| Dawnlist | Huntr | Teal | Jobscan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finding the work | ||||
| Supplies the job postings itself | ✓yeslicensed feed | ✗nojobs clipped in | ✓yesjob listings | ✓yesmatched to your CV |
| Postings arrive each morning without being asked for | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Bring in a posting from anywhere | ✓yespaste it; no extension | ✓yesChrome clipper | ✓yesChrome extension | –not documented |
| A posting already seen is never fetched, or charged for, twice | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| A search must name a country and job titles before it runs | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Judging fit | ||||
| How a match is decided | the whole posting read against your background | keyword scanner | Match Score | Match Report |
| Reads the whole posting, not an extract | ✓yesa strong verdict triggers a second, complete read | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Names what your record does not evidence | ✓yesrequirement by requirement | ✓yeskeyword scanner | ✓yeskeyword scanner | ✓yesmissing skills and keywords |
| Quotes the line you fell short on | ✓yesword for word from the advert | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Keeps preferences separate from requirements | ✓yesa nice-to-have is not a bar | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Says what it could not check, rather than counting it against you | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| A reason rather than a score | ✓yesfour verdicts | –not documented | ✗noMatch Score | ✗nomatch rate |
| Rejected and screened-out postings stay browsable, each with its reason | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Writing | ||||
| Covering letter | ✓yes | ✓yes | ✓yes | ✓yes |
| A brief before an interview | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | AI interview practice |
| Drafted in your own register, measured from writing you supply | ✓yesstyle only, never content | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Refuses to export a claim your record cannot support | ✓yesblocked, and the file renamed so it cannot be attached by mistake | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Applies or submits on your behalf | ✗nonever; there is no code in it for sending | ✗nofills the form; you submit | –not documented | ✓yesAuto Apply; you approve each one |
| Follow-ups carry a due date, and the channel each is due on | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Tracking | ||||
| Application tracking board | ✓yes | ✓yes | ✓yes | ✓yes |
| Interview and contact tracking | ✓yes | ✓yes | –not documented | ✓yes |
| An evidence log of what was actually sent, and when | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Your data | ||||
| Runs on your own machine | ✓yesWindows; macOS submitted to Apple | ✗noweb | ✗noweb | ✗noweb |
| Curriculum vitae and history stay on it | ✓yes | ✗no | ✗no | ✗no |
| Works offline apart from the searches themselves | ✓yes | ✗no | ✗no | ✗no |
| Uses an artificial-intelligence account of your own, billed to you | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| No mailbox access, ever | ✓yesno password, no sign-in | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Export or delete everything from inside the application | ✓yes | –not documented | –not documented | –not documented |
| Price | ||||
| Free tier | ✗no | ✓yes | ✓yes | ✓yes |
| Monthly price | $79 before tax | $40 | $29 | $49.95 |
Most of what you pay goes straight to the data feed. The tools that cost less do not license one — they index what employers have already listed for free.
Teal and Jobscan do surface postings; Huntr does not. What none of them does is fetch a morning’s postings against a brief built by interview and read each one in full before showing it.
Tracking is the row where they are equal, and saying so is the point. Anyone whose difficulty is keeping track of applications already made is better served, and more cheaply, by one of the others.
Subscriptions are not open yet. Dawnlist is on the Microsoft Store for Windows and installs free, and it needs a subscription to run. The main page carries the waiting list and the current status.