Teal is a job-search workspace rather than just a resume builder: a Chrome extension that saves postings, a job tracker with stages and notes, a resume builder with keyword matching against each saved job, an AI writer for bullets, summaries and cover letters, and a LinkedIn profile import. The free plan is permanent and includes unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking; Teal+ unlocks unlimited templates, full keyword matching, unlimited AI and advanced design, priced by the week ($13), month ($29), quarter ($79) or year ($179), with no card required to start. This review covers what the free plan really includes, what Teal+ adds, where the resume builder is strong and weak, and how Teal compares to tools built around parsing rather than tracking.
Key takeaways
- A genuinely strong free tier: unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking, and a free download, with no card required.
- Teal+ is $13 a week, $29 a month, $79 a quarter or $179 a year; the weekly plan is the one that quietly adds up.
- Free caps the keyword insight at the top five terms per job and gives a small number of AI credits.
- Teal scores content and keywords; it does not open the exported file the way a parser does.
- Best for: running a whole search from one board, if you are happy writing your own bullets.
How this review was done
Verdict in one paragraph
Teal has the most developed tracker of the builders reviewed here, and a competent resume builder attached to it. Worth knowing before you switch tools for it: a free, unlimited application tracker is not rare — OwlApply includes one on the free plan too — so judge Teal on the keyword matching and the writing help rather than on tracking alone. If your problem is volume, thirty applications a week and no idea which is where, Teal's free plan solves it. The resume side is solid for tailoring: attach a job, see the top keywords, edit against them. The limits are that the free plan caps AI credits and keyword insight, that Teal+ is priced weekly in a way that adds up fast if you leave it running, and that Teal's analysis scores content and keywords rather than opening the PDF the way a parser does. Pair it with a file-level ATS check before you upload the resume it helped you write.
Teal pricing (US dollars, 14 September 2026)
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free Forever | $0 | Unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking, 10 resume templates, top 5 keyword insights per job, basic analysis, 1 email template per stage, basic design mode, 10 AI bullet credits, 2 summary credits, 2 cover letter credits |
| Teal+ weekly | $13 every 7 days | Unlimited templates, unlimited keyword matching, unlimited analysis, unlimited AI credits, advanced design, unlimited email templates |
| Teal+ monthly | $29 every 30 days | Same as weekly |
| Teal+ quarterly | $79 every 90 days | Same as weekly |
| Teal+ yearly | $179 every year | Same as weekly |
The weekly plan is the one to be careful with: $13 a week is $676 a year if it runs. It exists for people in a two-week sprint; if you expect a longer search, the monthly plan ($29) or the quarterly plan ($79) costs less per week, the yearly plan ($179) is the cheapest per month, and the free plan may be enough if you write your own bullets.
What Teal does well
- Job tracker with a browser extension. Save postings from LinkedIn, Indeed and company sites in one click; stages, notes, contacts and follow-ups in one board. Free and unlimited.
- Resume tailoring per job. Attach a saved posting, see keyword matches, edit the resume version for that job; multiple resume versions are free.
- AI writing. Bullets, summaries and cover letters from your own content, with credits on free and unlimited on Teal+.
- No trial-to-subscription trap. Free is free; Teal+ is a deliberate upgrade with no card required to start.
Where it falls short
- Weekly pricing invites forgetting. $13 a week looks small and compounds; set a reminder or choose monthly.
- Free keyword insight is capped. The top five keywords per job are shown free; the full list is Teal+.
- Content and keyword scoring, not parsing. Teal's analysis reads your text; it does not show what an ATS extracts from the exported PDF, so layout problems can pass unnoticed.
- Design mode on free is basic. Fine for a clean resume, limiting if you want control over typography.
Is a Teal resume ATS-friendly?
Teal's templates are document-style and mostly single-column, which parses well, and the keyword matching helps the content side. What Teal does not do is open the exported file the way a parser does. Before uploading a Teal resume to a portal, run it through the free ATS resume checker to read the extracted text and confirm contact details, headings and dates survived; it takes a minute and catches the layout findings a content score cannot.
What OwlApply does differently (and what it does not)
- Both have a free job tracker. Teal’s free plan and OwlApply’s job tracker are both unlimited and both free, so tracking is not the thing to choose between them on. Teal’s real free-tier edge is the download: its free plan exports the resume, ours does not (the download needs Pro).
- The extensions are not the same tool. Teal’s saves a posting into your tracker. Ours, the autofill extension, reads the posting first: it recognises a job page, summarises it into requirements, responsibilities and skills, marks each one CRITICAL, IMPORTANT or NICE-TO-HAVE, and rates your resume against every line as excellent, good, fair, poor or not mentioned. Then it fills the application — standard fields, enterprise widgets on Workday, Lever, Greenhouse, iCIMS and Taleo, custom dropdowns, multi-selects and file uploads — answers the screening questions from your stored answers, and one click on "Save job" adds the posting to your job tracker. The posting analysis is free on any signed-in account; AI-assisted form filling is 10 a month on the free plan and unlimited on Pro.
- Analysis level. Teal scores content and keywords. The free ATS resume checker opens the exported file, shows what a parser extracts and reports 17 file-level findings, free and without an account, whichever builder produced the PDF.
- Practice, not just paperwork. OwlApply includes 6 to 36 spoken AI mock interview sessions per plan and a job board that ranks openings against your resume; Teal has no equivalent of either. Teal+ is $29, and OwlApply's current prices are on the pricing page.
The other builders we tested the same way
We opened an account on each of these and checked the price it showed on the same day, so the numbers can be compared against one another: Zety (trial-then-subscription), Resume Now (trial-then-subscription), Resume Genius (trial-then-subscription), Kickresume (free download tier), Enhancv (seven-day free plan), Canva (free design tool), Resume Worded (feedback tool, not a builder). All nine, including OwlApply, are set side by side in the best AI resume builders comparison, with the same-day prices in one table.
Check the file Teal exported before you upload it
Read the parser’s extracted text and the 17 file-level findings. Free, no account, deleted after 24 hours.