About VitaeKit

VitaeKit is a free, privacy-first resume builder. We ship 12 professionally designed, ATS-friendly templates, a live editor, and one-click export to PDF (the format most ATS parsers handle best) or Microsoft Word. You can start editing anonymously — resumes live in your browser until you choose to create an account for cloud sync across devices.

Why we built it

Every existing resume builder we looked at made one of three bad trades: forced you to create an account before you could download anything, watermarked your PDF until you paid a subscription, or shipped templates that looked great on screen but fell apart the moment an Applicant Tracking System tried to parse them. We built VitaeKit to avoid all three.

Applying for a job is stressful enough. The tool you use to format your resume should not add friction, collect your data, or put a paywall between you and your PDF.

How our templates are tested

Every one of our 12 templates is single-column in reading order — the single most important factor for ATS parsing. We test each template against the major Applicant Tracking Systems that cover the vast majority of hiring in our target markets: Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Taleo, iCIMS, BambooHR, SmartRecruiters, and Recruitee. The goal is simple: when a parser extracts your experience, education, and skills, the extracted text should exactly match what’s on the page.

Where templates use visual embellishments (sidebars, colored accents, tile headers), we make sure those embellishments are CSS and typography only — never rasterized graphics or embedded images that ATS parsers would skip.

Who it’s for

VitaeKit is built for job seekers applying in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. We write our role-specific examples and formatting guidance against the conventions recruiters in those nine markets expect — US-style resumes in North America, UK/Commonwealth-style CVs in Europe and Oceania, and the mixed conventions common across the MENA region.

What’s free, and what isn’t

Building, editing, previewing, switching templates, and exporting to PDF or Word are all free. Free-tier downloads carry a small “Made with vitaekit.com” watermark; a one-time 30-day Pass removes the watermark and unlocks unlimited downloads plus full ATS scans. AI bullet rewrites run on pay-as-you-go credits. Core editing + templates are free forever — the paid features only exist to cover the cost of the infrastructure that runs them.

How your data is handled

Short version: your resume is saved to your browser’s localStorage and never transmitted to our servers. See the Privacy Policy for the full details.