Teal vs. Huntr vs. Simplify vs. Hppr AI: The Honest Comparison (2026)

Four tools for organizing your job search. We used each of them for a month. Here's the actual, non-marketing breakdown of what each one does well and where each one falls short.

If you've searched for a job-search tracker in the last year, you've bumped into the same four tools: Teal, Huntr, Simplify, and (increasingly) Hppr AI. They all promise to help you organize and accelerate your job search. They all have free tiers. They all have Chrome extensions.

From the marketing pages, they sound nearly identical. In actual use, they are very different products. This post is the honest breakdown — what each tool does well, where each falls short, who each is actually for.

Full disclosure: we build Hppr AI. We tried to make this comparison fair enough that if you decide a different tool fits you better, you'd agree with us about why. If you spot something wrong, email us and we'll fix it.

The short version

If you want the detail, read on.

Teal

Teal is the best-known of the four, and with good reason — they were early to the "job search workspace" category. Their free tier is generous and their product has been refined over multiple years.

What Teal does well:

• Clean job bookmark workflow via Chrome extension. Click the extension on any job page and the role is saved with all metadata.
• Match-scoring between your profile and job descriptions.
• Built-in resume builder with a reasonable library of templates.
• Company research built in — basic info, Glassdoor reviews, LinkedIn data aggregated into the role card.

Where Teal is weak:

• No application autofill. Teal helps you track applications but doesn't help you do the application itself. You still re-type the same 40 fields into every Workday form.
• Resume AI is generic. Its "match" feature highlights keywords but doesn't actually reframe your bullets.
• Analytics are surface-level. You can see applications over time; you cannot easily see segmented conversion rates by resume version, channel, or role type.
• Paywall creeps. Core AI features require the $29/month plan.

Who Teal is for: People who want a tidy tracker + job bookmark tool and are willing to do the application work themselves.

Huntr

Huntr was one of the first job-trackers and popularized the Kanban-board pattern — drag cards between "applied / interviewing / offer / rejected" columns.

What Huntr does well:

• The Kanban board is genuinely nice to use. If you think visually, this is the most satisfying workflow of the four.
• Good Chrome extension for capturing jobs from any board.
• Integration with Gmail for auto-tracking email threads with recruiters.

Where Huntr is weak:

• Aggressive paywall. Most meaningful features are behind the $15/month Pro plan — including tracking more than 40 applications.
• AI features are thin compared to newer competitors. The resume help is basic.
• No autofill on application forms.
• Limited analytics. You can see stage counts but not conversion rates.

Who Huntr is for: Visual learners who want a pretty Kanban and are willing to pay for moderate features.

Simplify (Copilot)

Simplify — specifically the Simplify Copilot extension — has taken a different approach: they're all-in on the autofill problem.

What Simplify does well:

• Genuinely good application autofill across Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and most other major ATS platforms. Fast and reliable.
• Single-click apply on their own job aggregator.
• Free core features.

Where Simplify is weak:

• Tracker is thin. It captures applications but doesn't give you a meaningful dashboard — no real pipeline view, no analytics.
• No resume tailoring. The extension will attach your resume but won't help you customize it per role.
• No screening-question answer bank — you end up re-typing the same "why are you interested?" answer over and over.
• Limited ATS coverage beyond the big five.

Who Simplify is for: Someone who's already figured out their tracking system elsewhere (spreadsheet, Notion, something else) and just wants the forms to fill themselves.

Hppr AI

Our own tool. We built it because we wanted the autofill of Simplify plus the tracking of Teal plus AI resume tailoring that isn't generic slop — and no single existing tool did all three.

What Hppr AI does well:

• Chrome extension autofill across Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and iCIMS. 90-second applications once your profile is set up.
• Screening-question answer bank. You answer "why are you interested in this role?" once per employer type, and the system pulls from that bank on subsequent applications.
• AI resume tailoring that reframes, not fabricates. We explicitly constrain the AI to work with claims that are already in your resume — no inventing experience.
• Real pipeline analytics. Conversion rate by channel, by resume version, by role level, by company size. The first tool that shows you which of your job-search tactics actually work.
• Free tier includes autofill, tracking, and 5 AI-tailored resumes per week.

Where Hppr AI is weak:

• Newest of the four. Smaller community, fewer third-party integrations (no Gmail email capture yet — coming soon).
• Company research / Glassdoor integration is lighter than Teal's.
• Doesn't have the Kanban board view Huntr does (we prioritize the analytics view — different philosophy).

Who Hppr AI is for: Job seekers who want to run their search like a performance pipeline — with autofill, tailoring, and real data — in one integrated system.

How to actually pick one

The question isn't "which tool is best." It's "which problem are you trying to solve?"

If your bottleneck is forgetting which applications you've sent: Teal or Huntr. Either will do the job; pick on interface preference.

If your bottleneck is the time it takes to fill out the damn applications: Simplify or Hppr AI. Simplify is focused purely on this; Hppr AI does it plus the rest.

If your bottleneck is that you have no idea which of your applications are actually working: Hppr AI. This is specifically what we built around. Teal's analytics are descriptive ("here's how many you sent"); ours are diagnostic ("here's why the senior ones convert 3% and the mid-level ones convert 18%").

If you're on a zero-dollar budget and don't need AI features: Simplify Copilot + a Google Sheet. Not elegant, but free.

If you want one tool for the whole pipeline from discovery to offer: Hppr AI is what we're building toward. We're not there yet on every feature, but the integration is the point.

What nobody in this space does well (yet)

One honest observation: none of us — us included — has fully solved the "measure what works" problem.

Job search is deeply underpowered statistically. Most job seekers apply to 50–200 roles total. That's a small sample when you're trying to segment by resume variant × channel × role type × company size. The tools that report on conversion rates have to be careful not to over-claim significance.

The direction we're all heading (Teal, Huntr, and us) is toward helping individuals benefit from pooled data — anonymous aggregate conversion rates across thousands of job seekers, so "people applying to senior backend roles via direct company career page have a 14% response rate" becomes a known benchmark. This is where the most interesting frontier lives.

If this was useful and you want to try the tool we've been building, Hppr AI has a free tier. If you end up picking a different one, we'd still love to hear why — it sharpens our thinking about what we should build next.