Is ApexHunt an ATS checker like Jobscan?

Partly, and deliberately not fully. There is no universal ATS score, because every employer runs different software with different settings. ApexHunt checks keyword coverage as a baseline, then scores whether the CV actually evidences the role's requirements, using two independent assessments that must agree.

Can I use ApexHunt together with Jobscan or Teal?

Yes, they solve different problems and some people use more than one. If you want a keyword-overlap check, Jobscan is built for that; if you want a pipeline organiser, Teal is; ApexHunt is built for deciding whether your evidence proves a specific senior Australian role and closing the gaps.

Why does ApexHunt focus on senior Australian roles?

Because the evidence that decides senior applications is specific: P&L ownership, team scale, sector wording, and the vocabulary of Australian job ads. ApexHunt's published dataset comes from real scored senior Australian applications, not generic templates.

Comparison · updated 8 September 2026

ApexHunt vs Jobscan vs Teal for senior Australian roles

By Hillel Lithwick, founder of ApexHunt · Melbourne

These three tools are often compared, but they make different design choices and are good at different jobs. This page is written by ApexHunt's founder, so read it knowing that; the aim is to be accurate enough that you can pick the right tool even if it is not ours.

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The three design choices

Tool	Built around	Strongest for
Jobscan	Keyword overlap between your resume and the job description, expressed as a match rate.	A fast check that the ad's screening terms appear in your document. Long-established, US-centred.
Teal	An all-in-one workspace: job tracker, resume builder and application pipeline.	Staying organised across many applications. The tailoring itself remains largely your work.
ApexHunt	Whether your CV evidences the specific role's requirements, scored conservatively against the real ad.	Senior Australian roles, where P&L scope, team scale and sector wording decide the read.

Where we differ on principle: there is no universal ATS score

A keyword match rate is a real signal, and Jobscan built a durable product on it. Our view, stated plainly on every page we publish, is that it is a baseline rather than a verdict: every employer runs different software with different settings, so no tool can honestly promise "pass the ATS". A high keyword overlap can also reward stuffing terms the CV does not evidence, which fails the moment a human reads it. ApexHunt therefore scores coverage and evidence: two independent assessments must agree before an ATS term counts as matched, requirement disagreements resolve downward, and the gap analysis names what is genuinely missing rather than which words to sprinkle.

Where the others are genuinely better

Honesty cuts both ways. If your main problem is volume management across dozens of applications, Teal's tracker and browser workflow are more developed than ours: we keep a simple application tracker, not a full pipeline product. If you want a quick keyword-rate check with years of market history behind it, Jobscan is the established name. And both serve the US market's resume conventions more deeply than we try to.

Where ApexHunt is deliberately different

Everything we publish is measured on real senior Australian applications: 212 scored ads, 1,053 documented gaps, and 36 before/after rewrite scores including the one in four that got worse, published on purpose. The free tier includes the parts most tools gate: match scoring and gap analysis on every role, your first tailored rewrite and first cover letter in full, and daily alerts scored against your actual CV. We are newer and smaller than either competitor, with fewer independent reviews; what we can show instead is the method and the published data behind it.

The practical answer

Pick by your bottleneck. Drowning in applications: Teal. Wanting a quick keyword sanity check: Jobscan. Trying to work out whether your CV proves a specific senior Australian role, and what to fix if it does not: that is the job ApexHunt was built for, and the check is free.

If your question is more specific than "which tool", three guides answer it directly: match your CV to a job description and see why it under-scores, assess your fit for director roles, and reframe transferable experience for a career change.

Sources and further reading

Harvard Business School, Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent (2021): More than 90% of employers use recruiting software to filter or rank applicants before a person reads them, which is the problem all three tools exist for.
Washington University in St. Louis, 8 things to know about applicant tracking systems: Some systems rank applicants automatically against the job description while recruiters also filter by keyword searches that combine titles and skills.

Common questions

Is ApexHunt an ATS checker?

Partly, and deliberately not fully: keyword coverage is checked as a baseline, but the score that matters is whether your evidence proves the role. No honest tool can promise to "pass the ATS", because there is no single ATS to pass.

Can I use these tools together?

Yes. They solve different problems, and using Teal to organise while ApexHunt scores the fit is a perfectly sensible setup.

What does ApexHunt cost?

The core diagnosis is free: scoring, gap analysis, first rewrite and first letter. Unlimited writing starts at A$39/month. For Jobscan and Teal's current pricing, check their own pages; we do not quote competitors' prices here because they change.