TL;DR: Teal shows the keywords each job asks for, found and missing, and never puts one in for you, so every word on your resume is one you chose. Resume Optimizer Pro's AI rewrites your bullets against the posting, and in its own published test those rewrites added numbers and tools the originals didn't have. Teal's free plan downloads every version as a PDF.
Teal shows you which keywords a job posting asks for and which ones your resume is missing, and you add the ones that are true of your experience. Resume Optimizer Pro has its AI rewrite your bullets to fit the posting. With Teal, every change on your resume is one you made. With Resume Optimizer Pro, you get a polished draft, and every line in it is yours to check.
Teal resume match score and job description keywords
In Teal, tailoring starts with the job. Pick a job you saved in the Job Tracker, search for one, or paste a description, then open the Job Matcher next to your resume. Each keyword turns green if your resume has it and red if it doesn't. From there you jump to the keyword in your resume, ignore it, add it to your skills, or have Teal's AI draft a bullet around it.
Keywords never land in your resume on their own. Red is a question for you, not a fix to accept. If a job asks for Salesforce and you've never used Salesforce, leave it red and put your effort into the keywords you can back up.
Most tailoring in Teal is choosing, not writing. You keep one resume with more bullets than any single job needs, about 15 to 20 per position, and every bullet you add goes into that one resume, ready to toggle on for any job. For each job, you toggle on the bullets that match the posting and toggle off the ones that don't. The red keywords left after that are the ones worth a new bullet, and only if they're true.
Resume Optimizer Pro takes the other route. It optimizes "with a single click," or you pick the skills you want to highlight first, and its AI writes the bullets. Its own comparison page shows what that produces. In its six-bullet test, "Led a team of engineers on a migration project" came back as:
Led 5 engineers through a monolith-to-microservices migration in AWS, completing cutover in 11 weeks and cutting p95 latency by 38%.
The original had no team size, no timeline, no cloud platform and no result. The page's own note on that rewrite: "The user can confirm or swap in their real numbers." On another bullet, it calls a 220 ms speedup "a plausible latency estimate the user can verify or remove."
Across all six rewrites, that's 20 numbers and 6 named tools (Node.js, TypeScript, AWS, Looker, Jest and Playwright) that the original bullets didn't have. The tools came from the job description. The numbers came from the AI, and an interviewer can ask you about every one of them.
Teal's AI can put placeholder numbers in a bullet too, and Teal's advice is to swap in your real ones before you save. The difference is scope. In Teal you ask for one bullet, on a keyword you chose. A rewritten resume hands you every line at once.
Here's that team-lead bullet done the Teal way, with the questions only you can answer in brackets:
- Original: Led a team of engineers on a migration project.
- Yours: Led [how many] engineers through [what you migrated, from what to what] in [how long], [what got better, and by how much].
If the posting lists AWS and you ran the migration on AWS, put it in. If you didn't, it stays red. There's more on this in our guide to tailoring your resume to a job.
Teal resume builder free plan limitations vs Resume Optimizer Pro free
| Feature | Teal | Resume Optimizer Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Match detail on the free side | Top 5 keywords per job, found or missing | Match score and keyword gaps, with a free account |
| Downloading a tailored resume | Free and unlimited, as a PDF | Paid plan |
Plans and features for both products reviewed November 4, 2026.
Resume Optimizer Pro's comparison page lists its match score as "Visible on free scan." Without an account, its free checker shows only how it read your file.
Teal's free plan also puts no cap on resumes or job tracking. Teal+ adds the full keyword list and custom keywords, unlimited AI where the free plan has a one-time set of credits (5 bullet drafts, 2 summaries, 2 cover letters), advanced resume checks and the full template library. Ten templates are free.
Resume Optimizer Pro vs Teal pricing
| Plan | Teal | Resume Optimizer Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, no credit card | Free account |
| Weekly | $13 every 7 days | Not offered |
| Monthly | $29 every 30 days | $29.95 a month |
| Quarterly | $79 every 90 days | $49.95 a quarter |
| Yearly | $179 a year, offered at checkout | $119.40 a year |
Resume Optimizer Pro's comparison page says Teal has no annual plan. It does: $179 a year, offered at checkout, against Resume Optimizer Pro's $119.40.
Start free and pay when the limits slow you down. The 7-day plan suits a short burst of applications, when you want every keyword for a stack of jobs at once. A longer search usually fits the 90-day or annual plan better than paying week by week.
Teal+ renews until you cancel, and you can cancel any time in Account Settings, keeping access to the end of the period. Refunds aren't automatic: email membersupport@tealhq.com within 2 days of a weekly charge, 7 days of a monthly charge, or 14 days of a quarterly or annual charge, and each request is reviewed. Resume Optimizer Pro cancels from My Account with access to the end of the period, and its refunds cover only your most recent payment, requested by email within 30 days of the charge. Its 30-Day Interview Challenge offers that refund if your response rate doesn't improve after 30 or more relevant applications in 30 days. See what Teal+ adds on the pricing page.
Teal resume builder free PDF download
Build or import as many resumes as you need, keep a version for each job, and download each one as a PDF. Track every job you save in the Job Tracker. Save postings with Teal's free Chrome extension and each one lands there with its keywords, ready to check against a version of your resume.
Coming from Resume Optimizer Pro? If you downloaded your resume as a .docx, import it into Teal with Resume File. If you're on its free account, copy your resume text and use Paste Text instead. Read each section after the import.
Before you send it anywhere, go through every number and tool name the rewrite added. Keep the ones you can explain in an interview, swap in your real figures where you have them, and cut the rest. A bullet with a true number you can talk about beats one with a bigger number you can't. Then attach your next saved job and work through its red keywords.
Is Teal legit for resumes?
Yes. Teal is made by Teal Labs, Inc., which Dave Fano started in 2019, and it has over 4 million members. You can try it without a credit card. If you're weighing Jobscan too, read Teal vs Jobscan.
Related Teal resources
- Compare a resume with a posting using Resume Job Description Match.
- See how other tools compare in the best ATS resume checkers.
- Keep saved jobs, contacts and follow-ups together in the Teal Job Tracker.