ATS Friendly Resume Builder: What Each One Actually Publishes
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Almost every resume builder calls its templates ATS-friendly. Almost none of them says what that means. So here is the answer first: of the ten builders whose published pages were read on 2026-09-17, exactly one — Rezi — publishes all three things the phrase implies, listing a Rezi Score, AI Keyword Targeting and DOCX export on the same comparison table. Kickresume is second because it names an ATS Resume Checker outright and puts PDF and DOCX export in front of the paywall rather than behind it. And if you want to spend nothing, Teal’s free plan will show you the top five keywords from a job ad with no credit card at all.
The order below will not match a general “best resume builder” list, and it is not meant to. A builder can have beautiful templates, one-off pricing and no auto-renewal and still finish last here, because this page ranks on one narrow thing: what each vendor publishes about applicant tracking systems. A template labelled ATS-friendly counts as a claim and scores nothing. Where a vendor publishes nothing at all, that is recorded and it costs them a place. Nobody here installed or subscribed to any of these products; every price, cap and quoted phrase below comes from the vendor’s own pricing page or terms.
What this ranking measures
This page measures three published behaviours and nothing else. First, a checking feature the vendor names and describes on its own pages — a resume checker, a score, an ATS check. Second, keyword matching against a job description you supply. Third, an export in plain text or .docx, because those are the formats an application form is most likely to ingest cleanly. A template merely described as “ATS-friendly” is treated as a claim, not a feature, and scores nothing: a layout description is not a check and not a matcher. What this page deliberately does not measure: template design, AI writing quality, job-board size, support quality, and price. Prices appear in every entry because a reader needs them, but no price moves a product up or down this list. Where a vendor publishes nothing the criterion asks for, that silence is recorded as a finding and it costs them position.
The short answer
Rezi is the only product on this sheet whose pricing page names all three things the criterion asks for. Rezi Score and AI Keyword Targeting are both listed as “Limited” on Free and full on Pro, and DOCX plus Google Drive export are listed as Pro features marked “Not included” on Free. A score, matching against a job description and a Word file, from one comparison table, at $29 / month or $149 once for Lifetime.
Kickresume is the only vendor besides Enhancv to use the letters ATS as a feature name rather than a template adjective, listing an ATS Resume Checker among premium features with the AI Resume Checker row marked “-” on Free. Its export sits in front of the paywall instead of behind it: PDF or DOCX, with Downloads listed as “unlimited” on the $0 plan. It loses the top spot only because it publishes no job-description keyword matching at all.
It is the only free tier here that publishes a job-description keyword allowance you can point at — “Top 5” keywords against “Unlimited” on Teal+ — alongside unlimited resumes and unlimited PDF export. Its weakness is the export leg: PDF only, with no .docx at any price. Pair it with Kickresume’s free plan, which downloads PDF or DOCX with no download paywall, and you cover both halves of the criterion for nothing.
