If you're applying to more than a handful of jobs, you've probably realized that your memory, your inbox, and that spreadsheet from week one aren't cutting it anymore. The good news: dedicated job trackers exist. The complicated news: they're built around very different assumptions about how you job hunt.
This is an honest comparison. Teal and Huntr are good products, and for some searches they're the better choice. Here's how all three actually differ, so you can pick the one that matches how you work.
The 30-Second Version
Teal and Huntr are browser-first web apps. You install a Chrome extension, clip jobs from LinkedIn or Indeed with one click, and manage a Kanban board from your desktop. Both layer AI tools on top: resume tailoring, keyword matching, cover letter help. Both require an account, and your data lives on their servers.
Keep Momentum is a native Android app. There's no account, no signup, and no cloud. Every job, every note, every interview lives in a local database on your phone. It's built for the part of the job search the browser tools skip: what happens after you apply. Structured event timelines per job, automatic ghosting detection, and stats that tell you whether your search is actually moving.
Different tools for different problems. Let's get specific.
Feature Comparison
| Keep Momentum | Teal | Huntr | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | Native Android app | Web app + Chrome extension | Web app + Chrome extension |
| Account required | No | Yes | Yes |
| Where your data lives | On your device, only | Their cloud | Their cloud |
| Works offline | Fully | No | No |
| One-click job capture from job boards | No (quick-add dialog + home screen widget) | Yes, Chrome extension | Yes, Chrome extension |
| Per-job event timeline | Structured, typed events (phone screens, interviews, follow-ups, offers) | Notes and follow-up reminders | Notes and tasks per job |
| Automatic ghosting detection | Yes, flags silent applications after 30 days | No | No |
| Follow-up reminders | Manual flag + automatic inactivity detection | Timeline-based reminders | Task lists per job |
| Device calendar sync | Yes, interview events sync to your Android calendar | No | No |
| Pipeline stats dashboard | Response rate, active applications, interviews this week, days since last activity | Board overview | Board overview |
| AI resume / cover letter tools | No | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-device / desktop access | Android only | Any browser | Any browser |
| CSV export | Yes, full data export | Limited | Limited |
| Price | Free | Freemium | Freemium |
Where Keep Momentum Wins
Your data never leaves your phone
This is the fundamental difference, and it's not a technicality. Your job search data is sensitive: where you're applying, what salaries you're targeting, notes from interviews, the fact that you're searching at all. With Teal and Huntr, all of that sits in a cloud account.
Keep Momentum stores everything in a local database on your device. No account, no email address, no server. Install the app and start tracking in under a minute. If you want your data out, export it to CSV and it's yours. Local data, never cloud, isn't a limitation we're apologizing for. It's the design.
The practical side benefit: the app works fully offline. On the train, in a dead zone, on airplane WiFi that charges by the electron, it doesn't matter.
Ghosting detection catches what you'd rather not think about
Here's an uncomfortable pattern: applications don't get rejected, they just go quiet. And silent applications quietly inflate your sense of how active your pipeline is. You feel like you have 25 things in flight when 10 of them died weeks ago.
Keep Momentum watches for this automatically. If an application has had no activity for 30 days, it gets marked as Ghosted, without you lifting a finger. Your active application count reflects reality, your response rate is honest, and the emotional labor of admitting "yeah, that one's dead" is handled by software instead of by you at 11pm.
Neither Teal nor Huntr does this. In both, stale applications sit in their column until you manually archive them.
Built for the phone, because that's where the search happens
Most job applications are submitted from a phone. Teal and Huntr are excellent on a desktop browser and workable on mobile web. Keep Momentum is Android-native: swipe actions on job cards, a home screen widget for quick capture, interview events synced straight into your device calendar, Material Design that behaves like every other app on your phone.
Pipeline health, not just a board
A Kanban board tells you where each job sits. It doesn't tell you whether your search is moving. Keep Momentum's dashboard tracks response rate, interviews this week, and days since your last activity, the metrics that answer "is what I'm doing working?" rather than "what did I do?"
Where Teal and Huntr Win
Fair is fair.
Job capture speed. If you browse job boards on a desktop, Teal and Huntr's one-click Chrome clipping is genuinely faster than any mobile entry flow. Keep Momentum's quick-add dialog and widget are fast for a phone, but a browser extension is hard to beat at the moment of discovery.
AI resume and application tools. Both competitors help you tailor resumes, extract keywords from job descriptions, and draft cover letters. Keep Momentum deliberately doesn't do this. Cloud AI tools require sending your data to a server, which conflicts with the local-first design, and honestly, dedicated tools do resume optimization better anyway.
Cross-device access. If you split your search between a laptop and a phone, or you're on iOS, a web app follows you everywhere. Keep Momentum is Android, full stop.
What About ApplyArc, Jobscan, and the Rest?
A few other names come up in this space:
ApplyArc is a newer web-based tracker with a heavy AI layer, including a daily "AI Career Coach." Like Teal and Huntr, it's browser-first, account-based, and cloud-hosted. If you want AI to actively coach your search and you're comfortable with your pipeline living on someone's server, it's worth a look. If that description made you slightly uneasy, you already know which column you're in.
Jobscan isn't really a tracker. It's an ATS resume optimizer with a light job list attached. It pairs fine with any of the trackers above.
Simplify focuses on auto-filling application forms at high volume, with minimal tracking.
Notion and spreadsheets work until roughly application #20, at which point you're maintaining the tracker instead of the tracker maintaining you. No reminders, no automation, no ghosting detection, and you already know this because it's probably why you're reading a comparison page.
The Honest Recommendation
- Choose Teal or Huntr if you job hunt primarily from a desktop browser, you want AI resume tooling built in, and cloud storage doesn't bother you.
- Choose Keep Momentum if your job search happens on your phone, you want your data to stay on your device, and you care more about pipeline health after applying than capture speed while browsing.
The best tracker is the one you'll still be updating in week six. If a browser extension keeps you consistent, use the browser extension. If a phone-native app with automatic ghosting detection keeps your pipeline honest, that's us.
FAQ
Does Keep Momentum sync between devices?
No. All data is stored locally on your Android device by design. You can export everything to CSV at any time.
Is Keep Momentum really free?
Yes. Download it from Google Play and use it. No account, no trial countdown, no credit card.
Can I import my data from Teal, Huntr, or a spreadsheet?
Not currently. Keep Momentum is built for starting fresh with fast quick-add entry.
What exactly is ghosting detection?
If an application has no recorded activity for 30 days and hasn't progressed past the interview stages, Keep Momentum automatically marks it as Ghosted. Your stats stay accurate without manual cleanup.
Is there an iPhone version?
No. Keep Momentum is Android-native and built specifically around Android features like home screen widgets, calendar integration, and Material Design.