Teal Review
An honest look at Teal's pricing, tracker and match scoring, and what ResumeFox does differently.
What each one actually costs over twelve months
Teal's free tier is real, so the honest comparison starts there rather than at the paid plans. Teal+ then runs its own shape: three short recurring terms (weekly, every 30 days, every 90 days) and no confirmed annual option for an individual account. ResumeFox is one plan: 7 days free, then $79 a month, and that price buys the same resume work plus a career professional you can write to.
- Unlimited resumes and unlimited free PDF downloads on the free plan, no card required
- No confirmed annual plan; Terms mention one but the live pricing page does not show it
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com
- Tailoring, tracking, job sourcing and every download included, plus a 6 month job offer guarantee
Teal's prices are read directly from its own pricing page. It has no confirmed annual plan for an individual account, so the yearly figures above are what a weekly or quarterly plan costs left running for a year. ResumeFox charges nothing during its 7 free days. Confirm the exact price and terms on the checkout screen before entering a card.
The full side-by-side comparison
Grouped by what actually matters: where the writing comes from, whether the file survives the software, whether the resume gets aimed at the job you want, and what it costs to keep using.
A half-filled circle means the feature exists but with a real limitation, described in the cell.
More templates is not the same as more good templates
A large share of the designs these builders promote use two columns, a headshot slot, or skills drawn as dots and bars. Those choices are the reason a resume arrives shredded: the sidebar gets read straight across into the middle of your job history, and a skills graphic says nothing once the picture is gone.
ResumeFox ships 10 templates plus a US federal layout. Not one has a sidebar, a photo or a chart. They differ in typography and emphasis, never in whether they parse.
- Whether a parser reads your name, email, phone and dates
- Whether anything is trapped in a table, column or image
- Named problems, not a grade out of 100
What each one is genuinely good and bad at
The most complete product compared on this site next to ResumeFox itself: a real free resume builder, a job tracker that actually links a tailored resume and cover letter to each saved job, and AI tools throughout. Both halves of its scoring, resume and job match, are numbers out of 100.
- A genuinely free plan: unlimited resumes, unlimited PDF downloads, no paywall to export
- Job Tracker bookmarks postings from 50+ boards via a Chrome extension and links a tailored resume and cover letter to each job
- 100+ free templates, plus a free LinkedIn Profile Review extension
- AI mock interviews with video and a live transcript, included in the free plan
- Resume score and job Match Score are both single numbers out of 100, not a named fix list
- Mock interview video is recorded and stored in your account rather than staying local
- No confirmed annual plan for an individual account; the cheapest way to pay is every 90 days
- No live research on the specific company you are interviewing with
Built by a resume-writing firm rather than a template and tracking platform, and sold as one plan with a career coach included. The standards come from real work, not an algorithm, and every finding is a named problem or a band, never a score to chase.
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com, with unlimited written messages and a $20 30-minute call whenever you want one
- Standards drawn from 80,000+ hand-written resumes by 100+ CPRW-certified US writers and recruiters
- Mock interview video never leaves your browser; only the transcript is used
- 6 month job offer guarantee: If you have paid for our service for 6 consecutive months, and you have not received a job offer, we'll continue to work with you for 6 additional months at no cost.
- $79 a month, several times what Teal+ costs, and Teal's builder and tracker are free
- 10 templates against Teal's 100+, deliberately, but it is fewer
- Coaching is written messages; a phone call is a $20 add-on rather than part of the price
- No Chrome extension that saves postings from a job board, the way Teal's does
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Is Teal legit?
Yes. It's operated by Teal Labs, Inc., founded by Dave Fano, and states over 4 million users on its own site. Independently, it holds a 4.2★ rating on Trustpilot from 115 reviews. Its free plan is real: unlimited resumes and unlimited PDF downloads with no card required.
How much does Teal cost?
Teal's core builder and tracker are free. Teal+ removes the AI-credit and keyword-matching caps for $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days, or $79 every 90 days. Its Terms of Service mention refund windows for monthly and annual plans, but the live pricing page and recent user reviews don't show a purchasable annual option for an individual account.
Is ResumeFox cheaper than Teal?
No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. Teal's builder and tracker are free, and Teal+ is $29 every 30 days or $79 every 90 days, about $316 left running for a year. A year of ResumeFox is $948, twelve charges of $79 after the 7 free days. What that buys is the same resume work plus a career coach in the US you can write to as often as you like, a targeted resume and cover letter for each job, job sourcing, the tracker and the 6 month job offer guarantee.
Is Teal's job tracker the same as ResumeFox's application tracker?
They're closer than any other pair on this site. Both let you bookmark or save a job, move it through stages, and generate a tailored resume and cover letter tied to that specific job record. Real differences: ResumeFox's job record also carries interview prep and offer notes in the same place, and Teal's Job Tracker adds things ResumeFox doesn't, like a Chrome extension that saves postings directly from 50+ job boards and a contacts CRM for recruiters and referrals.
Does Teal give a score, or a percentage?
Yes, in two places: its ATS Resume Checker scores a resume 0–100% and names 80%+ as good, and its Job Description Match feature scores a resume against a specific posting the same way. ResumeFox never does either: it names specific, checkable problems on the readability half, and uses bands, never a number, on the fit-to-a-posting half.
Does Teal record my mock interviews?
Yes. Teal's AI Interview Practice records full video sessions with a live transcript and keeps them in your account so you can review them later. ResumeFox's mock interview only ever sends the transcript to its AI; the video itself never leaves your browser and is not stored.
What happens if I don't like it?
Teal reviews refund requests case by case, within a window tied to your billing period (2 to 14 calendar days depending on the plan); it's not automatic. ResumeFox charges nothing during its 7 free days, so cancelling inside them costs you nothing, and it carries a 6 month job offer guarantee: If you have paid for our service for 6 consecutive months, and you have not received a job offer, we'll continue to work with you for 6 additional months at no cost.
How we compared these
Pricing is read from each provider's own checkout or pricing page. Feature claims are checked against each product's live interface. Where we could not confirm something ourselves, it is not on this page.
Where numbers disagree
Entry prices in this category differ across landing pages and promotions. Where that happens we give the observed range rather than one figure, and say so.
Our disclosure
This page is published by ResumeFox, one of the products compared. We have an obvious interest in your choosing it. That is why every claim about a competitor is one you can check on their own site, and why we name the rows they win.
- Teal's pricing (homepage pricing section): read 2026-09-23
- Teal's AI Resume Builder: read 2026-09-23
- Teal's Job Application Tracker: read 2026-09-23
- Teal's ATS Resume Checker: read 2026-09-23
- Teal's AI Interview Practice: read 2026-09-23
- Teal's free resume templates: read 2026-09-23
- Teal's Terms of Service (billing, refunds): read 2026-09-23
- Teal's About Us page (founder, company): read 2026-09-23
- Teal on Trustpilot: read 2026-09-23
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