All 10 compared
| # | Product | Best for | Price from | What decides its place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matching one resume against one job description | Free $0; Pro $29 / month; Lifetime $149 one-time; Enterprise $99 / month per 200 users | AI Keyword Targeting full on Pro, Limited on Free; DOCX is Pro-only | Visit | |
| 2 | Getting a .docx without paying to download | Free $0 / month; Yearly $4.50 / month (“Pay $54 every 12 months”); Quarterly $9 / month (“Pay $27 every 3 months”); Monthly $19 / month; Proofreading add-on $30 / resume | ATS Resume Checker is premium-only; PDF and DOCX have no paywall | Visit | |
| 3 | Pasting a job ad and seeing the words you missed | Tools — Free Forever; Teal+ $13 Every 7 Days ($1.85 a day); $29 Every 30 days ($0.96 a day); $79 Every 90 days ($0.87 a day) | Free gets Top 5 job-description keywords; export is PDF, never DOCX | Visit | |
| 4 | Word and TXT from the same paid account | Basic Package FREE; Pro Package “With a 14 day trial for: $1.70”, then auto-renews at $23.95 billed every 4 weeks; Annual Package $5.95/month, “Pay $71.40 at once” | Free exports TXT only; PDF, Word and TXT need a paid plan | Visit | |
| 5 | Cheapest short-term route to a Word resume | Free Access $0; 14-day Trial $2.95, “Auto renews after 14 days at $23.95 billed every four weeks”; Annual Plan $7.95/ Month, “One time payment of $95.40 for 12 month access” | Free resume export is TXT only; Word needs the $2.95 14-day trial | Visit | |
| 6 | Buyers who want a check labelled ATS by name | Free Plan $0, “Valid for 7 days”; Pro Quarterly $13.52 billed every 3 months ($4.51/mo); Pro Monthly $7.64/mo, “Billed once a month” (page is geo-localised) | ATS check is Pro-only; exports are PDF and TXT, never .docx | Visit | |
| 7 | Design-led drafting when a TXT file is enough | Free plan $0.00; Premium 7-day trial $2.95, “After 7 days, auto-renews to $29.95 billed every 4 weeks”; Quarterly $49.95, “Auto-renews to $49.95 billed every 3 months” | No ATS check published; the free export is TXT format only | Visit | |
| 8 | Job seekers applying through TopCV in Vietnam | Mới and Thường “Miễn phí / Vĩnh viễn”; Pro VIP 50,000 VNĐ / “1 tháng”; Education VIP 500,000 VNĐ / “1 năm”; Premium VIP 500,000 VNĐ / “1 năm” | JD-match analysis is named but never priced; PDF export only | Visit | |
| 9 | Portfolio-style CVs where ATS is secondary | Free Account $0; Pro Quarterly $16USD Per Month (Billed quarterly); Pro Monthly $25USD Per Month (Billed monthly) | Its only ATS item is a template row, Not included on Free | Visit | |
| 10 | One-page PDFs with no recurring charge | Basic Free Unlimited; Premium Month 21.99 USD; Quarter 39.99 USD; Year 149.99 USD — “Pay once. No recurring billing.” | Every download is a PDF; no check or matching published | Visit |
1. Rezi
Why it sits at 1 AI Keyword Targeting full on Pro, Limited on Free; DOCX is Pro-only
Rezi’s pricing comparison names three ATS-shaped features and marks each one “Limited” on the Free plan and full on Pro: Rezi Score, AI Keyword Targeting and Real Time Content Analysis. Pro also adds DOCX and Google Drive export, both listed as “Not included” for Free. That is a published score, published matching against a job description, and a Word file — all three legs of this criterion, readable from one page. Nothing else on this sheet manages that.
The trade-off is cost and clarity rather than capability. Pro is a flat $29 / month with no annual toggle anywhere on the page; the only escape from a recurring charge is Lifetime at $149. Rezi then contradicts itself twice: its pricing table and its subscription help article disagree over whether DOCX is available free, and its two help articles give opposite answers on whether cancelling ends access immediately or at period end. The help docs also mention a quarterly billing option on the in-app upgrade screen that the public site never prices.
- The only builder here publishing a resume score, job-description keyword targeting and DOCX export together on one page.
- Pro is $29 / month with no annual billing, and the 30-day money-back guarantee exists only as marketing copy in a pricing-page FAQ — the /legal page contains no refund, billing or auto-renewal clause at all.
2. Kickresume
Why it sits at 2 ATS Resume Checker is premium-only; PDF and DOCX have no paywall
Kickresume’s premium feature list names an ATS Resume Checker outright, and the comparison table confirms the position by marking the AI Resume Checker row “-” on Free. The export side runs the other way: finished documents download as PDF or DOCX without paying, with no download paywall, and Number of Resumes, Number of Cover Letters and Downloads all read “unlimited” on the free plan. The paywall sits on templates, fonts and AI, not on the export button.
