Editorial Standards
ApplyAll publishes reviews, comparisons, and job-search guides at /guides. This page explains who writes them, how we verify what we publish, how we handle it when we have a business relationship with a company we're reviewing, and how to tell us when we get something wrong. Trusting a review means being able to check how it was made, not just reading the verdict.
Who writes and edits these guides
Every guide on this site carries a named byline. As of 2026, that's Anthony Castrio, cofounder of ApplyAll (LinkedIn). We don't publish under invented personas or an anonymous "editorial team" — if a page doesn't name a real person, it's bylined to the ApplyAll team instead, and no guide goes out without a named human accountable for what it says.
How a guide gets written
Drafts start with AI assistance, the same way most editorial teams now work. Every draft is then fact-checked against a primary source — the product's own pricing page, its Chrome Web Store or App Store listing, its refund policy, its Trustpilot profile — before a human edits and approves it for publication. When a primary source blocks us (Trustpilot 403s our requests; some sites block automated fetches outright), we say so in the guide rather than presenting a secondhand number as something we read ourselves. What we couldn't verify gets reported as unverified, not left out.
What our rating scale means
Our reviews use a 1–5 scale in half-point increments, and it isn't a curve — products in the same category land wherever the facts put them. A score of 2 or lower means we found a real, specific problem a buyer should know about before paying: a restrictive refund policy, a pattern of complaints we could substantiate, marketing claims that don't hold up against a primary source. A 3 means the product does what it says, with caveats we spell out plainly. A 3.5 or 4 means we'd recommend it for the right buyer, with any real limitations still named rather than buried. Nothing on this site is rated 5 — we haven't reviewed a product yet without at least one caveat worth telling you about.
When we have a business relationship with a reviewed company
If ApplyAll has a commercial relationship with a company we write about, we say so inside the review, not in a footer disclaimer. Our SimpleApply review is the current example: ApplyAll has a commercial relationship with SimpleApply, and the review discloses that plainly in the verdict box, names which parts of our assessment draw on data an independent reviewer couldn't check themselves, and still states what we couldn't verify. We apply the same disclosure rule to every guide, whether the relationship is active today or not.
Keeping guides current
Prices, refund policies, and ratings change. We run a quarterly re-verification sweep across the guides, and we only bump a page's "updated" or "facts last checked" date when we've actually re-checked the facts on it — never on a schedule for its own sake. Where we've made a specific correction or re-confirmed a contested claim, some guides carry a dated changelog at the bottom stating exactly what changed and when.
Report an error
If you find something wrong in one of our guides — a stale price, a policy that's changed, a fact we got wrong — email [email protected] with the guide and the correction. We'd rather fix it than leave it.