§ The result
Resume Worded leads AIApply on all 7 criteria.
Resume Worded finishes 17 points clear of AIApply under rubric js-v1.0 — 60 (D) against 43 (F) — across the Resume AI and Auto-apply cohorts. Resume Worded leads every one of the 7 criteria and 3 of them by 20 raw points or more, Employer & ATS Legitimacy among them; AIApply leads none. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (AIApply 38, Resume Worded 75, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Resume Worded holds across the 7 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
AIApply
AIApply is an AI job-search suite for job seekers that auto-applies to matched jobs on their behalf and generates tailored resumes and cover letters plus real-time interview coaching.
Vendor profile
Resume Worded
Resume Worded scores an uploaded resume or LinkedIn profile PDF out of 100 against its own recruiter-derived checklist and returns line-by-line feedback, AI rewrite suggestions and job-description keyword matching, but does not search for or submit job applications.
§ The record
AIApply is filed under Auto-apply tools, Resume Worded under Resume & profile AI. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | AIApply | Resume Worded |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | US | GB |
| Founded | 2023 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
AIApply 38 · Resume Worded 75
5.5 weighted points to Resume Worded
15% weight · 51% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
AIApply 50 · Resume Worded 72
3.3 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 70% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
AIApply 42 · Resume Worded 58
3.2 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
AIApply 55 · Resume Worded 64
1.8 weighted points to Resume Worded
8% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
AIApply 44 · Resume Worded 66
1.8 weighted points to Resume Worded
10% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
AIApply 27 · Resume Worded 42
1.5 weighted points to Resume Worded
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
AIApply 33 · Resume Worded 34
0.1 weighted points to Resume Worded
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to -17.2 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 17.2 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -17 beside that -17.2.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is AIApply minus Resume Worded.
| Category | Weight | AIApply | Resume Worded | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 42 | 58 | -16 | -3.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 55 | 64 | -9 | -1.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 50 | 72 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 38 | 75 | -37 | -5.5 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 33 | 34 | -1 | -0.1 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 27 | 42 | -15 | -1.5 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 66 | -22 | -1.8 |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 60 (D) | -17 | -17.2 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | AIApply | Resume Worded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
AIApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for AIApply, across 6 distinct source domains, and 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- AIApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
HireAIScore scores are editorial research, not legal advice, and no vendor pays for placement, scoring or removal — see the methodology, conflicts policy and terms.
§ Where next
The full profiles
Scored against