Resume builder · ATS readiness · $9 once
The last resume you'll need to write
Upload an old resume, talk it through, or fill in the form. FinalCV turns it into a professional PDF that survives applicant tracking systems.
Free to build, edit and score$9 for the PDF — one payment, never renews
ATS Readiness
7 of 14 bullets have no measurable outcome
No phone number, −8
One payment
$9 once
No subscription, no auto-renewal, no card kept on file for later. Full refund any time before your first download.
Templates
33, all tested
Every one is checked in CI that its text extracts back out of the rendered PDF in the right order. One that fails does not ship.
The score
From our own PDF
Read back out of the file we actually render, not guessed from the form — which is what makes it honest about whether your resume parses.
Three ways in
However you have it, we can take it
Most people arrive with an old PDF, a half-remembered job history, or nothing at all. All three are a starting point.
Upload an old resume
We read the PDF or DOCX, structure it, and delete the file the moment we are done with it. Only the extracted content is kept.
Or just talk it through
Type, paste or dictate anything — a job you forgot, a promotion, a whole career. We slot it into the right places and show you every change before it applies.
Or fill in the form
A plain structured form, if that is what you would rather do. No AI involved at all.
The score
An ATS Readiness Score that explains itself
Every edit updates a 0–100 score with a full breakdown of what is costing you points and how to fix it. The breakdown is the useful part; the number is just the hook.
It is scored from the text extracted back out of our own rendered PDF, which is what makes it honest about whether your resume actually parses. No tool can predict a specific employer's applicant tracking system — this measures how well your resume parses and reads, which is the part you can control.
- Contact details parse+12
- Section order recognised+10
- 7 of 14 bullets have no outcome−6
- No phone number−8
An example breakdown, not a promise.
Job tailoring
Tailor it to the job you are actually applying for
Paste the job description. We show you — free, instantly, with no AI involved — which of its requirements your resume already answers, which it does not, and which section could carry each one.
Then, in a click, we tailor a copy to that posting: the summary rewritten for this reader, bullets reworded into the posting's own vocabulary where they already describe the same work, the most relevant points moved to the front. Your original resume is untouched — each tailored version is a copy, named after the job.
It never invents anything
If the posting asks for something your history gives no basis for, we say so in plain words rather than writing it in — the one thing a keyword-stuffing tool will happily do for you, and the one thing that falls apart in the interview.
Templates
33 templates, every one extraction-tested
Switching template never touches your data and never costs an AI call. Pick one now and change your mind at the end.
Modern
Compact sans-serif. Fits more on one page. The engineering default.
Classic
Traditional serif. Safe everywhere, strongest for academic and legal roles.
Timeline
Dates in a left gutter. Makes a long, continuous history easy to scan.
Standard
Times-style serif at wide margins. The least surprising resume in the strip.
Office
The humanist sans behind every corporate template. Familiar on sight.
Azure
Deep blue column with your photo, skills as pills. Colour without noise.
Also Plex, Oxford, Slate, Executive, Ledger, Column, Manuscript, Banner, Centered, Navy, Graphite, Minimal, Editorial, Dense, Quiet, Azure, Sienna, Forest, Orchid, Crimson, Lagoon, Sunrise, Midnight, Coral, Mint, Cobalt, Blush.
Pricing
Pay once, or not at all
Build, edit, preview and score for free. You pay when you want the clean PDF — and nothing here can charge you a second time on its own.
- Most people
One resume
$9
One payment, one version
Downloads the version you bought, unlimited times, forever. Change your mind for 7 days — updates are free, as many as you need, on this resume.
3 months
$19
91 days, no auto-renewal
Unlimited resumes, edits and downloads of the current version, for 91 days. Does not renew itself.
6 months
$29
182 days, no auto-renewal
Unlimited resumes, edits and downloads of the current version, for 182 days. Does not renew itself.
Prices in USD. Full pricing and what each one covers.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
- Does the AI make things up?
- It is forbidden from inventing employers, job titles, dates, degrees or credentials — a hard constraint with no exceptions. Where it suggests a number it cannot verify, it marks it as an unconfirmed estimate, highlights it in amber, and lists every one of them before you download.
- Do you train AI on my resume?
- No. Requests go only to providers that do not retain or train on the content, pinned in configuration, and the app refuses to start in production if that configuration is missing.
- What happens to a resume I upload?
- We extract the text, turn it into structured data, and delete the file immediately. It is never written to storage.
- Can I edit after I have paid?
- Yes, always. Buying never locks your resume. The version you paid for stays in your library and stays downloadable forever; downloading a later, edited version is a new purchase.
- Why is the preview watermarked?
- Because the download is the product. The preview is deliberately images rather than text, so it cannot be copied or printed into a free PDF.
- Can I get a refund?
- Full refund any time before your first download, self-serve, no questions asked. After that the sale is final — except for rendering faults, which we refund either way. The button is next to the payment in Account → Billing.
- What happens when a subscription ends?
- Your three most recently edited resumes are saved as PDFs you keep forever, and editing pauses. Nothing is deleted or hidden, and subscribing again restores everything immediately. Subscriptions do not renew themselves.
Write it once. Download it forever.
Free to build and score. $9 when you want the PDF, and the version you paid for stays yours.