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Build a resume from 24 free templates, check it with a real ATS parser, and export PDF and Word with no watermark. A free account saves your work; optional AI help uses credits, and new accounts get 20 free.

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  • Free forever
  • No credits to build or export
  • Saved until you delete it

At a glance

You give
Your history - typed, or imported from a PDF, Word file, LinkedIn or resume.json
You get
PDF, Word, text and JSON files, plus a checklist of what to fix
Takes
About fifteen minutes from an empty document
Costs
Nothing to build or export. AI assists are optional, 1-3 credits
Free · PDF and Word

Build it here, and we will show you what a parser reads back

24 free templates, each graded by our own ATS parser, and a checklist that tells you which line is doing the damage. Export a PDF and a Word file, both free with no watermark, and run either through the same parser before you send it.

Start buildingCheck a resume you already have

An account is required because your resume is saved to it - that is what lets you come back to it from another device, and what makes a resume worth building here rather than in a tab you will close. Nothing is charged to build, edit or export.

templates, all free
24
export formats, all free
4
credits to build or export
0
parser checks on your file
10
What using it is like

Type on the left, watch the right

The page you are going to send is on screen the whole time. Add a line and it reflows immediately; the checklist recounts as you fix things, and the page meter tells you how close to the edge you are before you find out from a PDF.

  • Live preview

    The document redraws as you type, at the size it will print.

  • A checklist that counts down

    Findings resolve as you fix them, and each one names the line.

  • Page fit, before the PDF

    How full the page is, and which lever gets you back under.

  • Two files, one document

    PDF and Word from the same source, so they cannot disagree.

The part nobody else can do

We run your file through a real parser, not a preview

Most builders show you a picture of your resume and call it done. When you export here, the actual bytes go through the same parsing engine that powers our ATS checker - the one an employer’s screener behaves like - and you get the extracted text back, in reading order, with every check named.

What it checks

  • Single column
  • Text selectable
  • Standard headings
  • Contact parseable
  • Fonts embedded
  • Clean glyph map
  • No table layout
  • No form fields
  • Not encrypted
  • Reverse chronological

The engine skips checks it cannot answer for a given file, so a report says “9 of 11” rather than a fixed total - and a template change that broke parseability would fail our own test suite in the repository that owns the parser, before it could reach you.

What actually breaks a resume

Four rules, and the reason each one exists

These are not style preferences. Each one is a specific way a file stops being readable by the software that reads it first, and the template holds all four for you - there is no setting here that can break them.

  • One column, never two

    Everything runs top to bottom in a single flow, with no sidebar and no side-by-side blocks.

    A parser reads left to right across the whole page. Put a skills sidebar beside your experience and it interleaves them line by line - your job titles come out shuffled into your skill list, and no human ever sees the original.

  • Real text, not a picture of text

    Every character is selectable text with the font embedded in the file, so it can be extracted exactly.

    A resume exported as an image, or one using an icon font for its headings, extracts as nothing at all. The file opens perfectly for you and arrives empty at the other end - the single most complete failure available, and the hardest to notice.

  • Headings a machine recognises

    Experience, Education, Skills, Projects - the words a parser is actually looking for.

    Invented headings like “My Journey” or “What I Bring” are not matched to any field, so everything under them is filed nowhere. The roles are in the file and absent from the record the recruiter reads.

  • One unambiguous date format

    Month and year spelled the same way in every entry, in reverse-chronological order.

    “03/2021” is March to some parsers and unreadable to others, and a date it cannot resolve is a role it may drop or re-sort. Get this wrong and your most recent job can end up at the bottom.

A gallery with the grades attached

24 templates, each graded by a real parser

Every other builder sells you a gallery and leaves you to guess which designs survive a screener. Ours renders each template through the same ATS parser the free checker uses, and shows you the grade before you pick.

12 single-column templates

The safest choice for any company careers portal: one column, standard headings, real selectable text. Every one of them passes every check our parser runs on the exported file.

