Huntr, Teal, and JibberJobber are not hiding a single winner. Chasing one just burns evenings you could spend applying.
You need the tracker that fits the work you already repeat. Saving jobs. Rewriting a resume. Following up with people you said you would ping.
Huntr is the Kanban board. Teal is the resume workspace, and its Chrome extension pulls listings off a lot of U.S. job sites, which is a different job than sliding cards. JibberJobber is the older CRM built for contacts, companies, and the follow-up trail a spreadsheet never keeps.
So if your week is a pile of tabs, half-written bullets, and "I'll ping them Friday" notes, which of those three jobs is actually failing?
Where they split
All three beat a naked spreadsheet. That is about where the shared ground ends.
Huntr wants cards moving through stages. Teal wants a saved posting sitting next to a resume so you can see which words you still missed. JibberJobber wants names, companies, and a reminder that you promised somebody a note.
| If you care most about | Start here | What you'll actually stare at |
|---|---|---|
| Stages you can drag | Huntr | A pipeline board |
| Resume versions vs a job description | Teal | Keyword highlights and saved drafts |
| Contacts, companies, follow-ups | JibberJobber | A CRM, not a resume studio |
Treat that table as a starting map, not a ranking. Search volume decides a lot of this. Whether you rewrite every resume matters too, and so does how long you can stand a weekly bill.
Huntr if you think in stages
Free tracking stops at 100 saved jobs. Cross that line and the rest of the product starts charging you.
The board is still the center of Huntr. Wishlist, applied, interview, offer. You drag the card. For a lot of people that loop is the product, and the rest of the feature list is noise until a cap gets in the way.
The Huntr Chrome Web Store listing reports more than 250,000 users and more than 5 million tracked jobs. Those are usage numbers. They are not a promise of more interviews, so don't read them that way.
Huntr's pricing page is blunt about what happens after 100 jobs. Pro-only work, extra AI content included, goes behind a paywall. Pro costs $40 a month, $90 a quarter, or $160 every six months.
Thing is, a focused hunt often never touches 100 saved roles. A high-volume hunt blows past it in a week, and then $40 a month stops being theoretical. Huntr's own write-up against Teal argues the free plan still covers resume downloads and that a typical search fits inside that cap.
Paid Huntr is where tailored resumes, cover letters, and application packets get serious. The match view isn't just a keyword checklist either. It weighs qualifications and responsibilities too, which helps if stuffing every noun from the posting makes you itch.
There's a mobile app. Its best moment is your notes right before a phone call, not the logo on your home screen.
Teal if you live in resume versions
Teal feels less like a board and more like a career filing cabinet. Jobs, contacts, and several resume versions sit in one place.
The move you repeat is simple. Save the posting. Then ask what the posting wants that your draft still doesn't say.
The Teal Chrome extension page lists 40+ boards, LinkedIn, Indeed, and Glassdoor among them, and says more than 140,000 people have used it. Install history is not a placement rate. Same rule as Huntr's user count.
Free still has teeth. Unlimited job tracking. Unlimited stored resumes. Keyword matching on free tops out at your five strongest terms.
Teal's pricing page puts Teal+ at $13 per week, which buys fuller keyword matching, more templates, and extra AI help for bullets. And $13 a week looks tiny until you're four months into a search, still paying for keyword highlights a careful read would have caught, and then it lands that you're also pasting every application into Workday by hand anyway, which is the part no pricing page puts on the label.
Budget for the length of the hunt, not the length of the week.
Open Teal when you're rewriting the same resume for eight slightly different titles. Huntr can generate the draft. Teal is built to inspect the gap between your bullets and the posting.
Contacts exist in Teal. They aren't the star. The resume sitting next to the job is.
JibberJobber when the job is people
JibberJobber is the odd one in this set. That's the point of it.
It grew up as a job-search CRM: companies, contacts, a log of what you said, a nudge when a follow-up is due. If most of your leads come from referrals, alumni, and former managers, a pretty Kanban is the wrong object to stare at all afternoon.
You won't get Teal-style keyword scoring here. No Huntr-style AI packets either. Import is basic. Mobile is thinner. People who bounce off it usually wanted a resume studio and found a contact database.
To be honest, that mismatch is exactly why so many roundups shove JibberJobber next to Huntr and Teal like three flavors of one app. They share a slogan. They don't share a Tuesday afternoon.
Skip it if you apply online 40 times a week and barely network. Use it if your pipeline is names, not URLs.
Plan limits that change the decision
Prices only matter when they block a button you hit every day. Recheck the live pages before you budget. These numbers move.
| Plan piece | Huntr | Teal | JibberJobber |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free tracking | Up to 100 jobs | Unlimited jobs | CRM-style logs, fewer modern extras |
| Free resume help | Resume builder and downloads; AI content is the paid jump | Unlimited stored resumes, top 5 keywords, limited AI bullet credits | Keyword emphasis, little generative AI |
| Paid entry | $40/month, $90/quarter, or $160/6 months | $13/week on Teal+ | Older roundups quote a cheap Pro; confirm on the vendor site |
| What you actually buy | Unlimited jobs, more AI, packets | Unlimited keyword matching and AI credits | More CRM room, not a resume lab |
JibberJobber's dollar figure is missing on purpose. Third-party posts still repeat old Pro prices, and I wouldn't lock a budget to a number the vendor's own page won't confirm.
The expensive trap isn't always Huntr's $40 sticker. Sometimes it's Teal's weekly bill during a long search. Sometimes it's Huntr Pro, bought by someone who only ever needed to clear 100 jobs.
Stay free first. Pay when a cap stops you, not when a feature page nags.
What they will not do
A match score is a hint. It is not a pass from Workday, Greenhouse, or Lever. Your file still has to parse.
None of these tools fill every employer form for you. Autofill helps. You still click. You still answer the weird "salary expectations" box.
Vendor blogs quote faster searches and more interviews all the time. Treat that as marketing. Organization helps you follow up. It doesn't hire you.
One more caution if you're changing careers: keyword tools can shove you toward phrasing you haven't earned yet. Edit like a human before you submit. The ATS is not the hiring manager.
Huntr or Teal if tracking is the only fight
Ignore resume AI for a minute. Some people only need a cleaner pipeline.
If you want columns and drag-and-drop, Huntr wins that fight. If you want to clip jobs from 40+ boards and keep the posting text attached to the record, Teal does. JibberJobber is not in this fight.
A 15-application week sits inside Huntr's free 100-job cap for months. Turns out a 50-application week burns it fast, which is where Teal's unlimited tracking starts looking saner, even if you never buy Teal+.
Run a test week, then pick one
Don't fully commit to three products. You will ghost two of them.
- Install the Huntr and Teal extensions. Save 10 live postings you would actually apply to this month.
- Import one base resume into each tool.
- Tailor that resume to two different jobs. Time the edit. Notice whether the keyword view helps or nags.
- Log two real contacts. See which product makes a follow-up reminder feel natural.
- After seven days, keep the one you opened without being told to.
If the board is what you stare at, Huntr. If the resume-vs-posting screen is what you stare at, Teal. If you spent the week adding people, look at JibberJobber instead of forcing a resume tool to act as a CRM.
Export or screenshot anything you cannot lose. Free tiers change. Your notes shouldn't live in one vendor's box alone.
Open the two Chrome extensions tonight, save the jobs you already meant to apply to, and judge both tools by the applications you finish, not by a feature grid.