SwissJobs.app or cv-easy.ch — CHF 12 one-off or AI per advert?

The two landing pages side by side

Both captured on 4 September 2026 at 1440 pixels wide, so the comparison is fair.

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   1. SwissJobs.appOur app

   Build a Swiss CV straight from a job advert, no signup.

   SwissJobs.app →

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   2. cv-easy.ch

   Done in 10 minutes, CHF 12 one-off.

   cv-easy.ch →

Feature comparison

Everything about cv-easy.ch was read from the vendor's own page on 4 September 2026; our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow. "not stated" means it could not be read on their site — not "does not exist".

Pricing side by side

Everything about cv-easy.ch was read from the vendor's own page on 4 September 2026; our rows come from the code (lib/stripe/trialConfig.ts) and from walking the live flow. "not stated" means it could not be read on their site — not "does not exist".

The prices, worked out rather than quoted

CHF 12 for fourteen days works out at CHF 25.70 per thirty days — the most expensive access in this comparison. But the price collapses the moment you extend: CHF 5 buys another fourteen days, CHF 9 thirty, CHF 19 ninety. That large extension is CHF 6.30 per thirty days, which makes it the cheapest access on this page by a distance.

Ours sits in between. After the seven-day trial it is CHF 15 a month; on the yearly price of CHF 95 it is CHF 7.90 per thirty days. Add it up over a full year of uninterrupted access and cv-easy.ch costs CHF 12 to start plus four extensions at CHF 19 — CHF 88 for roughly 374 days, against our CHF 95 for 365. Over the long distance we are the dearer option, and there is no point dressing that up.

There is exactly one shape of search in which we come out cheaper than any one-off product: the first week. Finish the CV inside seven days and download it in that time, and it costs nothing. The catch is equally plain — that requires an account and a card on file, and the trial has to be cancelled if you want it to stop there. At cv-easy.ch there is no account, no card kept on file and nothing to cancel: one payment and you are done.

What the fourteen days mean — and why that is not only a drawback

The same deadline appears twice in the cv-easy.ch small print: editing access runs for fourteen days, after which the document data and profile photos held on their side are deleted or marked for deletion. Their FAQ adds the practical sentence — download your PDFs before then and keep them yourself. There is no archive and, in their own words, no backup service.

For a share of readers that is not a shortcoming but the reason to buy there. If you would rather not leave your career history, your photograph and your home address sitting on somebody else’s server, you get a deadline instead of an account you would have to remember to delete later. The provider is a Swiss company registered in the canton of Zurich; by its own declaration the processing runs through payment, email, image-hosting, hosting and error-monitoring services in Switzerland, the EEA, the United States or further countries.

With us the bargain runs the other way. Documents stay in the account, one saved version per application, and the advert you wrote against stays with the document. That is why the second application begins somewhere rather than nowhere — and it is exactly what you pay for it: you keep an account.

Their refund rule is worth a line too, because it is unusually clear. Once the CV has been produced and made available as a PDF, a refund is excluded in principle, as far as the law allows. So the point at which you decide whether you like the result is before paying — which is precisely how they have built it, since assembling the document is free.

Where the word “AI” appears in this comparison, and where it does not

Across the nine public pages of cv-easy.ch — home, pricing, templates, blog, FAQ, support, imprint, terms and privacy — the word does not appear once, and it does not appear inside the app either. That is not a gap in their marketing; it is an accurate description of the product. Their own claim is that the template adapts automatically to your profile, and the automatic part is the choice between first job, experienced professional and career changer.

The cover-letter field confirms it. It is a writing surface with a placeholder reading “Dear Sir or Madam” and the opening of an application sentence. The person writing the letter is you. The app’s own controls, likewise, cover saving, downloading, extending and paying — nowhere among them is there anywhere to put an advert.

There is one place where their tool genuinely reads text: the import. You upload a text-based CV as a PDF, it proposes the content it recognised, and it flags the sections it matched with low confidence before you accept the import. Scanned documents are not supported. It is neatly built and honestly labelled — but it tidies the CV you already had. It does not write a new one for a particular advert.

What happens per advert on our side

Our half of this comparison is quickly told, because it consists of one thing: the CV is written from the text of the advert you are answering, in about a minute. After that it is yours — edit any line by hand, and for anything quicker to say than to click, tell the editor what to change. The same holds for the motivation letter.

Swiss convention here is not decoration but the fields themselves: the residence-permit line that applicants without Swiss citizenship state, language skills as A1 to C2 levels rather than “fluent”, the Pensum as a percentage workload, Arbeitszeugnisse — the employer references a Swiss dossier carries — the two-page norm, and a photo convention that sits differently here than in most of Europe.

Two further pieces of equipment matter for this comparison. First the export: PDF and Word, neither watermarked, Word because the people who receive it edit inside the file — recruiters and RAV advisers alike. Second the job-search-efforts sheet: the official unemployment-insurance form, available from us in German, French or Italian, comes back filled in from the applications already sitting in your tracker.

One clarification belongs here, because more is at stake than convenience. Job-search efforts count only where the office handling your registration receives them. We produce the filled-in sheet, not its recognition.

What stays free, in order: building and previewing with no account; with a free account, five documents a day and ten per rolling week, the same figures for letters and for editing instructions; seven days of trial; then CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year.

If you are applying from abroad

Signing up at either one works from anywhere: no Swiss residential address is demanded at the door, and neither wants the social-security number that some services here ask for on the first screen. Both are therefore usable on the day you decide to apply, which spares you the search for a local substitute.

The word to keep hold of is CV, not resume. A Swiss application is a dossier: the norm is two pages rather than one, a photograph is customary where much of the English-speaking world advises against it, language ability is given as a letter level from A1 to C2, workload is written as a percentage, and the employer references themselves are attached instead of a line promising them on request. Both of these tools produce that shape. A generic international builder does not, which is the argument for using either of them over the template gallery you already know.

One caveat is specific to arriving readers. The cv-easy.ch app itself is fully translated — all 550 interface strings exist in English, French and Italian as well, none missing — but the pages around it are German only: pricing, FAQ, terms, privacy and the support form. You can operate the tool in English and still find yourself reading the terms, and writing to support, in German. Our own four language versions each have their own pages, which is the narrow, checkable difference rather than a claim about quality.

Who should use which

Use cv-easy.ch if you have one or two applications in front of you and want to be finished inside a fortnight; if you already know what belongs in your CV and only want a clean Swiss form for it; if you want no account and no subscription; or if it matters to you that your details disappear again after fourteen days. They are also ahead of us on design freedom — any colour you like, sampled off the screen if you wish, against our nine fixed accent colours.

Use SwissJobs.app if the search runs over weeks and several adverts are in play; if the text and not merely the colour should change from one advert to the next; if you need the file as a Word document; if you want the job-search-efforts sheet filled in; or if you are applying in more than one national language and want each document produced in the language of the advert.

And if you are unsure, finding out costs nothing. Both tools let you assemble the document and look at it before any money changes hands. The difference you will see doing that is exactly the one this page is about.