Teal and OnlyApply both help you tailor a resume to each job and keep track of where you applied, but they make different trade-offs. Teal gives you a large free workspace, a browser extension for saving jobs and a lot of control over how your resume looks. OnlyApply is narrower: you add a job, and it drafts the tailored resume and cover letter for that posting from your own profile, scores your fit and keeps the application on a tracker.
you want unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking on a free plan, a Chrome extension that bookmarks jobs from 40+ job boards, dozens of templates with design controls, or the option to pay for a single week.
you want each job to get a complete tailored resume and cover letter drafted for you, a match score that names your gaps, and a hard rule that nothing you have not done ends up on the page.
| OnlyApply | Teal | |
|---|---|---|
| Paid plans | Pro $19/month or $156/year. Career $39/month or $324/year. | Teal+: $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days or $79 every 90 days. |
| Free plan | Free with no time limit: 3 jobs, 5 tailored resumes and 5 cover letters a month. No card required. | Free Forever plan with unlimited resumes and job tracking. AI writing is capped at 5 credits for bullets, 2 for summaries and 2 for cover letters. |
| Trial or refund terms | 7-day free trial of Pro (card required, first charge after the trial). | No trial listed. No credit card required to start; cancel any time. |
| Submits applications for you | No. OnlyApply never submits an application or emails anyone for you. | Not listed on the pages we checked |
| Tailoring to a job description | A full resume tailored to each job, plus a match score with strengths and gaps. | Attach a job description to a resume for a match score and AI keyword suggestions. |
| AI cover letters | Yes, per job: 5 a month on Free, 30 on Pro, 100 on Career. | AI Cover Letter Generator: 2 credits on Free, unlimited on Teal+. |
| Job tracker | Kanban tracker for every job you add, with stage history. | Unlimited job tracking, free. |
| Resume export formats | PDF, DOCX and plain text, on every plan. | Unlimited PDF exports, free. |
| Browser extension | None. Add a job by pasting its link or description. | Free Chrome extension that bookmarks jobs from 40+ job boards. |
Teal's Free Forever plan includes unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking. OnlyApply's Free plan covers 3 new jobs a month. If you mostly need somewhere to keep dozens of applications in order, and you are happy to write your own resumes, Teal's free tier goes much further than ours.
Teal's free Chrome extension bookmarks a job into its tracker in one click from 40+ job boards. OnlyApply has no browser extension: you add a job by pasting its link or its description, which is slower when you are saving many postings at once.
Teal lists dozens of resume templates (10 on Free, all of them on Teal+) and a Design Mode with advanced settings. OnlyApply ships four single-column templates, picked because they parse cleanly in applicant tracking systems rather than to cover every style. If the look of your resume matters a lot to you, Teal gives you more to work with.
Teal lets you bookmark contacts such as recruiters and hiring managers, and it offers 40+ email templates for each stage of a search. OnlyApply drafts a recruiter message and a follow-up email for a specific job, but it has no contact list.
Teal+ can be bought 7, 30 or 90 days at a time, which suits a short, intense search. OnlyApply bills by the month or the year.
In OnlyApply you add a job and get a full resume and cover letter written for that posting from your master profile, which you then edit, compare with earlier versions and export. Teal's pricing page lists its AI features as generators for resume bullets, professional summaries and cover letters inside its builder, with a few credits on Free and unlimited use on Teal+.
Every OnlyApply resume, cover letter and message is limited to what is in your own profile and CV. If a posting asks for a skill you do not have, it shows up as a gap in the match analysis instead of being written into your resume. Truth Mode cannot be turned off.
Each job you add is scored against your profile, with the strengths and the gaps listed in plain words. The point is to help you decide whether to apply before you spend an evening on it, not only to raise a keyword count.
Pro adds interview prep for the specific posting (5 prep packs and 60 mock-interview answers a month), 10 Resume Audits and an AI chat that edits your resume in place. Everything stays attached to the job on your tracker.
Every OnlyApply plan exports PDF, DOCX and plain text, so a tailored resume can go into a Word-only application portal or another tool without retyping.
Yes. Teal has a Free Forever plan with unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking. Its AI generators are capped by credits on Free (5 for resume bullets, 2 for summaries, 2 for cover letters) until you upgrade to Teal+. OnlyApply's Free plan has no time limit either and includes 5 tailored resumes and 5 cover letters a month.
None of the Teal pages we checked (pricing, job tracker, resume builder) describes automatic applying. OnlyApply does not submit applications or send emails on your behalf: you apply yourself, with documents you have read.
It depends on how long you search. Teal+ is $13 for 7 days, $29 for 30 days or $79 for 90 days. OnlyApply Pro is $19 a month or $156 a year, with a 7-day free trial. Both have a free plan, so you can try each before paying.
Yes. OnlyApply exports DOCX and plain text, and Teal's builder accepts PDF, Word or pasted text, so you can generate a tailored resume in one and keep your tracker in the other.
Paste your resume and a job description into the free ATS Resume Checker to see your match score and missing keywords, no account needed. Sign up when you want the tailored resume and cover letter.