It covers two of the three legs, because no job-description keyword matching is published anywhere. The free plan’s limits are cosmetic — “limited” design and colours, 2 fonts against 26 on premium. The pricing page also argues with itself: Yearly shows as $4.50 / month billed “Pay $54 every 12 months”, while the comparison table lower down the same page lists the yearly column at $5 / month. The 14-day money-back guarantee is real but, per the Terms, applies only once to the same user, and no renewal price is published for any plan.
- PDF and DOCX export with no download paywall and no metered download count, on the $0 plan; students and teachers can get up to 180 days of Premium free.
- No job-description keyword matching is published, the ATS Resume Checker is premium-only, and the same pricing page quotes the yearly plan at both $4.50 and $5 per month.
3. Teal (Teal+)
Why it sits at 3 Free gets Top 5 job-description keywords; export is PDF, never DOCX
Teal is the only vendor on this sheet that attaches a number to its keyword matching. The Free Forever column publishes “Top 5” job-description keywords and “Basic” Analysis in the Resume Builder, against “Unlimited” for both on Teal+. Free also carries unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking, 10 templates and — per the help centre — the ability to edit and export unlimited resumes, with no credit card required to start. For the specific problem of a posting whose language your resume does not echo, this is the most concrete thing published anywhere on this page.
Then the export leg fails outright. PDF is the only format Teal offers at any price; there is no .docx free or paid, and Word export is described only as a future hope. If a form demands a Word file you will need a second tool. The paid prices are recurring cycles rather than promotional first terms, which is unusually clean, but refunds are requested by email, are explicitly not guaranteed, and the weekly plan’s window is two calendar days from the billing period start.
- Job-description keyword matching with a published free allowance, at $0 and with no card required.
- PDF is the only export format at any price — no .docx exists — and refund windows run as short as two calendar days on the weekly plan, with no guarantee attached.
4. Zety
Why it sits at 4 Free exports TXT only; PDF, Word and TXT need a paid plan
Zety’s free Basic Package card carries a Resume Check row and an Instant Job Matches row alongside the builder itself, and the comparison table’s only textual differentiation between tiers is the export line — which makes the checking feature nominally available at $0. What Zety never does is describe that check as an ATS check, say what it examines, or explain whether Instant Job Matches involves matching your document against a posting’s wording. It is a published feature with an unpublished mechanism.
Export is where the money sits: free is “TXT format only”, both paid plans unlock “PDF, Word, and TXT”. Entry is a 14-day trial for $1.70 that auto-renews at $23.95 billed every 4 weeks — thirteen charges a year rather than twelve. The Annual Package’s “$5.95/month” is a derived display figure; the charge is $71.40 taken up front. The free card’s “Unlimited Downloads, Prints and edits” bullet is also contradicted by the Terms of Use, which say a Registered User cannot download unless they are a Subscriber.
- PDF, Word and TXT from any paid plan, with a plain-text resume export available on the free tier.
- No money-back window of any length is published, the Terms state the provider does not guarantee refunds, and those Terms contradict the free card on whether free users can download at all.
5. Resume Genius
Why it sits at 5 Free resume export is TXT only; Word needs the $2.95 14-day trial
The free Free Access card lists a Resume Checker and a Resume Review, and both sit on the $0 tier rather than behind the paywall — one of only two free checking features on this sheet. It also lists Resume Templates and Cover Letter Templates in Word and Google Docs format for free, which is a route to an editable document before you pay anything, though the page does not state that these are the same files the builder produces. Neither the checker nor the review is described as an ATS check.
The builder’s own resume export on the free plan is “TXT format only”, confirmed twice on the page; cover letters, oddly, export as PDF, Word and TXT for free. PDF and Word resume downloads arrive with the $2.95 14-day trial, which then auto-renews at $23.95 billed every four weeks. The Annual Plan displays as $7.95/ Month but is charged as a single $95.40 for 12 months and “Auto renews annually” — at a figure the page never states. No cancellation deadline is given for the trial.
