# ATSPrep vs Teal

Teal tracks a whole job search behind an account. ATSPrep checks one resume in the browser and shows the text a parser extracts, with no signup. Page: https://atsprep.com/compare/teal

## What Teal is

A job tracker with a resume builder attached: bookmark roles from job boards, then tailor a resume version per application. Category: Job-search platform. Website: [Teal](https://www.tealhq.com)

## Summary

| Comparison | ATSPrep | Teal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Account needed | No | Yes |
| Where the file is read | In your browser | On their servers |
| Built around | Checking the file you already have | Tracking the search |
| Price | Free, no paid tier | See https://www.tealhq.com/pricing |

No price is recorded in this document on purpose: vendors run promotions and regional pricing, so a figure written here could not be re-verified later. The link resolves to the current one.

## What Teal documents about your resume

**Account:** The tracker is the product, so an account comes first.
Source: [Teal privacy policy](https://www.tealhq.com/privacy-policy)

Resume content is collected and stored server-side, and Teal's notice says AI features pass that content to outside providers.

> When you use AI-powered features, your content (such as resume text and job descriptions) is processed by our AI systems. We may use third-party AI service providers (such as OpenAI) to power these features.

Source: [Teal privacy policy](https://www.tealhq.com/privacy-policy)

## Choose Teal if

- You are running many applications at once and need to track them in one place.
- You want a tailored resume version saved per role, with the posting attached.
- You are comfortable with resume text being processed by third-party AI providers.

**What Teal does better than ATSPrep:** Managing a whole search rather than a single document. If you are running thirty applications and losing track of which version went where, Teal's tracker is the thing ATSPrep does not have.

## Choose ATSPrep if

- You want one document checked properly rather than a pipeline managed.
- You would rather your resume content not be sent to an outside AI provider.
- You want the parser's actual output in front of you, not a match score.

## Verdict

Teal is a job-search operating system and ATSPrep is an instrument. They do not overlap much. The one thing worth reading closely before you commit is Teal's own description of how AI features handle your content, quoted above — it is unusually clear, and it tells you exactly what you are trading for the convenience. If that trade is fine by you, Teal's tracker solves a real problem this site does not touch.

## About ATSPrep

ATSPrep (https://atsprep.com) is a free ATS resume checker and builder. It shows the exact text an applicant tracking system extracts from a resume, then grades each bullet on whether it carries evidence a reader can verify.

- **Price:** free. Checking, importing, editing and exporting are all unpaid. No premium tier, no export paywall, no watermark.
- **Account:** none. There is nothing to sign up for.
- **Your file:** parsed and exported inside the browser. The resume file itself is never uploaded.
- **Optional:** one button-gated feature, semantic match, sends selected resume lines and job-posting requirement lines to a matching service. Never your name, email, phone, address or links, and nothing is stored.
- **Offline:** works once the page has loaded.
- **Accepts:** PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, or pasted plain text.

Start here: https://atsprep.com/studio