What are the best job search tools?
It depends on where your search is stuck. If you have the roles and need your CV to match them, use Jobscan or Teal. If applying is the bottleneck, Huntr or Simplify. If you cannot find enough roles worth applying to, use a sourcing tool, ours included. Most people need one of these, not four.
We make one of these, so read this with that in mind. What follows is what each tool actually does, taken from its own documentation, plus the part its marketing leaves out. Where a competitor is the better answer we say so, because a comparison that concluded otherwise every time would not be worth reading.
| Tool | Best for | Finds roles for you |
|---|---|---|
| Jobscan | Checking one CV against one posting before you send it | No |
| Teal | Running a long search without losing track of it | No |
| Huntr | Cutting the mechanical cost of each application | No |
| Simplify | Applying on the employer's own site without retyping everything | Yes |
| LoopCV | Volume, without sitting at the keyboard | Yes |
| Jobright | Volume plus a named person to contact | Yes |
| Astrahunterours | Finding roles worth applying to in the first place | Yes |
Jobscan
www.jobscan.coYou paste in one CV and one job description, and it returns a match score with the keywords and skills the posting contains that your CV does not.
Good at. Turning a vague worry about whether your CV fits into an itemised list of what is missing, which you can act on in ten minutes.
Where it stops. It works on the posting you paste in, so the output is only as good as the role you already found. It does not look for work on your behalf.
Free tier with 5 scans a month. Paid from $29.98 a month billed quarterly, or $49.95 billed monthly.
Teal
www.tealhq.comA resume builder and application tracker. You bookmark postings with a Chrome extension, then build tailored CV versions against the keywords in the ones you saved.
Good at. Keeping one record per role, so the posting, the CV version you wrote for it, your contacts there and the application status all sit together rather than in four places.
Where it stops. The tracker fills up because you bookmark postings you found elsewhere. It organises and tailors around roles you bring to it.
Free Forever tier with limited AI credits. Teal+ at $13 for 7 days, $29 for 30 days, or $79 for 90 days.
Huntr
huntr.coA tracker with a Chrome clipper that pulls a posting into a board, generates a tailored CV and cover letter from it, and autofills the application form.
Good at. Making one clipped posting do three jobs at once. The same capture feeds the tracker, the tailored CV and the autofill, so applying is a single pass.
Where it stops. Roles enter through the clipper from sites you are already browsing, so it speeds up applying rather than finding.
Free tier including 2 tailored resumes and tracking for 100 jobs. Pro at $40 a month, or $26.66 a month on a six-month plan.
Simplify
simplify.jobsA browser extension that stores your profile and autofills application forms on company career sites, with matching and tracking around it.
Good at. Filling forms on the employer's real career site across a very large number of ATS-hosted forms, so you apply through the front door and see exactly what goes in.
Where it stops. It fills the form but leaves the submit to you, so you have to be at the keyboard for every application. That is a deliberate choice rather than a gap, and for many people it is the right one.
No pricing page (both published URLs return 404). Their help centre lists Simplify+ at $19.99 a week, $39.99 a month, or $89.99 for three months. Whether a free tier exists is not stated on any first-party page we could load.
LoopCV
loopcv.proYou upload a CV and set search criteria, and it then finds matching listings and either submits the applications or emails recruiters on your behalf.
Good at. Actually running unattended. Of everything here it is the one that will genuinely send applications while you do something else.
Where it stops. Because each application is dispatched automatically from a CV and a set of filters, its content comes from templates and matching rules rather than from you reading the posting. Whether that is a problem depends entirely on how much you care about each one.
Free plan with a daily cap on applications. Paid from €9.99 a month.
Jobright
jobright.aiMatches your profile against a large aggregated job database, tailors a CV per posting, submits applications across major ATS platforms, and surfaces referral contacts at the company.
Good at. Bundling matching, tailoring, submission and warm-intro discovery in one flow, so you get throughput and a human contact at the same company rather than one or the other.
Where it stops. The throughput comes from submitting programmatically, so what is sent per role is generated from your profile rather than written by you. Their pricing is also not published on a page that loads.
Not published. The pricing page returns a 404, and their own blog quotes two different monthly figures on the same page, so we are not repeating either.
Astrahunter
astrahunter.comWatches the applicant tracking systems of a curated list of companies, matches new postings against your CV on meaning rather than keywords, and rewrites your CV for each one.
Good at. Reading postings at the source rather than from an aggregator, so roles surface in their first days, duplicates and stale reposts mostly disappear, and an unfamiliar job title still matches when the work does.
Where it stops. We do not submit applications for you. We watch a curated list of companies rather than the whole internet, which is the point, but it means a role at a company we do not follow will not reach you. And we are new, which the others are not.
No published pricing yet.
When Astrahunter is the wrong choice
- You want applications sent for you. Auto-apply is not shipped, and saying otherwise would be a lie you would discover in a week. LoopCV and Jobright do this today.
- You already have a list of roles and only need to know whether your CV matches. Jobscan is built precisely for that and has a free tier.
- You want one place holding contacts, interview stages and notes for a search running over months. Teal and Huntr are built around that and we are not.
- You apply mostly to large employers we do not yet follow, in which case a broad aggregator will simply show you more.
- You want a track record. These products have years of one. We do not, and no amount of writing changes that.
Updated 2026-09-06
Compiled from each product’s own site. Pricing and features change, so treat the date as the expiry. If we have described your product wrongly, tell us and we will fix it.