- A resume checker, a resume review and Word/Google Docs templates on the $0 plan, backed by a 14-day full refund.
- The Annual Plan auto-renews at a price published nowhere on the site, and the pricing page names email and phone cancellation routes without giving an email address or a phone number.
6. Enhancv
Why it sits at 6 ATS check is Pro-only; exports are PDF and TXT, never .docx
Enhancv gives this page its clearest naming: “ATS check” appears in plain words among the Pro features, next to real-time content suggestions and Pro resume sections. It is also the most locked away. The free plan is valid for 7 days, carries Enhancv branding on the document and caps you at a maximum of 12 section items, and the ATS check is not among the three things that free card lists. Export is PDF plus a TXT option for applications that require plain text; Word is not offered at all, which the vendor frames as a design-fidelity choice.
Pricing is the weak point, and not in the usual way. The pricing block is geo-localised and API-driven — it paints euro placeholders before resolving — and rendered $13.52 billed every 3 months for this session, while the vendor’s own USD structured data and page meta description carry entirely different figures. The Pro Monthly and Pro Semiannual tabs exist on the toggle but no price renders in the page copy. No renewal amount appears anywhere, and the Terms warn of a “regular fee” for the next billing period without ever quantifying it.
- A feature the vendor actually calls an ATS check, plus a plain-text export offered alongside PDF for forms that need it.
- No .docx at any price, no renewal figure published, and a geo-localised pricing block whose rendered amounts contradict the vendor’s own USD structured data.
7. Resume.io
Why it sits at 7 No ATS check published; the free export is TXT format only
Resume.io publishes nothing this criterion asks for except an export format. There is no resume checker, no score and no job-description matching named on the pricing page. The free plan’s entire contribution is “Downloads only in TXT format”, capped at “Only one resume and cover letter” with limited sharing and analytics. Plain text does count here — a TXT file is the most ATS-legible thing you can submit — but it is the floor, not a feature.
Paid unlocks “Unlimited PDF downloads” and nothing else the page names; whether DOCX or Google Docs export exists at any tier is not published. The $2.95 7-day trial auto-renews to $29.95 billed every 4 weeks per the pricing page, while Resume.io’s own Right of Withdrawal page states $24.95 for the same renewal — a direct contradiction between two of the vendor’s pages. The 7-day refund window runs from account creation rather than from the charge, so a trial you forgot to cancel is already outside it.
- A genuinely free export exists without a card, and the paid tier’s PDF downloads are uncapped.
- The vendor’s own two pages quote different post-trial renewal prices — $29.95 and $24.95 — and the refund clock starts at account creation rather than at the renewal charge.
8. TopCV
Why it sits at 8 JD-match analysis is named but never priced; PDF export only
TopCV names a job-description matching service — JD-match analysis sits among its chargeable candidate services, alongside account upgrade and the no-logo download — but publishes no price for it anywhere a logged-out visitor can read. The closest thing on the upgrade table is competitiveness information for “3 việc làm” on free accounts and “Không giới hạn việc làm” on Pro VIP, and that row’s own label notes the perk is mobile-app only. Nothing on the page is described as an ATS check.
Export is a PDF or an online CV link, and no other format is named anywhere. The two free tiers, Mới and Thường, both permanent, allow 6 CVs and 6 cover letters with a 5-second wait on every download and the ©topcv.vn mark on the file. Pro VIP at 50,000 VNĐ for 1 tháng hides the mark and cuts the wait to 3s. Paid terms read as fixed blocks with no published renewal price and no auto-renew language, and completed transactions are not refunded.
- The cheapest paid tier here, sold as a fixed one-month block with no published auto-renewal and no card-on-file mechanism described.
- The JD-match analysis is never priced publicly, export is PDF only, and the free download carries a ©topcv.vn mark plus a 5-second wait — with no refund on any completed transaction.
