JobWeb vs Teal: Workspace vs. Service

Teal (TealHQ) is the closest thing job search has to a Swiss Army knife. One workspace holds a job tracker, an AI resume builder, resume-to-job match scores, a contacts CRM, and, more recently, its own ATS-sourced job search. If you want a single place to run your entire search by hand, Teal is one of the most capable options out there, and a lot of it is free.

So the difference with JobWeb is not really about who has more features. It is about who does the work. Teal is a set of tools you operate. Fitcheck does the finding and checking for you. That distinction runs through everything below.

What Teal actually does

• Job Tracker. A free, unlimited CRM-style board. Save roles, move them through stages, rate how excited you are, add notes, contacts, interview details, and reminders.
• Resume Builder. Create and store multiple tailored resume versions from templates, then export them. A “Matching Mode” compares a resume against a specific job description.
• Match Score. Analyzes your resume against a saved job description and scores the keyword and ATS alignment. On the free tier you see the top few keywords; the full list and score are Teal+.
• Contacts and companies. Save companies and people (including from LinkedIn through the extension) and attach them to tracked roles.
• Its own job search (newer). Teal now runs an in-platform job board with listings it says come directly from company ATS, searchable by skills and tools. Note that you need an account to use it.
• Chrome extension. One-click bookmark a role from 40-plus job boards into your tracker.

Pricing is a free tier plus Teal+, which runs about $29 a month (or $13 a week).

The core difference: you do the work, or the work gets done for you

Almost everything in Teal is something you do. You search its board, you bookmark roles, you paste in job descriptions, you check match scores, you tailor resumes. It can ping you when a new role lands on its own board, but pulling together every other source you use, and deciding what is worth your time, is still on you.

Fitcheck does that part for you. It watches the job-alert emails you already forward, its own JobWeb Board, and a shared discovery pool, all the time, and scores every new role against the criteria you set. So instead of running searches, you open a short list where each role carries a clear verdict, Apply, Review, or Skip, with the reasons for and against.

To be clear, you stay in control either way. Fitcheck never applies for you and never makes the final call. You decide, and you apply on the employer’s own site. The difference is not who is in charge. It is who does the grunt work of finding and checking: you, or a service running quietly in the background.

Where they overlap, and how they differ

Teal added its own ATS-sourced job search, so both products can now find jobs. The differences are in how:

• Searching without signing up. You can search the JobWeb Board with no account at all. Teal requires you to sign up before you can search its board. If manual searching is all you want, JobWeb does not put a login in the way.
• How much you can slice. Teal’s board leans on title search (company is tucked into advanced options, there is no industry filter, and its salary filter tops out around $250k). The JobWeb Board lets you filter by title, company, pay, and work mode (remote, hybrid, onsite), and browse across 40-plus industries and more than 1,000 sub-industries spanning 7,000-plus companies. It is a full-depth job board, not a thin add-on.
• Coverage. JobWeb Board carries the same private-sector ATS listings everyone else has, and then adds what most workspaces skip entirely: every military branch, federal agencies, intelligence agencies, and the judiciary up to the Supreme Court. It is a complete job board first, with public-sector reach on top, not a government-only board.
• Beyond the US. JobWeb also carries international roles, with regional coverage across Latin America, Europe, Canada, and APAC. Teal’s job search looks US-focused.
• What the match means. Teal’s Match Score compares your resume to a job description by keyword and ATS alignment. Fitcheck scores a role against the criteria you set (title, salary, location, work mode, seniority) and explains each call with reasons for and against. One measures how well your resume fits a posting. The other decides whether the posting fits you.
• Alerts, but with the noise removed. Both products can alert you. The difference is what happens before the alert fires. Teal tells you a job matched your saved search. Fitcheck runs the full pipeline first, search, evaluate against your criteria, then classify, so the alert only reaches you once a role has already been filtered and judged worth your attention. And it does this across the alerts you already get from LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor, Monster, and more (through Gmail or Microsoft forwarding), plus the JobWeb Board and a shared pool. Instead of a dozen raw match emails from a dozen places, you get one filtered, ranked short list.
• Evaluate a role with your own AI. JobWeb Board lets you fire a one-click prompt to your own ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Perplexity, or Meta AI account to research a company or pressure-test a role. Teal’s AI is built in and aimed at resumes.

What each does that the other doesn’t

• Only Teal builds and tailors resumes, gives you an ATS Match Score, and bundles the whole search into one workspace with a deep contacts CRM. JobWeb has no resume tooling. If writing and tuning resumes is your bottleneck, Teal is built for it.
• Only JobWeb and Fitcheck watch your job alerts, JobWeb Board, and a shared pool for you and turn them into a filtered short list of roles worth acting on (with reasons), cover federal, military, intelligence, and judicial roles alongside the usual private-sector listings, and carry anonymous, crowd-sourced recruiter and interview-loop ratings that get stronger as more people contribute.

And neither locks you in, though JobWeb goes further and publishes a growing directory of more than 40 other job boards, because the point is to help you find work faster, not keep you on one site.

Side by side

Where Teal is the better pick

• You want one workspace to build resumes, track applications, and manage contacts.
• Getting your resume past the ATS is a real part of your problem.
• You like operating your own search and want a lot of tools in one place.

Where JobWeb + Fitcheck is the better pick

• You want the finding and checking done for you, not another workspace to run.
• Your job alerts pile up and you want them watched and scored, with a reason behind every call.
• You want roles Teal’s board does not carry: government jobs across the military and federal agencies, and openings outside the US.
• You want roles other people’s alerts surface, not only what you search yourself.

Bottom line

Teal is the better workspace. JobWeb does more of the work. If you love running your own search and want resume tools, tracking, and a job board in one place, Teal earns its spot. If you would rather have your sources watched and your options scored and explained while you keep the final say, that is Fitcheck. Plenty of people can use both: let Fitcheck surface what is worth your time, and lean on Teal’s resume builder to sharpen the applications that make the cut.

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Teal details reflect public information as of July 2026; features and pricing change frequently. Comparison written by the JobWeb team.