Resume and cover letter tools with no paywall at the end
Two tools for applying to jobs. You fill in a form, watch a live preview, and download a real PDF. There is no account to create, no watermark on the output, and no moment near the download button where the price appears.
That last part is the reason these exist. The common pattern on resume sites is to let you do all the work, show you a finished document, and then ask for a card before you can have it. By that point you have spent an hour and the sunk cost does the selling.
These two ask for nothing. They also send nothing: your work history, your address, your phone number and the name of the company you are applying to all stay in this browser on this device.
The tools
- Resume Builder Contact details, summary, experience, education and skills, with drag-to-reorder sections and a live page preview. Export a .json copy you own, or import one back.
- Cover Letter Generator A properly formatted letter with your details, the recipient's, and the body you write. It can pull your contact details from a resume you already saved here.
Why the PDF is real text
Both tools produce the PDF through your browser's own print engine rather than by drawing an image of the page. The result is selectable, searchable text in a single-column layout.
That matters because most applications go through software that reads the file before a person does. A single column of real text is the layout that parses most reliably. No layout can guarantee any particular system will read it correctly, and anyone promising otherwise is guessing, but this avoids the common failure modes: text trapped in images, multi-column layouts read in the wrong order, and content hidden inside headers.
Where your draft lives
In this browser, and nowhere else. There is no account holding a copy for you, which is the tradeoff for not having to make one.
The practical consequence: clear your browsing data, switch to another browser, or work in a private window, and the draft goes with it. Both tools have an Export .json button for exactly this reason. Download that file and you have a copy you control, which you can import later to restore everything.
The two tools share a browser but not their data. The cover letter generator can read a saved resume to copy your contact details across, and it only ever reads, but clearing your letters leaves your resumes alone and the reverse is also true.
Other categories
- PDF tools if you need to merge, split or sign the finished document.
- Image tools for compressing, resizing and cleaning photos.
- All tools if you would rather see everything at once.