Personal Job Coach vs Teal: Tailored to One Job vs a Free Job-Search Tracker

Teal and Personal Job Coach are both AI job-search tools, but they're not solving quite the same problem: Teal's built around managing your entire search, resumes, tracking, and templates, while Personal Job Coach builds every document around the one job you're applying to right now.

Feature	Teal	Personal Job Coach
Free plan	Yes, unlimited resumes and job tracking	Free 8-point CV score, no account needed
Job tracker	Unlimited, included free	Not the focus
Job-specific gap analysis	Keyword matching only (top 5 free, unlimited paid)	Full gap analysis, free on your first job
Company briefing and mock interview	Not offered	Included, free on your first job
Paid price	$29/month (Teal+)	€19.99/month from your second job

What Teal Does

Teal is built around managing an entire job search rather than any single application. The free plan already covers unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking, with bookmarking and status stages for every role you're pursuing, plus 10 resume templates, basic resume analysis, one email template per pipeline stage, and keyword matching against a pasted job description, capped at the top 5 results. Teal+ runs $29/month (or $13/week, $79/quarter, cancel anytime) and removes those caps: unlimited templates, unlimited keyword matching, unlimited AI credits, unlimited email templates, and more advanced design customization. There's also a cover letter generator and an interview tracker for organizing prep across multiple applications.

Where Teal Stops Being Job-Specific

Teal's keyword-matching tool is a useful diagnostic: paste a job description and it flags which of its top keywords are missing from your resume. It doesn't run a gap analysis or a rewrite though, so you still see the flagged gaps and close them yourself, in a resume you're still building and editing by hand. Neither the free nor the paid tier includes a company briefing or a mock interview built around a specific role, so once your documents are keyword-matched, the interview-prep side of the process is still on you.

What Personal Job Coach Gives You for Free

Before you create an account, our 8-point CV Score checks format, section headers, contact details, quantified results, skills coverage, job descriptions, generic phrases, and profile summary. After signup, you get a career strategy analysis of your strengths, gaps, and the job types that fit you, plus a full CV rewrite with PDF download, never paywalled. Your first full job application gets the entire toolkit for free: a gap analysis measured against that specific job, a tailored CV, a cover letter written for that role, a company briefing, a mock interview, and the CV download. A subscription (€19.99 a month) only starts from your second application onward, with no auto-renewing trial to keep track of.

Which One to Use

If you're managing a high-volume search across many roles and want one free dashboard tracking every application, with unlimited resume versions from day one, Teal's free plan alone is a strong base, and Teal+ adds unlimited keyword matching and AI credits if you want more automation. If you're focused on a smaller number of applications you actually want to land, and want each one built around that job's specific requirements, including a company briefing and mock interview, Personal Job Coach gets your first application entirely free. The two aren't mutually exclusive: some people track their whole pipeline in Teal and bring the applications that matter most into a job-specific process for the final push.

For more on how this fits together, see Personal Job Coach vs Jobscan: which is better for your job search? and Personal Job Coach vs Resume Worded.