ApplyGen now ships with advanced personalization controls and style presets — so you can configure exactly how your cover letters are written and save those configurations for reuse across different applications.
What changed in v1.9.0
- Expanded AI parameters — you can now set tone (professional, formal, confident, friendly, or concise), word count (150–300 words), salutation, closing style, emphasis (experience, skills, or achievements), and a custom skills list to highlight.
- Style presets — save up to 5 named presets, each with its own full set of AI parameters. Switch between them from the popup before generating.
- Preset management in Settings — create, edit, delete, and activate presets from the Settings tab. Each preset can have a name and icon to tell them apart at a glance.
- Active preset persistence — your active preset is remembered and applied automatically on the next generation; no need to reselect it each time.
- Google sign-in required for presets — anonymous users can still set preferences, but saving named presets requires a Google account.
Why it matters
Most people applying to jobs aren’t sending the same letter to the same type of role every time. A product manager applying to an early-stage startup needs a different tone than when applying to a large bank — and the old single-configuration setup forced you to manually change settings each time or accept a one-size-fits-all result.
With presets, you set up each configuration once. Name one “Startup” and one “Enterprise,” or split by emphasis — skills-forward for technical roles, achievements-forward for leadership ones. Switching takes one click before you generate.
The expanded parameter set also gives the AI more signal to work with. Specifying a skills list, for example, means the model pulls from your actual priorities rather than inferring them from resume text alone. If you’re a career switcher trying to get a specific set of transferable skills into every letter, this is where you set that. (Our post on writing cover letters with no experience covers that situation in more detail.)
Update your extension to get these improvements.