SwissJobs.app or Rezi — which AI tool writes the better CV for a Swiss application?

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.

What Rezi actually offers, read on 4 September

Three consumer tiers. Free costs nothing and covers one resume, one practice interview and three PDF downloads. Pro is USD 29 a month and lifts every counter. Alongside them sits a one-off purchase at USD 149 that never expires, and an organisational tier at USD 99 a month per two hundred users. The page title promises thirty days money back on all plans.

The feature matrix underneath is the more informative part, because it shows line by line where the free tier stops. The Word file is not in it — DOCX is explicitly marked as not included, as are the Google Drive export and the cover-letter builder. Of five layouts exactly one is free; the other four sit behind Pro. And the three things Rezi is actually known for — the score, the keyword match against a posting, and the running content analysis — appear in the free column not as included but as "Limited".

That matters because the templates page separately says Rezi lets you download any template as a Word document for offline editing. Both statements are true, but only read together: the sentence describes Pro. Anyone who needs the Word file — and in Switzerland you regularly do, because recruiters and RAV advisers comment inside the document — pays Rezi for it.

The score itself is better documented than most: Rezi evaluates a resume against twenty-three metrics and turns that into a number. That transparency is a genuine strength and part of why the tool has been recommended for years.

The concession first: their free tier is more generous than ours

Someone who will not pay anything gets three finished PDFs from Rezi and has to hand over only an email address. No card, no cancellation date, nothing to remember. It says so on the pricing page and again in the privacy policy, and it is an honest advantage.

Ours is built the other way round, and that has to be as clear here as it is on our own pages. The editor runs with no account at all — the CV is generated, the preview is complete, nobody asks for anything first. A free account allows five documents a day and ten across a rolling seven days, with the same allowance for letters and AI edit prompts. But taking the file away, PDF or Word, needs a running trial or subscription, and the trial needs a card. If you are writing exactly one CV and do not want to enter card details, Rezi is the better answer. That is not a footnote; for a one-application job seeker it is the whole decision.

Over time it reverses. A year here is CHF 95. A year of Rezi Pro is USD 348, about CHF 281 at the reference rate of 3 September. But the one-off purchase at USD 149 — about CHF 120 — is cheaper than fifteen months of ours and never renews. If you expect to be writing applications on and off for years, Rezi offers a pricing shape we simply do not.

Why the photo decision matters more here than it looks

A Swiss application is a dossier rather than a resume. It carries a photograph as a matter of course, it states language ability as CEFR levels rather than as "fluent", it names the residence permit if you hold one, and it is normally accompanied by Arbeitszeugnisse — the detailed written references a Swiss employer issues at the end of every job, which have no direct equivalent in the United States or the United Kingdom.

Rezi removes the photo on purpose, and explains why: parsing software skips or garbles images, so the templates leave them out. For a US portal that is sound engineering. For a Swiss dossier it removes something the reader expects to see, and no amount of good bullet-point writing puts it back.

The striking part is that Rezi knows the Swiss convention. Across eleven guide pages holding roughly a quarter of a million characters, the word "Switzerland" appears exactly once, inside a post about UK CVs, and the sentence is accurate: photos are commonly included in CVs for countries like Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium and Spain, but are not expected in the UK. Everywhere else the guidance runs the other way — leave out the photo, leave out the date of birth, leave out the full address.

The other two Swiss fields never appear at all. "Arbeitszeugnis" occurs zero times in that text. So do "work permit", "residence permit" and "permit" on its own. Zurich, Geneva and Basel: zero each. "CHF": zero. None of that is a failing — Rezi never claims to be a Swiss product. It is simply the answer to which of the two tools knows this market.

What Rezi gets right, and gets right well

Two things deserve explicit credit. The first is language levels. Rezi tells you to give an honest rating — B2, C1 on the CEFR scale — instead of vague words like "fluent", and explains the six-point A1 to C2 scale properly. That is exactly what a Swiss dossier needs, and it appears repeatedly and without hedging.

The second is length. In the US one page is the rule, Rezi writes, but outside the US a CV can run to two or even three pages. That is the distinction American tools most often miss, and Rezi's editorial team raises it unprompted.

