What is an alternative to Resume Worded?

Feature comparison

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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.

What Resume Worded actually offers, read on 24 August 2026

Score My Resume is the core: upload a CV, get a number out of 100 and feedback pinned to individual lines. The checks are published — quantified results rather than duties, growth and leadership signals, brevity, verbs, filler, section completeness and whether screening software can read the file. The homepage says «30+ recruiter checks» while the information page says «20+ checks»; the order of magnitude is consistent, the exact figure is not the same on both pages.

Four other tools sit around it. AutoFix rewrites the weak lines itself and asks you for the numbers it is missing. Targeted Resume produces a second score — a relevancy score against a pasted job description. An ATS scanner shows the parsed text a screening system would extract. There is also a cover-letter generator, a library of 250+ sample bullet points and a LinkedIn profile review.

Payment is in US dollars through a reseller. On 24 August 2026 the Get Pro page listed $49 a month, $99 a quarter and $229 a year. The free tier keeps the score and the headline issues — enough to see where your text stands, not enough to work through it line by line.

Where Resume Worded is genuinely the better choice

This belongs near the top rather than the bottom, because for a large part of this page's readership Resume Worded is the right answer. If you moved here for a job in an English-speaking team, or you are applying to a bank, a pharma group or a tech company that recruits in English, you are inside the market this tool was built for.

It also does three things we do not. The score is reproducible: the same text produces the same number, so you can edit, re-upload and measure whether you improved. We have nothing equivalent — our feedback is prose, not a metric you can track. Second, the LinkedIn review. Swiss recruiters search LinkedIn exactly as recruiters elsewhere do, and we offer no profile check at all. Third, the sample-line library: 250+ phrasings taken from CVs that led to interviews, sorted by field, which is more use in front of a blank line than any checker.

And their first score costs nothing at all. Ours is free too, but it requires an account, which is a higher bar. We would rather say that plainly than let you find out after clicking.

The upload box, and the arithmetic behind it

One sentence above the upload box decides most of this comparison: «English resumes in PDF or DOCX only. Max 2MB file size.» It is not a setting you can switch. If your CV is in German, French or Italian, the product does not take it, and their help centre has no article about other languages.

How much of the Swiss market stays reachable with an English CV? Of the open adverts in our index that state a language requirement, 18.8 per cent are satisfied by English alone. That share is real and it is not small — roughly one advert in five, concentrated in international companies, research, IT and finance, which is exactly where many English-speaking arrivals are looking.

The other four fifths are where the tool stops helping. 22.4 per cent want English alongside a national language, and there the employer decides which language the dossier arrives in — in Zurich or Bern that is usually German, in Geneva or Lausanne usually French. 58.8 per cent do not mention English at all.

The trap is the English-language advert. Being written in English says something about the working language of the team, not about the application: 20.7 per cent of English-language adverts require German, French or Italian at professional level anyway. If you have been in Switzerland a while you already know this; if you are applying from abroad, it is the assumption most worth checking before you send.

A dossier is not a resume, and a resume score does not measure one

Whatever your CV looks like now, Switzerland expects a specific set of documents. arbeit.swiss lists them: cover letter, CV, work references, diplomas and certificates, with referees named on request. On the CV itself it says it «should be no longer than three pages», that the usual contents include «personal details, including photograph» and a separate section for language skills, and that the whole thing should be structured chronologically, most recent first.

Three of those cut against what an American-shaped checker rewards. Length: brevity is one of their checks, while the Swiss federal guidance allows three pages. The photograph: their ATS scanner flags graphics as formatting a parser handles badly, while the federal page lists a photo as a normal element. And the attachments: work references «must not contain any gaps» and belong in the same PDF as everything else — a file that reaches a 2 MB ceiling quickly.

Language skills are the sharpest difference, and the one that costs interviews. Swiss adverts state a level: across all requirements in our index 83.8 per cent are professional, 11.8 per cent conversational, 2.9 per cent native and 1.4 per cent basic. A CV that says «fluent German» has not answered the question a Swiss recruiter asked; one that says «German C1» has. American resume advice never covers this, because the question is never put that way there.

Two more Swiss items no resume checker has a field for: the workload, advertised as a percentage — 80 per cent, 100 per cent — which your application is expected to respond to; and the permit line, which non-Swiss applicants are expected to state plainly (B, C, G or EU/EFTA with a start date). Neither is a formatting question. Both decide whether a recruiter reads on.

How SwissJobs.app approaches the same job, and the price

Our CV check runs against a specific advert, and the route into it starts in the job search: open an advert, continue to the check, and the advert text is already loaded. Found the job elsewhere? Paste it. No advert at all? The check runs against Swiss conventions instead. The write-up you get back is in whatever language the site is set to for you, English included.

That is the part an international tool cannot copy without building a Swiss job index first. Tailoring itself is not our invention — cvswiss.ch leads its own feature page with it — but they, and Resume Worded, ask you to paste the posting. We already hold the Swiss adverts, in four languages, refreshed daily.

Cost: the check itself is free, an account is not optional. Payment starts at the point you download a finished document — CHF 15 monthly, or CHF 95 for a full year, a shade under eight francs a month. Billed in francs, so no exchange rate and no foreign-currency card fee.

What we do not have, in the same breath: no reproducible 0–100 score, no LinkedIn review, no parse preview, no sample-line library, and an account requirement where they have none. If those are what you came for, they are the better tool.

Our recommendation, labelled as one: if you are applying in English to employers who hire in English, use Resume Worded — it is built for that and does it well. If your CV is in a national language, or you want it read against a specific Swiss advert and against Swiss dossier conventions, use SwissJobs.app. And whichever you use, put the permit line and the CEFR levels in — neither tool will fail you for leaving them out, but Swiss recruiters will.