# Kickresume review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> Resume, cover letter and personal website builder with an AI writer

Checked Oct 24, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Kickresume is a resume and cover letter builder from a small company in Bratislava, Slovakia. It offers 40 premium templates with matching cover letters, an AI writer that drafts a whole resume from a job title and ad, an ATS resume checker and a one-click personal website. The free plan keeps unlimited resumes and downloads but limits templates and customization.

- **Category:** Resume Builders
- **Made by:** Kickresume s.r.o.
- **Website:** https://www.kickresume.com
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 4 basic templates, 2 fonts, and no AI Writer or ATS checker.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 24, 2026, Kickresume has a free plan, and paid plans start at $8 per month, billed yearly ($96).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 4 basic resume templates and 4 matching cover letters, 1 website template, 20,000 pre-written phrases, unlimited resumes and unlimited downloads.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 4 basic resume and cover letter templates, 2 fonts, limited design options, unlimited resumes and downloads. |
| Yearly | $8 per month, billed yearly as $96 ($24 billed monthly) | Full Premium: 40+ resume and cover letter templates, AI Writer, ATS Resume Checker, Career Map, priority support, and $120 in vouchers for friends. |
| Quarterly | $18 per month, billed every 3 months as $54 | Same Premium features as Yearly, with $72 in gift vouchers for friends. Marked as the most popular choice. |
| Monthly | $24 per month, billed monthly | Same Premium features, without the gift vouchers. Renews every 30 days until cancelled. |

Read from https://www.kickresume.com/en/pricing/ on Oct 24, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Kickresume before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save with quarterly or yearly billing** (Annual discount): The pricing page marks Quarterly as saving 25% against Monthly. Yearly works out to $8 a month against $24 billed monthly, about 67% less. Source: https://www.kickresume.com/en/pricing/
- **Free Premium for students and teachers** (Education): Students and teachers who verify their status through ISIC, ITIC or UNiDAYS get up to 180 days of Premium free. Source: https://www.kickresume.com/en/students/

## Key features

- **AI Writer:** Generates a full resume from a job title and the job ad, and an AI Cover Letter Writer drafts a letter that fits the resume. Premium only.
- **Templates and design options:** 40+ ATS-friendly resume templates with matching cover letters, 26 typefaces and color schemes on Premium; the free plan has 4 templates and 2 fonts.
- **ATS Resume Checker:** Scans a resume for applicant tracking systems, gives a score and compares it with successful resumes in Kickresume's database.
- **Personal website:** Turns a resume into a personal website in one click. Free accounts get 1 website template, Premium gets 7.
- **Career Map:** Reads your resume and suggests career paths that fit your skills and experience. Included with Premium.
- **LinkedIn and PDF import:** Builds a new resume from a LinkedIn profile or an existing PDF, then lets you edit it in any template.

## Good for

- Job seekers who want an AI first draft from a job ad
- Students and teachers, who can get Premium free for up to 180 days
- People who want a matching resume, cover letter and personal website

## Worth knowing

- The AI Writer, ATS Resume Checker and Career Map are Premium only; the free plan has 4 templates and 2 fonts.
- Every paid plan renews on its own; the terms give new users one 14-day money-back guarantee and no refunds after that.
- The iOS app is for iPhone only, not iPad.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 3.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Kickresume's free plan keeps unlimited resumes and downloads on 4 basic templates and 2 fonts. The AI Writer, ATS checker and 40-plus templates need Premium, which is $8 a month only if you pay $96 for the year, against $24 month to month, and refunds stop after one 14-day guarantee.

- **Value for money: B.** $8 a month on the yearly plan, paid as $96 up front, sits at the edge of this category's cheaper quarter ($8). Quarterly is $18 a month and monthly $24, close to the dear end.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** Unlimited resumes and downloads on 4 basic templates and 2 fonts, with 20,000 pre-written phrases, so one person can make and send a resume without paying. The AI Writer and ATS checker aren't included. Students and teachers can get Premium free for up to 180 days.
- **Features: B.** An AI Writer that drafts a whole resume from a job title and ad, 40-plus templates with matching cover letters, an ATS checker, a one-click personal website, Career Map, and LinkedIn or PDF import. Nothing in the listing leaves a gap in the resume job.
- **Ease of use: A.** Kickresume rates 4.7 on the US App Store from 4,215 ratings, which puts it at A on our ease ladder.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with LinkedIn import. The iOS app is for iPhone only, not iPad, and there's no desktop app.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Kickresume's own pages on 24 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among resume builders

- Kickresume's GPA of 3.2 is higher than 13 of the 13 other resume builders we grade.
- It stands best on ease of use (A, above 13 of 13) and worst on features (B, above 8).
- Its paid plans start at $8 a month, against a middle price of $16 for the category: 3 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 3.3 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/resume-builders

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Kickresume you could make: resume builder and templates. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.2 is higher than 13 of the 13 other resume builders we grade. It costs $96 a year.

- You could make: Resume builder and templates: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## What people say

- **App Store rating of the iPhone and iPad app:** 4.7 out of 5 from 4,215 ratings in the United States, read Oct 24, 2026. This is the store's rating of the app, not a score from ToolGPA. Source: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1523618695

## Works with

LinkedIn

**Tags:** Resume builder, Templates, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Enhancv](https://toolgpa.com/tools/enhancv): Designed resume builder with AI feedback, tailoring and a job tracker. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/enhancv-vs-kickresume)
- [Novorésumé](https://toolgpa.com/tools/novoresume): Resume builder sold as one-time passes, with free AI writing tools. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kickresume-vs-novoresume)
- [Resume.io](https://toolgpa.com/tools/resume-io): Resume and cover letter builder with AI writing and an ATS score. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kickresume-vs-resume-io)
- [Zety](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zety): Resume and cover letter builder with expert-written content. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kickresume-vs-zety)
- [VisualCV](https://toolgpa.com/tools/visualcv): Resume and CV builder with online resume sites and view tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kickresume-vs-visualcv)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 24, 2026:

- https://www.kickresume.com/en/pricing/
- https://www.kickresume.com/en/students/
- https://www.kickresume.com/en/about/
- https://www.kickresume.com/terms/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kickresume-ai-resume-builder/id1523618695
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kickresume&gl=US&hl=en

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