5 free audits per day. Nothing stored. Your resume text never leaves this session.
What this ATS checker actually does
Most online ATS checkers are vibes. You paste a resume, a number appears, you have no idea what it means. This one runs specific checks you can look at, so the score is a summary of the work, not a black box.
The audit looks at eight things: section headings a parser can recognize, contact info presence, word count in the passable band, the ratio of bullets with numbers, the strength of your opening verbs, buzzword density, character fingerprints some older parsers garble, and if you paste a job description, the keyword match.
Why paste instead of upload
When a real ATS ingests a PDF, the first thing it does is convert it to text. If anything in your layout makes that conversion ugly, the parsed text reads ugly too. Pasting the text of your resume into this tool is basically the same step, done by you, so you can see what the machine sees.
Quick sanity check: open your PDF, select all, copy, paste into the box above. If the result looks scrambled or has missing sections, your PDF has a parse problem and no score is meaningful until you fix the export.
How the score is computed
Each check has a weight. Pass earns the full weight, warn earns half, fail earns nothing. Total earned divided by total possible, rounded. The top score never hits 100 and the bottom never goes below 25. Extremes look fake and are rarely accurate.
Aim for 75 or higher. If you are there, you pass cleanly and have space to focus on interview prep. 55 to 74 is passable but has specific gaps worth closing. Below 55, the output tells you what to fix first.
Common questions
What does an ATS checker actually check?
Structural and content signals that determine whether a resume parses cleanly and reads credibly. This tool checks section headings, contact info, word count, bullet quantification, verb strength, buzzword density, and unicode issues. Add a JD and you also get a keyword match.
What is a good score?
75 or above means the resume parses cleanly and has content strength. 55 to 74 is passable but has gaps to close. Below 55, the recommendations tell you exactly what to fix first.
Does every company use an ATS?
Most mid-to-large companies do (Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, iCIMS, Taleo). Small and early-stage companies often do not. Either way, an ATS-safe resume is never a downside: recruiters at every size prefer clean formatting and keyword-matched content.
How is this different from other ATS checkers online?
Most return a vague score with no explanation. This tool shows every check passing, warning, or failing with a one-sentence reason. You can see the strongest and weakest verbs it found in your own text, the quantification ratio, any buzzword repeats, and the specific keywords missing from a JD.
Is my resume text stored?
No. The paste runs through the audit and the response comes back to your browser. We do not store the resume text, we do not index it, we do not train on it.