§ The result
Teal leads AIApply on all 7 criteria.
Teal finishes 22 points clear of AIApply under rubric js-v1.0 — 65 (D) against 43 (F) — across the Tracker and Auto-apply cohorts. Teal leads every one of the 7 criteria and 4 of them by 20 raw points or more, Employer & ATS Legitimacy among them; AIApply leads none. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Pricing & Cancellation Fairness (AIApply 27, Teal 66) and Employer & ATS Legitimacy at 15% (AIApply 38, Teal 68), the second being 20% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
AIApply
AIApply is an AI job-search suite for job seekers that auto-applies to matched jobs on their behalf and generates tailored resumes and cover letters plus real-time interview coaching.
Vendor profile
Teal
Teal is a freemium platform for job seekers offering an AI resume builder, a job-application tracker/CRM, and resume-to-job-description keyword matching, plus a Chrome extension that saves postings from 40+ job boards; it does not auto-apply, so the user manually submits every application.
§ The record
AIApply is filed under Auto-apply tools, Teal under Application trackers. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | AIApply | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 20% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
AIApply 38 · Teal 68
4.5 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 39% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
AIApply 50 · Teal 78
4.2 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 57% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
AIApply 27 · Teal 66
3.9 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 73% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
AIApply 42 · Teal 60
3.6 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 85% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
AIApply 55 · Teal 68
2.6 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
AIApply 44 · Teal 70
2.1 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
AIApply 33 · Teal 44
1.3 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -22.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 22.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -22 beside that -22.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is AIApply minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | AIApply | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 42 | 60 | -18 | -3.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 55 | 68 | -13 | -2.6 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 50 | 78 | -28 | -4.2 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 38 | 68 | -30 | -4.5 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 33 | 44 | -11 | -1.3 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 27 | 66 | -39 | -3.9 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 70 | -26 | -2.1 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 65 (D) | -22 | -22.2 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | AIApply | Teal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
AIApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Teal has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 2 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for AIApply, across 6 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- AIApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Teal last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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