9. VisualCV
Why it sits at 9 Its only ATS item is a template row, Not included on Free
VisualCV is the product this criterion was written for. The single ATS item on its pricing comparison is a row named ATS-Friendly Template, marked “Not included” for Free and unlocked with Pro. No page states what makes that template ATS-friendly, which systems it was designed around, or what it does differently from the other 30+ templates. A layout description is not a check and not a matcher, so it scores nothing here. No resume checker, score or keyword feature is published.
The export position is unpublished rather than simply poor: the pricing table names only PDF, the builder page advertises PDF, Word and text generically, and the two are never reconciled by plan. Per the Terms of Use, a free Registered User can create and store a resume but cannot print or download one without a watermark present. The pricing page’s “30 days... no strings attached” refund promise is contradicted by the binding Cancellation and Refund Policy, which states subscriptions are non-refundable once paid.
- A published renewal rule — subscriptions renew at the same price unless you are notified of an increase beforehand — which several vendors here do not offer at all.
- Its only ATS feature is a template label, which export formats the free tier can produce is not published, and the advertised 30-day money-back guarantee is contradicted by the binding non-refundable clause.
10. Novorésumé
Why it sits at 10 Every download is a PDF; no check or matching published
Novoresume finishes last because it publishes none of the three things this page measures. There is no resume checker or score on the pricing page, no keyword matching against a job description, and every download — free or paid — is delivered as a PDF, with no other export format offered at any price. A buyer searching for an ATS-friendly builder will find nothing here that speaks to the problem, only a feature list about layouts, fonts and colour themes.
On every other axis it is among the more honest pages on this sheet, which is exactly why the criterion matters. Terms are one-off purchases — the FAQ answers “Will my Premium account renew automatically?” with “No” — and the checkout small print repeats that there is no automatic subscription, with a 14-day refund right for consumers. The free Basic plan is labelled “Free Unlimited” but capped at a single version and a max 1-page resume, and removing the builder’s branding is a Premium feature. Cancellation is by emailing a form.
- Nothing auto-renews: Premium is sold as one-off terms with a 14-day refund right stated on both the pricing page and the Terms.
- PDF is the only export format offered at any price, and no checker, score or job-description matching appears anywhere on the pricing page.
Which one fits your situation
Teal’s Free Forever plan. It costs $0, takes no credit card, and publishes the allowance instead of hiding it: “Top 5” job-description keywords free against “Unlimited” on Teal+. The free tier is enough for a first pass. Only step up to Teal+ at $13 Every 7 Days if you are applying to many roles in one week.
Kickresume’s free plan, which downloads as PDF or DOCX with no download paywall and no metered count. If you also want the templates and the checker, Zety’s Pro Package or Resume Genius’s 14-day trial unlock “PDF, Word, and TXT” — but both auto-renew at $23.95 billed every four weeks, so set a reminder before day 14.
Rezi Pro at $29 / month, the only product here publishing a score, AI Keyword Targeting and DOCX export together. If a recurring charge is the problem, Lifetime is a one-time $149. Be aware the 30-day money-back guarantee appears only in a pricing-page FAQ, not in the /legal terms.
Do not buy anything yet. Kickresume’s students page states that students and teachers can get up to 180 days of full access to Premium tools for free, verified through ISIC, ITIC or UNiDAYS, or by contacting support with proof of enrollment. That is the premium ATS Resume Checker and every template at no cost for roughly six months.
Novoresume, which sells one-off terms — 21.99 USD for a month, 39.99 USD for a quarter, 149.99 USD for a year — and states “Pay once. No recurring billing.” It is last on this ranking because it publishes no check, no keyword matching and no format but PDF. Check first whether free Basic, capped at a single version and a max 1-page resume with branding, already does the job.
