A CV builder with an application tracker — which tools combine both?

The tools compared directly

As of 4 September 2026. Every figure for another tool comes from that tool's own site; "n/s" means it was not readable there — not that the feature is missing. Our row comes from the code and from walking the live flow.

SwissJobs.app

What it is: a job board for Switzerland in which the CV editor and the application list are the same site. You open an advert, have a CV written from it — the model reads the posting and rewrites every section against it — and mark the job as applied. The row exists at that point, with nothing typed. The design is 54 variations, and the arithmetic is worth showing rather than rounding: 2 layouts times 3 typefaces times 9 accent colours, mixed freely, all on a Swiss format that carries the work-permit line, CEFR language levels from A1 to C2 and the local photo convention.

What it costs: recording costs nothing, and at that point no account is asked for — the rows sit in the browser and move into your account when you register. A free account carries five documents a day and ten in a rolling seven days. The first download of the proof sheet is free as well; from the second, a seven-day trial applies and after that CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year, cancellable whenever you like. Export to PDF and to Word (DOCX), with no watermark in either case.

Who it suits: people whose adverts are Swiss and who are also registered as unemployed. The proof sheet is the real federal document rather than a lookalike — the fields of the file your own office hands out are filled in, and you upload a photo of your signature. Your name, AHV number and signature go into the produced PDF and nowhere else. Past fourteen applications a second sheet is created automatically.

The limitation: the list knows saved and applied, and nothing else. If you want intermediate states — interview arranged, rejection received, follow up on Thursday — you will not keep them here. There is no browser extension, no reminders and no analysis of your own search. If what you mainly need is a full tracker and the CV already exists, Huntr is the better answer.

cvswiss.ch

What it is: the nearest Swiss comparison, and since recently the only real competitor for the combination. The CV is generated from a pasted job posting, which is their headline feature; an application tracker has now been added on top, described in their own words as employer, position, date, application type and status, and the official form is produced from it. Their page describes the same loop we run: record, one click at the end of the month, check, sign, submit.

What it costs: a single CV is CHF 5 one-off, the Job-Search subscription CHF 15 a month, cancellable in one click. Recording applications is free by their own statement; exporting the official form sits in the subscription or a 30-day pass. Worth noticing: their pricing page does not mention the tracker at all — the feature is only reachable from their page about the proof of job-search efforts.

Who it suits: people already using cvswiss.ch, or anyone who wants one clean Swiss CV for five francs without a subscription. Their interface is in English, which for many who arrived here from abroad is a feature rather than a gap, and they market Swiss hosting and Swiss data protection prominently.

The limitation: their tracker asks you to paste the posting; ours already holds it, because the listing and the editor sit inside one application. And the proof sheet, which falls due every month, costs from the first one there while the first is free here. Someone who wants only the monthly form pays them for twelve months of features they are not using.

Teal

What it is: the best-known member of the category, and arguably the one that invented the combination. The CV editor and the job list live in one account, each tracked job can carry its own version of the CV, and the keywords from the posting are shown inside the editor.

What it costs: the free tier is called «Free Forever» and includes unlimited resumes and unlimited job tracking, ten templates, the top five keywords per job and a small allowance of AI lines. Teal+ is USD 13 every seven days, USD 29 every thirty or USD 79 every ninety — about CHF 10.50, CHF 23.45 and CHF 64. Over a year that is the third most expensive bar in the chart below.

Who it suits: people applying in volume who want one version of the CV per job without paying on day one. If you are applying from Switzerland to the United States or the United Kingdom, Teal is more right for you than we are — it is built for that process and does it well.

The limitation: everything is in English, the output is a US resume, and the tool knows nothing about a Swiss dossier — no permit line, no Arbeitszeugnisse, the reference letters Swiss employers write, no CEFR levels, no workload stated as a percentage. And no proof of job-search efforts. For an application in Zurich or Lausanne you add all of that yourself.

Huntr

What it is: the tracker among trackers, with a CV tool bolted on. Contact management, an interview view, metrics about your own search, a map view, a browser clipper and autofill for application forms — nothing else in this field carries more.

What it costs: free up to a hundred tracked jobs, with unlimited contact management, unlimited autofill and two tailored resumes. Pro is USD 40 a month, USD 90 for three months and USD 160 for six — about CHF 32, CHF 73 and CHF 129 — and lifts the tailoring limit.

Who it suits: people with many live applications who want to run the search as a project. If your problem is «I have lost track of where I stand» rather than «my CV does not match the job», Huntr is the right answer and we are not.

The limitation: the autofill Huntr sells only partly works in Switzerland — roughly half of open adverts hand you off to the employer’s own website when you click apply, a figure we measured and published in August, and no extension knows those forms. Beyond that, the same as Teal: English, US format, no Swiss dossier, nothing about the monthly proof.

