§ The result
Kickresume leads LoopCV by 18 points.
Kickresume finishes 18 points clear of LoopCV under rubric js-v1.0 — 68 (D) against 50 (F) — across the Resume AI and Auto-apply cohorts. Kickresume leads 6 of the 7 criteria, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy, while LoopCV leads 1, including Pricing & Cancellation Fairness. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Effectiveness Evidence (Kickresume 74, LoopCV 35) and Employer & ATS Legitimacy at 15% (Kickresume 76, LoopCV 38), the second being 31% of the weighted advantage Kickresume holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
Kickresume
Kickresume is an AI resume and cover-letter builder that generates and rewrites application documents from a GPT-4.1-based writer, checks them against an ATS simulator, and hosts them as templated PDFs or personal website-CVs, leaving the job seeker to submit every application manually.
Vendor profile
LoopCV
LoopCV is a job-search automation platform that continuously matches a job seeker's CV to postings across 30+ job boards and applies on their behalf via ATS form-fills, LinkedIn Easy Apply, and templated emails to recruiters.
§ The record
Kickresume is filed under Resume & profile AI, LoopCV under Auto-apply tools. They also share 1 secondary category: Tracker.
| Record | Kickresume | LoopCV |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Low |
| Headquarters | SK | GR |
| Founded | 2013 | 2019 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Kickresume 76 · LoopCV 38
5.7 weighted points to Kickresume
20% weight · 56% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Kickresume 66 · LoopCV 40
5.2 weighted points to Kickresume
12% weight · 80% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Kickresume 74 · LoopCV 35
4.7 weighted points to Kickresume
15% weight · 91% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Kickresume 74 · LoopCV 60
2.1 weighted points to Kickresume
10% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Kickresume 58 · LoopCV 65
0.7 weighted points to LoopCV
20% weight · 98% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Kickresume 58 · LoopCV 55
0.6 weighted points to Kickresume
8% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Kickresume 73 · LoopCV 68
0.4 weighted points to Kickresume
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 7 figures above sum to +18.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +18 beside that +18.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Kickresume minus LoopCV.
| Category | Weight | Kickresume | LoopCV | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 58 | 55 | +3 | +0.6 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 66 | 40 | +26 | +5.2 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 74 | 60 | +14 | +2.1 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 76 | 38 | +38 | +5.7 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 74 | 35 | +39 | +4.7 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 58 | 65 | -7 | -0.7 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 73 | 68 | +5 | +0.4 |
| Total | 100% | 68 (D) | 50 (F) | +18 | +18.0 |
§ 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 | Kickresume | LoopCV | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | — |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | — | 2 | 0 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on a separate domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 12 | 2 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain |
Kickresume has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; LoopCV has 14 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 12 with a source URL, 2 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LoopCV sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 46 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Kickresume, across 3 distinct source domains, and 14 for LoopCV, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Kickresume last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LoopCV last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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