4 Best Resume Builders (2026), Tested & Reviewed

Other resume builder tools we tested

Adobe Express: Adobe Express is a powerful program, with lots of customization options and easily the boldest, most unique resume designs I’ve seen. It’s a shame it doesn’t work. The resume builder crashed for me five times when I was trying to design my resume in Chrome – on one of the best PCs money can buy, and I eventually gave up and moved to Firefox. I was able to build my resume on the Mozilla browser, but I still had to navigate through the more complex interface of any of the resume builder tools I tested. Adobe Express isn’t just for creating a resume. It’s a full online design tool, not unlike Canva, but that level of power in your browser (combined with the onslaught of pop-ups asking you to pay) slows everything down considerably. Adobe Express is a good alternative to Canva, and it’s better in many ways. But that doesn’t matter much if your web application is struggling to stay afloat.

Canvas: The online design suite Canva has a resume builder, and while you can put together a resume, it’s not designed for your job search quite like the rest of our picks. Canva is ultimately a design tool, and its resume builder fits that mold. You’ll have to drag all the elements of your resume individually to arrange them correctly, playing a game of multiplication between the free and paid assets available through the web interface. There are some amazing resume designs out there, but I don’t know how well they translate when actually applying for jobs. If you already have a Canva subscription, you can get a lot done if you’re diligent about formatting everything correctly. For everyone else, creating the right resume is not only simpler, but will also yield a better result once you’re done.

Indeed Resume Builder: There is actually a resume builder that I highly recommended when I started looking, but I’m not sure why. It’s serviceable and easy to use, with step-by-step instructions for filling out your work, education, and skills history. But it’s not so much a tool for creating a resume as it is a tool for actually building your profile. That’s a perfectly fine goal, but you can’t take your resume outside of the Indeed ecosystem. You can’t design a resume on Indeed’s website. Alternatively, if you haven’t already uploaded a resume and added it to your account, you can add all the information you would normally have on a resume to your profile. Then, you can use that to easily apply to jobs on Indeed.com. It works and is definitely a great platform to find a job. However, for most people, I recommend building a resume using another tool and uploading it to Indeed instead.

Teal: This resume builder is paired with job search and tracking tools, which include a job board and an AI job search function. It also offers features that may be useful when it comes time to consider offers, such as an offer analysis tool and compensation tracker. A Chrome extension is also available to make tagging tasks easier. However, I felt that the basic tools for building a resume were mundane and that Thiel was generally focused on managing the overall job search. Although you can get started for free, you’ll really need a subscription that’s priced at $179 per year or $29 per month. Teal offers a weekly rate of $13, which can be useful if you just want to go in, create your resume, check out a job board, and then move on.

the biography: In addition to a resume, Kickresume offers tools for cover letters (which many competitors offer) as well as resignation letters and websites (which are less common). This can make it a good one-stop shop. Kickresume also has a job map tool, which helps you visualize the types of jobs you might be a good fit for based on your resume and preferences. This could become a top pick in time, but at the moment, I feel like a basic resume builder, like Thiel, doesn’t have a particular advantage over the competition. Most features require a subscription at $24 per month or $96 per year.

LinkedIn: Unsurprisingly, the career-focused social network has the option to export your LinkedIn profile as a PDF, which can be used as a resume. However, it is a very barebones tool that converts your existing profile into a basic PDF with no options to change the content before exporting. So, although this is technically a way to build a resume, I would never recommend it.

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