12 two-column designs

For when a person, not a portal, reads it first. Each passes every check but one, with nothing blocking; the one it gives up is a warning about non-standard section labels. The Word and plain text exports always come out in one column, whichever you pick.

Four formats, and which one to send

PDF, Word, text and JSON, all free

Most builders charge for the Word export or leave it out. Every format comes out of the same document here, so they can never disagree.

PDF

Almost always

Looks identical everywhere and cannot be reflowed by accident. Ours is text-selectable and has its fonts embedded, which is what makes a PDF safe rather than the format itself.

Word (.docx)

When the posting asks for it

Some older systems parse .docx more reliably than any PDF. Most builders charge for this export or omit it. It is free here, and it comes out of the same document, so the two files never disagree.

Plain text

For paste-in boxes

The web forms that ask you to paste your resume into a textarea. Copying out of a PDF puts line breaks in the wrong places; this is the same content already flattened.

JSON

Keep as a backup

The whole document in the open JSON Resume format, hidden lines included. Import it back into this builder or into any other tool that reads JSON Resume.

No watermark, no export limit and no paid tier on the download. If a posting does not say which format it wants, send the PDF.

That is the whole product. Below is a finished resume built with it, page for page - or skip the tour and start on yours.

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Sample output · invented data

A finished resume, made with one of the templates

Invented data throughout - no real person, no real employers. The structure, the dates and the figures come from our reference document, which is the same fixture our test suite runs through the real parser on every build, so everything this page claims about it is something CI already proves. Shown as 2 pages in the editor; below it reflows to your screen.

R***t

Java Full Stack Developer

[email protected] · Pune, India

linkedin.com/in/sample-profile · github.com/sample-profile

Summary

  • Java backend engineer with six years across payments and healthcare, running 28 microservices at 99.4% uptime.
  • Cut settlement reconciliation from four hours to twenty minutes, releasing ₹4.2 crore of working capital a month.
  • Full stack across Spring Boot, Postgres, React and TypeScript, shipping to 3 product teams.
  • Currently leading the job-execution platform, which handles 10,000 concurrent jobs a day.

Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Sep 2024 – Present · Remote

    Northwind Logistics

    • Built the job-execution service on Spring Boot, taking it from a single scheduler to 10,000 concurrent jobs a day.
    • Moved batch processing onto Azure Service Bus, improving throughput 3.4x under peak load.
    • Cut average incident turnaround by 60% by adding structured logging and a Kibana runbook per failure class.
    • Reduced job failure rate from 4.1% to 0.6% by reworking retry and error handling around idempotency keys.
    • Introduced contract tests across 6 services, removing the 2-day integration freeze before every release.

  • Software Engineer

    Jul 2022 – Sep 2024 · Bengaluru, India

    Contoso Retail

    • Designed a CQRS and outbox architecture for a retail platform, raising backend throughput 40% and cutting p95 response time 30%.
    • Replaced REST calls between four services with gRPC, removing 25% of end-to-end latency.
    • Ran Elasticsearch for catalogue search across 1.2 million SKUs, holding query time under 120ms.
    • Interviewed 40 senior Java candidates and rewrote the take-home to something people finished in an hour.

  • Software Engineer

    Jun 2020 – Jun 2022 · Pune, India

    Fabrikam Payments

    • Owned the refund pipeline end to end, processing ₹18 crore a month with a 0.02% dispute rate.
    • Rebuilt the notification fan-out on Kafka, which now delivers 2.4 million events a day.
    • Indexed the ledger so chargeback investigations dropped from 3 days to 4 hours.

Technical Skills

  • Backend: Java, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, gRPC, Elasticsearch
  • Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript
  • Platform: Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, GitHub Actions, Prometheus

Projects

  • Quillstack

    Feb 2023 – Present

    Creator · github.com/sample-profile/quillstack

    • Open-source social platform with Q&A, blogging and real-time messaging, serving 2,000 monthly users.
    • Real-time notifications over WebSockets and Kafka, delivering within 200ms at the 99th percentile.
    • Deployed with Docker Compose across three servers at 99.8% measured uptime.

