§ The result
Resume Worded leads LazyApply by 23 points.
Resume Worded finishes 23 points clear of LazyApply under rubric js-v1.0 — 60 (D) against 37 (F) — across the Resume AI and Auto-apply cohorts. Resume Worded leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy, while LazyApply leads 1, including Effectiveness Evidence, and 1 is level. Employer & ATS Legitimacy is the widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing at once (LazyApply 25, Resume Worded 75, 15% weight), but it accounts for only 32% of the weighted advantage Resume Worded holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
LazyApply
LazyApply is a Chrome extension that automatically mass-applies to jobs on LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Dice and Greenhouse by auto-filling application forms from a saved profile, and tracks the submitted applications in an analytics dashboard.
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
LazyApply is filed under Auto-apply tools, Resume Worded under Resume & profile AI. They record no secondary category in common.
| Record | LazyApply | Resume Worded |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Low | High |
| Headquarters | IN | GB |
| Founded | 2020 | 2017 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
15% weight · 32% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
LazyApply 25 · Resume Worded 75
7.5 weighted points to Resume Worded
15% weight · 57% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
LazyApply 33 · Resume Worded 72
5.8 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 79% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
LazyApply 32 · Resume Worded 58
5.2 weighted points to Resume Worded
20% weight · 91% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
LazyApply 50 · Resume Worded 64
2.8 weighted points to Resume Worded
8% weight · 99% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
LazyApply 42 · Resume Worded 66
1.9 weighted points to Resume Worded
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
LazyApply 35 · Resume Worded 34
0.1 weighted points to LazyApply
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -23.1 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 23.4 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -23 beside that -23.1.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is LazyApply minus Resume Worded.
| Category | Weight | LazyApply | Resume Worded | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 32 | 58 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 50 | 64 | -14 | -2.8 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 33 | 72 | -39 | -5.8 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 25 | 75 | -50 | -7.5 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 35 | 34 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 42 | 42 | - | - |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 42 | 66 | -24 | -1.9 |
| Total | 100% | 37 (F) | 60 (D) | -23 | -23.1 |
§ 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 | LazyApply | Resume Worded | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 2 | 1 | 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% | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 6 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 14 | 3 | Sources on the vendor's own domainSources on a separate domain | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
LazyApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 14 with a source URL, 3 documented absences; Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; some documentation or audit rows for LazyApply sit on a domain separate from the vendor's own site.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 50 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for LazyApply, across 4 distinct source domains, and 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- LazyApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next