SwissJobs.app or cvswiss.ch — what do they cost, and what can each one do?

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. cvswiss.ch

   AI-written Swiss CV in five minutes.

   cvswiss.ch →

Feature comparison

Everything about cvswiss.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 cvswiss.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".

What cvswiss.ch costs on 4 September 2026

Their pricing page offers two routes. "Single CV" is CHF 5 one-time, explicitly for the case "if you’re only applying to one job", and includes one professional PDF download plus a credit that never expires; beneath the price it says "No edits after download". The "Job-Search Abo" is CHF 15 a month and covers unlimited CVs and motivation letters, the AI job hunt, the official RAV/ORP form export and German, French, Italian and English. It renews monthly, cancels in one click, and the page promises a seven-day money-back guarantee.

The free tier is honestly described and more useful than it sounds: creating and previewing cost nothing, and the watermarked download stays free. What that watermark looks like is written into their own web application: "CVSWISS.CH · PREVIEW" across the page, with a footer line offering to remove it for CHF 5. Also in that text, and not on the pricing page: downloading without the watermark requires signing in or creating an account.

Read only the pricing card and you see two numbers. The application text names more: a thirty-day pass at the same CHF 15, a ninety-day one, a bundle of CV and letter credits, and add-on packs for further motivation letters. That is not a complaint — credits bought one at a time are the kinder shape for someone making few applications. It does mean the price depends on which door you come in through, and that the two numbers on the pricing page are not the whole list.

One contradiction survives from our August reading. The pricing card says "No edits after download"; the FAQ on the same home page says the CV stays in your account and can be edited, re-templated and downloaded again at any time. We are not resolving that, we are pointing at it — and recommending you read both places yourself before paying. The same goes for this page.

What SwissJobs.app costs — and where the free line actually falls

Our own tiers are in the code rather than in the marketing, and we read them there today. The editor opens with no account: an anonymous request to our own start routine comes back with a finished document in the Swiss format, without anyone being asked for an email address. The moment something has to be saved, or rewritten against an advert, the routes require an account — asked anonymously, they refuse. A free account costs an email address and no card, and allows five documents a day and ten per rolling week, the same numbers for AI editing instructions, and five motivation letters a day with ten a month.

The file itself is the paid step, and we would rather say that plainly than hide it behind "free to try": building and previewing stay free, taking the result away does not. The download — PDF as much as Word — needs active access, which means the seven-day trial or the subscription at CHF 15 a month, or CHF 95 a year, roughly CHF 7.92 a month.

That turns the comparison against us at exactly one point: on cvswiss.ch you can reach a real file without spending a franc, if the watermark does not bother you. With us you cannot. In the other direction, nothing we produce is ever watermarked, and the Word version sits in the same tier as the PDF instead of one tier above it.

Why Word matters at all: a DOCX is the version other people write into. Recruitment agencies put their logo on it, RAV advisers annotate it, and anyone reusing a template from the internet needs it anyway. Ours is built from the same document you see on screen, accent colour included.

The question that decides the price: how many CVs do you need?

CHF 5 per CV against CHF 15 a month — the threshold is three. From the third tailored CV inside one month, either subscription is cheaper than buying them singly, and from the fourth it is clearly cheaper. Below three the one-off wins, against our subscription exactly as much as against theirs. So the question is not which tool is cheaper. It is how many applications your occupation is currently offering you.

That can be measured. We counted, across our own stock of open Swiss adverts, how many comparable vacancies are advertised at the same moment — apprenticeships and internships excluded, and under a deliberately strict rule: two adverts count as comparable only if two occupation words in their titles match once gender tags, workload, place, reference numbers and contract type have been stripped out. That rule undercounts rather than flatters.

The result: 51.3 per cent of open adverts have at least two further comparable vacancies open at the same time — so for a good half of the market the three-application threshold is already met today, without a single new posting appearing. For 25.6 per cent there are ten or more. Against that stand 35.2 per cent alone in their niche: one title, and no second of its kind anywhere in the stock.

Loosen the rule to a single matching occupation word and the numbers climb steeply — the median advert then has thirty siblings and 86 per cent sit above the threshold. We publish the strict figure deliberately, because it carries the claim we are making: even counted conservatively, most job seekers are in the subscription case rather than the single-purchase case.

Split by the language the advert is written in, the picture separates, and the chart shows the spread: among German-language adverts 23.0 per cent have ten or more comparable vacancies open at once, among English-language ones 16.2, among French 12.6 and among Italian 8.0 per cent. If you are applying in English from abroad, you are in the middle of that range — enough parallel openings to make per-CV pricing expensive, but fewer than a German-speaking applicant in the same trade.

The RAV form: both do it, by different routes

This is the row that has changed since we last checked, and it has not changed in our favour. cvswiss.ch now runs an application tracker of its own and fills the official federal form from it in German, French or Italian. Logging is free there; the export belongs to the subscription. Anyone reading elsewhere that we are the only ones with this feature is reading something out of date.

Our route is the same idea weighted differently: the applications you logged fill the real fields of the official form, the file is produced in the browser from the federal template in the relevant language, and the first export after signing up is free — the payment question arrives with the second month. For someone who needs one sheet once, that is the shorter path; for someone filing every month for a year, the difference is small.

More important than either tool is the rule behind them, and we read it in the ordinance rather than quoting it from memory. Article 26 of the Unemployment Insurance Ordinance, in the version in force since 1 August 2026, requires two things: the insured person must make targeted efforts to find work, "as a rule in the form of an ordinary application", and must submit proof of those efforts for each control period "no later than the fifth day of the following month" — let the deadline pass without an excusable reason and the efforts are no longer taken into account. The competent office reviews them monthly.

One number is expressly not in that article: how many applications per month are required. The cvswiss.ch page says "as a rule 10 to 12 applications a month" and cites the article behind it; that range is common cantonal practice, but the ordinance does not prescribe it. What counts is what your RAV office agrees with you. And in every case only what arrives there on time counts — both tools fill in paper, you are the one who submits it.

Who should take which

For most people applying continuously in Switzerland we recommend SwissJobs.app — openly, as a recommendation for our own product. The reason is not price, which is identical in the subscription, but the combination inside one tier: PDF and Word without a watermark, the advert taken from our own search rather than from the clipboard, four languages with their own pages, and the job-search-efforts form built from the same applications you were logging anyway.

Take cvswiss.ch if you are writing exactly one application. CHF 5 once beats any monthly subscription, ours included, and the credit does not expire. Take it too if you need a real file without paying anything and can live with a watermark — that route does not exist with us.

Take cvswiss.ch as well if you need your CV in a language that is not official here. Their nine are not arbitrary: alongside German, French, Italian and English they carry Spanish, Portuguese, Albanian, Serbian and Croatian — precisely the languages of Switzerland’s large immigrant communities. If you would rather draft in your own language and translate afterwards, they solve that and we do not.

And take their ATS check if all you want is a quick second opinion on an existing PDF: no account, no detour. Ours asks for one.

One thing neither tool asks for, which matters if you are reading this from outside the country: neither requires a Swiss address or an AHV number to sign up. You can prepare a Swiss-format dossier before you have either. What you cannot do from abroad is register with an RAV office — that follows residence and unemployment here, not the CV.