktop, Hermes, etc

⭐ If JobSync helps your search, a star helps other job seekers find it.

Why JobSync?

• One place for your whole search: applications, resumes, contacts, interviews, tasks and AI help in a single source of truth, instead of scattered spreadsheets, notes and tabs.
• Free forever: no subscription and no paywalled tiers.
• Private: self-hosted, so your resumes and applications stay on your own server.
• Local AI, no API costs: run models on your own machine with Ollama, or bring a cloud provider key.

Key Features

• Application Tracker: Record every application with its company, title, dates and current status.

  

• Monitoring Dashboard: See your search progress, activity and daily goals at a glance.

• Resume Management: Store resumes, export them as PDFs, and import existing PDF or Word files with AI.

• Automated Job Discovery: Schedule searches over company job boards and AI-match each listing to your resume. Details

• Task & Activity Management: Track tasks and time your activities. Tasks · Activities

• Job Timeline: Record each stage of a job's hiring process — when it happened, who interviewed you and which questions they asked. Details

• Interviews: One list of every interview round across all your jobs, upcoming and past, with its interviewers, prep questions and outcome. Details

• Contacts: Keep recruiters, interviewers and references, linked to the jobs they touched. Details

• Company Pages: One page per company with its jobs, people and links, plus a watchlist. Details

• Question Bank: Build a library of interview questions and answers, tagged by skill.

• Data Backup & Restore: Export everything as one zip, import it anywhere, and undo an import. Details

• AI Assistant: A docked chat that reviews resumes, scores job matches, writes cover letters and adds jobs you paste in. Details

• AI Agent Integration (MCP): Add jobs and questions from Claude Desktop and other agents. Details

Quick Start

Make sure Docker is installed and running, then:

git clone https://github.com/Gsync/jobsync.git
cd jobsync
docker compose up

Note: The first startup downloads the prebuilt app image, so give it a moment before opening the browser.

Open http://localhost:3737 and create your account. That's it!

API keys for AI providers can be configured in Settings after signing in.

Configuration (Optional)

Environment variables are set in a .env file beside docker-compose.yml (copy .env.example). Do not edit docker-compose.yml itself — updates replace it.

Updating

Upgrading from a SQLite release? Read Upgrading to Postgres first — the upgrade is one-way.

From the project directory, run the deploy script to pull the latest image and restart:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Gsync/jobsync/main/deploy.sh | sudo bash -s

On Windows, run the PowerShell equivalent from the project directory instead (deploy.sh needs WSL or Git Bash; deploy.ps1 runs natively):

.\deploy.ps1

Note: If you are updating in a homelab environment, edit NEXTAUTH_URL in your .env file to use your server IP address instead of localhost. See .env.example for the expected format.

Features in Detail

AI Assistant (In-App Chat)

All of JobSync's AI features live in one place: a chat panel that docks to the side of the app instead of taking it over, so the page you were on stays visible and usable while the assistant works.

Open it from the AI Assistant button in the header, or let the app open it for you — the Review button on a resume and the Match with AI and Cover Letter buttons on a job all start the matching request in the panel.

What you can ask for:

• Resume review — a full review of any of your resumes, with scores and written feedback, saved to the resume so you can come back to it.
• Job match — how well one of your resumes fits the job you're currently viewing, with a match score, a recommendation, and a write-up, saved to the job. Open the job first; the assistant scores the job on the page.
• Cover letter — a tailored letter for the job you're viewing, written from your resume and the job description (and any guidance from an earlier match), saved to your documents. Ask again and you get a new letter rather than losing the old one.
• Add a job from a posting — paste a job posting into the chat and ask it to add the job. It picks out the company, title, location, salary, tags and the rest, and shows you all of it on a confirmation card before anything is written. The description is saved exactly as you pasted it, not as a summary. Nothing reaches your database until you press Confirm.

The reviews, matches and letters are the same analyses the dedicated panels used to produce — the chat is a new way in, not a lighter-weight version.

The assistant is deliberately narrow about what it can see: it reads your resumes and the single job you're looking at, and nothing else. It can't list or search your jobs, and it can't see tasks or activities. Pasted postings are also treated as untrusted text, so instructions hidden inside a posting can't make the assistant act on your data.

Pick a model under Settings > AI Settings before using the panel — it needs one that supports tool calling, and it will tell you rather than guessing if none is set. See known-good models for the ones that have been tested, including a fully local option.

PDF Resume Export

Export any resume as a professionally formatted PDF directly from the resume page. Choose between two layouts — a clean Simple template and a more polished Professional template. If a PDF attachment already exists, you'll be prompted to replace it or keep the download only.

Resume Import

Import an existing resume from a PDF or Word (.docx) file. AI extracts structured data — contact info, summary, skills, work experience, education, and certifications — and presents each section as a review card. You can accept or skip individual sections before saving them to your resume.

Automated Job Discovery

Set up automations that search for new jobs on a schedule and AI-match them against your resume, so relevant openings come to you.

• Greenhouse — track specific companies by name from a built-in directory of 2,400+ companies (or by pasting a board URL). Each run pulls every published role from those companies' Greenhouse boards, ranks them against your target titles, skills, and resume with a fast local relevance score, and runs the AI match on only the top candidates to keep costs bounded. No API key required.

• Lever — same company-tracking workflow as Greenhouse, backed by a