TopCV’s free Thường account already gives 6 CVs and 6 cover letters permanently; the cost is a 5-second wait on each download and the ©topcv.vn mark on the file. Pro VIP at 50,000 VNĐ for 1 tháng removes the mark and cuts the wait to 3s. Understand that you are buying a clean file, not an ATS check — the JD-match analysis it names is never priced publicly.
What this market gets people for
- Treating the trial price as the price of the product. Resume.io’s $2.95 buys 7 days, then “auto-renews to $29.95 billed every 4 weeks”. Zety’s $1.70 buys 14 days, then $23.95 every 4 weeks. Resume Genius’s $2.95 does the same at $23.95 every four weeks. A four-week cycle bills thirteen times a year, not twelve, so the real annual cost of a forgotten $1.70 trial is well north of what the headline implies — and Zety publishes no refund window at all, stating it does not guarantee refunds.
- Paying to download a file you could have exported for nothing. Kickresume’s free plan lists unlimited downloads with no download paywall and exports PDF or DOCX, and Teal’s help centre states free users can edit and export unlimited resumes. Meanwhile Resume.io, Zety and Resume Genius all cap the free resume export at TXT, and VisualCV’s free user cannot download a PDF without a watermark. If your only reason for paying is the file itself, two of these ten hand it over free.
- Buying an “ATS-friendly template” and believing you bought an ATS check. VisualCV’s ATS-Friendly Template is a row in a comparison table, marked “Not included” on the free plan and unlocked at $16USD Per Month (Billed quarterly). No page states what makes it ATS-friendly. Kickresume, Enhancv and Rezi publish an actual checking feature you can run; a template label is a description of a layout you cannot verify.
- Assuming the first-term price is the renewal price. Resume Genius’s Annual Plan is “One time payment of $95.40 for 12 month access. Auto renews annually” with no renewal figure published anywhere. Enhancv publishes no renewal amount either, while its Terms warn that a trial or promocode user who fails to cancel pays “a regular fee” the site never quantifies. Kickresume, Teal, Rezi and VisualCV likewise publish no renewal price — VisualCV’s Terms promise renewal at the same price and then reserve the right to change pricing at any time.
Questions buyers ask
Does any of these actually run an ATS check, or do they all just say “ATS-friendly”?
Three name a checking feature in plain words. Kickresume lists an ATS Resume Checker among premium features, with the AI Resume Checker row reading “-” on the free plan. Enhancv lists “ATS check” as a Pro feature. Rezi publishes a Rezi Score, marked Limited on Free and full on Pro. Zety and Resume Genius publish a “Resume Check” / “Resume Checker” row without calling it ATS. VisualCV’s only ATS wording is a template row. None of the pages read states what its check tests against.
Which of these can give me a .docx file?
Kickresume downloads finished documents as PDF or DOCX with no download paywall. Zety and Resume Genius both unlock “PDF, Word, and TXT” on their paid plans. Rezi lists DOCX and Google Drive export as Pro features, marked “Not included” on Free — though its own help article and pricing table disagree about that. Teal, Novoresume and TopCV publish PDF as their only format; Enhancv publishes PDF and TXT, and states Word is not offered.
Is any free tier genuinely enough to apply for a job?
Teal’s Free Forever plan covers editing and exporting unlimited resumes, unlimited job tracking and the “Top 5” job-description keywords, with no credit card required. Kickresume’s free plan lists unlimited downloads in PDF or DOCX. Rezi’s free plan gives 1 resume and 3 PDF downloads. Resume.io, Zety and Resume Genius cap free resume export at TXT. VisualCV’s free user cannot download without a watermark, Novoresume’s free Basic is one version and a max 1-page resume, and TopCV’s free PDF carries the ©topcv.vn mark.
What do the $1.70 and $2.95 trials actually cost after the trial?
