Jobscan alternatives: the honest ranking

The ranking at a glance

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   1. SwissJobs.appOur app

   Six tools in one account, all working against the same advert from our own job index. PDF and Word without a watermark, Swiss conventions built in, in four languages.

   CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year · free account: 5 documents a day

   • CV editor, written against the advert
   • ATS CV check
   • Cover letter for the same posting
   • Interview prep sheet
   • Live-voice interview practice (AI)
   • Application tracker with the RAV form (official SECO sheet)

   Check a CV against an advert →

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   2. cvswiss.ch ATS Check

   Second place goes to the tool you can use in ninety seconds without giving anyone an email address: upload the CV as PDF or DOCX, read the score and the fixes. Their page says 'No signup required' in as many words, and that is a genuine advantage over us — our free run is one per browser, theirs has no counter at all.

   Check free; document CHF 5 once, subscription CHF 15/month

   • Checks against a specific advert: No, the CV alone
   • Without an account: Yes, no signup required
   • Languages: DE / FR / IT / EN

   cvswiss.ch ATS Check →

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   3. Teal

   Teal is the closest replacement if what you value in Jobscan is the bundle: tracker, builder and match in one place. The free tier is called Free Forever and largely means it — unlimited resume versions, unlimited job tracking, ten templates. That is more than most tools here give away.

   Free forever tier; Teal+ USD 29 per 30 days (about CHF 23.50)

   • Checks against a specific advert: Yes, paste the advert
   • Without an account: No, account required
   • Languages: EN

   Teal →

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   4. Resume Worded

   If the question is 'what is like Jobscan but not Jobscan', this is the answer: Score My Resume for the CV on its own, Targeted Resume for the match against a posting, plus a LinkedIn review. Same idea, same scoring logic, same intended user.

   Pro USD 49/month, or USD 229 once for a year (about CHF 185)

   • Checks against a specific advert: Yes, 'Targeted Resume'
   • Without an account: No, account required
   • Languages: EN

   Resume Worded →

5. 5. The manual pass

   For nearly two thirds of the open adverts here, the application does not go into a named system. It goes to one of more than nineteen hundred different hosts: a company careers page, a simple form, an inbox. A human reads first, and a score computed against Workday's parsing rules has no recipient.

   Free

   • Checks against a specific advert: Yes, if you do it yourself
   • Without an account: Yes
   • Languages: All

The ranking at a glance

Prices read on each vendor's own page on 5 September 2026 — Jobscan and Teal on the rendered pricing page. Converted at USD 1 = CHF 0.81. Our own row comes from the code and from walking the flow.

What it really costs, and where the cost hides

Every figure read on the vendor's own pricing page on 5 September 2026. Foreign amounts stay in the currency they are quoted in; the francs in brackets are our arithmetic, not the vendor's.

1. SwissJobs.app — the check runs against an advert, not against an idea of ATS

The difference from Jobscan is not the score, it is where the comparison text comes from. You pick an open advert from the search and the check reads your CV against that exact wording — no second window, no copying — and for an advert we do not hold you can still paste the text. With no particular role in mind, the second mode runs instead: your CV against Swiss norms rather than against a posting.

What it grades is what a Swiss dossier carries and a US resume has no field for: the permit line, language levels as A1 to C2 rather than 'fluent', the photo — conventional here, so never marked down for — plus workload as a percentage and Arbeitszeugnisse, the Swiss employer references. The report comes back in the language of the interface: German, French, Italian or English.

Price and limits, stated plainly. The first check runs with no account, one per browser; after that the page asks for a free account, which allows five documents a day and ten per rolling week. Seven days of full access, then CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year. What Jobscan has and we do not: LinkedIn profile review, automatic filling of other sites' application forms, and a browser extension. If that is what you came for, this is the wrong tool.

2. cvswiss.ch ATS Check — the lowest barrier in this list, and lower than ours

Second place goes to the tool you can use in ninety seconds without giving anyone an email address: upload the CV as PDF or DOCX, read the score and the fixes. Their page says 'No signup required' in as many words, and that is a genuine advantage over us — our free run is one per browser, theirs has no counter at all.

The limit is visible in the same form: there is no field for the job advert. It grades how readable and how well-structured the document is, not how well it matches a specific role — which is precisely the half Jobscan exists for. Beyond the free check it is CHF 5 for a single document, fixed once downloaded, or CHF 15 a month, and their pricing page now also lists an export of the official RAV/ORP job-search form.

