Two mature tools that agree on the board and disagree on everything after it
Disclosure: we build ApplyTrac, which competes with both tools on this page. Neither is mentioned in the comparison below or in the verdict. We note where we would fit once, after it.
Last reviewed: August 2026
This is the closest matchup in the category, which is why it is so frequently searched and so rarely answered usefully. Both give you a Kanban pipeline, both have resume tooling, both have a browser extension for saving postings. The difference is which half came first, and it shows in every design decision downstream.
| Teal | Huntr | |
|---|---|---|
| Origin | A resume tool that grew a tracker | A tracker that grew resume tooling |
| Pipeline board | Solid, organised around the tailoring workflow | The strongest board in the category and the reason most people stay |
| Resume tailoring | Deeper, since keyword gap analysis against a specific posting is the core loop | Competent and improving, but not the centre of gravity |
| Saving jobs | Extension clips a posting into the tracker | Extension clips a posting into the board; long-standing and well-tested |
| Maturity | Established, large user base, heavy content marketing | Longer-running, with an unusually loyal community |
| Where the time goes | Preparing the application | Organising the search |
| Best-fit user | Someone whose applications are not converting and suspects the resume | Someone running many parallel processes who needs to see the whole board |
Pick Teal if the question keeping you up is "why is nobody replying". Its keyword gap analysis against a live posting is more developed than Huntr's, and if you are going to spend twenty minutes per application anyway, spend it where it changes the outcome.
Pick Huntr if the question is "what is the status of everything". It has been refining the same board for longer than anyone else in this space, it is the more pleasant daily driver, and if you are juggling fifteen live conversations across six stages that is worth more than a better resume editor.
Both of these assume you will deliberately save each job: you clip the posting, then you apply. If your list is perpetually out of date because that step is the one you skip when you are tired, the problem is the manual save, not the board. That is the specific gap we built ApplyTrac to close, by writing the record on submit rather than on clip.
See how ApplyTrac tracks applicationsHuntr, generally. Over six months the thing that degrades is not resume quality, it is your willingness to keep the system updated, and Huntr's board is the one people report abandoning least.
Yes. Both ship a browser extension that saves a posting from the major boards and most company careers pages into the tracker.
This has flipped more than once and any specific answer here would age badly. Both gate their AI features behind a subscription while leaving core tracking usable for free, so check both current pricing pages before deciding.
Both support export, which matters more than people expect. A job search generates a record of every company, contact and salary conversation you had, and it is worth confirming you can take that with you before you commit a year of history to any tracker.