Simplify vs Teal for Job Applications

Simplify vs Teal comes up a lot because both have a free Chrome extension, a job tracker and an AI upgrade. But they solve different problems. Simplify is about getting through applications quickly. Teal is about building the resume and keeping your whole search organised. Knowing which problem you have is most of the decision.

Disclosure: I build SealApply, which overlaps with both. Everything below about Simplify and Teal comes from their own websites and Chrome Web Store listings, as checked on 2 November 2026. Plans change, so check their pages before paying.

Simplify vs Teal at a glance

Free vs paid in each

Teal lists its prices on a public pricing page. Simplify doesn’t publish one: Simplify+ is bought on its website or in its iOS app, and the price is shown there. Third-party reviews quote figures, but I’d rather you see the real one at checkout than repeat a number that may be out of date.

When Simplify is the better choice

Pick Simplify if the forms are what’s eating your evenings. Its Copilot extension fills applications on over 100 job boards and application portals, and Simplify names Workday, Greenhouse, iCIMS, Taleo, Avature, Lever and SmartRecruiters. It says there’s no limit on how many applications you fill, and each one you submit is saved to your Simplify dashboard, so the tracker builds itself.

Simplify also brings jobs to you: job matches from your profile, curated lists and a search across a very large number of postings. If you want discovery and form filling in one free product, nothing in Teal’s free plan does both.

What you pay for is the AI. The Simplify resume builder is free for creating, scoring and exporting resumes, and keyword matching against a job description is included, but AI rewriting and job-specific tailoring are Simplify+. Simplify also offers Autopilot, which it says tailors your resume, writes cover letters, fills forms and submits applications for you. That’s a different category from autofill; there’s more on why in autofill vs auto-apply.

When Teal is the better choice

Pick Teal if your resume needs real work, or if your search has grown past what a spreadsheet can handle. Its free plan gives you unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking, including contacts and companies, goals and notes. The Chrome extension saves jobs from 40+ job boards straight into the tracker, and Teal pulls keyword insights from each job description to guide your edits.

Teal is also good for writing from scratch. It has thousands of resume and cover letter examples, and a Design Mode for the look of the resume. The free plan’s limits are on the AI: five credits for bullet points, two for summaries and two for cover letters, and keyword matching capped at the top five. Teal+ removes those caps, and its $13 weekly option is handy for a short, focused push. You can cancel any time and fall back to the free plan at the end of the billing period.

The gap is the application form. Teal helps you produce the right resume, then you type your history into Workday yourself, unless you add an autofill tool.

Using them together

Plenty of people run Teal for resumes and tracking and Simplify for filling forms. It works, with two caveats. You end up with two trackers, because Simplify logs everything it fills in its own dashboard. And if you add a third extension that also autofills, don’t run two on the same form, since they can overwrite each other’s answers. The comparison of job application autofill extensions goes into that.

What to check on your first real application

Feature tables only get you so far. Whichever tool you try, run it on one real application, ideally a Workday one, since that’s where tools struggle most, and check these before you submit:

• Job titles, employers and dates in the experience section. Workday re-parses your uploaded resume and often shuffles them.
• Work authorisation and sponsorship answers, which depend on the country of the job rather than where you live.
• Dropdowns like degree, country and “how did you hear about us”, where a filled answer can be one option off.
• That the resume attached is the version you tailored for this job, not the last one you edited.

If a tool gets those right on your hardest form, it will be fine on the easy ones.

A free third option: SealApply

In both Simplify and Teal, the step people most want for every job, AI tailoring, is the paid one. SealApply does that step for free and then fills the form, with no subscription and no account.

• Tailor: paste the job description and SealApply rewrites your resume for it. Every AI edit is a diff you accept or reject, and it won’t invent experience. See how resume tailoring works.
• Check: run the ATS keyword check against that posting to see what’s still missing.
• Write: generate a cover letter from the same resume and job.
• Fill: the widget fills almost any application form, including Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby, and attaches the resume you tailored. You review it and click Submit yourself. More on the autofill page.
• Track: every application goes into the built-in tracker.

Where it falls short of both: SealApply has no job board or job matching like Simplify, and no library of resume examples and templates like Teal. If you need a feed of jobs, Simplify is the better tool; if you’re building a resume from nothing, Teal’s examples will help more. The Simplify alternative and Teal alternative pages go feature by feature.

A quick way to decide

1. Time your next application from opening the posting to clicking Submit, and note which step took longest.
2. If it was the form, try Simplify’s free extension on a real Workday or Greenhouse application.
3. If it was the resume, try Teal’s builder or a free tailoring tool on the same job description and compare the results.
4. Only pay once you know which paid feature you’d use every day.