Which tool writes a motivation letter matched to the job advert?

The tools’ landing pages compared

All captured on 4 September 2026 at the same window width, so the comparison is fair.

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   1. SwissJobs.appOur app

   CV and motivation letter straight from a Swiss job advert, no signup.

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   2. cvswiss.ch

   AI-written Swiss CV in five minutes.

   cvswiss.ch →

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   3. cv-easy.ch

   Done in 10 minutes, CHF 12 one-off.

   cv-easy.ch →

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   4. lebenslaufapp.ch

   CV and cover letter, free to try.

   lebenslaufapp.ch →

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   5. RadarJob

   Job monitoring with a motivation letter attached, CHF 39 a month.

   RadarJob →

The tools compared directly

As of 4 September 2026. Every figure for another tool comes from that tool's own site; "n/s" means it was not readable there — not that the feature is missing. Our row comes from the code and from walking the live flow.

What "matched to the advert" means in checkable terms

Four things a letter can take from the advert, and all four can be counted in the finished draft: the job title exactly as the advert writes it; two or three requirements in the advert's own nouns rather than in synonyms; the Pensum — the workload in per cent — and the earliest start date, where the advert states them; and the language the advert is written in.

The fifth is not in any list. It is the tone: some Swiss adverts address you informally, some formally, some describe the role impersonally, and a tool that never sees the text can only guess which. That matters more here than in Britain or the United States, where the choice does not exist in the grammar. The salutation of a Swiss letter stays formal regardless; it is the body that mirrors the advert.

What no tool can deliver is an interview. None of these six can promise one, ours included. What is checkable is only where the sentences came from.

A quarter of the advert is not about the job

That measurement is the reason "we read the advert" is not enough of a promise. At the same employer whole paragraphs repeat: the description of the company, the list of employment conditions, the closing line from HR. It goes furthest in Italian-language adverts, where a median 47.6 per cent of the wording is also in another advert from the same employer, and nearly three in four adverts repeat at least a quarter. That is a property of the market rather than of the language: much of the Italian-language volume in Switzerland comes from staffing agencies reusing their blocks unchanged.

English-language adverts repeat the least, at a median of 11.9 per cent. If you are applying from abroad, that cuts both ways. The English advert you are reading is more likely to be written for this one job — but it is also the longest text of the four languages, so a tool that merely echoes it produces the most generic letter of all.

For the letter, the useful part of the advert is the smaller part. A tool that receives the advert text has done the first step; what decides the result is whether the draft afterwards contains the tasks and requirements of this one vacancy, or the marketing paragraph the same employer puts under every posting.

The advert almost never says it wants a letter

On the same day we opened 110 randomly drawn adverts per advert language and read the text a writing tool actually receives. About half of the English-language texts mention applying at all, but only 1.1 per cent name a cover or motivation letter explicitly. In German-language adverts it is 4.4 per cent, in French 4.9, in Italian 2.1.

That does not mean no letter is expected — it means the advert does not say so, and no tool can tell you from the advert alone. This is one of the places where arriving from outside Switzerland costs you: the Swiss dossier convention, which expects a letter, a CV, work references and often a photo, is assumed rather than stated. "Matched to the advert" can therefore only mean matched to its content, never to its instructions.

SwissJobs.app

What it is: the letter is written next to the CV in the same editor. The wizard asks three things — a title, the CV it should work from (saved or uploaded), and the advert text. Arriving from one of our own listings, the job title, employer and advert text are already in the form; for any other advert you paste the text, exactly as you would anywhere else. After that the draft sits in an editor where every line is editable by hand, plus a plain-language instruction that rewrites the letter.

What it costs: writing is included in the free account — five letters a day, ten a month, and the same allowance of AI instructions. Downloading as PDF or Word belongs to the seven-day trial; after that CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year, cancellable monthly. No watermark on either format. Signing up takes an email address and nothing Swiss — no residence, no social-insurance number — which matters while you are still abroad.

Who it suits and where it stops: people applying to Swiss adverts over several weeks who want a separate letter per job — the language is set per letter, which is the real point at an employer that advertises in two languages. It stops where someone does not want an account: the letter wizard redirects to signup without one. For a single letter that is a lot to ask.

cvswiss.ch

What it is: the closest tool to this question. Job-first is their own headline, not our description of them: "Paste any job posting and our AI creates a tailored CV", and for the letter, "Generate tailored motivation letters based on job postings and your CV". They ask for the same material we do and work with it in a similar way.

What it costs: the letter belongs to the CHF 15 a month subscription, which also carries unlimited CVs, the export of the official proof-of-job-search form and one-click translation into nine languages. The CHF 5 one-off credit is aimed at a CV download and carries the note "No edits after download". Previewing is free; you pay at download.

Who it suits: someone who wants CV and letter finished together and then translated into several languages. Two things we can hold against that and one they hold against us: with us the advert text already arrives with our own listings, and the letter also comes out as a Word file — but at cvswiss.ch you can work all the way to a finished preview without an account.

RadarJob — the letter that arrives by email

RadarJob inverts the question. Instead of you fetching an advert for a tool to read, the service searches and sends you the hits: it watches jobup.ch and jobs.ch, scores each new posting against your profile and attaches a finished letter as a PDF to the email. Standard costs 39 CHF a month with no commitment, five running searches and at most two alerts a day.

Two limits come with it. The service is French-language and built for western Switzerland, and the letters come from the two portals it watches rather than from any advert you hand it. If you are searching in Zurich or Basel this is not your tool. If you are searching in Geneva or Lausanne it does something nobody else on this list does — and the CV tools beside it are free and need no signup at all.

Bewerbung.ch, ChatGPT and the template

Bewerbung.ch has the friendliest price model of the Swiss tools: no subscription, one month CHF 20, three months CHF 50, explicitly no automatic renewal, plus three free uses of their AI to try it. For the application letter it offers a suggestion per text field. Nowhere on their product or pricing pages, though, is an advert named as an input — the AI works from what you have entered. Note that the interface is German only, which for a reader arriving from abroad is usually the end of the discussion.

ChatGPT remains the strongest choice for language alone, and for a single letter it is unbeatably cheap. It only reads the advert if you paste the whole text, and it hands back no document: the address block, date, subject line and signature you set yourself afterwards. We could not retrieve the amounts for the paid tiers from the pricing page on 4 September, so no figure is quoted here.

And the Word template is not a step backwards. The file is yours, it runs without an account and without internet, and what ends up in it is your decision — our five model letters are free Word downloads with no signup. The difference is not quality but repetition: from the fifth application onwards, copying by hand is the actual work.

The test you can run on any of them

Find an employer with two open vacancies you would genuinely consider, and have the same tool write a letter for each. Put the two drafts side by side. Whatever is identical in both came from the employer's standing block or from the tool's own template — and that is precisely the part that reads like a form letter.

If a paragraph remains that fits only one of the two vacancies, the tool really did read the advert. If none remains, you have your answer to the original question — whatever the vendor's home page says, and whether or not the vendor is us.