What is an alternative to bewerbung.ch for cover letters?

Feature comparison

As of 4 September 2026. "not stated" means it could not be read on their own site — not "does not exist". Our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow, not from marketing copy.

Pricing side by side

As of 4 September 2026. "not stated" means it could not be read on their own site — not "does not exist". Our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow, not from marketing copy.

bewerbung.ch

A Swiss application builder where the CV and the cover letter live in one account, with its own letter layouts, an assistant called BeKI, an interview trainer that accepts voice input in Swiss German, and data held on Swiss servers. It also runs two editions no international tool offers: a school edition for careers lessons and a coaching edition for advisers.

What the letter costs, read on 28 August 2026: the standard account is free, carries one layout marked with the provider's logo — the free letter layout is called "1" — and comes with three BeKI credits, one spent per AI suggestion. Ten more credits cost CHF 5, twenty-five cost CHF 10. Premium is CHF 20 for a month with ten credits, CHF 50 for three with thirty, and the FAQ states twice that nothing renews by itself.

Best for: apprenticeship applications, careers classes, and anyone who wants a Swiss tool without a running subscription — you can even start as a guest, without registering. The limits for an English speaker are the interface language and the export: there is no Word download at all, stated plainly in the FAQ, and documents in English, French and Italian are a Premium feature.

SwissJobs.app

We are a job board and an application tool in the same account, and that is where the letter gets its material. You choose the CV the letter has to match, and the advert text carries over from that document instead of being hunted down and pasted again. Start from a job on our site and the title and company are already filled in, along with the advert text where we hold it. The language is chosen per letter — German, French, Italian or English — independently of the language you read the site in.

Price: an account is required. With it, five letters a day and ten a rolling month are free; beyond that the seven-day free trial runs, then CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year, priced in francs with no conversion. Five worked example letters — standard, apprenticeship, speculative, internship, and one in German for English speakers — are available in all four languages without an account and download as Word files.

Where bewerbung.ch is better: you can try it without registering, it has far more layouts, and it sells credit rather than a subscription. In fairness, its home page also lists an integrated job search with suggestions, though it does not say how many vacancies sit behind it. And for adverts where we hold only the title and the employer, you paste the text yourself — as you would anywhere else.

cvswiss.ch

The Swiss provider closest to us on letters. Its features page lists motivation letters as a tool of their own, generated "based on job postings and your CV", alongside an ATS check, a decoder for Arbeitszeugnisse and an export into the form the RAV and ORP require for job-search efforts. The interface is English-first, which for this audience is an advantage rather than a limitation.

Price on 28 August 2026: CHF 5 once for a single document, though that offer names only the CV and carries the note "No edits after download". Unlimited motivation letters sit in the CHF 15 monthly plan, which renews monthly, is cancellable in one click and carries a seven-day money-back guarantee.

Best for: someone who wants a Swiss-shaped document in English and searches for jobs elsewhere. The limits: you paste the advert yourself, since cvswiss holds no vacancies of its own, and the provider states that its AI features are rate-limited.

ChatGPT

For the prose itself nothing here beats a chat: you can rewrite a paragraph ten times, change the register, and throw away an opening without starting again. OpenAI's Swiss pricing page describes the free tier as unlimited text chats; the paid tiers are Go, Plus and Pro, and the page renders their amounts only inside the product.

What it does not have is your material. It knows neither the advert nor your CV until you paste both, and it tends towards American conventions — a resume rather than a CV, no permit line, no reference to the Arbeitszeugnisse, and a length that drifts past the one page Swiss employers expect.

Best for: the raw text, and for the sentences you cannot get right. Not the tool if you need a finished document at the end: page breaks, the sender block and the PDF all happen somewhere else.

Kickresume

An EU-based builder whose cover-letter side is unusually complete: forty letter templates that match the CV templates, a separate AI cover-letter writer, and a free tier that is genuinely usable — four matching letter templates, unlimited cover letters and unlimited downloads without paying.

Price on 28 August 2026, billed in euros: EUR 24 a month, EUR 54 a quarter or EUR 96 a year — roughly CHF 22, CHF 51 and CHF 90 at the European Central Bank reference rate of the same day. Students and teachers get Premium free on proof of status. Data is hosted in the European Union.

Best for: applications outside Switzerland, and for anyone who wants the letter and the CV to look like one designed pair. The limits are the Swiss ones: no French interface at all, prices never shown in francs, and none of the three fields a Swiss dossier turns on.

Zety

A large international builder with its own cover-letter tool and templates matched to the CV. The free tier includes the builder and the templates, but the download is a plain text file — no layout at all.

Price on 28 August 2026, billed in dollars: USD 1.95 for a fourteen-day trial, after which it auto-renews at USD 25.95 every four weeks; the annual package is USD 71.40 at once. That is roughly CHF 1.55, CHF 21 and CHF 57. This is exactly where bewerbung.ch is the better choice: it never renews by itself, and says so on every offer.

Best for: English-language applications to international employers who expect the American pattern. For a Swiss file it leaves out the same three things every international tool does.

Europass

The European Commission's tool, free with no paid tier. The editor walks you through the letter step by step, stores it in your Europass library and works in thirty-one languages. Its written guidance is short and sound: read the vacancy notice carefully, reuse its keywords, keep to one page, and structure the letter in three paragraphs — why you are applying, why you fit, why the employer fits you.

Price: nothing. An EU Login account is required, as for every Europass tool.

Best for: applying across borders, and for anyone who wants structure rather than styling. The limit is Switzerland itself: the document follows an EU convention and knows nothing about the permit line, the Arbeitszeugnisse or the photo Swiss employers still expect, and it has no connection to a specific advert.

Which one to pick

Answering Swiss adverts over several weeks: SwissJobs.app, because the letter is built from the advert and your own CV and its language is chosen per letter. A single Swiss-shaped letter in English at the lowest entry price: cvswiss.ch. An apprenticeship, a careers class, or no running subscription: bewerbung.ch — and it is the only one here with a guest mode.

The raw text and difficult sentences: ChatGPT. A letter and CV that look like one designed pair, mostly for jobs outside Switzerland: Kickresume. Applications to international employers expecting the American pattern: Zety, with an eye on the auto-renewal. Cross-border applications and a free, structured format: Europass. And if you are registered with an RAV, take the free advice before paying for any of this.

As of 28 August 2026. Prices and features change; every figure here was read on the provider's own page that day.