Sprout can tell you when an employer replies, when your documents are ready, or when something needs your attention. You control which of those you hear about and how they reach you.
⚙️ Where to change them
⚙️ Where to change them
Web: go to Settings → Notifications.
Mobile: go to Profile → Settings → Notifications.
📋 What you can turn on and off
📋 What you can turn on and off
There are four categories, and you can set each one independently:
Application Updates: interview invitations, job offers, rejections, and confirmations that an application was submitted
Email Activity: new emails from employers and recruiters
Document Ready: when your resume or cover letter has been generated and is ready to review
Resume Gap Questions: when there are questions waiting for you to answer
If you only want one, Application Updates is the one to keep. That's where interview invitations land.
📬 How they reach you
📬 How they reach you
Each category can be delivered by:
Email: to the address you signed in with
Push: a notification on your phone
In-app: the notification feed inside Sprout
Turning off email for a category doesn't turn off push, and vice versa. They're separate switches, so you can have interview invitations push to your phone while everything else stays quietly in the app.
🔕 I'm not getting notifications
🔕 I'm not getting notifications
Work through these in order:
Check the category is on in Sprout's notification settings, for the channel you're expecting
Check your phone's permissions: if you declined notifications when you first installed Sprout, push won't arrive no matter what the app says. On iOS: Settings → Notifications → Sprout. On Android: Settings → Apps → Sprout → Notifications
Check your spam folder for email notifications, and mark them as not spam so future ones arrive
Worth knowing: notifications are a convenience, not the system of record. Employer replies always land in the application's own inbox whether or not you were notified, so if you think you've missed something, look there.
📢 I'm getting too many
📢 I'm getting too many
If you're applying at volume, Email Activity and Document Ready are usually the noisy ones. Turning those off (or leaving them in-app only) keeps your inbox calm without losing the notifications that matter.
Turning notifications off doesn't affect your applications in any way. Nothing stops being sent, and nothing stops arriving.
❓ Still have questions?
If you've checked all of the above and notifications still aren't reaching you, reply here and someone from the Sprout team will take a look.