Huntly vs Teal: which part of the search each one takes

Teal is a workspace for the documents and the record-keeping of a job search. Its free tier includes unlimited resume creation and job tracking, which is a genuinely generous free tier by the standards of this category.

Teal+ adds expanded keyword matching, advanced resume analysis, unlimited AI resume bullets, summaries and cover letters, advanced design features and other premium functionality. The pricing shown on Teal's pricing page on 20 September 2026 was $13/week, $29/30 days and $79/90 days. Prices move; read them from the page rather than from this one.

The Job Matcher is the part worth understanding, because it is the closest thing here to what Huntly does. It compares a resume against a selected job — one from your Job Tracker, one from Teal's own Job Board, or a description you paste in yourself. The comparison is keyword-centred, and the unit of work is one job you have already picked.

Huntly starts one step earlier and stops one step sooner. Your CV becomes a profile of confirmed facts, your preferences describe what you are willing to consider, and postings are read against both without you selecting them first. What arrives is a shortlist of opportunities worth reviewing, each carrying a verdict and the posting's own lines as the reason for it.

The verdict is deliberately not a keyword overlap. It names what your profile evidences, what it does not, and quotes the posting for each — so a requirement you meet but describe in different words is not counted as a miss, and a word you happen to share is not counted as a qualification. How to check your CV against a job description covers the manual version of the same job.

Huntly then hands you the decision. It prepares the materials and you send the application yourself on the employer's own page; there is no submission path in the product, on any plan.

Both products sit between your CV and an application, and both will tell you how a particular posting relates to your experience.

• Both compare your CV against a job description and report back on the gap rather than leaving you to eyeball it.
• Both generate written material from your own history: Teal on the paid tier, Huntly as the preparation step for a specific posting.
• Both keep a record of the roles you are working on, so a search does not live in a spreadsheet and a browser with forty tabs open.

Splitting the category into its parts is the only way to see this clearly, because the two products are strong in different halves of it:

• Job discovery and matching. Teal's Job Matcher works on a job you select, from your tracker, its board or a pasted description. Huntly's matching runs over postings you have not seen yet and produces the shortlist itself.
• Resume and document generation. This is Teal's centre of gravity: unlimited resume creation free, and unlimited AI bullets, summaries and cover letters on Teal+. Huntly writes for one posting at a time and does not aim to be a resume builder.
• Application autofill. The Teal pages read for this article do not describe filling employer forms. Huntly does not do it either.
• Autonomous submission. Nothing in those pages describes Teal sending an application for you, and Huntly cannot do it on any plan. On this axis the two products are alike, which is worth saying plainly.
• Job tracking. Teal's tracker is a headline free feature and the hub the rest of the product organises around. Huntly records what you tell it about an application, and nothing about an employer's response, because no signal from an employer ever reaches it.
• Networking and referrals. Neither product does this, on the evidence of the pages listed at the foot of this article.

Teal suits a search where you already know what you are going for and the work is in the documents. If you are rewriting a resume for each application, keeping several versions alive and want one place to hold the whole search, that is the workspace it is built to be.

Huntly suits a search where the hard part happens before any of that: too many plausible postings, no reliable way to tell which ones justify an evening. The output is a shorter list with reasons attached, and then the same deciding you were always going to do. How to prioritise job applications is the same problem without any tool at all.

They are not mutually exclusive, and a reader with both problems should not be told to pick a side by a page one of the two companies wrote. Huntly's own plans are on the pricing page, and how Huntly works describes the sequence end to end.