  • Ledgerly

    Aug 2021 – Mar 2022

    • Double-entry bookkeeping library for small Indian businesses, with GST-aware invoice splitting.

Education

  • Deccan Institute of Technology

    2016 – 2020 · Pune, India

    B.E., Computer Science and Engineering · 8.4 CGPA

Certifications

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate – Amazon Web Services

    Apr 2023

Volunteer Experience

  • Teach weekend Python classes to 30 students at a government school in Bengaluru.
  • Maintain the attendance tooling now used by 2 other volunteer groups.

End of the sample report. Below the sample: what the AI will and will not do, and the questions people ask before they start.

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Optional, and bounded

The AI asks you for the number instead of inventing one

Four assists, each behind an explicit click, each priced before it runs. The one worth knowing about is the Impact Interview: it asks three to five questions about a single job, you answer in your own words, and it writes the bullets from your answers - so every figure in them is one you gave it.

It will not add a number you did not write

Where a line needs a figure your material does not contain, the rewrite inserts a marked placeholder and lists it separately rather than guessing. A fabricated metric you paste into a real resume is an interview you fail.

Nothing is sent unless you press a button

Building, editing and exporting never leave your browser. When you do run an assist, your name, email and phone number are replaced with tokens before anything reaches the model, and only the lines that assist is about are sent.

Start with your profile, or from nothing

Import an existing PDF or Word file, your LinkedIn profile saved as a PDF, or a resume.json - or open an empty document and type. Everything is free, and the file is yours in four formats when you are done.

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Report an issue

What happens to your data

Your resume is saved to your Revquix account so you can come back to it from any device - it is yours and it stays until you delete it. Building, editing and downloading all happen in your browser: no render and no download involves our servers, and you can check that in the network tab. Nothing is sent to an AI model unless you press one of the AI buttons, which say what they cost before they run.

Full detail in our privacy policy and AI policy.

How this works

About Resume Builder

What it checks, what it deliberately does not, and how to read the output.

What an ATS actually does to your resume

An applicant tracking system does not look at your resume. It runs a parser over the file, pulls out whatever text it can find, and hands a recruiter a structured record built from that text. Everything a human eventually sees is downstream of that extraction, which means a beautiful document that parses badly is worse than a plain one that parses cleanly.

The failures are boringly consistent. Two columns interleave into nonsense because the parser reads left to right across the page. Text baked into an image or an icon font extracts as nothing at all. Invented section headings like "My Journey" are not recognised as Experience, so the roles under them are filed nowhere. Dates written as 03/2021 are ambiguous, and a parser that guesses wrong puts your most recent job last.

What this builder does about it

24 templates, and every one is rendered through our own ATS parser before it ships. The 12 single-column templates use real headings and no tables, text boxes or header regions, and pass every check. The two-column designs pass every check but one, a warning about non-standard section labels, and the Word and plain text exports are always one column. Each template shows its grade.

As you type, a checklist runs against the document and names the specific line that needs work: a bullet that runs past the length a recruiter scans, a role with no measurable result in it, a date range that reads as a gap. It is not a score out of 100 and it never invents one.

  • Single-column templates for any careers portal, each passing every parser check
  • Standard section headings a parser recognises without guessing
  • Real selectable text with the fonts embedded, never an image of text
  • Dates in one unambiguous format across every entry

Four formats, and the parse check

You get a PDF and a Word document from the same source, so the two can never disagree, a plain text version for the forms that ask you to paste, and a JSON Resume file as a backup. Most builders charge for the Word export or leave it out; it is free here because some older systems still parse .docx more reliably than any PDF.

Then the part no other builder can offer: export the real file and run it through our own ATS checker, the same engine an employer's screener behaves like. You see the extracted text in reading order and every check named - single column, selectable text, standard headings, contact parseable, fonts embedded, chronology. Not a preview of your resume, but the thing a machine reads back from it.

