What is an alternative to Teal?

SwissJobs and Teal compared

Checked on Teal's own pages on 3 September 2026. Prices change — the current figure is on their pricing page, not here.

Teal

What it is: an American job tracker with a resume builder attached. A status per application, notes, an excitement rating, keyword matching between the advert and your CV, email templates for each stage of the search, and a Chrome extension that the homepage says saves jobs from "over 40 popular job boards" while the tracker page, on the same site, says "50+".

Price: the free tier already tracks unlimited applications and holds unlimited CVs, but caps AI credits, templates at ten and keyword matching at the top five. Teal+ is USD 13 per week, billed weekly, monthly or quarterly — about CHF 10.45 a week, so a quarter of searching costs a good CHF 135.

Who it suits: anyone running many applications at once who wants to see their own funnel, and who works in English. The limit: Teal does not know Switzerland. There is no field for a Pensum (workload in per cent), nothing for Arbeitszeugnisse (the Swiss employer references you attach to a dossier), no permit line, and nothing that matches what a RAV asks you to record — and the extension is aimed at sites where Swiss applications rarely end up.

SwissJobs.app

What it is: not a separate tracker product but the application list sitting next to the job search. A job you save arrives with title, employer, location, link and date already in place; one tick marks it as applied and the date can be corrected afterwards. Applications from anywhere else are added by hand — job title, employer, town, the address of the advert, the date and a contact.

Price: free, a free account is enough. Who it suits: anyone already searching Swiss adverts here, because the step every other tool reintroduces — retyping — simply does not happen. And since the list lives in the same account as the CV check and the CV editor, a tailored CV is built against an advert you found here rather than against text you paste in.

The limit, and it is a real one: no export, no print view, no browser extension, no reminders and no funnel statistics. If you need a file to hand in or kanban columns with analytics, Teal or Huntr serve you better. The list needs an account and a connection; offline there is nothing to look at.

Job-Room / arbeit.swiss

What it is: the official route, and for part of the audience the only one that counts. If you are registered with a RAV (the cantonal employment office), your personal job-search efforts have to be recorded for every control period; Art. 26 AVIV is the provision. arbeit.swiss states that the unemployment fund can process your data most efficiently if you use the eServices offered in Job-Room, and that you first sign on with the RAV and then register in Job-Room.

Price: free. Who it suits: anyone claiming or about to claim unemployment benefit. There is nothing to compare here — a private tracker is a memory aid, never the record itself. Ours included.

The limit, and it is the one an arriving reader should know: the eServices are not open to everyone. They assume you are registered with a Swiss employment office, which assumes residence, so if you are job-hunting from Berlin, Lyon or London this entry does not apply to you yet. It is also spare as a daily tool: no columns, no reminders, no analytics, and practice differs by canton — how many applications a control period expects is agreed with your own RAV.

Huntr

What it is: Teal's closest relative, and the honest answer for anyone who wants a tracker in the narrow sense. A kanban board, a Chrome clipper that saves from any page, autofill for application forms, contact management, an interview view and statistics on your own search.

Price: the free plan tracks up to 100 jobs and includes the clipper, unlimited contact management and two job-tailored CVs. Pro is USD 40 a month, USD 90 for three months or USD 160 for six — about CHF 32, CHF 72 and CHF 129. There is no free trial of Pro; the free plan carries a small AI allowance instead.

Who it suits: people applying steadily over months who want numbers on their own search. The limit: the same American shape as Teal, an English interface, prices in dollars — and autofill that works where it recognises the form. On an advert whose apply link points at a Swiss recruiting platform, you are typing again.

Simplify

What it is: primarily an extension that fills in application forms, with a tracker and job matches alongside. The vendor advertises saving adverts from "50+ job boards" and claims more than 200 million applications submitted through it.

Price: the base version is free and includes the extension, the tracker and the matches. There is no public price plan — the address simplify.jobs/pricing returned no page on 28 August 2026, and what a paid plan costs only becomes visible inside an account.

Who it suits: anyone filling in many forms on employer sites, which in Switzerland is the common case rather than the exception — roughly seven in ten apply links end on a careers page or a recruiting platform. The limit: a price you cannot see before signing up is a poor starting point for a comparison, and every testimonial on the site is American, which tells you which market it was built for.

Careerflow

What it is: a bundle built around LinkedIn — profile optimisation, a CV tool with an ATS score, autofill, a networking tracker and a job application tracker.

Price: the basic plan is free but lists the tracker, the autofill, document storage and the CV builder as "limited". Premium is USD 8.99 a week or USD 23.99 a month, Premium Plus USD 19.99 a week — about CHF 7.25 a week and CHF 19 a month.

Who it suits: people whose search genuinely runs through LinkedIn and who want profile and applications in one place. The limit: the free plan restricts exactly the thing you came for, and profile optimisation only pays as far as the roles you want are advertised on LinkedIn. For a municipal post or an SME advertising through a Swiss recruiting platform, it does nothing.

Notion

What it is: a database you assemble yourself, with ready-made application trackers in the template marketplace. Price: the free plan is enough for one person; Plus is USD 10 per member per month, about CHF 8.

Who it suits: anyone who wants to decide their own columns. That is worth more here than elsewhere, because the official Swiss record prescribes what an application row contains — date, employer and address, contact person, job title, how you applied, and the outcome. Those fields can be built once in Notion and then kept unchanged.

The limit: nothing fills itself in. Every row is typed out of an advert, and a row holding only a link ages badly, because adverts come down. We answer this one at length in our separate question about alternatives to Notion.

Excel and Google Sheets

What it is: the spreadsheet, and for this purpose it is not a step backwards. Microsoft's Swiss page calls Excel on the web free online spreadsheet software; Microsoft 365 Single costs CHF 99.95 a year, Family CHF 139.95 and Premium CHF 199.95, none of which an application list needs. Google Sheets does the same job in the browser.

Who it suits: anyone who wants to count, filter, print and keep the file. The proof a RAV asks for ends up as a file or on paper, and a spreadsheet is exactly that. It still opens in ten years, and no vendor decides whether it exists next year.

The limit: every row is typed by hand, there are no reminders, and links age. If you keep a sheet, write out the job title, employer, town and date instead of pointing at the advert.

Which one to pick

If you are registered with a RAV, the order is not negotiable: the eService in Job-Room or the form your own office hands you comes first, and everything else is the working copy beside it.

If you are applying to Swiss adverts you find online, use our application list. Not because it does more than Teal — it does less — but because it sits where the adverts are, and the tailored CV is built against an advert you found here.

If you want a measured funnel, reminders and the ability to save a job from any page, stay with Teal or move to Huntr; as pure trackers both are further along than we are, and Teal's free tier costs nothing. If your days go into forms on employer sites, Simplify fits better. If your search runs through LinkedIn, look at Careerflow. And if you want a file that is yours, that counts and that prints, stay with Excel or Google Sheets.

One note for readers applying from outside Switzerland: everything on this list works from abroad except the Job-Room eServices, which assume you are already registered with a Swiss employment office. And whichever tool you choose, the document it helps you produce is a CV in the Swiss sense — two pages, a photo is conventional rather than discouraged, language levels stated as CEFR grades, and a line on your permit status if you do not hold a Swiss or EU passport.