Teal helps you track and organize your job search. Zipply runs the job search for you. Here's how the two tools compare and when each one makes sense.
Teal is one of the most popular job-search organization tools - a clean dashboard for tracking applications, building resumes, and managing the chaos of an active search. Zipply takes a different approach: rather than helping you organize the work, it runs the work as a managed service. Here's how the two compare.
Teal is a job-search command center. You bookmark jobs from across the web, build and store multiple resume versions, track which company is at what stage, and get reminders to follow up. Teal helps you do your job search better and faster. You're still the one doing it.
Zipply is a concierge that runs the search end to end. It scans company career pages, scores fit against your CV, tailors resumes per job, runs applications, and reports back. You review outcomes; you don't manage day-to-day execution.
The two tools serve different stages of the buyer journey. Teal is for the active, hands-on job seeker who wants better tooling. Zipply is for the time-constrained candidate who wants to delegate the search itself.
No application execution. Teal helps you organize what you're doing - it doesn't do the work for you. You still manually visit job boards, click into each role, fill out application forms, and write cover letters. For senior candidates with limited search time, this is the bottleneck Teal doesn't address.
No fit evaluation. Teal will help you store and tailor a resume, but it doesn't tell you which jobs are worth applying to. The strategic question - "is this role actually a good match for my background?" - is left entirely to you.
No career-page scanning. Teal works on jobs you've already found. It doesn't proactively surface new roles from Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, or direct company career pages. The discovery work is still manual.
Resume tailoring is template-based, not per-JD AI-generated. Teal's resume builder helps you create variations and suggests keywords, but the actual writing is on you. For per-application tailoring across 10+ roles per week, the manual effort adds up.
Execution, not organization. Zipply runs the search. You receive a daily report - jobs scanned, strong fits found, applications submitted, declines with reasons. The day-to-day execution is delegated to the concierge + AI.
Fit-first decisions. Every job is scored before any application. You see the breakdown and can override if you disagree. The strategic "should I apply to this?" question is answered for you by default.
Career-page-first scanning. Zipply scans 10+ major ATS platforms daily. New roles surface within 24 hours of going live, scored against your CV.
Per-JD CV generation. Each application gets a full Harvard-format CV rewritten for that specific JD via Claude Sonnet. Not a template-fill - a full rewrite optimizing for ATS scoring.
Concierge oversight. Human-in-the-loop for edge cases, complex portals, and ambiguous decisions.
| Feature | Teal | Zipply |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | Yes (substantial) | No (free first eval only) |
| Paid tier | $9-29/month | $50/month |
| Annual | Discount | $550/year (saves $50) |
| Job tracking | Excellent | Built-in via reports |
| Resume builder | Templates + AI keywords | Per-JD AI-generated |
| Application execution | Manual | Done for you |
| Discovery / scanning | None | Primary source |
| Fit evaluation | None | Per-job, full LLM eval |
| Concierge | None | Founder-supervised |
| Mock interview | None | Included |
Use Teal if you have time and energy to run your own job search and want better tools for it. If your bottleneck is organization, not execution - you're applying to enough roles but losing track of them - Teal is exactly the right answer. The free tier alone is a significant upgrade over spreadsheets.
Use Zipply if the bottleneck is time or strategic decision-making. If you're employed full-time and can't dedicate 10 hours a week to a search, Zipply's concierge mode handles the volume for you. If you're between roles but don't know which companies to target, Zipply's evaluation system makes those decisions evidence-based.
The two can complement each other - Teal as the central tracking dashboard, Zipply as the execution layer running scans and applications behind the scenes. But for most senior candidates, picking the one that matches your bottleneck is more useful than running both.
If you want to see how Zipply's fit evaluation works before deciding, the first eval is free at tryzipply.com/try - paste any job URL and see the score in 30 seconds.
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