§ The result
Kickresume leads Resume Worded on 6 of the 7 criteria.
Kickresume scores 68 and Resume Worded 60 under rubric js-v1.0 — an 8-point gap inside the Resume AI cohort. Kickresume leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so Resume Worded is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 Kickresume leads is Employer & ATS Legitimacy, Kickresume 76 to Resume Worded 75. Effectiveness Evidence is both the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing — Kickresume 74, Resume Worded 34 — and at a 12% weight it carries 61% 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
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
Kickresume and Resume Worded are both filed under Resume & profile AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | Kickresume | Resume Worded |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | High |
| Headquarters | SK | GB |
| Founded | 2013 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 61% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Kickresume 74 · Resume Worded 34
4.8 weighted points to Kickresume
10% weight · 82% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Kickresume 58 · Resume Worded 42
1.6 weighted points to Kickresume
8% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Kickresume 73 · Resume Worded 66
0.6 weighted points to Kickresume
20% weight · 94% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Kickresume 66 · Resume Worded 64
0.4 weighted points to Kickresume
15% weight · 98% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
Kickresume 74 · Resume Worded 72
0.3 weighted points to Kickresume
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Kickresume 76 · Resume Worded 75
0.1 weighted points to Kickresume
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to +7.8 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 7.8 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads +8 beside that +7.8.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Kickresume minus Resume Worded.
| Category | Weight | Kickresume | Resume Worded | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 58 | 58 | - | - |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 66 | 64 | +2 | +0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 74 | 72 | +2 | +0.3 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 76 | 75 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 74 | 34 | +40 | +4.8 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 58 | 42 | +16 | +1.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 73 | 66 | +7 | +0.6 |
| Total | 100% | 68 (D) | 60 (D) | +8 | +7.8 |
§ 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 | Resume Worded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 25 | 7 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Kickresume has 32 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 25 with a source URL, 7 documented absences; 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 65 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 32 for Kickresume, across 3 distinct source domains, and 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Kickresume last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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