§ The result
Teal leads LazyApply on all 7 criteria.
Rubric js-v1.0 puts 28 points between Teal (Tracker) and LazyApply (Auto-apply): 65 (D) for Teal, 37 (F) for LazyApply. Teal leads every one of the 7 criteria and 5 of them by 20 raw points or more, User Control & Transparency among them; LazyApply leads none. User Control & Transparency is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (LazyApply 33, Teal 78, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 24% of the weighted advantage Teal holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
LazyApply
LazyApply is a Chrome extension that automatically mass-applies to jobs on LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Dice and Greenhouse by auto-filling application forms from a saved profile, and tracks the submitted applications in an analytics dashboard.
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
LazyApply is filed under Auto-apply tools, Teal under Application trackers. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | LazyApply | Teal |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | Mid |
| Headquarters | IN | US |
| Founded | 2020 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 24% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LazyApply 33 · Teal 78
6.8 weighted points to Teal
15% weight · 47% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LazyApply 25 · Teal 68
6.5 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 67% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LazyApply 32 · Teal 60
5.6 weighted points to Teal
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LazyApply 50 · Teal 68
3.6 weighted points to Teal
10% weight · 88% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
LazyApply 42 · Teal 66
2.4 weighted points to Teal
8% weight · 96% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LazyApply 42 · Teal 70
2.2 weighted points to Teal
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LazyApply 35 · Teal 44
1.1 weighted points to Teal
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -28.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 28.1 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -28 beside that -28.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LazyApply minus Teal.
| Category | Weight | LazyApply | Teal | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 32 | 60 | -28 | -5.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 68 | -18 | -3.6 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 33 | 78 | -45 | -6.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 25 | 68 | -43 | -6.5 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 35 | 44 | -9 | -1.1 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 42 | 66 | -24 | -2.4 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 42 | 70 | -28 | -2.2 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 65 (D) | -28 | -28.1 |
§ 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 | LazyApply | Teal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 3 | 0 | — |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 3 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 20 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
LazyApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Teal has 22 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 20 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LazyApply sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 39 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for LazyApply, across 4 distinct source domains, and 22 for Teal, across 4 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LazyApply 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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