Teal vs Huntr: two job trackers, two very different free tiers

Teal and Huntr are the closest pair in this category. Both are job trackers that grew résumé tailoring, both have a browser extension, both show a match or keyword score, both sell a subscription for unlimited AI.

Because they overlap so heavily, the decision is rarely about features. It is about the free tier, the billing shape, and which one's saving workflow you will actually keep up.

Disclosure: SchoolWhool makes a competing product. It is mentioned once, for the case where neither of these is the right purchase.

The free tiers, which is where this is decided

Huntr's free plan covers 2 job-tailored résumés, 2 application packets, up to 100 tracked jobs, up to 100 document uploads, basic résumé job matching and scoring, and basic job insights (read from huntr.co on 2026-09-20).

Teal's free tier gives you the job tracker and the résumé builder; Teal+ is what unlocks unlimited matching, analysis, templates, advanced design controls and AI use (read from tealhq.com on 2026-09-20).

The practical difference: Huntr's free plan puts a hard number on the AI (2 tailored résumés) and a generous number on tracking (100 jobs). If tracking is your whole use case, Huntr free may simply be the end of the decision.

The billing shapes

Teal+ is listed at $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days, or $79 every 90 days.

Huntr Pro is listed at $40/month, $30/month billed quarterly ($90 every 3 months), or $26.66/month billed biannually ($160 every 6 months).

These reward different searches. Teal's weekly option is well matched to a short burst — two weeks of heavy applying, then stop. Huntr's discounts assume a search measured in quarters. Pick the one that matches how long you honestly expect to be looking, and set a reminder to cancel.

How you save a job

This is the difference people notice daily and no feature table captures.

Teal's extension is built around bookmarking a posting you are looking at, then adding notes, ratings and detected compensation in place. It suits someone browsing LinkedIn and company sites and capturing as they go.

Huntr's tracking is board-shaped, with documents attached per application. It suits someone who works in batches and wants the artefacts filed.

Neither is better. But one of them will match how you already work, and the other will quietly stop being updated by week three — which makes it worthless regardless of features.

Tailoring and scores

Both will tailor a résumé against a posting and show a score. Huntr Pro advertises "full keyword visibility" and advanced scoring with spellcheck and metrics; Teal+ advertises more advanced suggestions in Analysis Mode and more keywords surfaced in job matching.

Two things to hold onto:

• Neither score is an employer ATS score. No third-party tool reads an applicant tracking system. Both numbers are models of relevance built from the posting's text, and both are prompts rather than verdicts.
• Test the invention case on both, in the free tiers, before you subscribe. Give each your real résumé and a posting requiring something you have never done, then read every suggested change against your original. Look for skills that appeared, numbers that appeared, and "contributed to" becoming "led". Huntr's two free tailored résumés are exactly enough for this.

Choose Teal if

• You capture jobs as you browse and want notes and compensation in the same motion
• You want the résumé builder to be the centre of the product
• A one-week or one-month plan matches your search
• You want design control over the résumé output

Choose Huntr if

• You want to see whether free tracking alone solves your problem — 100 jobs is a real search
• You file documents per application and want them attached
• You expect a longer search and the quarterly or biannual pricing suits you
• You want keyword visibility spelled out rather than summarised

Choose neither if

Your bottleneck is upstream of both: you do not have enough good roles to track. Both products start from jobs you bring them.

That is where a discovery-first tool fits instead. SchoolWhool builds its catalogue from 285 companies' own career boards through each provider's public API rather than an aggregator, so postings carry a first-seen date, every role links out to the employer's own posting, and a role a board stops returning is marked closed rather than left in the feed. It is free to browse with no account at /jobs; Pro adds a ranked feed, saved jobs, a tracker and AI reviews.

It has no browser extension for saving postings from other sites and does not build a résumé from scratch — so if you like capturing jobs as you browse, Teal or Huntr remains the better fit.

What this page does not claim

We have not run both tools through a shared résumé and posting and published the outputs. Prices, limits and feature lists are what each vendor's own page said on 2026-09-20 and they change. Check before buying.

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