7 Internship Apps in 2026, and What Each Is Good For

September 2, 2026 · updated October 6, 2026 · 7 min read

There are more ways to find an internship than ever. This is our run-through of seven apps students use, and what each one is actually good for.

Full disclosure: we build Internly, and we've put it first. This is an opinionated list, not a benchmark — we haven't measured these apps against each other, and the order after the first entry is roughly "how many students it's useful to." Every app below is the right choice for someone.

1. Internly — a swipe deck that applies where it can

Internly builds a deck of internships filtered by your field, country, and pay floor, and you swipe through it. By default it applies from an email address it creates for you, so what employers send back is forwarded to your inbox and shown in the app.

What "applies for you" means, exactly. Internly can fill out and submit an application itself only where the employer uses an application form it supports — today that is Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby, which is roughly 3,700 of the 60,000 listings in the catalogue, most of them in the United States. The web app labels every listing "We apply for you" or "Apply on employer's site" before you swipe. On the first kind, your profile fills the form, and if the form wants something your profile doesn't have, Internly asks you before sending anything. On the second kind, a right swipe saves the role to your Applications list with the employer's link, and you finish there yourself.

Best at: browsing a lot of internships quickly from a phone, and skipping the form on the listings it can submit.

Honest weaknesses: it can submit on only a minority of listings; it's internships only — no full-time roles; and the free tier is one right swipe a day (Pro is 30).

Coverage: about 60,000 listings in 60+ countries, translated into ten languages, on iOS and the web.

2. Handshake — best if your school is plugged in

Handshake is the career platform used by more than 1,400 colleges and universities, which means employers there are explicitly looking for students, and some roles are aimed at your school specifically. Career fairs, employer events, and on-campus interviews run through it, and it has web, iOS, and Android apps. The catch: you reach it through a partner school, and how much is on it for you depends on who recruits there. (Full comparison →)

3. LinkedIn — best for people, most crowded for applying

LinkedIn has the most listings and by far the strongest network: finding an alum on the team you want, and asking them for fifteen minutes, is worth more than another cold application. Popular internship postings there draw large numbers of applicants, and "Easy Apply" is easy for everyone. Use it to find people, not just postings. (Full comparison →)

4. Simplify — best browser sidekick

Simplify's browser extension autofills applications on a wide range of employer sites — far more than Internly can submit to — and its lists of open tech internships are excellent. You review and submit each one yourself, and it's at its best at a laptop. Autofill and tracking are free. (Full comparison →)

5. Indeed — best sheer volume

Indeed indexes a huge range of postings, including small local businesses that campus platforms rarely carry. The trade-off is that it's built for the whole job market, so you'll do more filtering to get to internships. Strong as a supplemental search.

6. WayUp — built for students and recent grads

WayUp focuses specifically on early-career roles, with employer partnerships aimed at students. Its inventory is smaller than the giants', but everything on it is meant for someone at your stage.

7. ZipRecruiter — best alerts, least student focus

ZipRecruiter's matching and alert emails bring roles to you. It's built for the general job market, though, so internships are a small part of it and student-specific features are few.

The bottom line

The useful setup isn't one app. It's something like: Internly to find internships and clear the ones it can submit, Handshake for school-specific roles and events, Simplify for the employer-site forms you fill yourself, and LinkedIn for turning a few of those applications into conversations with people. (On how many applications to plan for, see this guide.)