CVMaker Review
An honest look at CVMaker's pricing, templates and no-refund policy, and what ResumeFox does differently.
What each one actually costs over twelve months
CVMaker's only publicly listed plan is a single recurring subscription with the lowest entry price on this site. No dedicated pricing page exists on cvmaker.com; the figures below come from its homepage and FAQ, both read directly, and no annual or other billing period was found anywhere on the site. ResumeFox is one plan at $79 a month after 7 free days, and that price buys the resume work plus a career professional you can write to, so read the two cards as what they are: a builder subscription, and tools with a person included.
- Lowest entry price of any builder on this site
- Its own Terms of Service: "ALL SALES ARE FINAL AND THERE ARE NO REFUNDS, whether in whole or in part"
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com, included in the price
- Tailoring, tracking, interview prep and LinkedIn in the one plan, plus a 6 month job offer guarantee
The two plans are not the same purchase: CVMaker's $24.95 a month comes to about $301 left running for a year, and ResumeFox's $79 a month comes to $948 for a year with a career coach included throughout. CVMaker discloses no annual or other prepay option; confirm the exact price and cancellation terms on the checkout screen before entering a card.
The full side-by-side comparison
Grouped by what actually matters: where the writing comes from, whether the file survives the software, whether the resume gets aimed at the job you want, and what it costs to keep using.
A half-filled circle means the feature exists but with a real limitation, described in the cell.
More templates is not the same as more good templates
A large share of the designs these builders promote use two columns, a headshot slot, or skills drawn as dots and bars. Those choices are the reason a resume arrives shredded: the sidebar gets read straight across into the middle of your job history, and a skills graphic says nothing once the picture is gone.
ResumeFox ships 10 templates plus a US federal layout. Not one has a sidebar, a photo or a chart. They differ in typography and emphasis, never in whether they parse.
- Whether a parser reads your name, email, phone and dates
- Whether anything is trapped in a table, column or image
- Named problems, not a grade out of 100
What each one is genuinely good and bad at
A template-and-form builder, not an AI resume writer, and no AI feature appears anywhere on its public site. Its real edge is price and choice: the lowest entry cost on this site and 36 templates, plus a genuine paid option to have a person write your resume for a flat fee.
- Lowest entry price of any builder on this site: $1.95 for 7 days
- 36 template layouts, with downloads offered in six languages
- A real, flat-fee option to have a professional write your resume ($99–$249, ready in 4 days), not just an AI rewrite
- Nearly 96,000 Trustpilot reviews at 4.6 stars "Excellent," the largest independent review count of any company on this site
- All sales are final once you pay; its own Terms state there are no refunds of any kind
- No AI writing help found anywhere in the self-serve builder
- Several templates use a colored sidebar, a circular photo and a star-rating skills meter — the layout choices hardest for a parser to read
- No tailoring, application tracker, interview prep or LinkedIn tool found on its public site
Built by a resume-writing firm rather than a template shop, and sold as one plan with a career coach included. The standards come from real work, not a form to fill in, and every finding is a named problem or a band, never a score to chase.
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com, with unlimited written messages and a $20 30-minute call whenever you want one
- Standards drawn from 80,000+ hand-written resumes by 100+ CPRW-certified US writers and recruiters
- No sidebar, photo or skills chart on any of its 11 templates
- 6 month job offer guarantee: If you have paid for our service for 6 consecutive months, and you have not received a job offer, we'll continue to work with you for 6 additional months at no cost.
- $79 a month, several times what a builder subscription costs: $948 for a year against about $301 for CVMaker's monthly plan left running
- 11 templates against CVMaker's 36, and none of ResumeFox's offer a photo, which some markets and some job seekers want
- No one-time, flat-fee option to have a person write your resume from scratch the way CVMaker sells one
- No reviews of its own yet, where CVMaker carries nearly 96,000 on Trustpilot
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Is CVMaker legit?
Yes. It's operated by CVmaker B.V., registered in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and is a portfolio company of the investment firm Capital A Partners, per Capital A's own site. Independently, it holds a 4.6★ "Excellent" rating on Trustpilot from 95,933 reviews, the largest independent review count of any company compared on this site.
How much does CVMaker cost?
CVMaker offers one plan: $1.95 for the first 7 days, then $24.95 every month, VAT included, until you cancel. No annual or other prepay option is listed on its site. It separately sells one-time, professionally written resume packages from $99 to $249.
Is ResumeFox cheaper than CVMaker?
No, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. CVMaker's plan is $1.95 for 7 days then $24.95 a month, about $301 left running for a year. ResumeFox is $79 a month after 7 free days, $948 for a year, and that buys the resume work plus a career coach in the US you can write to as often as you like, per-posting tailoring, job sourcing, the tracker and the 6 month job offer guarantee.
Does CVMaker use AI to write my resume?
No AI writing feature appears anywhere on CVMaker's public marketing pages; the builder is a template-and-form tool you fill in yourself. It sells a separate, human-written option instead: a professional writer builds your resume for a flat fee of $99 to $249, ready in 4 days. ResumeFox's AI rebuilds your resume against standards drawn from human-written work, and its plan includes a career coach in the US you can write to, though nobody writes the resume for you from scratch.
Can I get a refund from CVMaker?
No. Its Terms of Service state plainly: "ALL SALES ARE FINAL AND THERE ARE NO REFUNDS, whether in whole or in part." You can cancel the subscription at any time to stop future charges, at least 3 days before your next billing date, but past payments are not returned. ResumeFox charges nothing during its 7 free days, so cancelling inside them costs you nothing, and you can cancel anytime from your account.
Are CVMaker's templates ATS-friendly?
It varies by template. Some of CVMaker's 36 layouts are plain single-column designs. Others, including ones named "Harvard," "Stanford" and "Cambridge" in its own gallery, use a colored sidebar with a circular photo and skills shown as a star rating or bar meter — the combination that is hardest for a parser to read correctly. None of ResumeFox's 11 templates use a sidebar, photo or skills chart.
Does CVMaker have a job tracker or tailored applications?
No dedicated feature page for either was found on CVMaker's public site; its FAQ mentions a "premium job search and matching system" in one sentence, with no further detail. ResumeFox's Application Tracker keeps one record per job, with a targeted resume, cover letter, interview prep and offer notes all attached to it.
How we compared these
Pricing is read from each provider's own checkout or pricing page. Feature claims are checked against each product's live interface. Where we could not confirm something ourselves, it is not on this page.
Where numbers disagree
Entry prices in this category differ across landing pages and promotions. Where that happens we give the observed range rather than one figure, and say so.
Our disclosure
This page is published by ResumeFox, one of the products compared. We have an obvious interest in your choosing it. That is why every claim about a competitor is one you can check on their own site, and why we name the rows they win.
- CVMaker's homepage (pricing, features): read 2026-09-23
- CVMaker's CV templates gallery: read 2026-09-23
- CVMaker FAQ (pricing, cancellation): read 2026-09-23
- CVMaker Terms and Conditions (refunds, billing): read 2026-09-23
- CVMaker About Us (company details): read 2026-09-23
- CVMaker's Resume Writing Service (human-written packages): read 2026-09-23
- CVMaker on Trustpilot: read 2026-09-23
- Capital A Partners' portfolio page for CVmaker (founding, ownership): read 2026-09-23
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