§ The result
3 points separate VisualCV and Resume Worded.
Within the Resume AI cohort, VisualCV edges Resume Worded by 3 points under rubric js-v1.0, 63 to 60. VisualCV leads 5 of the 7 criteria, including Effectiveness Evidence, while Resume Worded leads 1, including Employer & ATS Legitimacy, and 1 is level. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Support & Accountability (Resume Worded 66, VisualCV 76) and Effectiveness Evidence at 12% (Resume Worded 34, VisualCV 42), the second being 30% of the weighted advantage VisualCV holds across the 5 criteria on that side of the table.
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.
Vendor profile
VisualCV
VisualCV is an online resume and CV builder that uses GPT-based AI to draft and rewrite resume summaries and work-experience bullets against a target job title or job description, alongside 30+ ATS-oriented templates, a cover letter builder, optional hosted public resume pages, and view/download analytics.
§ The record
Resume Worded and VisualCV are both filed under Resume & profile AI. They also share 1 secondary category: Career coaching.
| Record | Resume Worded | VisualCV |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | High | Mid |
| Headquarters | GB | CA |
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
12% weight · 29% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
Resume Worded 34 · VisualCV 42
1.0 weighted points to VisualCV
20% weight · 53% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
Resume Worded 58 · VisualCV 62
0.8 weighted points to VisualCV
8% weight · 77% of the movement so far
Support & Accountability
Resume Worded 66 · VisualCV 76
0.8 weighted points to VisualCV
20% weight · 89% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
Resume Worded 64 · VisualCV 66
0.4 weighted points to VisualCV
10% weight · 95% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
Resume Worded 42 · VisualCV 44
0.2 weighted points to VisualCV
15% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
Resume Worded 75 · VisualCV 74
0.1 weighted points to Resume Worded
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -3.0 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 3.3 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -3 beside that -3.0.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is Resume Worded minus VisualCV.
| Category | Weight | Resume Worded | VisualCV | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 58 | 62 | -4 | -0.8 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 64 | 66 | -2 | -0.4 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 72 | 72 | - | - |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 75 | 74 | +1 | +0.1 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 34 | 42 | -8 | -1.0 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 42 | 44 | -2 | -0.2 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 66 | 76 | -10 | -0.8 |
| Total | 100% | 60 (D) | 63 (D) | -3 | -3.0 |
§ 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 | Resume Worded | VisualCV | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 3 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 4 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 6 | 0 | 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 | 5 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 28 | 5 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 34 | 3 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
Resume Worded has 33 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 28 with a source URL, 5 documented absences; VisualCV has 37 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 34 with a source URL, 3 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 70 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 33 for Resume Worded, across 6 distinct source domains, and 37 for VisualCV, across 2 distinct source domains.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- Resume Worded last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- VisualCV last reviewed
- September 4, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
The full profiles
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