SwissJobs.app or lebenslauf.ch — which Swiss CV tool is right for me?

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

   Add your current CV and a Swiss advert, AI writes one tailored to it. Free to start, no signup.

   SwissJobs.app →

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   2. lebenslauf.ch

   Free, but you write the whole CV yourself in an empty form. Every line from scratch, no AI help.

   lebenslauf.ch →

Feature comparison

Everything about lebenslauf.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 lebenslauf.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".

Why a star rating is the wrong unit in this particular market

A row of stars does not answer the question the advert asked. An employer does not write "German: four out of five"; it names a level, and the person reading your dossier checks one against the other. Four filled stars force that reader to invent a conversion, and an invented conversion does not go your way when there are twenty dossiers on the desk.

The size of the problem is measurable rather than assertable. Across open, non-apprenticeship adverts whose language we could identify, 89.9 per cent state at least one language requirement and 28.8 per cent name two or more different languages. Among English-language Swiss adverts specifically, 92.5 per cent state a requirement and 30.3 per cent name two or more — the English-language slice of this market asks for more languages, not fewer. English itself is wanted in 91.8 per cent of them and German in 23.6 per cent.

Read that last pair slowly if you are applying from abroad. Roughly one English-language Swiss advert in four also wants German, and the level attached to it is the whole question — a job asking for conversational German is open to you in a way that a job asking for professional German is not. That distinction is exactly what a five-star bar cannot carry. In fairness, the free caption field beside the stars lets you type "C1" yourself; most people do not fill in a free text box when a tidy slider sits next to it.

What their personal-details block gets right, and we do not

There is a quick test for whether a CV tool was really built for Switzerland: look for a field labelled Heimatort. Germany has no such concept, France has none, the United States certainly has none. It is your place of citizenship in the communal sense — an ancestral registration, not where you live or were born — and it appears on Swiss documents where other countries would print nothing at all.

lebenslauf.ch has that field, sitting next to the one for your residence permit. Their editor also carries civil status, children, place of birth and driving licence — the classic Swiss Personalien block, complete. The site is run by a Swiss staffing agency, and this is the place where that shows.

Our own editor sets the permit line and does not have a separate Heimatort field. That is a gap and we would rather write it down than leave it out: if you want every traditional field of a Swiss personal-details block present as its own field, theirs is the more complete one. It is also worth saying that for a foreign applicant the permit line does more work than the Heimatort — a Heimatort is something Swiss nationals have, and a recruiter reading your dossier from abroad is looking for the B, C or G.

The thing one tool does that the other does not

The difference is not a feature count, it is the starting point. A template tool starts at the blank document: you fill in your details and receive a layout. We start at the advert. You find the job in our own index of Swiss postings, select it, and the CV is written from the text of that posting — every section aimed at that one job rather than at an average of all of them. Afterwards you can edit any line by hand, or tell the document in plain language to change something.

We are not alone in the world on this and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise: cvswiss.ch sells per-advert tailoring as its headline feature. Our checkable difference is narrower — there you paste the posting in yourself, here the advert text is already present, because the job board and the CV tool are the same product.

Nor do we promise that a CV "passes" an applicant tracking system. Nobody can see inside an employer’s filter, and anyone claiming otherwise is selling something. The defensible mechanism is smaller: a CV that uses the advert’s own vocabulary matches a keyword-based search better than a generic one does.

A cover letter already sitting in their code

One find lets you predict where they are going. The lebenslauf.ch application ships a route that requests an AI-written cover letter for a combination of a CV and a vacancy id. That code goes to every browser that opens the editor today. On the landing page, "Direkt bewerben" is still marked "coming soon", and the address itself answers with the ordinary German landing page, so it is not open as an entry point.

So if you read somewhere that lebenslauf.ch has nothing to do with artificial intelligence, you are reading something the summer has overtaken. The work is underway. We write this down because a comparison that makes a competitor smaller than they are becomes worthless the day the feature appears.

Three features carry the "coming soon" marker, and they are the same three as on 24 August: importing an existing CV as a PDF, uploading attachments — the line that names diplomas and Arbeitszeugnisse — and applying directly. The footer still carries last year’s copyright line.

If you are applying to Switzerland from outside it

The single most useful thing to know is that the Swiss dossier is not a resume with different spelling. It runs to two pages rather than one without apology, it expects a photograph where British and American advice tells you to leave one off, and it is normally accompanied by scans of your Arbeitszeugnisse — reference letters your previous employer wrote when you left, which in Switzerland are a legal entitlement and which recruiters genuinely read.

The permit line is the other thing nobody tells you. A Swiss employer reading a foreign name wants to know immediately whether hiring you involves a permit process. Stating "EU/EFTA national, eligible for a B permit" near the top removes a question that would otherwise be answered by putting your dossier aside. Both tools have somewhere to put that line; only one of them will show you the interface in English while you do it.

Which language the advert is written in also decides who may apply, and the split is not what most arrivals assume. Across our open postings, German is required in 42.1 per cent, English in 31.8 per cent, French in 14.6 per cent and Italian in 2.4 per cent. English is genuinely a working language of this market — but as the figures above show, an English-language advert is also the most likely to want a second language on top.

Short version: who should use which

Use lebenslauf.ch if you read German, need exactly one CV and will barely touch it afterwards, care that no account is demanded at all, want to control how the page looks, or want the most complete Swiss personal-details block including Heimatort.

Use SwissJobs.app if you are working through a series of applications and do not want to send the same sheet twenty times; if you want the CV written from the advert rather than rewritten by you; if you need Word as well as PDF; if you are registered with an RAV and would rather not fill in the job-search-efforts sheet by hand each month; or if you simply need the tool to be in English, French or Italian.

One line belongs with that last point: job-search efforts must be recorded with the official service for them to count. We produce the filled sheet from the applications you have tracked; whether it is accepted is your RAV’s decision, not ours.