Resume Now vs. Resume Genius
Resume Now’s trial price moves around depending on the day you look; Resume Genius holds steady at $2.95. Here is how the two actually compare, plus a third option built differently.
What each one actually costs over twelve months
The two builders land close to the same numbers on the recurring plan, read from their own pricing pages on 2026-09-23. ResumeFox is a different kind of plan since October 2026: 7 days free, then $79 a month, with a career professional you can write to included rather than software alone. Cheaper per month is not the same product, so the comparison worth making is what a year of each one costs and what you get for it.
- Free plain-text export, unlimited resumes and cover letters
- Trial price shown at checkout has moved between $1.45 and $2.95 across visits
- Free plan includes a downloadable cover letter in PDF, Word and TXT
- The resume itself stays TXT-only until you pay
- A career coach of your own, a career professional in the US from TopStack.com
- Standards from 80,000+ resumes written by real US career writers
- Tailoring, tracking, job sourcing and every download included, plus a 6 month job offer guarantee
Entry prices vary by promotion and by the visit: Resume Now’s 14-day trial has been observed anywhere from $1.45 to $2.95 across sessions, while Resume Genius held at $2.95 across every visit checked here. Confirm the exact price and renewal 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
The largest template library of the three by a wide margin, and the cheapest of the three on its annual plan. A big phrase library and AI suggestions rather than writer-built standards.
- Largest template library of the three: 675 listed
- Cheapest annual price of the three: $70.20/year
- Free plain-text export with unlimited resumes and cover letters
- Phone and chat support with hours across the week and weekend
- Trial price shown at checkout has moved between $1.45 and $2.95 across visits
- Its 'Creative' category includes photo and decorative-header designs
- ATS check returns a numeric score rather than a named fix list
- No job-search matching, LinkedIn help, or application tracker
The only one of the three whose free plan includes a fully downloadable cover letter, and the steadiest trial price of the three across repeat visits.
- Free plan includes a cover letter downloadable as PDF, Word or TXT
- Trial price held steady at $2.95 across every visit checked
- Annual plan is $95.40, paid once for the year
- Free ATS resume checker and a free AI resume review
- The resume itself stays TXT-only free; PDF and Word need the paid plan
- Its 'Photo' and 'Two-Column' categories include headshot and sidebar templates
- Support phone line runs weekdays only, 8 AM to 7 PM Eastern
- No tailoring to a specific posting, no LinkedIn help, no application tracker
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
- 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 either builder subscription costs
- 10 templates, not hundreds, deliberately, but it is fewer
- Coaching is written messages; a phone call is a $20 add-on rather than part of the price
- 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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Are Resume Now and Resume Genius the same company?
No. Resume Now is operated by Bold LLC of Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, the same company behind MyPerfectResume, LiveCareer and Resume.com. Resume Genius’s business operations sit under Sonaga Tech Limited, registered in Lucerne, Switzerland, with a marketing office in Taipei, Taiwan. Different owners, and the builders differ too.
Which is cheaper, Resume Now or Resume Genius?
Close to identical on the 4-weekly plan, both landing around $314 over a year if left running. On the annual plan Resume Now is meaningfully cheaper at $70.20/year against Resume Genius’s $95.40. Resume Now’s trial entry price also moves around, observed between $1.45 and $2.95 depending on the visit, while Resume Genius’s $2.95 held steady every time it was checked.
Do either of them use real resume writers?
ResumeFox is built by TopStack Resume, a US career-services firm, and the standards its AI follows came out of more than 80,000 resumes written by hand by over 100 CPRW-certified writers, recruiters and coaches. Both Resume Now and Resume Genius employ certified writers who work on advice content and editorial review; neither states a volume of resumes those writers personally wrote, and both builders run primarily on AI suggestions and phrase libraries.
Is a good resume enough to get hired?
Not by itself. A resume that isn’t tailored to the posting is one of the most common reasons a strong candidate gets passed over. ResumeFox pairs the resume with per-posting tailoring, a cover letter written for that same posting, job sourcing that checks live postings against your resume, interview prep and an application tracker, so the resume is the start of the process, not the whole thing. Neither Resume Now nor Resume Genius tailors a resume to a specific posting or tracks what happens after you apply.
Is ResumeFox cheaper than Resume Now or Resume Genius?
No, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Resume Now prepays a year at $70.20 and Resume Genius’s annual plan is $95.40; ResumeFox is $79 a month after 7 free days, which is $948 for a year. These are different purchases: ResumeFox is built by a US resume-writing firm on standards from real work, and the price includes a career coach in the US you can write to as often as you like, per-posting tailoring, a matching cover letter, job sourcing, interview prep, LinkedIn, a tracker and the 6 month job offer guarantee.
Which one is best for getting past an applicant tracking system?
Template choice matters more than any score. A sidebar gets read straight across into the middle of a work history, and a photo yields no text at all. Resume Now’s Creative category and Resume Genius’s Photo and Two-Column categories both offer designs that do this; ResumeFox offers none that do. On feedback, ResumeFox names twelve concrete problems in your file rather than giving you a number out of a hundred, which both competitors do instead.
Can I download a resume for free from either of them?
As plain text, yes, from both. Resume Now lets you build and download unlimited resumes in TXT format for free. Resume Genius’s free plan is TXT-only for the resume itself, though its cover letter downloads as PDF, Word or TXT even on the free plan. PDF and Word for the resume require a paid plan on both sites; ResumeFox includes Word, PDF and plain text in its one plan.
What happens if I don’t like it?
ResumeFox charges nothing during its 7 free days, so cancelling inside them costs you nothing, and you can cancel anytime from your account. The 6 month job offer guarantee covers what comes after: 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. Resume Genius states a 14-day money-back guarantee on its pricing page, and Resume Now’s pricing page states a money-back guarantee tied to the 14-day trial; read the terms on each checkout page before paying, since the exact conditions can change.
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.
- Resume Now’s pricing page: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Now’s homepage: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Now’s template gallery: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Now’s Contact Us page: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Now’s AI Resume Review page: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Now’s customer reviews page: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Now’s interview advice articles: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Genius’s pricing page: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Genius’s homepage: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Genius’s Creative Resume Templates page: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Genius’s ATS Resume Checker page: read 2026-09-23
- Resume Genius’s About page: read 2026-09-23
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