Welcome to Appily!

We’re your all-in-one college planning hub

What is Appily?

Appily is a free college planning platform that helps students find, compare, and pay for college in one place.

From college search and scholarships to virtual tours, direct admissions, and planning tools, Appily helps students make smarter college decisions with more clarity and confidence.

  • Explore 4,000+ colleges and universities
  • Browse nearly 250,000 scholarships
  • Get closer to colleges through virtual tours and direct admission opportunities
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Tools to plan, decide, and apply with confidence

Appily brings together the tools students need to explore colleges, find scholarships, and move forward with more clarity at every step. With Appily, students can explore 4,000+ colleges, browse nearly 250,000 scholarships, and discover direct admission opportunities from participating schools.

Search colleges that fit you

Explore 4,000+ colleges and universities, compare cost and fit, and discover schools you may not have considered.

Find scholarships to help pay for college

Browse nearly 250,000 scholarships and discover opportunities that match your background, goals, and interests.

Explore campuses with virtual tours

Take immersive virtual tours to get a feel for campus life, academic spaces, and the places that matter most to you.

Discover direct admission opportunities

Complete your profile to see direct admission offers from participating colleges, many of which include scholarships.

Explore majors, quizzes, and planning tools

Use quizzes, calculators, and planning tools to build your list, compare options, and make the best decisions for your college journey!

Who we are

Your Appily experts

Appily isn’t just a faceless online platform – it’s a team of dedicated experts with one mission in mind: helping you make your college dream become a reality.

From counselors, to higher ed experts, to creators, to the teams bringing those virtual tours you see to life, here are a few of the people working their magic on the other side of the screen.

Looking for Cappex? You're in the right place.

Cappex is now Appily, a free college planning platform that helps students find, compare, and pay for college in one place.

Appily brings together the same trusted tools you know from Cappex, plus we've added more ways to plan your next step, explore schools, understand costs, find scholarships, and move forward with confidence.

Your privacy, your choice

At Appily, we believe you should have complete control over your personal information. Opting out of data sharing with colleges is a simple process that takes just a few clicks. Visit our Privacy Notice page to withdraw your consent for data sharing or to have your information completely removed from our system. We respect your privacy decisions and process all opt-out requests immediately. No waiting periods, no complicated forms, just straightforward control over your data.

Account deletion request

If you'd like to delete your Appily account, please complete this form

We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request. Once confirmed, your account will be closed, and we will discard your personally identifiable data. We may retain certain data for internal business purposes as permitted by applicable law. 

Become an Appily university partner 

If you're a college or university admissions professional interested in leveraging cutting-edge tools and tactics to reach college-bound students at scale, we invite you to connect with us.  

Through a combination of customized promotional tools, organic and paid web traffic, and an expansive network of partner sites, Appily leverages the depth and breadth of the internet to help you connect with more right-fit students from across the country. 

Click the button below to learn more about how Appily can help you achieve your unique enrollment goals. 

Become an Appily affiliate partner 

We leverage the expertise of our robust network of like-minded community organizations, aligned companies, and websites to expose as many students as possible to Appily resources while also advancing the goals of our partners. 

If your beneficiaries, target markets, or audiences include adult learners, high school students, or their parents, who would benefit from our college search tools, or who might want to apply to our scholarships, let’s talk!