Questions, answered

One calm place to run your college applications — schools, deadlines, essays, requirements, and (for grad applicants) the advisors you're hoping to work with. It's built for PhD, master's, and undergrad applicants, by someone who was mid-PhD-application herself and needed it to exist.

No card, no trial clock. Free accounts track up to 2 schools with everything — deadlines, essays, requirements, advisors, and reminder emails — plus 1 AI run per season to try on any school. When you outgrow 2 schools, the Season Pass is there.

A spreadsheet doesn't email you before a deadline, read a program's website and pull out its requirements, or keep your essays next to the prompts they answer. We love a good spreadsheet — this just does more of the work for you, and it never breaks a formula at midnight.

There are four. Program Import reads a program's website from a URL you paste and pulls out deadlines, requirements, and essay prompts. Advisor Match (for grad applicants) scores your potential advisors and searches the program's faculty against your sentence of purpose. Admissions Fit and Athletic Fit (for undergrad applicants) compare your numbers and your sport against a school's published data — a rough signal, not a prediction.

Each use of an AI feature on one school is one run — importing a program's details, or matching advisors for one school.

Free accounts get 1 AI run per season, usable on any school you track. It resets when a new season starts on June 1.

On the Season Pass, included AI runs come in slots: up to 4 schools per season, with 3 runs each — that's the 12 included runs. A slot is claimed automatically the first time a run succeeds on a school and stays claimed for the season. Slots limit AI capacity, not tracking — you can track unlimited schools, and credits work on any school, slot or no slot.

Honestly: every run costs us real money — the AI reads real websites and does real work. One free run lets you see whether that work is useful to you; the Season Pass covers a full application list. That trade is what keeps the free tier free.

Very occasionally the free tier hits its shared daily limit and free runs pause until tomorrow. Your own free run isn't touched — it'll still be there. Try again after midnight UTC, or the Season Pass never waits in that line.

No. If a run fails, it doesn't count — not against your free run, your included runs, or your credits. You're only ever charged for runs that finish. A failed run also never locks your school's details.

No — treat it like a very fast research assistant, not the final word. Every AI result is shown to you for review before anything is saved to your application, and deadlines deserve a double-check on the program's own site. It's your application; the AI just does legwork.

The Season Pass includes 12 runs — 3 on each of up to 4 schools. Credits are runs beyond those: 5 for $10, usable on any school, slotted or not.

When a school has used its 3 included runs, or you want AI on a school beyond your 4 slots. Credit packs are 5 runs for $10 and are available to Season Pass holders.

Purchased credits roll over into your next season if you renew the Season Pass. Season Pass credits expire at season end. Purchased credits are spent last, so you never lose paid credits to expiry while Season Pass credits remain.

They're not lost — any free run you haven't used converts to a credit when you upgrade. It converts as a Season Pass credit, so it's spent first and expires at season end.

Yes — any school you track, any time, including schools that never claimed a slot.

A season runs June 1 to May 31 — the natural rhythm of an application cycle. One Season Pass payment covers the season you buy it in. No subscription, no auto-renewal.

The AI's work — deadlines, requirements, prompts — is anchored to the term you're applying for. Changing the term after a run would quietly make those results wrong, so it locks for the season once a run succeeds. It unlocks automatically on June 1.

On June 1: AI slots and included runs reset, Season Pass credits expire, and purchased credits roll over if you renew. Your schools, essays, requirements, and history don't go anywhere — nothing is ever deleted at season end.

Yes. Seasons are about when you're doing the work, not which term you're applying to — you can track schools and run AI for any future term during the current season. If your work stretches across two seasons, each season needs its own pass.

Free to start. The Season Pass is $99 for a full season — unlimited schools and 12 included AI runs. Extra credits are 5 runs for $10. That's the whole price list.

No — all purchases are final. The Season Pass and credit packs are non-refundable, in full or in part, once purchased. We say this plainly before every purchase, and it's part of why the free tier exists: start free, upgrade when you're sure.

Never. One payment, one season, done. If you want another season next year, that's a decision you make then — we don't keep your card on a subscription.

Payments run through Stripe Checkout: major cards, plus whatever wallets Stripe offers on your device (Apple Pay, Google Pay, and friends).

Once a run succeeds, the fields that define which program this is — name, degree, department, program URL, term, and so on — lock for the season. The AI's results are grounded in that identity, and editing a school into a different school would also sidestep the run limits. Status, deadlines, essays, requirements, and notes all stay editable, and the lock lifts on June 1.

The school and everything attached to it — deadlines, essays, requirements, advisors — is deleted. If the school had claimed an AI slot, the slot stays used for the season: a slot is spent capacity, like a run.

You get a 30-day grace period: sign back in any time within 30 days and everything is restored, including any remaining Season Pass. After 30 days, your account and all its data — schools, essays, uploaded files — are permanently deleted and can't be recovered, and remaining paid time isn't refunded.

There's no export button yet. Email support@theapplication.app and ask — a copy of your data is part of your privacy rights, and we'll respond within 45 days as our Privacy Policy promises.

Only you. Access is enforced in the database itself — every table is scoped to its owner, so your schools, essays, and files are private to your account. We don't share your application data with schools, and we don't sell your data.

Your data lives in Supabase (database, sign-in, and file storage) behind row-level security, hosted on infrastructure we name openly in our Privacy Policy. The short version: owner-only access rules at the database layer, and no analytics cookies beyond the two we disclose.

Never with schools. We use a small set of providers to run the product — Supabase, Vercel, Google sign-in, Resend, Kit, Stripe, and Anthropic for AI (which doesn't use our API data to train its models) — each named in our Privacy Policy. We do not sell your data.

Sign-in is with your Google account — no password to invent, forget, or reuse. Your account email is your Google email, and changing it in-app isn't currently possible.

Some school and workplace networks run web filters that block newly registered domains by default, and ours is still new to them. Try a personal device or network, or ask your IT folks to allow theapplication.app — we're a college application tracker, we promise.

Email support@theapplication.app and tell us what's going on. Free accounts hear back within 2 business days; Season Pass holders get priority — within 1 business day.