Review
Teal's tracker is free forever. The bit people quote is not.
Teal is a job tracker with a browser extension and a resume builder around it, and the tracking half really is unlimited and free. What gets recommended in threads — the match score, the full keyword list, the AI that rewrites your bullets — is Teal+, and the free credits for it are one-time rather than monthly.
Everything on this page was read on 21 August 2026, and every claim links to the page it was read on. Prices and features in this market move monthly, so check the date before you rely on it.
The short version
Teal Labs, Inc. is a real Miami company, founded in 2019, backed by TechCrunch-covered seed money in 2020 and a $7.5M Series A in January 2025 that brought it to $19M raised. About 100,000 people pay for Teal+.
The free tier is more generous than most and worth taking on its own terms: unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking, unlimited contacts, and a LinkedIn profile review that costs nothing. If you want a filing cabinet for a search, that is a complete answer and you never need to pay.
The paywall sits precisely where people's recommendations point. On free you see the top five keywords from a posting and no match score; the AI generation credits are, in Teal's own words, non-renewable, so they run out once and stay out.
Two things to check before you subscribe. Teal's terms say in capitals that a paid subscription renews automatically, and its refund window is two calendar days on the weekly plan. And Teal's own comparison post says the opposite of its terms about auto-renewal — we have quoted both below rather than picking one.
What it actually is
A tracker first, and a builder second.
Unlimited tracking and unlimited resumes, on the free tier
Teal's own free-versus-paid table lists resume creation, job tracking, contacts and companies as unlimited on both tiers. Ten templates are free; the rest of the library is Teal+.
Teal help centre, free versus Teal+ read 21 August 2026The keyword match, metered at five
Free accounts see the top five keywords from a job description. The full surfaced list, custom keywords and the numeric match score are Teal+ — which is the feature most people mean when they recommend Teal.
Teal, pricing page read 21 August 2026AI credits that do not come back
Teal describes the free AI generation credits as non-renewable: a handful for bullets, two for a professional summary, two for a cover letter. There is also no trial in the usual sense — Teal says entering a card is signing up for a subscription, not starting one.
Teal help centre, credits and trials read 21 August 2026A LinkedIn profile review that is actually free
Install the extension, open your profile, and it grades the headline, summary, experience and skills. Teal states plainly that this one is free, which on a page full of metered features is worth saying.
Teal, LinkedIn review tool page read 21 August 2026
Free, in whose words
Teal's pages, next to each other.
Teal markets itself as free and much of it genuinely is. These four sentences are the whole nuance, in Teal's own words.
What free actually includes, from the help centre
“you do not need to upgrade to a Teal+ account to edit and export unlimited resumes in our Resume Builder, bookmark unlimited roles in your Job Tracker, and track unlimited networking details/connections”
What the free AI credits are, on the same page
“the free version of Teal includes a select number of non-renewable AI Generation credits”
The terms of service, on renewal
“PAID SUBSCRIPTIONS AUTOMATICALLY RENEW AT THE END OF EACH BILLING PERIOD AT THE THEN-CURRENT SUBSCRIPTION RATE UNLESS YOU CANCEL BEFORE THE RENEWAL DATE.”
A Teal marketing post, still published, saying the opposite
“Unlike Ramped, neither of Teal's pricing options, weekly or monthly, auto-renew. Users have to opt in”
We are not calling this a trick. A company that publishes its prices, documents its refund windows and states outright which credits do not renew is being more transparent than most of this market. But a marketing post contradicting the terms about auto-renewal is the kind of thing that turns into a support ticket, and the terms are what your card obeys. If you subscribe, put the renewal date somewhere you will see it.
Price
Three lengths of the same plan.
Teal publishes its prices, which by the standards of this market is a courtesy. Everything below is from the pricing page itself.
| Plan | Price | Where we read it |
|---|---|---|
| Free Forever | Free | Teal, pricing page read 21 August 2026published by the vendor |
| Teal+, every 7 days | $13 a week | Teal, pricing page read 21 August 2026published by the vendor |
| Teal+, every 30 days | $29 a month | Teal, pricing page read 21 August 2026published by the vendor |
| Teal+, every 90 days | $79 a quarter | Teal, pricing page read 21 August 2026published by the vendor |
The weekly plan is the one to be careful with. At $13 every seven days it is the cheapest thing to click and the most expensive way to stay — four weeks of it costs more than the monthly plan, and it renews on its own.
Refund windows are short and differ by plan: 2 calendar days on weekly, 7 on monthly, 14 on quarterly. Teal states that cancelling does not itself trigger a refund and that a refund request does not guarantee one.
Teal's terms of service, updated 12 August 2026, say in capitals that paid subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current rate unless cancelled. One of Teal's own marketing posts says its weekly and monthly options do not auto-renew and quotes a weekly price of $9. The terms are the document that governs the charge; we mention the post because it is still published.
Fit
Who should and should not pay for it.
Worth your money if
- You are running a real search — five to fifteen applications a week — and losing track of where each one is. This is the best-organised answer to that problem in the category.
- You want one place holding jobs, contacts, notes and follow-ups, and you will actually keep it current.
- You want the keyword list and the match score on every posting and will use them weekly enough for $29 to make sense.
- You like the browser extension workflow: see a job, save it, come back to it.
