Free ATS resume checker, no sign-up

Updated 7 October 2026

Upload a PDF or Word resume. In about 30 seconds, get a 0–100 score of your resume's content — results, clarity, keywords — plus the keywords missing for the job you paste. 3 checks a day. No account.

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This check also works in Spanish — try the Spanish version of this tool.

Reading your resume the way a recruiter would...

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💡 Many mid-size and large employers filter resumes before a person opens the file.

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How the check works

  1. Upload or paste. PDF, Word (.docx) or plain text, up to 5 MB. The text is extracted in your browser before anything is sent anywhere.
  2. The extracted text is scored. A model reads that flattened text against a fixed set of criteria — generic clichés, first-person phrasing, missing numbers and results, missing keywords for your field, and confusing structure — and returns a score from 0 to 100. This is not a login to an employer ATS.
  3. Optional: paste a job description. You get a second score for overlap with that specific posting. It measures how your resume matches that job, not a universal ATS pass.

What the score measures

A model scores the extracted text against a fixed rubric; it does not connect to Greenhouse, Workday or Taleo. Before that happens, the text you uploaded is flattened into a single run of plain text — line breaks and spacing are collapsed, so the model never sees columns, tables or where something sat on the page. It can only judge what made it into that flattened text, not your layout.

What it checksWhat fails the check
Generic clichésStock adjectives with nothing backing them — "responsible," "proactive," "committed" — instead of what you actually did.
First-person phrasing"I managed...", "I was responsible for..." instead of direct, resume-style phrasing.
Missing numbers and resultsDuties listed with no outcome attached — no amount, no percentage, no count, no timeframe.
Job keywordsLittle or no overlap with the terms used in postings for your field, or with the job description you pasted.
Confusing structureSections, dates or responsibilities that are hard to follow even once the text is flattened and in front of the model.

This is a different question from whether the file parses at all — a two-column layout or a scanned image can keep your text from being extracted in the first place, before any of the above ever gets evaluated. That failure mode is covered next.

Formatting mistakes that break parsing

Sample report

Illustrative example — fictional data

This shows how to fix the formatting mistakes from the list above before you upload a file. The tool's actual report covers the content criteria from "What the score measures" instead — it does not grade the formatting shown here.

Based on the cashier resume used in CVPro's own examples. The name, email and employers below are made up for this illustration; no real candidate's data is shown.

Before

Page header (repeats on every page)
✉ jm.cashier88@email.com  📱 555-0199  📍 Tucson, AZ
Two-column body
J.M.
Cashier
Skills
Cash handling, POS, Customer service
My Journey
Cashier — QuickMart, 2021 – Present
  ✦ Responsible for the cash register.
  ✦ Handled money.
  ✦ Rang up customers.
Cashier — Family Store, 03/2023 – 11/2023
  ✦ Was in charge of the sales counter.
  ✦ Did returns.

After

Body text (no header/footer, single column)
J.M. — Cashier
jm.cashier88@email.com · 555-0199 · Tucson, AZ

Work Experience
Cashier — QuickMart, 2021 – Present
  - Responsible for the cash register.
  - Handled money.
  - Rang up customers.
Cashier — Family Store, Mar 2023 – Nov 2023
  - Was in charge of the sales counter.
  - Did returns.

Skills
Cash handling, point-of-sale systems, customer service

Issues found in this example

The two-column block was merged into one column, the header became part of the body text, "My Journey" was renamed "Work Experience" — the section label the system looks for — and the decorative ✦ symbols were replaced with plain hyphens. The job titles and employers were kept exactly as given, and the dates keep the same months and years in a consistent written format (03/2023 → Mar 2023): no new month, payment method or other detail was added that was not already in the original. Only these four formatting issues were fixed. Turning duties into measurable results is a separate, honest step, not something to pad in afterward.

CVPro vs other free checkers

Paid prices and caps for other tools as reported in public reviews, July–October 2026. Check their sites.

CVProJobscanResume Worded
Signup to see a scoreNoYesYes
Free cap3/dayabout 5/month on the free tier reported in 2026 reviewslimited preview
Match to a pasted jobYes, on this pageYes, core featurepartial
Connects to an employer ATSNoNoNo
Paid modelone-time from $4.99subscriptionsubscription
Invented achievementsblocked by a verifier on the paid rewriten/an/a

What no tool can promise

This is worth stating plainly: no tool can guarantee a resume will pass every ATS. Each employer configures theirs with its own criteria, and some do not use one at all. What can be done is removing the known technical obstacles, using your industry's vocabulary, and presenting your experience so a human wants to read it. Any service promising a guaranteed pass rate is selling something it cannot deliver.

If you have been applying without any response, here are the nine real reasons you are not getting callbacks — including the ones that are not about you.

If you also want to review where you are searching, we compare the six real job search channels and which fits each situation, including how to spot fake postings.

Frequently asked questions

Is this an ATS login?

No. This is a scoring tool: a model reads your extracted text against a fixed rubric. It does not log in to Greenhouse, Workday, Taleo or any other employer system, and it never sees an employer's account.

Do you store my resume?

No, the text of your resume is not stored. If you ask to have the report emailed to you, we register your email address as a lead at that point. Write to hola@getcvpro.com to request deletion of anything we hold.

What is a good score here?

The scale is 0 to 100. A high score means the extracted text reads like a strong resume: concrete numbers and results, action-oriented phrasing, your field's keywords, and no generic clichés or first-person lines; a low score usually points to one of those content gaps, not to a lack of experience and not to how the file is formatted — the formatting mistakes above affect whether the text gets extracted at all, not this score. It is this tool's own scale — not Jobscan's match rate or any other service's number.

PDF or Word, which parses cleaner?

They use different extractors: PDF text is pulled with pdf.js, reading up to the first 8 pages, while a .docx file is read with mammoth, which has no page limit of its own. Either way, the extracted text is then cut to the same 6,000 characters before it is scored, so a .docx resume does not get a longer analysis than a PDF — it only skips pdf.js's 8-page cutoff during extraction. What actually hurts either format is the same: a scanned image, text placed inside images, or a two-column layout. A native, text-based PDF or .docx file works equally well.

How many checks can I run?

3 free checks a day, with no card required.

Do I need an account?

No. No sign-up and no card to see your score and the issues found.

What does the paid rewrite do differently?

It sends your uploaded text into CVPro's guided builder in "optimize" mode. A model rewrites it in professional language, and a separate, deterministic verifier then checks every line against what you actually provided — it does not add employers, titles or achievements you did not state.

Does the score guarantee an interview?

No. A higher score here means your resume's content is stronger — clear results, no clichés, the right keywords — not that any system finds it more readable. Whether you get an interview still depends on your experience, the job market and the person who reads it. No tool can guarantee a pass through every employer's ATS or a callback.

How do I delete my data?

Write to hola@getcvpro.com. The resume text itself is not stored; if you had requested the report by email, that is the email address we delete on request.

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