Simplify

What it is: a browser extension that completes application forms for you, plus a tracker and a resume editor around the same profile. Jobs from more than fifty job boards can be clipped into the list in one click.

What it costs: nothing, with an unusually plain commitment — their own page says the tracker is free «and we plan to keep it that way», and names autofill, the tracker and job matches as features they intend to keep free. The editor gives four templates, a readiness score and keyword matching, and exports PDF and Word without payment. Simplify+ is the paid upgrade for AI rewriting, and the vendor publishes no price for it.

Who it suits: anyone who wants a free way in, to try the combination without putting a card down. Of the seven, this is the most generous free tier.

The limitation: the job matches and the autofill are aimed at the American market; Swiss adverts are reached only where they sit on a board the extension knows. No German, French or Italian, nothing about the Swiss proof of efforts — and a price that is not published is a real drawback when you are planning a search that will run for months, even while everything is free today.

Jobscan

What it is: originally a comparison between a CV and a posting, now with a builder, a tracker and an extension around it. The tracker moves cards from applied to interviewed, and the match rate sits on every card.

What it costs: the free tier gives five scans a month plus the tracker, the builder and the extension. Paid, the quarterly plan is USD 29.98 a month billed as USD 89.95 every three months after a seven-day trial, and the monthly plan USD 49.95 — about CHF 24 and CHF 40. Worth recording because it has changed: the prices are now openly on the page, where they used to sit behind a login.

Who it suits: people whose main question is how closely a CV matches one specific posting, and who take the list as a bonus. The comparison itself is well made.

The limitation: over a year it is the most expensive tool here, and the match rate measures exactly one thing — word overlap. Whether your workload fits, whether the required language is right, whether the references belong in the dossier: the number knows none of it. No proof of efforts, and no Swiss national language in the interface.

Careerflow

What it is: a bundle of CV editor, tracker, networking list, LinkedIn optimiser and an AI mock interview. Breadth is the selling point.

What it costs: the free tier includes one CV with basic features and the tracker. Premium is USD 8.99 a week, USD 23.99 a month or USD 172.99 a year — about CHF 7.25, CHF 19.40 and CHF 140; Premium Plus, which adds the mock interview, is USD 299.99 a year.

Who it suits: people who want the LinkedIn profile tidied at the same time as the applications and prefer one subscription for both. Counted over a year, Premium is cheaper than Teal+ or Huntr Pro.

The limitation: on their own comparison table the free tracker is marked «Included (Will be limited soon)» — the vendor is announcing that the free tier will narrow. Anyone starting a list meant to last six months should know that. Otherwise the familiar gaps: English, no Swiss dossier, no monthly proof.

Job-Room plus your own spreadsheet

What it is: the combination that already exists, and it belongs on this list out of fairness. Job-Room is the portal of the Swiss public employment service; after registering with a regional office you open an account there and get, among other services, the online form for job-search efforts. The CV you write next to it in Word, the overview you keep in Excel or Google Sheets.

What it costs: nothing. The unemployment insurance online services are free, Excel and Google Sheets are free in a browser, and anyone without a Job-Room account is sent the paper form by post every month.

Who it suits: everyone registered as unemployed in Switzerland — for them this is not one option among others but the channel nothing gets past. And anyone who genuinely likes a spreadsheet: calculating, sorting, printing, working offline, keeping it forever. A spreadsheet does all of that better than any tool on this list, ours included.

The limitation: it is a coexistence, not a connection. The CV knows nothing about the sheet and the sheet nothing about the advert; every row is typed, usually at the end of the month, usually from memory. That is exactly the work the seven tools above are trying to remove.

Who should pick which

Pick SwissJobs.app when the adverts are Swiss and you are registered as unemployed: the CV comes out of the advert, the row appears when you apply, and the monthly proof falls out as the genuine federal form — free the first time. Pick cvswiss.ch if you want a single Swiss CV for five francs or prefer an English interface; they can do the combination too now, but the proof sheet costs there from the first month.

Pick Huntr if your problem is volume rather than wording — a hundred jobs free, contacts, interviews and metrics, all the things we lack. Pick Teal if you want one CV version per job and the free tier is enough. Pick Simplify if it has to cost nothing. Pick Jobscan if word overlap with the posting is what you care about. Pick Careerflow if LinkedIn should be in the same subscription.

And in every one of those cases the same sentence applies: for the Swiss unemployment system, what counts is what arrives on time through Job-Room or the route agreed with your adviser. No tool on this list, ours included, is a submission. Everything here checked on 4 September 2026.