# Teal review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Free job tracker and resume builder, with AI and matching in Teal+

Checked Oct 24, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Teal combines a resume builder with a job search tracker. The free plan allows unlimited resumes and unlimited tracked jobs, and a Chrome extension saves jobs, contacts and companies from job boards into it. Teal+ adds unlimited AI writing for bullets, summaries and cover letters, full keyword matching against a job description with a match score, and more templates and design controls.

- **Category:** Resume Builders
- **Made by:** Teal Labs, Inc
- **Website:** https://www.tealhq.com
- **Runs on:** Web, Browser extension
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you lean on AI, as free use stops at 10 bullet, 2 summary and 2 cover letter credits.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 24, 2026, Teal has a free plan, and paid plans start at $13 per week; $29 per 30 days; $79 per 90 days.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free Forever: unlimited resumes and job tracking, 10 templates, top 5 job keywords, basic analysis, and 14 AI credits (10 for bullets, 2 summaries, 2 cover letters).
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free Forever | $0 | Unlimited resumes and job tracking, 10 templates, top 5 keywords per job, basic analysis and design settings, limited AI credits. |
| Teal+ weekly | $13 per week | Billed every 7 days. Unlimited templates, keyword matching, analysis, email templates and AI writing, plus advanced design settings. |
| Teal+ 30 days | $29 per 30 days | The same Teal+ features, billed every 30 days. |
| Teal+ 90 days | $79 per 90 days | The same Teal+ features, billed every 90 days. |

Teal's own pricing page could not be read; these figures come from https://web.archive.org/web/20261016091209/https://www.tealhq.com/pricing on Oct 24, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Teal before buying.

## Key features

- **Job application tracker:** Bookmark jobs, set goals, take notes, track each application's status and set follow-up reminders. Unlimited on the free plan.
- **Chrome extension:** Saves jobs, contacts and companies from job boards into Teal, searches several boards at once and pulls salary details from postings.
- **Resume builder with analysis:** Keep many tailored versions of a resume, with real-time feedback on structure, format and content. Full analysis needs Teal+.
- **Keyword matching and Match Score:** Attach a job and Teal highlights its keywords and scores how well the resume fits. The free plan shows the top 5 keywords.
- **AI writing:** Writes resume bullets, professional summaries and cover letters. Free accounts get a small number of credits; Teal+ is unlimited.
- **Contacts and email templates:** A networking CRM for contacts and companies, and email templates for each stage of an application.

## Good for

- Job seekers juggling many applications who want them in one tracker
- People keeping a separate resume version for each role
- Short, intense job searches where paying by the week makes sense

## Worth knowing

- Teal+ is billed every 7, 30 or 90 days; weekly billing at $13 costs more over a month than the 30-day plan.
- Free AI use stops at 10 bullet, 2 summary and 2 cover letter credits.
- Refunds are only considered within each plan's eligibility window, per the pricing FAQ.
- Unlimited templates and the advanced Design Mode settings need Teal+; the free plan has 10 templates.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Teal pairs a resume builder with a job tracker, and the free plan keeps unlimited resumes and tracked jobs plus a Chrome extension that saves postings. Free AI stops after 14 credits and the keyword view shows only the top 5, while Teal+ is billed by the week, 30 days or 90 days, from $79 per 90 days, with no phone app.

- **Value for money: C.** Teal+ is cheapest at $79 per 90 days, about $26 a month, between this category's middle ($16.50) and its dearer quarter ($29). The 30-day plan is $29, and weekly is $13, about $56 a month.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Free Forever keeps unlimited resumes and tracked jobs, 10 templates and the Chrome extension, so one person can run a search on it. The caps: AI stops at 10 bullet, 2 summary and 2 cover letter credits, and only the top 5 keywords per job show.
- **Features: B.** A builder for many versions of a resume, keyword matching with a Match Score, AI bullets, summaries and cover letters, plus a job tracker with reminders, a contacts list and email templates. That covers the resume job and the search around it.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. There's a tracker to fill and a Chrome extension to install, as well as the resume to build.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web, plus a Chrome extension and LinkedIn. No phone or desktop app, so everything happens in the browser.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read on 24 October 2026 from a copy of Teal's pricing page saved by the Internet Archive and its Chrome Web Store listing, as Teal's site turned our reader away. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among resume builders

- Teal's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 10 of the 13 other resume builders we grade.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 10 of 13) and worst on value for money (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $56.33 a month, against a middle price of $16 for the category: 10 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/resume-builders

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Your call.** You could make the core of Teal for yourself: resume builder and templates. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $676 a year.

- You could make: Resume builder and templates: an app builder makes these well.
- You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

LinkedIn

**Tags:** Resume builder, AI features, Templates

## Alternatives

- [Huntr](https://toolgpa.com/tools/huntr): Job search tracker with an AI resume builder and application autofill. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huntr-vs-teal)
- [Careerflow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/careerflow): Job search toolkit with AI resumes, LinkedIn checks and a job tracker. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/careerflow-vs-teal)
- [Rezi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/rezi): AI resume builder with an ATS score, keyword targeting and job apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/rezi-vs-teal)
- [Jobscan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jobscan): Resume scanner that scores your match to a job and its ATS. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jobscan-vs-teal)
- [Enhancv](https://toolgpa.com/tools/enhancv): Designed resume builder with AI feedback, tailoring and a job tracker. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/enhancv-vs-teal)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 24, 2026:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20261016091209/https://www.tealhq.com/pricing
- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/teal-job-search-companion/opafjjlpbiaicbbgifbejoochmmeikep?hl=en

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