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RoleWorth vs Teal — resume-and-tracker workflow vs decision-first applications.

Short answer

Teal is a mature resume builder and Kanban-style job tracker with a genuinely usable Free Forever tier. It is best when building, storing, and organising applications is your bottleneck. RoleWorth sits one step upstream: it scores postings against a 0–100 Worth Score, flags ghost-risk patterns, builds a per-role kit, and on Max plan supports approved submission on Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby. Choose Teal when you already know what to apply to. Choose RoleWorth when deciding what deserves the hour is the harder problem.

Capability	RoleWorth	Teal
Primary purpose	✓ Decision-first: score → kit → reviewed submit	✓ Resume builder + Kanban job tracker source ↗
Free tier	partial Free trial of Worth Score; gated tooling on paid plans	✓ Free Forever: unlimited resumes, unlimited tracker, basic builder source ↗
Job-worth scoring before applying	✓ 0–100 Worth Score + Apply / Maybe / Skip	partial Match Score (resume ↔ JD keyword alignment) on Teal+, not a worth/risk decision source ↗
Posting / ghost-risk detection	partial Regex-pattern red-flag detector (not ML)	— Not part of Teal's workflow
Resume builder depth	partial Per-role diff against your master resume; not a full builder UI	✓ Mature multi-template builder, AI bullet writing, version history source ↗
Cover letter generation	✓ Grounded in your proof points	✓ AI cover letter generator on Teal+ source ↗
Pipeline tracker	✓ Stages, follow-up timing, audit history	✓ Kanban board: Saved → Applied → Interview → Offer → Rejected source ↗
Approved-submit on Greenhouse / Lever / Ashby	✓ Max plan only; explicit human confirm per send	— Teal does not submit applications for you source ↗
Chrome extension	✓ Side-panel capture, ATS detection, scoring	✓ Chrome extension for one-click job save into tracker source ↗
Export formats	✓ Markdown, PDF, and DOCX from Application Kit	partial PDF export; some reviewer reports of two-column templates parsing poorly through ATS source ↗
Pricing entry point	partial Sprint $24.99 / mo, Pro $64.99 / mo, Max $199.99 / mo (annual $179 / $499 / $1,499)	✓ Free Forever; Teal+ weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual paid tiers source ↗
Trustpilot rating snapshot (2026)	partial Not yet rated at scale	partial ~4.3 / 5 overall; recurring 1-star pattern is billing-after-cancellation source ↗
Refund / cancellation reports	✓ Standard Stripe-backed billing; cancel from /billing	partial Multiple 2025–2026 Trustpilot reports of charges after cancel; refunds reportedly granted on contact source ↗

Glyphs: ✓ yes · partial · — no. Each Teal claim links to either Teal's own pricing / product page or to Trustpilot's tealhq.com landing where the reader can verify.

When Teal is the right choice

Three scenarios where Teal is the honest pick.

1. You want a free tracker and a clean resume builder

Teal's Free Forever tier is genuinely usable: unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking, and a Kanban board that runs the standard Saved → Applied → Interview → Offer → Rejected flow. If you mainly need a place to save jobs while browsing and a builder for your master resume, paying $0 to Teal is a defensible choice.

2. Resume keyword alignment is your bottleneck

Teal+ ships a Match Score that compares your resume against a pasted JD and surfaces missing keywords. If that specific gap is your current pain — and you already know which roles you want to apply to — Teal+ monthly or annual pricing is a smaller spend than RoleWorth and is targeted at exactly that workflow.

3. You want one builder you can keep beyond the active search

Teal positions itself as a long-lived career tool. The Free tier persists after you land, which makes it a reasonable place to keep your resume between searches. RoleWorth's product weight is much heavier on active-search decisions, not on passive career upkeep.

When RoleWorth is the right choice

Three scenarios where decision-first beats build-and-track.

