Choose a single-column ATS-safe layout or a more expressive design. Preview the structure, then build and export your resume. No watermark, no card.
Most “free resume templates” on the web fail one or more of the four basics below. Ours don't. That's the whole pitch.
Parsers read left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Two-column layouts (sidebar with skills, body with experience) scramble the text order — every sidebar item ends up wedged into the middle of an experience bullet when the ATS reads it. Single-column eliminates the risk entirely.
Experience, Education, Skills, Projects. Not “Toolbox,” not “Where I’ve Been,” not “Show & Tell.” ATS regex looks for the standard set; clever variants are categorized as “Other” and don’t feed the keyword scoring.
Anything rendered as an image (Word-art header, icon-font glyphs, badge graphics) is invisible to the parser. Every template here uses real Unicode text and CSS for visual flourish — no images in the content tree.
PDFs are server-rendered with Puppeteer, so the bytes you upload to an ATS look exactly like the preview. No font fallback surprises, no encoding mangling, no broken bullet glyphs in the parser’s text extraction.
Yes. All nine templates are free to use with no card required. New accounts get 20 free AI credits on signup — credits are used for AI features (bullet rewrites, ATS scoring, cover letters), not for template access. Templates themselves remain free forever.
Sequoia and Maple are the single-column ATS-safe choices. Other templates use different visual layouts, including sidebars; choose an ATS-safe layout when parser compatibility is your priority.
Yes. Your resume content lives separately from the template — change the template anytime and the same content re-renders in the new style. You can also keep multiple template versions of the same resume to test which one gets more recruiter responses.
PDF (server-rendered for pixel-perfect rendering across viewers and ATS uploads) and plain text. PDFs are the recommended format for most ATS systems in 2026; plain text is useful for online application forms that ask you to paste your resume body.
No. CraftMyResume runs in the browser — works on Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox, and on mobile. Sign in, pick a template, and start editing. You can also install it on your phone, with the same account and resumes.
Sequoia is the recommended starting point — it's a clean single-column ATS-safe template with proper Education-Experience-Projects ordering for early-career resumes. Maple is a strong alternative if you have a lot of academic projects to fit on one page; it's denser without becoming cluttered.
Cedar — classic centered serif, executive-ready. It signals seniority without being decorative. Pair it with the AI bullet rewrites to make sure each bullet leads with verbs like 'led,' 'owned,' or 'architected' to match senior-level scoring.
Free 20 credits get you AI bullet rewrites, ATS scoring, and a cover letter. No card. Switch templates anytime — your content stays.