Zety’s Pro Package trial is “With a 14 day trial for: $1.70”, then “auto-renews at $23.95 billed every 4 weeks”. Resume Genius’s 14-day trial is $2.95 and “Auto renews after 14 days at $23.95 billed every four weeks”. Resume.io’s 7-day trial is $2.95 and “auto-renews to $29.95 billed every 4 weeks” on the pricing page — while its Right of Withdrawal page says $24.95. A four-week cycle bills thirteen times a year, not twelve.
Can I get my money back if the check turns out to be useless?
It varies more than the marketing suggests. Rezi publishes 30 days on Pro and Lifetime, but only in a pricing-page FAQ — the /legal page carries no refund clause at all. Kickresume publishes 14 days, applying once per user. Novoresume and Resume Genius publish 14 days. Resume.io publishes 7 days measured from account creation, not from the charge. Teal’s windows are per-plan and discretionary, by email. Zety publishes no window and states it does not guarantee refunds. VisualCV advertises 30 days while its binding policy says subscriptions are non-refundable once paid. TopCV applies no refund to completed transactions.
If a builder says its templates are ATS-friendly, is that good enough?
Not for this ranking. VisualCV’s pricing comparison carries a row called ATS-Friendly Template, marked “Not included” for Free and included on Pro, and no page states what makes it friendly or which systems it was built for. That is a description of a layout, so it scores nothing here. A checker you can run, or a keyword panel you can paste a job ad into, is a feature; a label on a template is a claim.
What none of them publish
These are the questions a buyer would want settled that no vendor on this page answers in public. If one of them decides your purchase, ask the vendor and hold them to the answer.
- What any of these checks actually tests. Not one of the pricing pages read states which applicant tracking systems its checker or score is modelled on, what a score out of anything means, or what threshold counts as a pass. Kickresume names an ATS Resume Checker, Enhancv names an ATS check, Rezi publishes a Rezi Score — and none of them publishes a method.
- Whether Rezi’s DOCX and Google Drive export are available on the Free plan. The pricing comparison table marks both “Not included” while the subscription-plans help article says otherwise; only the “3 PDF Downloads” figure is consistent across pages.
- Rezi’s quarterly billing option and its price. The vendor’s own help doc says the in-app upgrade screen offers monthly, quarterly or lifetime, but the quarterly tier appears nowhere on the public site, so a buyer cannot see one of three billing options before creating an account.
- Whether free exports carry a watermark. Kickresume, Teal, Zety and Resume.io all offer a free download, and none of them states on its pricing page whether that file carries vendor branding. Only Novoresume, Enhancv, VisualCV and TopCV make their branding position explicit.
- Which export formats each free tier can actually produce. VisualCV’s builder page advertises PDF, Word and text generically while its pricing table names only PDF; Resume.io lists only “Unlimited PDF downloads” for paid and “TXT format” for free, with DOCX and Google Docs availability unstated at every tier; Kickresume does not break its format list down by plan.
- The renewal price, at all, from Kickresume, Teal, Rezi, Enhancv and VisualCV. Resume Genius publishes “Auto renews annually” without an amount. Enhancv’s Terms reference a “regular fee” for the next billing period that is never quantified anywhere on the site.
- Enhancv’s Pro Monthly and Pro Semiannual prices as list figures, and what the undiscounted quarterly price is — the page carries a “SAVE” badge slot whose percentage never resolves to a number, and the block is geo-localised.
- Whether Zety’s free Basic Package caps the number of resumes or TXT downloads. The page says “Unlimited Downloads, Prints and edits” for every tier including free, while the Terms of Use say a Registered User cannot download unless they are a Subscriber.
- The price of TopCV’s pay-per-download clean-PDF service and of its JD-match analysis. Both are named as chargeable services; neither figure appears outside the logged-in account area.
- Whether a cancellation ends access immediately or at the end of the paid period, at Rezi — two of its own help articles give opposite answers, and a buyer cannot tell which applies before paying.
- What happens to documents built on a paid plan after you cancel. Rezi states downgrading leaves only one resume reachable; Novoresume states only that account data is retained, not what export rights survive; nobody else addresses it.
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