Tsenta vs Teal, $29 for a polished autofill, $39 for an actual applier

teal is the best-funded product in this category and you can see it in the polish.

resume builder is great. tracker is great. matching is solid. UX is the kind of thing where you can tell a designer cared.

it also doesn't apply to jobs for you, which is the thing.

what teal actually is

teal positions itself as a career operating system. resume builder with AI feedback and tailoring, application tracker, job search aggregator, match scoring against your background, and a chrome extension that autofills applications. paid tier is $29/mo (or $9/wk if you want the painful weekly plan).

i'll be straight: of all the tools in the autofill category, teal is the most legitimately good. the resume editor is best-in-class. the tracker is well thought through. the chrome extension is fast and reliable. if you're hand-applying to 5 to 15 jobs a week and you want a clean workflow with great resume tooling, teal is a fine choice.

but it is, structurally, an autofill tool with a great resume editor wrapped around it. when you actually go to apply, you still open the page, you still click through, you still hit submit. teal makes the resume-writing part faster. it doesn't make the applying part go away.

the autofill vs apply gap

teal's strength is the resume side. if you're someone who wants every resume tailored to the JD, with AI suggestions, with version control, teal genuinely does that better than most. that's real.

the gap is what happens after the resume is ready.

with teal, the resume is tailored, the cover letter is drafted, the extension is loaded, and now you go submit the application. one at a time. for every job. teal can speed up the typing inside the form, but the human in front of the screen is still you.

with tsenta, the resume goes into the profile, the queue gets filled with jobs, and the applications go out from the cloud. no clicking. no submit button. you go to class.

different products, different focus. it's worth saying that clearly. teal is a great career platform if your bottleneck is resume quality and you're applying to a relatively small number of carefully chosen jobs. tsenta is the right tool if your bottleneck is the time and energy cost of filling out hundreds of applications.

where tsenta is different

a few specifics if you're weighing them:

• end-to-end apply. tsenta runs applications all the way through submission in the cloud. teal helps you do that part faster, manually.

• 8 surfaces to apply from. web dashboard, native desktop on Mac/Win/Linux, Android app, iOS app (pending App Store review), Chrome extension, MCP for Claude and ChatGPT, iMessage bot, WhatsApp bot. teal is web + chrome extension.

• $10 more, much more product. tsenta pro is $39/mo for 1,500 actual applications, a resume editor, a tracker, an inbox, automated OTP filling, and AI resume optimization on every tier. teal is $29/mo for autofill plus the best resume editor in the category. for $10 more, you're getting the apply piece on top.

• if you want lower volume and lower price. tsenta starter is $19/mo for 600 applications, which is $10 less than teal and still includes the resume editor, tracker, and inbox. trades teal's more polished resume UX for actual cloud apply.

honestly if resume editing is your main pain point and you're applying to a small set of carefully chosen jobs, teal is genuinely a good tool. we'd say that out loud. the question is what your real bottleneck is.

the comparison

Feature	Teal+	Tsenta
Free tier	yes, limited usage	25 apps total, no time limit, full Pro features
Entry monthly	$29	$19 (Starter, 600 apps/mo)
Standard monthly	$29	$39 (Pro, 1,500 apps/mo)
Higher tier monthly	n/a	$99 (Power, 4,500 apps/mo)
Weekly	$9 (~$36/mo)	n/a
Quarterly	varies	up to 32% off
Annual	annual discount	up to 36% off
One-time credit packs	none	$19 / $39 / $99 (200, 600, 2,000 credits, never expire)
Actually applies for you	no, autofills only	yes, end-to-end
Resume editor	best-in-class	yes, simpler
Resume tailoring AI	strong	yes (included every tier)
Automated OTP filling	no	yes (included every tier)
Tracker	yes, polished	yes
Where it runs	browser	the cloud
ATS coverage	autofills most	submits on Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby, SmartRecruiters, Lever, iCIMS, Oracle Cloud, Workable, Paylocity, JazzHR, BambooHR, Jobvite, Rippling, BreezyHR, UltiPro
Inbox / recruiter messages	no	yes
Surfaces	web + chrome extension	Web, desktop, Android, iOS, Chrome ext, MCP, iMessage, WhatsApp
Desktop app	no	Mac/Windows/Linux
MCP for Claude/ChatGPT	no	yes
iMessage / WhatsApp apply	no	yes
Priority support	varies	yes (included every tier)

the closer

teal's resume editor is the best in the category, and we're saying that on the record.

but it's $29/mo for autofill plus a resume editor. for $10 more, $39/mo on tsenta pro, you get 1,500 actual applications a month plus a resume editor, tracker, inbox, and AI resume optimization. for $10 less than teal, $19/mo on tsenta starter, you get 600 applications and the resume editor.

if you're applying to 10 carefully chosen jobs a week with perfectly tailored resumes, teal is a great pick. if you're applying to 100+ a week because the job market is broken, you need something that actually applies. that's us.

we wrote a longer breakdown of all the cloud applier comparisons at /blog/tsenta-vs-competitors if you want the wider picture.

(if you want the volume tool with a resume editor included, that's tsenta. 25 free apps to try, no card, no time limit.)