Free resume builder with ATS-friendly templates

Resume4U is a free online resume builder with 75 professional, ATS-friendly templates. Check job-description keywords, then export a searchable PDF or editable Word file. An account is required to save and sync resumes.

Create a résumé · Browse the 75 templates · Read 108 resume examples · 6 prompts for an AI assistant

Free resume builder · ATS resume checker · Resume builder with account sync

Three steps

1. Choose a free resume template. Pick a clear, professional layout and customize it to fit your experience.
2. Write and check your resume. Edit your sections, then compare keywords with the job description.
3. Download and apply. Export a searchable PDF or editable Word document, ready to share.

Head-to-head

Privacy

• Resume documents are stored in PostgreSQL and scoped to your authenticated Resume4U account.
• Sign-in and resume synchronization use the Resume4U API; no analytics or advertising trackers are used.
• PDF import, ATS analysis, template rendering, and document export run in your browser.
• No analytics or advertising trackers. An HTTP-only session cookie keeps your Resume4U sign-in active.
• Fonts are bundled with the app; document processing does not send files to a third-party service.
• Export a JSON data file from Settings to keep a portable copy of your account data.

What reaches the exported file's text layer

Whether numbered headings, bullet glyphs and decorative marks break a résumé parser is the question people ask about a design that looks designed. Each line is the output of a gate in the repository, run against the real exporter:

• All 75 designs export a text layer that matches the app's own "what an ATS sees" preview word for word: nothing missing, nothing added, nothing out of order.
• Decoration is painted as vector outlines and never becomes text. That is the same measurement read the other way: the file carries no word the content does not have, so a rule, a monogram or a heading numeral cannot turn up in the middle of a sentence.
• The two designs that print running numbers beside their section headings export those headings as SUMMARY and EXPERIENCE. Not one numeral of the running count reaches the text layer.
• Every list marker does reach the text layer, on the same line as the words it belongs to: 623 markers across the 75 designs, none stranded on a line of its own — so a list copied out of the file is still a list.
• On all 17 two-column designs the main column is written before the sidebar, so a parser reads the name before the skills list, and a vertical line separates the two columns with no text straddling it.
• A line a reader can see always has text to select at that same place, which is the fault where a wrapped heading is painted as outlines with nothing behind it: 3,523 visible lines were checked for it and none showed it.
• The file declares its language, carries a tagged structure tree in reading order, and names an sRGB output intent.

Questions

Is Resume4U free to use?

Yes. You can build resumes and export PDF or Word files for free. An account is required to save and sync your resumes.

Does Resume4U check my resume for ATS keywords?

Yes. The built-in checker compares your resume with a job description and shows matching and missing keywords so you can tailor your application.

Can I download my resume as a PDF or Word document?

Yes. Export a searchable PDF or an editable Word document, and keep your resume content as selectable text.

Do I need an account to use the resume builder?

Create a free Resume4U account to save and sync your resumes. Resume editing and document processing run in your browser.

Templates

75 designs, every one exporting real selectable text, each on its own page. The Signature collection changes the structure of the page, not only its colours:

• Broadsheet: A front page: the name set huge in a display serif across the full width, a byline of contacts between double rules, and numbered running heads down one column.
• Marquee: A poster: the name fills a colour block in tall condensed capitals, the body runs in one column beneath, and skills and languages live in a dark strip along the foot of the page.
• Atlas: A dashboard: a navy-to-teal band carries the name, and beneath it a numbers band of figures the app reads out of the content itself (years, companies, projects, a headline figure), each tile editable.
• Chronicle: A ledger: every entry hands its opening year to a tinted rail down the left, set in tall condensed numerals, while the entry keeps its own dates in a plain column beside them; any entry can set its own year and word.
• Folio Noir: A gallery wall: gold on near-black, a band of art behind the name, a hairline running out of every heading, and each entry’s dates and places set in a narrow margin down the right.
• Terrace: Three steps of green carry the name, the role and the contacts across the top, and beneath them every section title sits in a column of its own, beside the words it labels.
• Flare: A signal flare down the margin: an orange spine on every page, the name in a constructed display face under a small letterhead line, numbered heads, square orange marks and a quiet name-and-page line at the foot.
• Dossier: Stencil and typewriter: a letterhead line over a stencilled name, the role stamped in a box, numbered stencil heads, a > before every point, and everything else in a typewriter mono.
• Keystone: A framed page: ivory paper inside a gold hairline on every page, the name in a tall condensed display face over a plum rule and a gold one, plum heads with a gold line running out from each, and gold diamonds for every point.
• Meridian: A quiet masthead: the name in a geometric display face across a near-black band the width of the page, the role in a bright green mono line, and eyebrow heads - a short green bar before each tracked word - with generous air between.
• Schematic: An engineering drawing: blueprint blue on a faint drafting grid on every page, a ruled strip over a name drawn in outline, the role on a dimension line, and red outline numerals before bold tracked heads.
• Volta: A charge of cobalt: a band across the top carrying the letterhead line, the name in a bold geometric display face, a ruled band of numbers drawn from your content, cobalt numerals before display heads, and every date set in the display face.
• Punch: Loud on purpose: the name set huge and bold over a heavy black rule, the role in neon capitals, every section title a black bar with a neon stripe and a neon numeral, and neon squares for every point.

Every template, rendered on the same example résumé.

Examples

108 complete résumés for named jobs, each written out in full on its own page and filterable by field, career stage and the country it is written for — read the 108 resume examples. Every person, employer, address and figure in them is invented.

Prompts

6 copy-ready prompts for whatever AI assistant you already use — start from your own history instead of a blank page. Each asks for JSON Resume, which this app imports, and none of them will invent experience you do not have.

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