AltFTool's Resume Maker lets you fill in your details and download a PDF, free and without an account. Zety's free plan downloads TXT only; its Pro trial is US$1.95 for 14 days and then auto-renews at US$25.95 every 4 weeks, or US$71.40 a year. Resume.io's trial is US$2.95 for 7 days, then US$29.95 every 4 weeks. Both builders do considerably more than ours, and the main thing to watch with them is the auto-renewing trial.
At a glance
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Building a designed resume from templates and downloading it as PDF or Word.
Entry price
US$1.95 for a 14-day trial, then US$25.95 every 4 weeks
Pro Package; the trial auto-renews
Annual Package US$5.95/month, paid as US$71.40 at once, auto-renews each year
Free tier
Free Basic plan downloads TXT only; PDF and Word are paid.
Zety's page shows '$' without a currency code.
Read from zety.com/pricing (opens in a new tab)
Building resumes and cover letters from designed templates and downloading them as PDF.
Entry price
US$2.95 for a 7-day trial, then US$29.95 every 4 weeks
7-day trial that auto-renews; 7-day money-back guarantee
Free tier
Free plan: one resume and one cover letter; downloads limited.
Resume.io's page shows '$' without a currency code. A Quarterly plan is US$49.95 every 3 months. The FAQ describes the trial renewing into a 'monthly' membership, which does not match the 'every 4 weeks' wording in the plan table.
Read from resume.io/pricing (opens in a new tab), help.resume.io/en/articles/3785088 (opens in a new tab)
Whether you need to pay at all depends on where the free plan's ceiling sits. Here it is in each vendor's own terms.
Plenty of people should keep paying for these, and these are the reasons why.
A comparison that cannot say what its own tool gives up is an advert.
We cannot promise it will. The download is an image-based PDF, which many applicant tracking systems cannot read. For applications that go through an ATS, a text-based PDF or a Word file is safer.
Both have free plans, but neither gives you a designed PDF for free. Zety's free plan downloads TXT only. Resume.io's pricing page says free downloads are TXT only, while its help centre says free users can also download a PDF in one template, the Vancouver design. Their paid access starts as a low-cost trial that auto-renews.
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