4 Best Resume Builders (2025), Tested and Reviewed

4 Best Resume Builders (2025), Tested and Reviewed

4 Best Resume Builders (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Oct 15, 2025 8:30 AM

The Best Résumé Builders to Land a New Job

Ditch the old Word doc that’s hanging on by a thread. A proper résumé builder can help you stand out from the crowd.

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Other Résumé Builders We’ve Tested

Canva: Online design suite Canva has a résumé builder, and while you can throw together a CV, it’s just not built for job searching in quite the same way as the rest of our picks. Canva is ultimately a design tool, and its résumé builder fits into that mold. You’ll have to individually drag all the elements of your CV around to line them up properly, and play a game of whack-a-mole between free and paid assets available through the web interface. There are some striking résumé designs, but I don’t know how well they’d translate when actually applying for jobs. If you already have a Canva subscription, you can accomplish a lot if you’re diligent with formatting everything correctly. For everyone else, a proper résumé builder is not only simpler, but it’ll also spit out a better result once you’re done.

Indeed Resume Builder: Indeed has a résumé builder that came highly recommended as I started researching, but I’m not sure why. It’s serviceable and easy to use, with step-by-step instructions for filing out your work history, education, and skills. But it’s less of a résumé builder and more of a tool to build your Indeed profile. That’s a perfectly fine purpose, but you can’t take your résumé outside the Indeed ecosystem. You don’t design a résumé on Indeed. Instead, if you haven’t already uploaded a résumé and added it to your account, you can add all of the information you’d normally have on a résumé to your profile. Then, you can use that to easily apply to jobs on Indeed. It works, and Indeed is certainly a massive platform for finding a job. For most folks, however, I’d recommend building a résumé with another tool and uploading it to Indeed instead.

Adobe Express: Adobe Express is powerful, with a ton of customization options and easily the boldest, most unique résumé designs I’ve seen. Shame it doesn’t work. The résumé builder crashed for me five times when trying to design my CV in Chrome—on one of the most high-end PCs money can buy, mind you—and I eventually gave up and moved to Firefox. I was able to get my résumé built on Mozilla’s browser, but I still had to slog through the most clunky interface of any of the résumé builders I tested. Adobe Express isn’t just for building résumés. It’s a complete online design tool, not dissimilar from Canva, but that level of power in your browser (combined with an onslaught of pop-ups asking you to pay) slows everything down considerably. Adobe Express is a good alternative to Canva, and in many ways, it’s even better. But that doesn’t matter much if the web app struggles to stay afloat.


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