Teal alternatives: the honest ranking

The ranking at a glance

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   1. SwissJobs.appOur app

   Six tools in one account, all working against the same advert from our own job index. PDF and Word without a watermark, Swiss conventions built in, in four languages.

   CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year · free account: 5 documents a day

   • CV editor, written against the advert
   • ATS CV check
   • Cover letter for the same posting
   • Interview prep sheet
   • Live-voice interview practice (AI)
   • Application tracker with the RAV form (official SECO sheet)

   Build a CV for a specific advert →

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   2. cvswiss.ch

   A Swiss CV tool selling the same idea we do. Its own features page leads with a «Job-First Approach»: paste any job posting and the AI creates a tailored CV.

   Single CV CHF 5 one-off; subscription CHF 15 a month; create free, pay on download

   • Tailoring to one advert: Yes — its own «Job-First Approach», paste the posting
   • Document languages: German, French, Italian, English
   • Swiss lines: Yes — Swiss format, photo in the conventional place, RAV/ORP form export

   cvswiss.ch →

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   3. Huntr

   The tool closest in shape to Teal. A Kanban board for applications, a Chrome clipper that saves a job from any page, contacts, interviews, and a resume tool with a keyword scanner and scoring. If you used Teal for the tracker and want the smallest possible jump, this is it.

   Free up to 100 tracked jobs; Pro USD 40 a month, USD 90 for three, USD 160 for six — about CHF 32, 73 and 129

   • Tailoring to one advert: Keyword matching, as with Teal
   • Document languages: English
   • Swiss lines: No

   Huntr →

4. 4. Word or Google Docs

   The honest default that every paid tool has to justify itself against. Word on the web is free, Google Docs is free with an account, and a Word file is the format an applicant system reads most reliably. What you write here still opens in ten years, and no vendor decides whether the file exists next year.

   Word on the web free, Google Docs free with an account

   • Tailoring to one advert: No — by hand
   • Document languages: Any language you write yourself
   • Swiss lines: Only the ones you build in yourself

   Word or Google Docs →

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   5. Europass

   The European Commission's own tool, entirely free. You build a profile and generate as many CVs from it as you like; they can be created, stored and shared in 31 languages, with a link into EURES.

   Free

   • Tailoring to one advert: No
   • Document languages: 31 languages
   • Swiss lines: No — an EU format, not Swiss convention

   Europass →

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   6. Canva

   A design tool with a large template library, CVs among them. Prices from the rendered pricing page on 6 September 2026: Free is CHF 0 a year, Pro CHF 128 a year for one person, Business CHF 210 a year per person.

   Free CHF 0 a year; Pro CHF 128 a year for one person

   • Tailoring to one advert: No
   • Document languages: Any language you write yourself
   • Swiss lines: No

   Canva →

The ranking at a glance

Prices read on the vendors' own pages on 5 September 2026, Canva from its rendered pricing page on 6 September. Dollar amounts converted at the European Central Bank euro reference rates of 4 September 2026 and rounded.

1. SwissJobs.app — the CV is written from the advert, not from a template

What it is: the job search and the CV in one account. You open a Swiss advert that is already here, and the generator rewrites every section against its wording — profile, roles, skills. Then you take over: any line by hand, or an instruction in the chat field, for instance to cut the second role to three lines. That is the difference from Teal's method, and it is not a matter of taste: Teal shows you which terms are missing and leaves the writing to you.

The Swiss lines are built in rather than bolted on — the permit line (whether you hold a B, C or G permit, which a Swiss employer expects to read), language levels as CEFR grades rather than «fluent», the photo in the place Swiss dossiers put it, the Pensum as a percentage, room for the Arbeitszeugnisse (the Swiss employer references), and the two-page norm. For design there are 54 combinations: 2 layouts times 3 fonts times 9 accent colours, mixed freely. The document is produced in the language of the interface — German, English, French or Italian. And there is one thing that has no equivalent in Teal's world: the job-search-efforts form for the RAV, filled from the applications you track.

Price: the editor opens without an account; an account is asked for when you save and from the second document. A free account allows 5 documents a day and 10 a rolling week, then a 7-day trial, then CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year. Export as PDF and as a Word file, neither watermarked. The limit, and it is real: our application list is a list, not a Kanban board — no browser extension, no reminders, no funnel analytics. And our free tier is narrower than Teal's.

2. cvswiss.ch — the closest Swiss competitor, and the cheapest of all if you apply once

What it is: a Swiss CV tool selling the same idea we do. Its own features page leads with a «Job-First Approach»: paste any job posting and the AI creates a tailored CV. Alongside that, motivation letters for the same posting, the photo in the Swiss position, a machine-readable format, and output in French, German, Italian or English whatever language you type in. The subscription also exports the official RAV/ORP job-search-efforts form.

Price, from its own pricing page on 5 September 2026: a single CV costs CHF 5 one-off and includes one professional PDF download — explicitly with no edits after downloading. The Job-Search subscription costs CHF 15 a month for unlimited CVs and letters, cancellable monthly, with a seven-day money-back guarantee. Creating and previewing are free; you pay at the download.

Who it is for: if you are applying exactly once, this is the cheapest serious answer on the list — CHF 5 beats every subscription, ours included. The limit: you paste the advert in, because there is no job index behind it, and there is no application tracker at all, which is precisely the piece most people were using Teal for.

3. Huntr — when what you are really replacing is Teal's tracker, not its editor

What it is: the tool closest in shape to Teal. A Kanban board for applications, a Chrome clipper that saves a job from any page, contacts, interviews, and a resume tool with a keyword scanner and scoring. If you used Teal for the tracker and want the smallest possible jump, this is it.

