Brevy vs Teal
organizing a job search, or moving it forward
Teal is one of the best job-search organizers out there. If you want a single place to keep every application straight, it's hard to beat.
It simply answers a different question than Brevy does. This comparison is written by the Brevy team — so here are the verifiable facts rather than the adjectives.
What Teal does very well
- CRM-grade application tracking, free and unlimited in count.
- A Chrome extension that saves a posting in one click from the major job boards, pulling title, company, salary and skills.
- A resume builder with multiple versions, also free.
- A match score between your resume and a posting, with the full version behind the subscription.
The free plan is genuinely generous: unlimited tracking, unlimited resumes, no card required.
The structural difference: who finds the jobs
This is the thing to understand before anything else.
Teal is not a job search engine. The model is that you browse LinkedIn, Indeed or Glassdoor, and save interesting roles with the extension. The tool then organizes what you brought it, remarkably well.
Put another way: the searching stays entirely on you. It's an excellent filing cabinet, not a source.
Brevy runs the other direction: openings arrive, pulled from company career pages hosted on ATS platforms like Greenhouse, Lever and Workday, plus France Travail in France. You don't bring them, you receive them.
Second difference: French
Teal is an English-language product built for the US market. Interface, templates and guidance are in English.
Brevy works in French as well as English and — a point that's often missed — the output language follows the posting, not the interface. An English job ad produces an English resume, even if you're using Brevy in French.
The table
| Teal | Brevy | |
|---|---|---|
| Application tracking | ✅ Excellent, unlimited on free | ✅ 3 on free, unlimited on Pro |
| Resume builder | ✅ Free, unlimited versions | ✅ 10 templates, 3 on free |
| Who finds the jobs | You, via the extension | The tool, from career pages |
| Tailoring to the posting | Match score, AI behind the paywall | ✅ Full resume + letter rewrite |
| Cover letter | Limited | ✅ Generated for the posting |
| Weekly job email | ❌ | ✅ |
| French | ❌ English only | ✅ Interface and documents |
| Price | Free + Teal+ billed weekly, monthly or quarterly (see their page) | Free + Pro EUR 9.90/mo, or EUR 24.90 for 3 months |
⚠️ One thing to check on Teal: the subscription can also be taken by the week. Handy for a short search, much less so if you forget to cancel — a weekly rate left running costs several times a monthly plan over a year.
Which to choose
Take Teal if you're an English speaker, you already find postings without difficulty, and your problem is knowing where you stand across forty open applications.
Take Brevy if your problem sits upstream — finding the right openings — and downstream — producing a resume and letter matched to each one without burning your evenings.
These aren't the same pains. Teal treats disorder. Brevy treats repetition and discovery.
What Brevy does not do
- No Chrome extension. You can't save a posting in one click from any site.
- No automatic applying. You send them yourself.
- No knowledge of real status. Brevy doesn't know whether a company replied; you enter that.
- Tracking capped at 3 applications on the free plan, where Teal is unlimited on that point.
FAQ
Does Teal find jobs for me?
No. Teal organizes the jobs you bring it: you browse job boards, and the Chrome extension saves roles in one click. It's a tracking and organization tool, not a source of openings. The searching stays on you.
Is Teal really free?
The free plan is real and generous: unlimited application tracking and unlimited resume building, no card required. The Teal+ subscription unlocks the full match score and unlimited AI use. Watch the weekly billing option, which gets expensive if it renews unnoticed.
What's the best Teal alternative?
It depends what you use it for. If it's application tracking, few tools do better and a spreadsheet may be enough. If it's tailoring your resume to each posting and finding roles, an application-first tool like Brevy answers a different question — it surfaces openings instead of waiting for you to save them.
Does Teal work in French?
Teal is an English-language product built for the North American market: interface, templates and content are in English. For a job search in France, you work around that. Brevy runs in French and English, and writes in the language of the posting.
Do I need an application tracker at all?
Past fifteen or so applications, yes — if only to avoid following up with the same company twice. A spreadsheet does the job. The value of a dedicated tool isn't the table itself, it's that the table is connected to what you send.
In short
Teal keeps a job search tidy. That's a real need, and its free plan is honest.
It just assumes the hard part — finding the openings and writing forty tailored applications — is already handled. That part is exactly what Brevy takes on.