BetterShell vs Teal

Teal is a workspace for the whole job search: a résumé builder you edit yourself with AI suggestions, a job tracker with a Chrome extension, and email templates. BetterShell is built around one step: you paste a job posting and it makes the tailored résumé from your profile in about 10 seconds, with every change marked for you to keep or revert. Teal covers more of the search. BetterShell does more of the tailoring for you.

How they differ

• Who writes each version. In Teal you attach a job description to a résumé and get a match score, the posting's keywords and AI suggestions, then you shape the version in its editor.
• In BetterShell you paste the posting. It picks the experience that fits, rewrites bullets in the posting's words where your profile supports them, and leaves out what the job doesn't need.
• Where you start. Teal starts from a résumé you upload, your LinkedIn profile, or a blank page. BetterShell starts from one profile of your work history that you enter once and reuse for every job.
• How changes are shown. Teal's AI gives you generated versions to choose from or prompt again. BetterShell marks each change on the page with its reason, and you keep or revert it.
• Design. Teal has templates and a design mode for fonts, layout, line height and colour. BetterShell keeps the résumé on one page and rebuilds the layout as you edit.
• Tracking. Teal's tracker saves jobs from your browser, holds contacts, and has email templates for each stage. BetterShell has a dashboard where you note the company, role, stage and notes yourself, and reopen past résumés.

What they cost

• Teal's free plan lets you make and download as many résumés as you like, with the top 5 keywords per job, basic analysis and a few AI credits. Teal+ removes those limits for $13 every 7 days, $29 every 30 days or $79 every 90 days, and renews until you cancel.
• On BetterShell your first tailored résumés are free, with no card. After that, one payment covers 30 days of unlimited tailored résumés, with no automatic renewal. See pricing.

Choose Teal if

• You want one place for the whole search: saved jobs, contacts, stages and follow-up emails.
• You'd rather write and arrange each version yourself, with suggestions beside you.
• You want control over the design, with many templates and settings to choose from.
• You want Teal to draft cover letters as well as résumés.
• You want to stay on a free plan for as long as your search takes.

Choose BetterShell if

• You want the tailored résumé made for each posting, from one profile, instead of editing a copy each time.
• You want to see what changed and why, and keep or revert each change.
• You want rewrites kept to what your profile supports.
• You'd rather pay once for a stretch of applying than keep a plan that renews.

Some people use both: Teal to track the search, BetterShell to make the résumé for each job.

Example résumé of an invented person, Avery Kim. Not a customer.

Sources

Teal's plans, prices and features are from its own pages, checked on 12 November 2026. They change, so check them there before you decide.

• Teal pricing: the free plan, Teal+ and their limits
• Teal AI Resume Builder: importing, job matching, templates and export
• Teal Job Tracker: the Chrome extension, contacts and email templates