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ATSFriendly vs Resume Worded

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors. ATSFriendly starts at $7.99, Resume Worded at $49. Both have a free tier.

ATSFriendlyScores a resume against a job description, names the missing keywords, then rewrites it in a guided editor.Resume WordedScores resumes and LinkedIn profiles against recruiter checks

Side by side

FactATSFriendlyResume Worded
CategoryResume & Cover LettersJob Search & Applications
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$7.99 month$49 month
Public APINoNo
PlatformsWebWeb
Company—Resume Worded
Launched—2017
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

ATSFriendly

The scanner is the honest part of this product: it names the keywords and skills a job description wants and your resume lacks, which is specific enough to act on. The editor and cover-letter generator are ordinary GPT-4 wrappers. Read the pricing framing carefully - the $7.99 headline requires paying three months up front, and the site says outright that there is no trial.

Pros

  • Scores against a pasted job description rather than giving a generic resume grade
  • Breaks results into keyword, skills, experience, education, verb-choice and searchability checks
  • Re-scan after edits is included on paid plans, so you can iterate toward a higher score
  • Free plan is genuinely usable for a couple of applications a week

Cons

  • The $7.99 rate requires a $23.99 quarterly prepay; monthly billing is $9.99
  • The FAQ states plainly that no trial period is offered
  • No company name, address or country appears anywhere on the site
  • Compatibility scores come from the vendor's own model, not from how Workday or Greenhouse actually behave

Resume Worded

Worth it as a structured second opinion on a resume you have already drafted, and the LinkedIn audit is more specific than most rivals bother with. But $49/month is the wrong shape for a task most people do once — take the quarterly or annual plan or nothing.

Pros

  • feedback maps to named checks instead of an opaque score
  • large library of sample bullet points taken from resumes that landed interviews
  • LinkedIn review is a genuinely separate product, not a resume report relabelled
  • ATS templates are delivered as editable Word and Google Docs files

Cons

  • monthly price is high relative to how briefly most job seekers need it
  • no API and no bulk mode for coaches or university career services
  • checks are rule-based, so advice repeats across different resumes
  • no in-browser editor — you copy suggestions back into your own document

Which one fits

Choose ATSFriendly if you need

  • Tailoring one resume to a specific posting before applying
  • Spotting missing keywords a screener would filter on
  • Applying in volume and needing PDF and DOCX exports

Choose Resume Worded if you need

  • mid-career professionals sanity-checking a resume before a shortlist of applications
  • anyone who wants their LinkedIn headline and About section critiqued line by line
  • tailoring one base resume against several different job descriptions

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