Teal and AI Apply do different jobs. Teal is one of the most generous free tools for tailoring resumes and tracking a search. It doesn't apply for you. AI Apply submits the application on the company's careers site and adds employee referrals. Plenty of seekers would use both.
AI Apply
Teal
What it does
AI Apply
Fills out and submits a job application for you on the company's own careers site, with a cover letter written for that job. You pick each job on the refer.me job board.
Teal
An AI resume builder that matches your resume to a job description, plus a job tracker, cover letters, a networking CRM and a Chrome extension that saves jobs from any page.
Submits applications for you?
AI Apply
Yes. AI Apply presses Submit, then emails you how each application went.
Teal
No. Teal says it "does not fill in or submit applications". You apply on the employer's site.
Workday & company career sites
AI Apply
Yes. Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby and more, including creating an account when the site needs one. It can't finish a site that shows a CAPTCHA.
Teal
Teal doesn't apply anywhere. Its job search lists openings taken from companies' applicant tracking systems.
Employee referrals
AI Apply
Yes. refer.me Premium includes 40 referral requests a month to employees at the company.
Teal
Not listed on its site. Its networking CRM tracks the contacts you add.
Price
AI Apply
Premium is $39 a month, or $149 a year with a 7-day free trial. It includes 5 AI Apply credits a month.
Teal
Teal+ is $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days or $79 every 90 days.
Free tier
AI Apply
Yes. 1 AI Apply credit a month. An application AI Apply can't finish doesn't use a credit.
Teal
Yes. Free forever, with unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking.
You want to tailor a resume for every job and submit each application yourself.
You want a free tracker with unlimited jobs and resumes.
You want a CRM for your networking contacts.
You want the application filled out and submitted for you.
You want an employee at the company to refer you.
Answers work authorization and sponsorship questions from where you live and what you saved, and asks you once when it needs to.
Applies only to the job you picked. A posting retitled under the same requisition still counts; a merely similar title never does.
Pairs each application with a referral request to an employee at the company, from the same account.
Sources, as of October 2026: www.tealhq.com/pricing, www.tealhq.com/post/teal-vs-simplify.
Teal details come from Teal's own website and may have changed since. If something here is out of date, tell us at support@refer.me and we'll fix it.
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