What it will not do

It will not hide the trade-off. A two-column design reads well to a person and costs a little with some parsers, and the grade on each template says exactly what it gives up. If you want a design portfolio piece, build it somewhere else and keep a single-column version for the applications that go through a screener.

It will not write your resume for you. The optional AI rephrases lines you wrote and asks you for facts you have not written down yet; where a bullet needs a number your material does not contain, it marks a placeholder instead of inventing one. And it cannot tell you whether a specific company's system will like your file - no tool can, because those systems are configured privately. What it can tell you is what text comes back out of your file, which is the part that is knowable.

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

The ones that come up before somebody uploads anything.

Is the resume builder really free?

Building, editing, and exporting to PDF, Word or plain text cost nothing, with no watermark, no export limit and no card at signup. The four optional AI assists cost 1-3 credits each and always say what they cost before they run. A new account starts with 20 credits.

Is there a watermark or a download limit?

No. PDF, Word (.docx), plain text and JSON exports are all free, with no watermark, no limit on how many times you export and no paid tier on the download. The download is the step where many builders ask for payment; here every format is free from the first resume.

Why do I need an account for a free tool?

Because your resume is saved to it. The document lives on our servers so you can come back to it from another device, and it stays until you delete it - there is no timer. Without an account we would either lose your work when the tab closed or have to build a claim flow, and both are worse than one sign-in.

How many templates are there, and are they ATS-friendly?

24, all free. 12 are single-column and pass every check our ATS parser runs on the exported file. The rest are two-column designs that pass every check but one, a warning about non-standard section labels, with nothing blocking. Each template shows its grade before you choose it, and the Word and plain text exports are always one column.

Is the AI free?

The builder is free; the four AI assists use credits, and each says its price before it runs: the Impact Interview is 1 credit per role, sharpening bullets is 1 per 5 bullets, a summary draft is 1, and tailoring to a job description is 3. New accounts get 20 credits, and a failed run costs nothing.

Should I send the PDF or the Word file?

Send the PDF unless the posting asks for a .docx. Our PDF has selectable text and embeds its fonts, which is what makes a PDF safe rather than the format itself; for a careers portal, a single-column template is the safest choice. Use the Word file when a form explicitly wants one, and the plain text version for boxes that ask you to paste your resume in.

Does the AI write my resume for me?

No, and it is built so it cannot. The assists rephrase lines you wrote and elicit facts you have not written down yet - the Impact Interview asks you three to five questions about one job and builds bullets from your answers. Where a line needs a figure your material does not contain, it inserts a marked placeholder rather than inventing a number.

Can I import a resume I already have?

Yes - a PDF or Word file up to 10 MB, your LinkedIn profile saved as a PDF, or a resume.json. Everything imported goes through a review step first where anything the parser was unsure about is flagged amber for you to confirm, so nothing lands in your document unchecked.

Can I import my LinkedIn profile?

Yes, through LinkedIn's own Save to PDF option on your profile page. Save that PDF, then import it here like any other resume: your roles, education and skills come in through the same review step, with anything the parser was unsure about flagged for you to confirm before it lands in your document.

How many resumes can I keep?

Up to 10 per account, for example one for each kind of role you apply for. Each one is saved until you delete it, with no timer, and deleting one makes room for another. Every version can be exported in every format as often as you like.

Can I add a photo?

Yes. Add one and choose its shape, size and which side it sits on. A photo carries no text, so it does not change what a parser reads from the rest of your resume. Whether to include one is the employer's convention rather than the software's, so leave it off where a posting or a country's norms ask you to.

Is a CV the same as a resume?

In India the two words are mostly used interchangeably for a job application, and one document serves both. Strictly, a CV is a longer and complete record of education, research and work, used mainly for academic roles, while a resume is a one or two page summary aimed at one job. This builder makes the second, and auto-fit keeps it to one or two pages.

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