ApplyBlast vs Teal:The Alternative That Actually Applies For You

ApplyBlast. Teal is a job-search organizer — it tracks the jobs you find, scores your resume against a posting and autofills the form, but you still open every application and press submit yourself. ApplyBlast does the applying. It searches more than 10 million indexed jobs with roughly 52,000 added daily, scores each opening against your role, salary, location, seniority and experience, tailors your resume, cover letter and application answers, and submits while the posting is still fresh — without you at your computer.

No. Teal’s Chrome extension autofills application forms with AI-generated answers, but you review and submit each one yourself, and you have to be on the job page for it to help. That is a real time-saver per application — it is not automation. ApplyBlast is built the other way around: it finds and screens the jobs, tailors the materials, and submits the applications on your behalf, so your search keeps running on the days you don’t.

For anyone who wants their applications actually sent, yes. Teal is a genuinely good organizer with a strong free tier, and if your search is small and you enjoy running it by hand it will serve you well. But a faster manual job search is still a manual job search. ApplyBlast screens every job for fit before anything is sent, tailors each application to the specific role, and prioritizes fresh postings so you are early rather than one of hundreds — all without you doing the applying.

Almost always the same reason: they realized the tool was tracking their job search rather than running it. The most common drivers are automated submission instead of autofill, per-job fit screening before an application goes out, a much larger index sourced directly from company hiring systems, resumes and cover letters tailored per role, and applying while a posting is new. Many keep using Teal’s free career content alongside ApplyBlast — the two are not really competing for the same job.

Teal has a free tier, and its paid plan — Teal+ — is published at $13 per week, $29 per month or $79 per quarter. The free tier caps the AI features, so the resume match scorer, the AI bullet writing and the cover letter generator are the parts you end up paying for. Worth knowing what that money buys: at every price Teal charges, you are still the one opening each application and pressing submit. ApplyBlast’s job board is free to search without an account or a card — all 10 million-plus jobs — so you can see the whole index before deciding whether you want the applying done for you.

You can, though most people find they no longer need to. ApplyBlast already covers job discovery, fit screening, resume and cover letter tailoring, submission and tracking in one place, and its tracker fills itself as applications go out rather than needing you to bookmark each role. If you like Teal’s Career Hub or LinkedIn tooling, there is nothing stopping you keeping it.

ApplyBlast is an AI job-search platform that tracks all of your applications in one place. In addition to search functionality, ApplyBlast finds jobs matching your criteria, customizes and sends resumes and cover letters, and answers application questions.

ApplyBlast indexes more than 10 million jobs and discovers roughly 52,000 new jobs daily. We look beyond major job boards and scan company hiring systems directly. This process uncovers jobs before they appear on other sites and become crowded.

Yes. ApplyBlast is able to automatically apply to jobs matching your criteria. It is fully customizable, so you can control the process as much or as little as you like, including having the ability to check applications before they are submitted.

We only apply to jobs we deem worthwhile. This means we score roles on fit according to your seniority, experience, custom preferences, role, salary and location requirements, and review them before applying. Any that do not meet our quality bar will be declined.

Yes. ApplyBlast is focused on customization. We build job-specific resumes, cover letters, and application responses using your real-world experience, rather than sending the same application to every job.

Yes. Your auto-applied jobs will automatically appear in your tracker so you can manage your job search in one place. They may also update with new statuses as you get responses.

Each subscription has its own limits. Launch has around 100 applications a month, Boost has 250 a month and Quarterly allows 1,000 a quarter. Each plan has its own individual daily limit. Also, regardless of plan, our Terms allow a maximum of 1,000 applications submitted per user, per calendar month, based on fair use.

Yes. The ApplyBlast job board is free — browse and search the full index of over 10 million jobs without an account and without a card. Automated applying, tailoring and the tracker are on paid plans; see the checkout page for current rates.

Yes. Alongside ApplyBlast’s company profile pages, which list a company’s current openings so you can research an employer before applying, you can also save any job listing to revisit later.