Simplify is the stronger pick if you want to stay hands-on: its free Copilot extension fills forms on a huge range of career sites and leaves the Submit button to you. AI Apply is for when you want the application finished and sent for you, on the company's own careers site including Workday, with an employee referral request alongside it.
AI Apply
Simplify
What it does
AI Apply
Fills out and submits a job application for you on the company's own careers site, with a cover letter written for that job. You pick each job on the refer.me job board.
Simplify
Copilot, a free browser extension, autofills applications and you submit them yourself. Simplify+ adds Autopilot, an agent that applies for you. Simplify also has a job tracker, job matching and resume tools.
Submits applications for you?
AI Apply
Yes. AI Apply presses Submit, then emails you how each application went.
Simplify
With Simplify+ Autopilot, yes: 20 auto-applies a week, on the application systems Autopilot supports. With the free Copilot extension, you submit.
Workday & company career sites
AI Apply
Yes. Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby and more, including creating an account when the site needs one. It can't finish a site that shows a CAPTCHA.
Simplify
Copilot autofills on "100,000+ company career sites", per Simplify. Autopilot works only on application systems it supports.
Employee referrals
AI Apply
Yes. refer.me Premium includes 40 referral requests a month to employees at the company.
Simplify
Not employee referrals. Its AI talent agent offers introductions to recruiters.
Price
AI Apply
Premium is $39 a month, or $149 a year with a 7-day free trial. It includes 5 AI Apply credits a month.
Simplify
Simplify+ is $19.99 for a week, $39.99 for a month or $89.99 for 3 months.
Free tier
AI Apply
Yes. 1 AI Apply credit a month. An application AI Apply can't finish doesn't use a credit.
Simplify
Yes. The Copilot autofill extension is free.
You want a free autofill extension and are happy to review and submit every application yourself.
You want Autopilot volume: Simplify+ includes 20 auto-applies a week.
You want the application submitted for you, not just filled in.
You want an employee at the company to refer you, from the same account.
Answers work authorization and sponsorship questions from where you live and what you saved, and asks you once when it needs to.
Applies only to the job you picked. A posting retitled under the same requisition still counts; a merely similar title never does.
Pairs each application with a referral request to an employee at the company, from the same account.
Sources, as of October 2026: simplify.jobs/copilot, help.simplify.jobs/articles/5623502-whats-included-in-simplify-features-and-pricing, help.simplify.jobs/articles/1784339-getting-started-with-autopilot.
Simplify details come from Simplify's own website and may have changed since. If something here is out of date, tell us at support@refer.me and we'll fix it.
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