1. You suspect a chunk of your saved jobs are ghost postings

Greenhouse's 2026 data put ghost-job prevalence in the 18–22% range, with three in five candidates suspecting they've applied to one. A Kanban board organises the wrong jobs perfectly. RoleWorth's Worth Score and regex-pattern risk detector are designed to flag low-signal postings before they reach the kit step.

2. You target Greenhouse / Lever / Ashby roles

Mid-to-senior IC and management roles cluster on those three ATSes. RoleWorth's approved-submit lane (Max plan only) covers exactly those targets with an explicit confirm per send. Teal does not submit applications for you — its tracker assumes you've already done the submit step elsewhere.

3. You want a per-role decision trail, not just a kanban card

Every RoleWorth send has a reviewable score, a kit, a regex-pattern risk report, and a decision log. That's a different artifact from a Teal card with notes and a stage. If you want to be able to ask in six weeks “why did I apply to this role,” that audit history is the point of the product.

What Teal users report

Recurring complaint patterns across Trustpilot — verify at the source.

We are not reproducing verbatim Trustpilot quotes because reviewer attribution and dating can't be fetched at index time. The patterns below are the recurring themes across 2025–2026 third-party review write-ups and the Trustpilot landing page. Overall Teal rating sits around 4.3 / 5 — Teal is not a low-rated product. These are the negative edges to be aware of.

Charges after cancellation— the dominant one-star theme across 2025–2026 Trustpilot reviews. Teal's public response directs affected users to Teal's member support inbox, and refunds are reportedly granted on request. trustpilot.com/review/tealhq.com ↗
Generic AI bullet output — third-party reviewers report that AI-written bullets and cover letters can sound templated, occasionally hallucinate skills from the JD, and need substantial human editing. source ↗
Two-column template ATS parsing— some users report Teal's two-column resume templates parsing poorly through older ATSes. Single-column exports avoid the issue. source ↗
Refund-window ambiguity— some Trustpilot reviewers report being told the 7-day subscription must be cancelled within a tighter window than the public refund page suggested. Verify Teal's current refund policy directly on tealhq.com. tealhq.com/pricing ↗

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FAQ

Is RoleWorth a Teal replacement?

Only if you want a different center of gravity. Teal's core product is a resume builder plus a Kanban-style job tracker with a generous free tier. RoleWorth's core product is the upstream decision: Worth Score before tailoring, regex-pattern ghost-risk flagging, and on the Max plan an approved-submit lane on Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. If your current bottleneck is building and storing resumes, Teal is still the closer fit.

What is Teal's actual pricing in 2026?

Teal has a Free Forever tier (unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking, basic builder) plus Teal+ weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual paid tiers documented on Teal's own pricing page. The Free tier is genuinely usable as a tracker — that's part of why Teal grew. Always check tealhq.com/pricing for the live numbers.

Does Teal have a worth score or ghost-job detector?

No. Teal+ has a resume-to-job-description match scorer (keyword alignment) and AI bullet writing. That is a different question from 'is this posting worth applying to'. RoleWorth's Worth Score is a 0-100 seven-block heuristic that combines fit, posting risk, effort, proof signal, and next-action clarity. Posting risk uses a regex-pattern detector for commission-only roles, training-fee scams, vague scope, and low-specificity urgency — not ML.

What do Teal users complain about most?

Across Trustpilot, the recurring negative themes cluster around three things: billing charges after cancellation, AI-generated bullet content that reads generic or hallucinates skills from the job description, and ATS parsing issues on two-column templates. Trustpilot's tealhq.com landing currently averages around 4.3/5, with billing-after-cancel the dominant one-star pattern. Verify at the source link.

Can I use both?

Yes — and many serious searchers will. Teal as a free tracker and resume vault, RoleWorth for the upstream decision and the high-stakes Greenhouse / Lever / Ashby submissions. The two products solve adjacent problems and the workflows are compatible.

Sources · Last updated May 19, 2026