{"id":1135,"date":"2026-07-17T22:54:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastroundai.com\/blog\/?post_type=competitor&p=1135"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:41:04","slug":"teal","status":"publish","type":"competitor","link":"https:\/\/lastroundai.com\/compare\/teal","title":{"rendered":"Teal Review (2026): The Job Tracker and Resume Builder, Tested"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our verdict<\/span>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Cheapest plan<\/span><\/p>\n

Free forever: unlimited job tracking, the Chrome extension, and a basic resume builder. Teal+ pricing is reported anywhere from about $9\/week to roughly $29\/month depending on the source and the commitment length; we couldn’t pin down one clean number, so treat it as directional.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n Best for<\/span><\/p>\n

Candidates who want one organized home for their resume, notes, and application history instead of a spreadsheet with half the columns blank.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\n Bottom line<\/span><\/p>\n

A genuinely good tracker and resume builder. It doesn’t submit a single application for you, and it never claimed it would, so judge it on what it’s actually built to do.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Somewhere around application number 30, most job seekers lose track of what they sent where. I’ve watched candidates paste job links into three different Notes apps, forget which resume version went to which recruiter, and reply to a rejection email for a role they can’t quite place anymore. Teal, the product most people search for as “Teal HQ” after its tealhq.com domain, exists to fix that specific mess. For the tracking-and-resume half of a search, it mostly does.<\/p>\n

This Teal review is for anyone deciding whether Teal can be the one tool for a 2026 job search, or whether it’s a piece of a bigger stack. Short version: Teal is a useful tracker and resume builder, built by people who clearly understand what a real search looks like on a Tuesday night with six tabs open. It is not, and doesn’t claim to be, an auto-apply tool. If you came here expecting Teal to submit applications while you sleep, that expectation came from somewhere else on the internet, not from Teal’s own site.<\/p>\n

What Teal actually does<\/h2>\n

Teal’s core is a Kanban-style job tracker. Browse a listing on LinkedIn, Indeed, or a company’s own careers page, click the Chrome extension, and it saves the posting into your tracker with the title, company, and description filled in automatically (the auto-fill worked cleanly on every board I tried, for what that’s worth). From there you drag each posting through stages, bookmarked, applied, interviewing, offer, closed, and attach notes, contacts, and the specific resume version you sent for that job.<\/p>\n

Sitting next to the tracker is a resume builder organized around individual work-experience bullet points. Teal’s AI helps turn a flat line (“worked on backend systems”) into something closer to what a recruiter actually wants: a specific action tied to a measurable result. Paste in a job description and the tool scores your resume against it, flagging missing keywords, the feature people mention most when they talk about the product.<\/p>\n

Free users get unlimited tracking, the extension, a basic resume builder, and Teal’s Career Hub, a library of negotiation and resume-strategy articles. Teal+ adds more resume templates, additional AI bullet rewrites, the full match-score breakdown, an AI cover letter generator, and resume analytics.<\/p>\n

Key features, tested in 2026<\/h2>\n

The job tracker<\/h3>\n

This is the feature people actually stick around for. The auto-fill is reliable on the big job boards, and dragging a card across stages takes about two seconds, fast enough that you’ll actually keep doing it, which is where most spreadsheets quietly die.<\/p>\n

Resume builder and match score<\/h3>\n

Paste a job description in and Teal returns a percentage match plus a list of missing keywords and skills. It’s a useful gut check before you submit anything. I think the score teaches the wrong lesson if you chase it too hard, though: mirroring a job description’s exact phrasing is table stakes for keyword-scanning applicant tracking software, but it does nothing for the interview itself, where nobody is going to ask you to define “cross-functional stakeholder alignment.”<\/p>\n

AI cover letter generator<\/h3>\n

Available on Teal+, this pulls from your resume and the target job description to draft a first pass. It’s a starting point, not a finished letter, and Teal doesn’t pretend otherwise in its own marketing.<\/p>\n

Career Hub<\/h3>\n

A resource library covering salary negotiation, resume formatting, and search strategy. Useful, if fairly generic compared to the product’s core features.<\/p>\n

Honest pros<\/h2>\n

Four things about Teal are worth crediting before getting into where the product runs out of road.<\/p>\n