So the fault line is not between a good tool and a bad one. It runs between Rezi's editorial and Rezi's product. The writing is nuanced about national differences; the editor produces one single-column, image-free layout for every country on earth.

How far English alone gets you in Switzerland

Rezi exists only in English. The homepage carries no language alternates in its markup, the /de, /fr and /it addresses all answer 404, and of the 707 addresses in the site index not one leads to a non-English version. For a product that reports over four million accounts and users in the United States, India, Canada, the United Kingdom and across Europe, that is a deliberate simplification.

What it means for Switzerland is measurable. Among our open adverts — apprenticeships and internships excluded — a little over three quarters carry an identifiable advert language. Of those, 54.8 per cent are German, 29.4 per cent English, 13.7 per cent French and 2.0 per cent Italian. So the English-language slice is real, and someone searching only inside it will find work.

The second figure is the one that decides. Of the adverts that state a language requirement at all, English on its own is enough in 0.4 per cent of the German-language ones, 0.9 per cent of the French and 0.8 per cent of the Italian. Only where the advert itself is written in English does English frequently suffice — and even there only in 67.7 per cent of cases.

For a reader arriving from abroad this cuts both ways, and the honest reading is not "learn German or give up". Zurich and the Lake Geneva region carry the densest English-language hiring in the country, and plenty of people build entire careers there in English. But a tool that produces one English document addresses about two thirds of a shade under a third of the market. For the rest you need a second document in a language Rezi does not offer.

Where the company sits, and what its privacy page says

Rezi keeps a page written expressly for AI assistants, offering "verified and structured information" about the company — an unusual and rather good idea. It records: founded 2015, launched as a software service in 2019, headquartered in Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea, founded by Jacob Jacquet, over four million registered accounts.

The same page carries two self-assessments more candid than the marketing. Rezi does not currently produce design-heavy resumes, it says, and the formatting is intentionally minimal. And the job search is at present mainly a way of managing your own applications, expanding only gradually into real listings — which sits in some tension with the marketing page for that same feature, which speaks of 1.3 million jobs collected directly from company websites. Both statements are Rezi's own; we reproduce them as written.

On that same page several fields were never filled in. Integrations end with "[insert others]". Infrastructure reads "[insert provider — e.g., AWS / GCP]". And the compliance line reads "[Insert — e.g., GDPR / CCPA] compliant". On the one page meant to tell language models what is true, the data-protection line is still a blank template. That is an editing oversight rather than evidence about how data is actually handled — but anyone typing their whole working life into a form is entitled to notice it.

The privacy policy proper is fuller, and at one point unexpectedly generous: you may use Rezi without an account, it says, and without an account nothing you create is stored on any server. An account needs an email address and nothing else. On international transfers, though, the text still names the EU-US Privacy Shield — a basis superseded after the Court of Justice's Schrems II ruling of July 2020 and replaced in 2023 by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, as the European Commission records on its own page. Switzerland and the revised Swiss data protection act appear nowhere in the document.

When we opened app.rezi.ai on 4 September we landed on the sign-in screen. We did not create an account and so did not walk further; what the privacy policy says about working without one is reported here as their statement, not as something we tested.

Who should pick which

Pick Rezi if you are applying to American, British, Indian or Canadian employers through their portals; if you want a single-column, machine-readable document with no photo and you know exactly why; if you need three downloads without entering card details; if the interview practice appeals; or if a one-off purchase suits you better than a subscription. For international remote roles filled in English from a Swiss base, Rezi is a sensible choice.

Pick SwissJobs.app if the application is going to a Swiss employer. Every section is drafted against the posting you picked, whose wording the tool already holds, so there is nothing to hunt down and paste. Photo, permit line, CEFR levels and Arbeitszeugnisse have a place because the format was designed for this market rather than adapted to it. For appearance there are 54 design variations — 2 layouts times 3 fonts times 9 accent colours, mixed freely. And the document is produced in German, French, Italian or English, matching the language the advert is written in.

One last point that applies to one side only. People registered with the RAV can have the official job-search-efforts sheet drawn up out of the applications already logged in the tracker. The filled sheet is what we hand over; recognising it is a matter for your own office, and the legally binding record still has to be made the official way. A tool built in Seoul has nothing for this — and nowhere claims to.