SwissJobs.app or Resume.io — what do they cost, and what do they do?

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.

One product, twenty-six doors — and the English one costs the most

At the bottom of every Resume.io page sits a country picker. It lists twenty-six countries plus an international version, and nearly every country gets its own domain: cvapp.de for Germany, cvapp.fr for France, cvapp.it for Italy, lebenslaufapp.at for Austria, lebenslaufapp.ch for Switzerland. It is the same application with the same templates. The price is not the same at all.

Read on 4 September 2026 from a connection in Switzerland: the international site quotes USD 29.95 every four weeks after the trial, and USD 49.95 quarterly. The British edition quotes GBP 20.95 every four weeks. The Swiss address quotes CHF 14.95 a month. The French and Italian editions quote CHF 12.95 — the same currency, to the same visitor, roughly two francs less than the Swiss door.

Four weeks is not a month, which matters more than it looks: thirteen bills a year at CHF 12.95 come to CHF 168.35, twelve monthly bills at CHF 14.95 come to CHF 179.40. Every edition we read prints "billed every four weeks" under the monthly figure except the Swiss one, which says only "per month".

For a reader arriving from outside Switzerland this is the practical point. Searching in English lands you on the dollar tariff, which is roughly double what the same product costs behind the French door. Nothing stops you from picking a different country at the bottom of the page — but nothing tells you to, either.

The honest part first: over twelve months they are cheaper than we are

CHF 74.95 once for twelve months, with their card stating plainly that no cancellation is necessary, is less than our CHF 95 for a year — and it is less to think about, because their payment simply ends while our subscription has to be stopped. If you write your own CV and mainly want a good-looking, tested shell for it, you will pay less there. That is arithmetic, not positioning, and it goes against us.

On the monthly route the gap disappears: CHF 14.95 against our CHF 15 is five centimes. Between these two tools price is not the argument unless you pay up front. What the money buys is.

The free advert checker exists — just not behind every door

Resume.io runs a free CV checker. It accepts a file — "PDF & DOCX only (max 2MB)" — runs what it calls sixteen essential checks, and then does the thing a Swiss application actually needs — their own instruction is to "paste in a job description", after which the tool tunes the CV towards that particular role. It is genuinely useful, it costs nothing, and we do not have a like-for-like replacement for it.

It is also not everywhere. On 4 September 2026 that address answered on the international site, on the German edition and on the Italian one. On the Swiss and the French editions the same path returned a bare "not_found". The help centre the Swiss pages link to did not serve articles either, only an error; the international help centre answered normally.

So an English-speaking reader has an odd choice: the checker is on the site you land on, but the Swiss product you would actually be applying with is behind a German-only door where it is missing. Ours works the other way round. Our check runs once without an account and without a card, then asks for a free one — and because the adverts sit on the same pages as the editor, there is no job description to hunt down and paste. It is already there.

The document is a CV and not a resume, and the gap shows up as fields

If you are moving to Switzerland, the format you are used to is not the one that gets read here. A Swiss application expects Arbeitszeugnisse, the written references every employer issues on leaving; a photograph at the top, which is normal here and frowned upon across much of the English-speaking world; a plain statement of your residence permit unless your passport is Swiss; each language marked at its level on the A1-to-C2 scale instead of being called good or fluent; the workload given in per cent, which is what a Pensum is; and a document running to two pages rather than one.

Resume.io knows some of this. Their Swiss CV guide, updated in August 2026, gets the photo right, warns against the loud American register, notes that references are customary, and explains that Swiss German writing uses ss and never ß. That is more Swiss substance than most international builders ever write down.

What it does not do is turn any of that into the product. Arbeitszeugnisse are absent from the page. So is the permit line, and so is the Pensum. The sample CV on that same page lists three languages with no level attached to any of them, and prints its dates in English — "January 2013 — September 2019" — in the middle of a German document. A guide tells you what belongs. A form makes sure you do not forget it, and that is where ours differs: the permit is a field, and the language row asks for the level.

Thirty-eight templates against fifty-four variations — not the same claim

Their gallery lists thirty-eight named CV templates. Five are free, thirty-three are marked Premium. Eleven appear under the "Word (docx)" filter and twenty-two under the photo filter. Two are Japanese application forms, Rirekisho and Shokumukeirekisho, which tells you plainly what this company is built for.

Our number is 54 and it is a different sort of number: 2 layouts by 3 fonts by 9 accent colours, all three numbers checked in our code this morning, and any combination of them is yours. Those are variations of a single Swiss-convention layout, not thirty-eight independently designed ones. If visual variety is what you want, they have more of it. If you want a shape that looks unremarkable on a Swiss desk, we are the better fit.

The difference that decides an application sits a level below either number anyway. A template changes how a CV looks. We change what it says — section by section, against the text of one advert, in about a minute, after which any line can be edited by hand or rewritten on instruction.

Which law your dossier sits under

The privacy policy on the Swiss address names Talent, Inc. and its subsidiaries as the company processing your data. Structurally it has two annexes: one for people resident in the European Economic Area, built on the GDPR, and one for residents of the United States.

Switzerland is in neither. It is not part of the European Economic Area, and Swiss data-protection law is not mentioned anywhere in the document — we looked for it and found nothing. That is not legal advice and for many readers it will not be a reason to walk away. It is simply a fact worth knowing before uploading a complete CV with your address, date of birth and a list of your employers.

Their own cookie notice on the same site is unusually direct about data possibly travelling to the United States, and the US annex says that name, email address and other details are shared with marketing partners in a way some laws count as a sale. Those are their words, not our characterisation of them.

Who each one is right for

Choose Resume.io if you write your own CV and mainly want a proven shape for it; if you would rather pay once for twelve months and have nothing to cancel; if you want a free score on a file you already have; or if your search does not stop at the Swiss border. A company running national editions from Denmark through Mexico to Japan is built for job hunting across borders; we are built for one country. Their own rating widget reports roughly fifty-six thousand Trustpilot reviews at 4.2 out of 5 for the international site, against 40 reviews at 4.5 for the Swiss edition. Both numbers are on their pages, and both say something: enormous reach abroad, a very small audience here.

Stay with SwissJobs.app if your applications go to Swiss adverts and the CV should be cut to one of them rather than to all of them at once; if you would rather not have to remember the permit row, the language levels and the two-page habit every time; if you work in French or Italian; or if you have to show the cantonal unemployment office your job-search efforts and would rather not copy the form out by hand.

And if the comparison you actually want is against the Swiss edition specifically — card by card, clause by clause — that head-to-head is a separate page on this site.