Resume Builder
Write a resume, watch the page build itself, and download a PDF that an applicant tracking system can actually read.
No account needed. Your resume stays in your browser.
Resume Editor
Write your resume and watch the page build itself, then download a PDF with real, selectable text. No account, no watermark, no page limit.
Open tool →Resume Templates
Browse every template against the same sample resume, then open the one you want with your own details already in it.
Open tool →ATS Resume Checker
Check a resume against a job description for missing keywords, non-standard section headings and formatting an applicant tracking system will mangle.
Open tool →Cover Letter Builder
Write a matching cover letter using the same layout engine, so the letter and the resume arrive looking like one document.
Open tool →What "free resume builder" usually means
It is worth being specific about the thing this is competing with, because the pattern is remarkably consistent. You are asked to make an account before you can see the editor. You spend an hour filling it in. Then, at the download step, you discover that the free tier caps you at a single page, stamps the file with the company's branding, or both — and that removing either costs a monthly fee. The hour you have already spent is precisely what makes the fee feel reasonable.
There is no account here, no watermark, and no page limit, because none of those exist to serve you. Your resume is stored in your own browser rather than on a server, which removes the reason to have accounts at all: there is no copy on our side for a login to protect.
What actually matters in a resume PDF
Two things, and neither is the design. The first is that the file contains real text. A surprising number of builders render your resume to an image and wrap it in a PDF — it looks flawless on screen and reads as an entirely blank document to the software sitting between you and a recruiter. You can test any resume for this in about a second: open it and try to select a line. If nothing highlights, no parser can read it either.
The second is conventional structure. Parsers look for headings they recognise — "Experience", "Education", "Skills" — and route what follows into the matching field. A section called "My Journey" may go into the wrong field or nowhere at all, and a two-column layout with icons and rating bars gives a parser several more ways to go wrong. A single readable column with ordinary headings is not a failure of imagination; it is the format that survives the part of the process you cannot see.
The preview is the document
Most editors lay the preview out with CSS and produce the PDF by some other route, which is why the download so often breaks a line somewhere else or runs onto a page the preview never showed. Here the layout is worked out once, from font measurements, and drawn twice — as HTML for the preview, and into the PDF for the download. When the preview says your resume is one page, it is one page.
Frequently asked questions
Is this actually free, or free until I press download?
Free at the point of download, which is the only point that counts. There is no account, no trial, no watermark on the PDF and no limit on how many pages or how many versions you make. The common pattern elsewhere — a free editor that asks for payment once you have spent an hour typing into it — is the thing this is built against.
Where is my resume kept?
In your own browser, on your own device. It is never uploaded, so there is no copy of your employment history, address or phone number on anyone else’s server. The trade-off is that clearing your browser data will lose it, so the editor gives you a one-click JSON export to keep your own backup.
Will the PDF get through an applicant tracking system?
It has the two things that matter. The text is real, selectable text rather than an image, so a parser can read it at all; and the layout is a single column with conventional section headings, which is what parsers handle most reliably. Neither is glamorous, and both are more useful than a two-column design with icons.
Can I edit a resume I already have?
Not yet — you would need to retype it. Importing an existing PDF or Word file means parsing someone else’s layout back into structured fields, which is a genuinely hard problem and is easy to do badly. It is planned, and it is not here yet; the JSON import is for moving a resume built here between your own devices.
How long should a resume be?
One page if you have under about ten years of experience, two if you have more. That is a convention rather than a rule, and it is worth following because the reader expects it. The editor does not enforce it: it tells you when your content has spilled onto another page and which section pushed it over, and leaves the decision to you.