Price, from its own pricing page on 5 September 2026: the free plan tracks up to 100 jobs and includes the clipper and basic insights. Pro costs USD 40 a month, USD 90 for three months — USD 30 a month — or USD 160 for six, which is USD 26.66 a month. In francs that is roughly CHF 32, CHF 73 and CHF 129.

The limit, and it is the reason for third place: it is the same American cut as Teal. Interface and output in English, no permit line, no Pensum field, no CEFR levels, no Swiss job-search-efforts form. Anyone switching because of Switzerland changes the label here and not the problem.

4. Word or Google Docs — the file is yours, and every system can read it

What it is: the honest default that every paid tool has to justify itself against. Word on the web is free, Google Docs is free with an account, and a Word file is the format an applicant system reads most reliably. What you write here still opens in ten years, and no vendor decides whether the file exists next year.

Who it is for: anyone applying two or three times a year, keeping one version, wanting control over every line. If you already have a dossier you are happy with, a tool buys you little; the value appears with volume and variation — ten to forty applications, several role types, two languages.

The limit: no tailoring to a specific advert, no check against a particular posting, no tracker — and the template galleries are American resume patterns with no permit line and no field for a Pensum. The layout is manual, and that is exactly where the time goes that a generator gives back.

5. Europass — free, 31 languages, and a signal in a Swiss application

What it is: the European Commission's own tool, entirely free. You build a profile and generate as many CVs from it as you like; they can be created, stored and shared in 31 languages, with a link into EURES. The CEFR language block is part of the format — the very block for which an American editor provides a single line reading «Languages: German (fluent)».

Who it is for: procedures where the format itself is asked for — recognition of qualifications, EU programmes, applications to European institutions. There Europass is not the second-best choice but the right one, and it costs nothing.

The limit: in an ordinary Swiss application the format is recognisable, and recognisable here means foreign. There is no tailoring to an advert, no design freedom and no line asking about Pensum or permit. If you move to Switzerland from the EU and bring your Europass document with you, you are sending a correct document to the wrong market.

6. Canva — design freedom, and none of the rest of what matters here

What it is: a design tool with a large template library, CVs among them. Prices from the rendered pricing page on 6 September 2026: Free is CHF 0 a year, Pro CHF 128 a year for one person, Business CHF 210 a year per person. Those amounts are not in the delivered page text and load only in the browser, which is why they were read from the rendered page rather than the source.

Who it is for: occupations where the layout is itself a work sample — graphic design, interiors, advertising. There a beautifully set CV is an argument rather than a risk, and Canva does that better than anything else on this list.

The limit: no tailoring to an advert, no Swiss lines, no check, no tracker. Plus a format risk that is easy to miss: two-column, graphically set templates are parsed less reliably by machines than a plain single-column layout. Nobody can promise anything there — but given the choice, you do not send the poster to a cantonal administration.

What twelve months actually cost — and where Teal's billing surprises people

Teal+ is sold in three rhythms, and the difference between them is not a detail. USD 13 every 7 days sounds small, but it is 52 charges a year rather than 12: USD 676, about CHF 547. The same access bought every 90 days — just over four times USD 79 — comes to about CHF 259, less than half. Both sit side by side on the pricing page with equal weight; choosing the rhythm matters more than choosing the tool.

For comparison, also over twelve months: Huntr Pro on the six-monthly rhythm works out at about CHF 259, the cvswiss.ch subscription at CHF 180, Canva Pro at CHF 128, SwissJobs.app on the yearly plan at CHF 95, and Europass and Google Docs at nothing.

The counter-calculation belongs here too: if you search for six weeks, write a dozen applications and then stop, Teal's free tier at zero francs beats every paid tool, ours included. The annual arithmetic matters for a search that drags on, not for a short one.

Why an English-language editor writes past part of this market

A tool that builds a CV out of the advert's keywords is only as good as its grasp of those keywords. A count over the adverts open on SwissJobs.app on 5 September 2026, apprenticeships and internships excluded, shows where the break runs: 5.2 per cent of all job titles name a Swiss qualification — EFZ, CFC, HF, dipl., eidgenössischer Fachausweis. Among German-language adverts that is 8.0 per cent, among French-language ones 4.7 and among Italian-language ones 5.2 per cent.

Among English-language adverts it is a single one — 0.02 per cent. And that one names an American veterinary board title, not a Swiss qualification. This is not vocabulary nuance but two separate markets in one country: where a posting reads «Dipl. Pflegefachfrau HF», the qualification is half the application, and an editor that maps education onto Bachelor, Master and Associate has no field for that line and will not suggest it either.

The fair inversion: where the posting is written in English — international roles in Zurich, Zug, Basel and Geneva — Teal's model lands accurately, and our advantage there is small. Choosing a tool is therefore less a question of quality than of which corner of the market you are applying into.

Who should stay with Teal

If you apply in English — to international roles in Switzerland or abroad — you are right where you are. The keyword matching is well built and the free tier costs nothing: unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking and unlimited export as PDF or Word, permanently. What the free tier does cap: templates at ten, keyword matching at the top five terms, the analysis at a basic version, email templates at one per stage, and the AI credits at 10 resume bullets, 2 summaries and 2 cover letters.

If you run more applications than a list can carry, stay as well: Kanban, reminders, analytics and an extension that turns a posting into a row are things we do not have. That is not modesty, it is the state of the product.

Switching pays from the moment the application goes out in German, French or Italian and the document has to carry the permit line, the Pensum, CEFR levels and the Arbeitszeugnisse. At that point Teal has you working against the tool rather than with it — which is what this list is for.