Sustain
Free desktop core. Optional hosted services.
Applye Desktop is MIT-licensed, local-first, and useful without a paid Applye account. The web product may add optional paid hosted services where infrastructure, managed AI, or shared intelligence has an ongoing cost. That does not turn the local desktop workflow into a trial, and it does not create a licence to sell your career data.
What keeps the project alive
- Star the repository. Visibility is oxygen for an open-source tool - it is genuinely the single most helpful free action.
Star Applye on GitHub - Tell one person. Someone in your circle is job hunting right now. Send them the link.
- Contribute. Issues, docs, translations (the UI ships in six languages), and code. Start with
CONTRIBUTING.md . - Sponsor, if you want to. Voluntary patronage via GitHub Sponsors funds deeper focus on the project. It buys development time, not product control - sponsors get gratitude, not influence.
What the boundary protects
- The local desktop workflow does not require a paid Applye account.
- Local-only MIT features are not hidden behind a client-side licence switch.
- Your career data is not sold or used for advertising.
- No ads, recruiter spam, auto-apply growth hacks, or silent cloud upload.
- Any hosted processing is explicit about what leaves the device and why.
Product and pricing boundaries are documented before they ship, with changes recorded in the changelog.