Free tools for the internship grind
No signup. No paywall. Nothing leaves your browser. Fourteen small utilities for the internship grind — generate cold email templates, follow up with recruiters, negotiate your offer, score a subject line before you send it, pull the keywords from a JD, see what an ATS actually extracts from your resume, craft LinkedIn messages, build a company research checklist, prep behavioral interview questions by role and level, decode what a job posting is really asking for, strengthen your resume bullets with per-line scoring, roast weak bullets with blunt heuristic feedback, scaffold answers with the STAR method, and compare job offers side-by-side on total comp and cost of living.
Cold email subject line tester
Paste a subject line, get a score from 0–10 and a list of the recruiter-template tells you’re tripping. Suggests rewrites if the score is weak.
Resume keyword extractor
Paste a job description, get the 18 terms an ATS or recruiter is most likely to scan for. Optionally paste your resume to see what’s missing.
ATS resume checker
Paste your resume, see exactly what an ATS extracts and what it gets wrong. Heuristic warnings on contact info, dates, skills, and structure.
Cold email generator
Enter who you're reaching out to and why. Get 3 ready-to-edit templates — short curious, value-first, ask-for-advice. Browser-only, no AI.
LinkedIn message templates
Cold connect, referral ask, or hiring-manager intro — pick a pattern, fill in your details, get short/medium/long variants. Browser-only, no AI.
Recruiter follow-up generator
Pick your situation — just applied, just interviewed, or ghosted for two weeks. Get a ready-to-send follow-up under 120 words. Browser-only, no AI.
Salary negotiation templates
Three honest negotiation patterns — counter an offer, leverage a competing offer, or ask for more time. Fill in your numbers, copy the email. Browser-only, no AI.
Company Research Checklist
Enter a company name and role type, get a structured checklist covering basics, product, team signals, recent news, culture, and your application angle. Browser-only, no AI.
Behavioral Question Bank
Select your role type and seniority, get curated behavioral interview questions with one-line framing advice and STAR story tags. Adjusts by level — intern to senior. Browser-only, no AI.
Job Posting Decoder
Paste a job description, get a heuristic breakdown of must-haves vs. nice-to-haves, years of experience, tech stack, red flags, and salary mentions. Browser-only, no AI.
Resume Bullet Strengthener
Paste your resume bullets — one per line. Each gets a 0–100 heuristic score flagging weak verbs, missing metrics, passive voice, and vague filler, plus a concrete rewrite scaffold. Browser-only, no AI.
Resume Roast
Same heuristic engine as the bullet strengthener — but with blunt, humorous feedback per line. Great when you need someone to tell you the bullet is doing HR cosplay.
STAR Story Builder
Paste a behavioral answer and see which STAR parts you covered, what's missing, and whether you quantified the result — plus a fill-in scaffold to tighten it.
Offer Comparison Calculator
Compare up to 3 job offers on base, signing bonus, annual bonus, equity (even vesting), and cost-of-living index. See first-year total comp and COL-adjusted rankings. Browser-only, no AI.
What AutoAppli does, that these don’t
These tools nudge one thing at a time. AutoAppli does the whole ten-minute prep — resume tailored to the JD, cover letter from the listing, recruiter outreach drafted for you, every saved role on a kanban. You still click apply. We just stop wasting your evenings.
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