Most resume builders are template galleries with a text box attached. You pick a design, type into it, and hope. Nothing in that process tells you whether the file you just downloaded will survive the software that reads it first, or whether the words you chose are the words a recruiter is searching for.
This builder is structured differently. It keeps a single verified record of your career — every role, date, achievement, skill and qualification — and treats that record as the source of truth. Each resume you create is a view onto that record, tailored for one specific job, and every one of them is scored against the same parsing rules real applicant tracking systems use.
Start from your career, not from a blank template
The first thing you do here is not choose a design. It is build your career profile: your roles with real start and end dates, what you were responsible for, what you actually achieved, the numbers behind those achievements, your skills split into technical, tools and soft, your education, certifications, projects and languages.
That takes about twenty minutes once. Afterwards every resume, every cover letter and every tailored version is assembled from it in seconds. You never retype your employment history again, and — critically — nothing on any document can contradict anything on another one.
- One master profile feeds every resume, cover letter and LinkedIn draft you generate
- Change a job title once and it updates everywhere you choose to propagate it
- Version history keeps the resume you sent to each company, exactly as you sent it
The editor: live preview, real controls, nothing precious
The editor shows the finished page beside the fields you are editing, at the real size it will print. Reorder sections by dragging them. Turn sections off when a job does not need them. Adjust font, size, line height, section spacing and margins with sliders and watch the page reflow, so you can see immediately whether you are about to spill onto a second page.
Everything autosaves. Undo and redo cover the last fifty edits. Duplicating a resume takes one click, which is how most people work here — one base resume, then a copy per application.
- Drag to reorder sections; toggle any section on or off
- Typography, spacing, margin and page controls with live reflow
- Autosave, fifty-step undo/redo, one-click duplicate
- Export to PDF; DOCX export for postings that demand a Word file
An ATS score that explains itself
Every save re-runs 34 checks grouped into parseability, structure, content, keywords and formatting. Each check tells you what it looked at, what it found and exactly what to change. A score with no explanation is a vanity metric; a score with a fix list is a to-do list.
We will also tell you when a check is a judgement call rather than a rule. Two-column layouts, for example, are not automatically fatal — they are riskier, and we say by how much and for which systems.
Tailoring, without inventing anything
Paste a job description and the analyzer pulls out the required skills, preferred skills, responsibilities, qualifications, tools and ranked keywords. It then scores your resume against that specific posting across six dimensions and shows you exactly which keywords are missing.
When you ask the AI to tailor a resume, it can only reorder, re-emphasise and rephrase what is already in your verified profile. It cannot add an employer you did not work for, a skill you did not list, or a number you never gave it. Where a stronger sentence would need a figure you have not supplied, it leaves a visible [ADD METRIC] marker instead of making one up.
What it costs
Building a resume, using every ATS-safe template and exporting a PDF are free, with no watermark and no export paywall. The Free plan also includes ten AI generations, three ATS checks and three job-match reports each month.
Pro removes the limits and adds job-specific tailoring, premium templates, unlimited cover letters and versions, the application tracker, interview preparation and the career assistant.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this resume builder actually free?
- Yes. You can build a resume, use every ATS-safe template, and export an unwatermarked PDF without paying. The Free plan limits the AI features — ten generations, three ATS checks and three job match reports a month — but the builder and export are not paywalled.
- Will my resume pass an ATS?
- No honest tool can promise that, and we will not. Applicant tracking systems are configured differently by every employer, and some rank on criteria no document can influence. What we can do is show you precisely how a standard parser reads your file, flag the things that reliably break extraction, and tell you which keywords a specific posting is looking for.
- Can I edit my resume after downloading it?
- Yes. Your resume lives in your account, not in the PDF. Come back, change anything, and export again. Previous exports stay attached to their version so you always know what you sent.
- How many resumes can I create?
- Two on the Free plan and unlimited on Pro. Most people applying seriously keep one base resume per target role and duplicate it per application.
- Do I need to write my resume from scratch?
- No. Fill in your career profile with plain facts — where you worked, when, what you did — and the AI writing tools turn those into strong bullets, a summary and a skills list. They work only from what you entered.
- Which file format should I upload to an application portal?
- PDF unless the posting says otherwise. A text-based PDF preserves your layout and is read reliably by every mainstream ATS. Use DOCX only when the form explicitly asks for Word.