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

> Resume, CV and cover letter builder with ready-made phrases

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

LiveCareer is an online resume, CV and cover letter builder that has been around since 2005. It reads an uploaded resume into a new template, offers tens of thousands of ready-made phrases and skills by job title, writes a summary with AI and runs a ResumeCheck for common problems. Building is free, but PDF and Word downloads need Premium Access.

- **Category:** Resume Builders
- **Made by:** Bold Limited (since 2005)
- **Website:** https://www.livecareer.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free PDF or Word file, as free downloads are TXT only.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 24, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 24, 2026, LiveCareer has a free plan, and paid plans start at $5.95 per month, billed yearly ($71.40).

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Free Basic Access: the resume builder and cover letter generator with ready-made content and ResumeCheck, with downloads in plain text (TXT) only.
- **Free trial:** 14 days of Premium Access for $2.95; it renews at $23.95 every four weeks unless cancelled.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free Basic Access | $0 | Resume builder and cover letter generator, ready-made content and ResumeCheck. Downloads in TXT only. |
| Annual Premium Access | $5.95 per month, billed yearly as $71.40 | Paid up front for the year and renews each year. Unlimited PDF and Word downloads, all templates and a Bold.pro profile. |
| 14-Day Premium Access | $23.95 per 28 days, after 14 days for $2.95 | Starts at $2.95 for 14 days, then bills $23.95 every four weeks. Unlimited PDF and Word downloads. |

LiveCareer's own pricing page could not be read; these figures come from https://web.archive.org/web/20261015083111/https://www.livecareer.com/ on Oct 24, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LiveCareer before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 77% with annual renewal** (Annual discount): LiveCareer labels Annual Premium Access, $71.40 billed yearly, as saving 77% against the four-weekly plan at $23.95. Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20261015083111/https://www.livecareer.com/

## Key features

- **Resume upload and AI parser:** Upload an old resume and the parser maps your work history into a new, ATS-friendly template.
- **Ready-made phrases and skills:** Search by job title and pick from more than 50,000 prewritten skills and bullet points, then edit them.
- **AI summary and skills generators:** Writes a professional summary from your experience and suggests skills for a job title.
- **ResumeCheck and ATS checker:** Scans a resume for common problems and checks whether it is likely to get through applicant tracking systems.
- **Templates and formatting:** Dozens of ATS-friendly templates whose fonts, colors and layouts can be changed, with automatic formatting.
- **Cover letters and CVs:** A cover letter generator and a separate CV maker, alongside resume and cover letter examples by job.

## Good for

- Job seekers who want prewritten bullet points to start from
- People rebuilding an old resume in a new layout
- Anyone who only needs a plain-text resume, which is free

## Worth knowing

- Free accounts download only plain text (TXT); PDF and Word need Premium Access.
- The $2.95 14-day access renews at $23.95 every four weeks unless cancelled first.
- The annual plan is one $71.40 charge that renews each year; the page says it saves 77%.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. LiveCareer reads in an old resume and offers more than 50,000 prewritten skills and bullet points by job title. Building is free, but PDF and Word downloads need Premium Access: $71.40 for a year up front, or $2.95 for 14 days that turns into $23.95 every four weeks unless you cancel.

- **Value for money: B.** Annual Premium Access works out at $5.95 a month, inside this category's cheaper quarter ($8), but it's one $71.40 charge that renews each year. Otherwise it's $23.95 every four weeks after the $2.95 start.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** Free Basic Access gives you the builder, the cover letter generator, ready-made content and ResumeCheck, but downloads plain text only. The 14-day access costs $2.95, so it isn't a free trial.
- **Features: C.** An upload parser, more than 50,000 prewritten skills and bullets, AI summary and skills generators, ResumeCheck with an ATS check, templates, cover letters and a CV maker. The gap: nothing on record tailors a resume to a job ad.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record. A web builder where you search by job title and pick phrases, or upload an old resume to start.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no phone or desktop app and no integrations on record.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read on 24 October 2026 from a copy of LiveCareer's home page saved by the Internet Archive, as LiveCareer's site would not answer our reader. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among resume builders

- LiveCareer's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 4 of the 13 other resume builders we grade, and level with 5.
- It stands best on value for money (B, above 9 of 13) and worst on free plan and trial (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $5.95 a month, against a middle price of $16 for the category: 0 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 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?

**Your call.** You could make the core of LiveCareer for yourself: resume builder and templates. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $71.40 a year.

- You could make: Resume builder and templates: an app builder makes these well.
- You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.

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

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

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## Sources

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

- https://web.archive.org/web/20261015083111/https://www.livecareer.com/

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