SwissJobs.app or Enhancv — which fits Swiss applications?

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.

A useful thing to know before you pay: the language page changes the price

Enhancv runs four pricing pages for the same PRO tier and they do not name the same amount. The English page bills in dollars: USD 39 monthly, USD 69 quarterly, USD 99 for six months. The German page bills in euros and is cheaper by the month but dearer by the half-year: EUR 28.76, EUR 58.51, EUR 98.18. The French page sits at EUR 29 / EUR 59 / EUR 99 and the Italian at EUR 29.49 / EUR 59.99 / EUR 100.65. All four figures come from the structured data those same pages publish, read on 4 September 2026 — the visible price tiles are only computed once a browser runs them.

For anyone paying from Switzerland that has two consequences. There is no franc price, so the exchange rate and, depending on the card, a foreign-currency fee sit on top of whatever is shown. And which language page you happen to land on is part of the bill: the six-month plan is about CHF 80 on the English page and about CHF 92 on the German one, the same product, twelve francs apart, because the menu was in a different language.

That English six-month plan is also where Enhancv beats us outright. Spread across thirty days it comes to roughly CHF 13.35, under our CHF 15 a month. If you can pay six months up front in dollars, Enhancv is the cheaper monthly access, and no amount of arguing changes that. It only flips over twelve months — two six-month plans are about CHF 160 against our CHF 95 — and it flips hard if you want a single month, where Enhancv charges about CHF 31.55.

The line a Swiss CV needs and the editor has no rung for

The code Enhancv serves to every browser carries its own labels, so the language section can simply be read. It has exactly five rungs behind a slider: "Beginner", "Intermediate", "Advanced", "Proficient", "Native" — in the German build "Anfänger" through "Muttersprachler", in the French one "Débutant" through "Langue maternelle". What the shipped code does not contain anywhere is A1, B2, C1, C2 or the name of the reference framework itself.

This is exactly the line a Swiss reader of your dossier looks at. We counted the language requirements across our own adverts and published the result on its own page: four out of five adverts that state a level at all ask for professional working proficiency, and fewer than three requirements in a hundred ask for native. Enhancv's five rungs therefore give top billing to the requirement almost nobody makes, and offer nothing for the one almost everybody makes.

In practice, "German — Advanced" does not answer an advert asking for "German C1, French B2". You can of course type the level into the language name by hand — but the slider then keeps a scale beside it that says something else. Our template carries the level in the field hint itself, in all four languages: "Language — level (e.g. German — native, English — B2)".

One more line that matters if you are applying from abroad: the residence permit. Swiss adverts and Swiss recruiters expect to see which permit you hold or need, and it belongs near the top of the document. Enhancv's header offers date of birth and nationality, which is already more European than a US resume — but there is no permit field. On our side the permit is a profile field printed into the CV header and the sidebar. Neither tool, for the record, asks for a Swiss address or a social-security number to sign up, so both work from outside the country.

84 templates against 54 variations, and what the difference actually is

Enhancv's template page lists 84 named templates. That is far more designed layouts than we have, and it is their real advantage: if choice of appearance is what you are shopping for, they have it and we do not.

Ours comes out of an arithmetic rather than a catalogue: 2 layouts times 3 fonts times 9 accent colours is 54 design variations, freely mixed, all on one Swiss-convention format. Stating it that way is more honest than a bare number, and it is a different thing from 84 designs. Their 84 change how a CV looks. Our generation changes what it says.

What the 84 are named after is the more telling part. Eleven carry the name of a US institution or a US education path: "Ivy League" four times over, plus "Harvard", "Federal", "MBA Application", "College" three times and "High School". A Federal Resume is a specific United States government application format with no Swiss counterpart at all. Not one of the 84 is named after a European country or a European convention. That is not an accusation — it is a description of a product designed for another market, where it is genuinely good.

Word, PDF, and where the free path stops at both tools

Enhancv's pricing-page FAQ answers the Word question flatly, as read on 4 September 2026: "Our resumes download as a PDF, which ensures your resume always looks exactly the way you designed it." Inside the shipped app the picture is slightly finer. The download dialog puts PDF on a wide primary button, the file-name field is fixed to the .pdf ending, and beside it sit "send the PDF to your email" and a TXT link. A Word button does exist — but it is only drawn when the active subscription is the business tier, which is not one of the four plans on the consumer pricing page. For an ordinary job seeker, in other words, their FAQ is accurate.

We export PDF and Word, both unwatermarked, both on the ordinary CHF 15 tier. Our Word file has a limitation that appears on none of our own marketing pages, so it belongs here: the export carries no images, which means the application photo does not survive into the .docx. Since a photo is conventional in a Swiss application rather than discouraged as it is in the US or the UK, the practical advice is to send the PDF and keep the Word file for what it is good for — when an agency or an internal recruiter wants to edit the document.

On accounts the two tools are more alike than we would like to claim. Both let you build without signing up, and at both the download button opens an auth dialog if you are not signed in. The difference is what happens after: a free account here may create 5 documents a day and 10 per rolling week, while Enhancv's free plan runs seven days and prints its own branding onto the document.

How much Switzerland is in Enhancv — counted, not asserted

Rather than assert that an international tool does not know Switzerland, you can count it. Enhancv publishes a directory of its pages for each language. The German one lists 219 addresses, the French 231, the Italian 234 — 684 between them. Exactly one carries a Swiss term, and it is an Italian blog article about working in Switzerland. In German and in French: none.

That single Italian article is genuinely good, and it deserves saying. It explains the Swiss data-protection clause, tells the reader to quote budgets in francs with the Swiss thousands separator, names the four official languages, and warns that Swiss recruiters prefer conservative layouts over the creative ones Enhancv is known for. It is a better Swiss CV guide than most.

The German article that mentions Switzerland is the one about the application photo, and its country table gets Switzerland right: photo common, but voluntary. The article around it, though, is written for Germany — it argues from the German equal-treatment act, and Switzerland is a single row in a table of eleven countries. That is the shape of the whole thing: Switzerland exists in Enhancv as an entry in a list of markets, not as the market the product was designed around.

Who should pick which

Pick Enhancv if appearance decides it: 84 designed templates, thousands of colour and font combinations, plus a job tracker, a browser extension, AI mock interviews and a translation feature that moves a finished CV between nine languages while keeping the formatting. Pick it if most of your applications go to the US, the UK or a global employer, where its format is right and ours would be over-adapted. And pick it if you can pay six months ahead in dollars and want the lowest monthly cost.

Pick SwissJobs.app if the adverts you are answering are Swiss. Then it matters that the CV is written out of the advert text instead of a blank template, that the permit has its own field, that languages appear as levels, that PDF and Word both come out unwatermarked, and that the job-search-efforts sheet the unemployment insurance requires is filled from your tracked applications. On that last point the rule stays the rule: we fill the sheet in, your regional employment office is what recognises it, and what counts is their decision and not ours.

And if neither describes you — you have a CV, it works, you just want it to look different — neither subscription is the answer yet. Enhancv gives you seven free days; we give a free account with 5 documents a day. Paying for either starts to make sense at the point where you build a separate dossier for each advert, and that is precisely the point at which the two tools stop being interchangeable.