Résumé checkers, compared
Seven tools that will score your résumé, what each one actually gives you without paying, and what it is genuinely best at. One of them is ours, and it is marked as ours.
Pick what matters to you
Most of these tools are good at different things, so "best" depends entirely on what you are stuck on. Tick what you need and the table narrows.
Showing all 7 tools.
| Tool | Free tier | Paid from | Matches a job ad | Best at |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fasmac Résumé Readinessours | Score, readability verdict, every check and the fields a parser pulled out — no account, no scan limit | Free | Coming | Showing you what an employer's screener actually extracted, because it is that screener |
| Jobscan | 5 scans a month | $49.95/mo, or $89.95 a quarter (≈$29.98/mo) | Yes | Keyword and job-title matching against one specific job description |
| Resume Worded | Resume score, line-by-line feedback, LinkedIn review, sample bullets | Paid tier exists; no price shown on the page we checked | Yes | Content and wording feedback, with AI rewrites of weak lines |
| Teal | Unlimited résumés and job tracking, basic analysis, top-5 job-description keywords | $29/mo, $79 a quarter (≈$26/mo), or $13 a week | Yes | Tracking a lot of applications and tailoring a résumé per role |
| Rezi | Unlimited ATS scans against all 23 criteria, unlimited recommendation reports | $29/mo, or $149 once | — | Unlimited free scoring, and a builder that writes with you |
| Enhancv | A free checker running 27 checks on content, layout and design | From $16.50/mo; the free plan is a 7-day window and brands your downloads | — | A résumé that looks designed and still survives a parser |
| VMock | Free if your university subscribes — usually 10–20 scans an academic year | $19.95/mo without a university | — | Students whose careers service already pays for it |
The distinction nobody explains
These tools do three different jobs, and the reviews tend to pile them into one list.
- Keyword matchers compare your résumé to one job ad and tell you which words are missing. Jobscan is the clearest example.
- Writing coaches read the content and tell you the bullet is vague. Resume Worded is the clearest example.
- Builders give you a template that will not fall apart in a parser, and help you fill it. Enhancv, Rezi and Teal all do this.
A score out of 100 from one category tells you nothing about the others. Somebody with a beautifully-written résumé that a parser cannot read will score well on a writing coach and get no interviews.
Where ours is different, and where it is not
Fasmac is not a résumé-checker company. We make the screening software companies use to read and rank applicants. The checker runs your résumé through that same extraction model — so what you see is not a simulation of what an employer's system reads. It is the output of one.
That is why our report leads with the fields it pulled out and the ones it could not: the name, the employers, the dates, the skills. A score tells you something is wrong; the extraction tells you what.
Where we are behind: we do not build résumés, we do not track your applications, and matching against a specific job ad is still coming — Jobscan has done that for years and does it well. If keyword-matching one job ad is what you need today, that is the honest recommendation.
What a free Fasmac account adds, once your report is open: every fix in order, the fields we could not read, mock interviews you can actually speak to, practice assessments and short courses. No card, no trial.
How to read any of these scores
A number out of 100 is a summary of somebody's opinion about what matters. Ours weights how a résumé is built — headed sections, bullets, achievements with numbers on them — as heavily as whether it parses, because a clean parse of an unremarkable CV is not a good résumé. Other tools weight keywords, or design. Read what the score is made of before you optimise for it.
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Free tiers and prices move. Everything here was checked on 25 September 2026 against the vendors' own pages and recent reviews; if you find something out of date, the fastest fix is to tell us.