Right for: anyone who wants a format check before creating an account anywhere, and anyone with exactly one application to send, where CHF 5 once beats every subscription in this comparison.

3. Teal — the most generous free tier, built around the US resume

Teal is the closest replacement if what you value in Jobscan is the bundle: tracker, builder and match in one place. The free tier is called Free Forever and largely means it — unlimited resume versions, unlimited job tracking, ten templates. That is more than most tools here give away.

What you pay for is depth. The job-description match shows the top five keywords free, the in-builder analysis stays 'Basic', and the AI allowance is ten bullet points plus two summaries and two cover letters. Teal+ removes the ceilings at USD 13 per seven days, USD 29 per thirty or USD 79 per ninety — about CHF 10.50, CHF 23.50 and CHF 64.

The limit is the language and the document model behind it. The interface and the feedback are English, and the output is a US resume. Against the 42.2 per cent of adverts here written in German and the 10.9 per cent in French, that is a document you then have to re-localise yourself: Pensum, permit and Arbeitszeugnis do not exist in its model.

4. Resume Worded — the nearest relative, and the priciest route to the same report

If the question is 'what is like Jobscan but not Jobscan', this is the answer: Score My Resume for the CV on its own, Targeted Resume for the match against a posting, plus a LinkedIn review. Same idea, same scoring logic, same intended user.

Entry is a free account; the complete reports are Pro. Pro is USD 49 a month, USD 99 for a quarter, or one payment of USD 229 for a year — advertised on the page as USD 19 a month, about CHF 15.40, which is the only tier that lands near Swiss pricing. The monthly rate, roughly CHF 40, sits just above Jobscan's monthly plan.

Right for: people applying in English who want the LinkedIn half taken seriously. Wrong for a dossier in German, French or Italian — the templates and the language checks are written for the American market, and none of the Swiss mandatory details appear in them.

5. The manual pass — what applies to 62.5 per cent of adverts anyway

For nearly two thirds of the open adverts here, the application does not go into a named system. It goes to one of more than nineteen hundred different hosts: a company careers page, a simple form, an inbox. A human reads first, and a score computed against Workday's parsing rules has no recipient.

The replacement is unglamorous and it works. Put the advert next to your CV, mark the ten to fifteen nouns the advert itself uses — tools, qualifications, domain terms, language levels — and check which of them appear nowhere in your document. Then the Swiss mandatory details: permit, CEFR levels, workload in per cent, availability. That is most of what any of these tools do, and it costs half an hour.

If you are registered with an RAV/ORP, coaching on application documents is part of what the office provides. No comparison article mentions this route because nothing can be sold along it — it is free, and it is closer to what people who actually shortlist in this country are looking at.

Who should stay with Jobscan

If you apply in English to an international employer in Zurich, Basel, Zug or Geneva, Jobscan describes your world accurately: 63.9 per cent of the English-language adverts we hold route into a named applicant system, 22.5 per cent into Workday and 10 per cent into Greenhouse. Those are exactly the systems the product is built around, and in that segment its advice is not folklore, it is correct.

Three things it has that none of the alternatives above match in that form: the LinkedIn profile review, automatic form filling, and a browser extension that captures adverts from other sites. Its free tier, five scans a month, is also more generous than our one anonymous check.

Where it stops making sense is a dossier in German, French or Italian. Then you are optimising for a rulebook nobody reads on two thirds of your applications, in a language the tool does not speak — and the Prospective form you will actually meet is one it has never seen.

If you are applying from outside Switzerland

Most readers of this page in English are not sitting in Switzerland yet, so one practical note. None of the five tools above requires a Swiss address, an AHV number or a residence permit to use — the barriers here are language and document model, not registration. What does require Swiss registration is the RAV/ORP coaching in place five, which is only open to people already registered as unemployed in a canton.

The other thing worth knowing before you buy any of them: an English-language advert in Switzerland is not an invitation to apply as if the country were not there. Of the English-language adverts in our index that state a language requirement, 25.6 per cent still ask for German and 11.8 per cent for French, and the permit line — whether you already hold a B or C, or would need sponsorship — is a field Swiss recruiters look for and no US-built scanner will tell you is missing.