Kickresume Review
An honest look at Kickresume’s pricing and templates, and what ResumeFox does differently.
What each one actually costs over twelve months
Kickresume charges no separate trial fee: you pay $24, $18 or $8 a month depending on the term, starting immediately. ResumeFox is one plan: 7 days free, then $79 a month, with a career coach included. Read the two cards as what they are, a builder subscription and tools with a person included, and compare what each totals over a year and what comes with it.
- Free plan includes 4 templates with genuinely unlimited downloads, no card required
- Job board, application tracker and AI job matching included on every plan, free included
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com, with unlimited written messages
- Standards from 80,000+ resumes written by real US career writers, plus tailoring, tracking, sourcing and a 6 month job offer guarantee
Kickresume costs less than ResumeFox on every cadence, and its Free plan allows real downloads on 4 basic templates; upgrading unlocks the other 36+ templates and full customization. ResumeFox is a single plan with a career coach included, so the two cards are priced for different things.
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
The most feature-complete builder reviewed on this site outside ResumeFox itself, real job board, tracker, tailoring and interview questions, at genuinely competitive prices and a free plan that actually downloads. What it does not have is a credentialed writing team behind its standards, or company-specific interview prep.
- Cheapest recurring price of any builder reviewed here, and no separate trial fee
- Free plan includes real, unlimited downloads on 4 templates, no card required
- A named job board, application tracker and AI job matcher bundled into every plan
- A 14-day money back guarantee stated next to every paid plan on its own pricing page
- Several of its most-promoted templates use a photo slot or a shaded two-column sidebar
- ATS checker leads with a numeric score rather than a named fix list
- Interview prep is a generated question list, not research on the specific company
- No tool rewrites an existing LinkedIn profile; it only imports one into a resume
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 phrase library, and the plan covers the whole job search: a person to ask, tailoring, tracking and sourcing, not just the document.
- 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
- Built around targeting: per-posting tailoring, a matching cover letter, job sourcing, interview prep, LinkedIn and an application tracker, with every template parsing: no sidebars, photos or charts, plus a federal layout
- 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
- 10 templates, not 40+, deliberately, but it is fewer
- Coaching is written messages; a 30-minute phone call is $20 on top
- The card is taken at the start of the 7 free days, though nothing is charged until they end
See your resume rebuilt against standards from 80,000+ real resumes
Upload the resume you already have. We rewrite it against the standards our writers built over 80,000 resumes, then help you target it, application by application, instead of leaving you with just a document.
Questions people ask before they pick one
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Is Kickresume legit?
Yes. It is operated by Kickresume s.r.o., is hosted in the EU under GDPR, and carries a 4.6 rating from 3,859 Trustpilot reviews. Its free plan really does allow unlimited downloads on its 4 basic templates, which is not true of every builder in this category.
How much does Kickresume cost?
Free for 4 basic templates with unlimited downloads. Paid plans run $24/month, $18/month billed quarterly ($54 every 3 months), or $8/month billed yearly ($96 once a year), all with a 14-day money-back guarantee and no separate trial fee.
Does Kickresume use real resume writers?
Not in the way ResumeFox does. Kickresume credits one HR consultant by name on its ATS checker page, and its writing runs on an AI writer plus 20,000 pre-written phrases. ResumeFox is built by TopStack Resume, a US career-services firm, on standards drawn from more than 80,000 resumes written by hand by over 100 CPRW-certified writers and recruiters.
Is ResumeFox cheaper than Kickresume?
No. Kickresume’s paid plans run $24 a month, $18 a month billed quarterly or $8 a month billed yearly, and it has a free plan on top of that. ResumeFox is $79 a month after 7 free days. What that price buys is a career coach of your own, a career professional in the US you can write to as often as you like, a resume built on standards from a US resume-writing firm’s real work, per-posting tailoring, interview prep built from live research, a tool that rewrites an existing LinkedIn profile, and the 6 month job offer guarantee.
Does Kickresume’s ATS checker give a score?
Yes. It runs more than 20 checks and calculates a weighted numeric "ATS Resume Score," and separately compares your resume against others in its database. ResumeFox’s ATS check names 12 specific problems in your file instead of giving you a score.
Can I download a resume for free from Kickresume?
Yes. Its Free plan includes unlimited downloads as long as you stick to the 4 free templates and their default customization options; the other 36+ templates and full customization require a paid plan.
Does Kickresume tailor a resume to a specific job posting?
Yes, a named Resume Tailoring tool: paste a job description and its AI rewrites your resume to match it, using only what is already in your CV. Free accounts get one tailoring; paid plans get unlimited. It was not possible to confirm whether your original resume is kept as a separate copy. ResumeFox creates a distinct targeted version per posting, keeps your master resume untouched, and reports every change it made.
What happens if I don’t like it?
Kickresume states a 14-day money back guarantee on all of its paid plans, next to the price on its pricing page. ResumeFox charges nothing during its 7 free days, so cancelling inside them costs you nothing, and you can cancel anytime from your account. Read the exact terms on each checkout page before paying.
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.
- Kickresume’s pricing page: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s homepage: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s resume template gallery: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s ATS Resume Checker: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s Resume Tailoring tool: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s AI Career Map: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s Job Application Tracker: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s AI Job Matcher: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s AI Interview Questions Generator: read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s LinkedIn Resume Builder (imports LinkedIn into a resume): read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s Terms of Use (owner: Kickresume s.r.o.): read 2026-09-23
- Kickresume’s Trustpilot profile: read 2026-09-23
ResumeFox Full Access is $79 a month, and your first 7 days are free. We take your card to start the trial; cancel before it ends and you are not charged. A 30-minute call with your coach is $20 whenever you want one. Cancel anytime.