Not your product if
- You only wanted the tracker. It is free forever, so paying for it is paying for the AI and the keywords instead.
- You want somebody to write the document. Teal says outright that it does not write or rewrite resumes; it gives you tools and suggestions to do it yourself.
- You apply a handful of times a quarter. A weekly plan that renews on its own is the wrong shape for that.
- You want something that applies for you. Teal does not submit applications on your behalf.
- A two-day refund window on the weekly plan is not a purchase you are comfortable making.
Is Teal legit?
Yes, and it is the best-funded product on this page.
Teal Labs, Inc. is a Florida-based company founded in 2019 with $19M raised and around 100,000 paying subscribers, and the complaints that recur about it are about cancellation rather than about the product.
TechCrunch covered its $5M seed in 2020, when it was twelve people; PR Newswire carried the January 2025 Series A announcement bringing the total to $19M and claiming more than two million members. Refresh Miami reported around thirty employees, fully remote, at the same time.
The company's own numbers are not always consistent with each other — its home page carries both "3.2 million members" and "over 4 million users" — which is a marketing sloppiness rather than a warning sign, but it is why we have used the funding announcements for figures rather than the home page.
We have not printed a Trustpilot or G2 score. Both refused us, and the figures circulating in other reviews of Teal disagree with each other by a full point across the same six months.
- Legal entity
- Teal Labs, Inc., 7800 SW 57th Ave, South Miami, Florida; governed by Delaware lawTeal, terms of service read 21 August 2026
- Founded and first funded
- Founded 2019; $5M seed led by Flybridge Capital in July 2020, at twelve peopleTechCrunch read 21 August 2026
- Funding to date
- $7.5M Series A in January 2025, bringing total financing to $19MTeal, Series A announcement read 21 August 2026
- Team and paying users
- About 30 employees, fully remote; roughly 100,000 paying for Teal+Refresh Miami read 21 August 2026
- What free includes
- Unlimited resumes, tracking and contacts; ten templates; the top five keywords per postingTeal help centre, free versus Teal+ read 21 August 2026
- Free AI credits
- Non-renewable: they run out once and do not resetTeal help centre, credits and trials read 21 August 2026
- LinkedIn profile review
- Free, through the Chrome extensionTeal, LinkedIn review tool page read 21 August 2026
- Refund windows
- 2 calendar days weekly, 7 monthly, 14 quarterly; cancelling alone refunds nothingTeal help centre, cancellation policy read 21 August 2026
- A contradiction worth knowing
- A Teal post says its weekly and monthly plans do not auto-renew; the terms say they doTeal's own post on Ramped read 21 August 2026
Alternatives
What else does this job.
Teal is hard to beat at tracking, so most of these are about the other half.
Teal's own free tier
The honest first alternative to Teal+ is Teal. Unlimited tracking and unlimited resumes cost nothing, and if the keyword score is not something you will look at weekly, the paid tier is buying you a number.
See how it worksA spreadsheet, if you resent a subscription
Our tracker template is a real file — columns for the company, the posting, when you found it, when you applied, what happens next — and it needs no account and no card.
Take the templateJobscan, if the question is keywords alone
A resume-against-posting score with a longer history and a stronger claim attached to it. Read our review before paying for that claim.
Read our Jobscan reviewCV Rocket, if the document is the problem
Ours. Teal gives you tools and says plainly it does not write your resume; we write one, for the single posting you approve, from your career history. 25 independent reviewers read it before you do, and it is one payment. If what you need is organisation, Teal is the better answer and we are not pretending otherwise.
How it works
We compete with the paid half of Teal and not with the free half, and we have tried to write this page that way.
Questions people search for.
Is Teal really free?
The tracker is. Teal's help centre says you do not need Teal+ to edit and export unlimited resumes, bookmark unlimited roles, or track unlimited contacts. What is not free is the full keyword list, the match score, the premium templates and unlimited AI generation — and the free AI credits are non-renewable, so they run out once.
How much does Teal+ cost?
$13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days, or $79 every 90 days. There is no annual plan on the pricing page. The weekly option is the most expensive way to stay subscribed.
Does Teal auto-renew?
Its terms of service, updated 12 August 2026, say in capitals that paid subscriptions renew automatically at the then-current rate unless you cancel first. One of Teal's own marketing posts says its weekly and monthly plans do not auto-renew; the terms are the document that governs the charge.
Can you get a refund from Teal?
Within 2 calendar days on the weekly plan, 7 on monthly and 14 on quarterly. Teal states that cancelling does not automatically trigger a refund and that requesting one does not guarantee it.
Does Teal write your resume for you?
No, and it says so: Teal builds tools that suggest keywords and generate bullet drafts you edit. Nothing on the platform produces a finished document written for one specific posting.
Does Teal apply to jobs for you?
No. It saves jobs from the boards you browse and tracks what you did about them; the submitting is yours.
Is Teal legit?
Yes. Teal Labs, Inc. is a Miami company founded in 2019, covered by TechCrunch for its 2020 seed round and raising a $7.5M Series A in January 2025 for $19M total, with around 100,000 paying subscribers. The recurring complaints are about cancellation and billing.
Tracking is the easy half. We do the other one.
Keep whatever tracker you like. When a posting is worth applying to, we write a CV for that one job from your career history — 25 independent reviewers on every draft, one payment, no subscription.