Resume - Intelligent CV maker

Review by eFreeware

Resume - Intelligent CV maker is a free Android app from the developer Intelligent CV that builds a curriculum vitae or cover letter and exports it as a PDF. You enter your education, experience, skills and optional photo, pick a layout, and the app assembles the document for you. It has been installed more than 50 million times and holds a 4.5 average across 546,317 ratings, which tells you it has become a default choice for a lot of job seekers rather than a niche tool.

The main reason to consider it is the sheer range of finished designs on offer. The developer lists more than 500 resume designs built from templates that each come in 15 colors, plus 42 resume formats, so the odds of finding something that fits your field are high. That breadth, combined with PDF output and a cover letter option, is what makes this worth a look before you pay for a resume service or wrestle with a word processor.

Students, career changers and anyone without a design budget

The app is pitched at people who need a resume and do not want to think about typography. Students, recent graduates, first-time applicants and people going after entry-level or part-time work are the obvious audience, and the developer includes examples and samples for each resume section to guide that group. If you have never written a CV before, having a worked example beside each field removes most of the guesswork.

Experienced professionals are covered too. The section manager lets you reorder sections, rename their titles and add new ones, which matters once your history is long enough that a fixed layout stops fitting. Career changers and people applying abroad also get something here: the developer describes templates shaped around hiring expectations in the United States, Europe, Canada and elsewhere in the Americas, and mentions functional, reverse-chronological and combination formats.

The one group that should pay attention before installing is anyone who needs a resume in a language other than English. The writing guidance and support are offered in English, so the app is built around that market. Beyond that, the tool is general enough that most job seekers can get something usable out of it.

Templates, formats and a live preview

The template library is the core of the app. Each design comes in 15 color variants, and the developer counts over 500 combinations in total, which is why browsing can take longer than the actual writing. There are 42 resume formats to choose from, covering one-page and two-page layouts as well as functional, reverse-chronological and combination structures, plus biodata and portfolio formats for applications that ask for them.

A live preview sits alongside the editing, so you see the document take shape as you fill it in rather than after export. Formatting controls cover font size, colors and margins, which is enough to make a template feel like your own without turning the app into a full publishing tool. The developer also says the templates are optimized for applicant tracking systems, the software many employers use to screen applications before a person reads them.

The cover letter side mirrors the resume side. You can build a letter from the same template family as your resume, or download it separately as a PDF, and the app offers layouts for fields such as engineering internships, software development, business management, nursing, teaching, sales, medicine, graphic design, customer service, accounting and banking. Keeping the letter visually consistent with the resume is a small thing that makes an application look deliberate.

Editing tools that go past filling in blanks

What separates this from a simple form-filler is the editor. Special tools for customizing paragraphs and lists let you adjust how a block of text or a set of bullet points is presented rather than accepting a fixed style. The section manager goes further: you can change the order of sections, rename their titles, create new ones and modify them at any time. That flexibility is what makes the same app work for a student with one internship and for someone with fifteen years of history.

Adding a profile photo is optional and available across the templates, which is useful in markets where a headshot is expected and easy to skip where it is not. Once the document is finished, you can download it as a PDF, print it, email it or share it, and the developer argues that PDF holds up better than a docx file for job application forms. Finished resumes are collected under a saved area so you can keep several versions on hand for different applications.

The developer also bundles in a step-by-step guide and sample content for each section. That is the part that helps most when you are staring at an empty experience field and cannot decide how to phrase a responsibility. Whether you follow it closely or just use it as a nudge, it shortens the time between opening the app and having something you can send.

Free, ad-supported and nothing to buy inside

The app costs nothing to download and carries ads, and there are no in-app purchases. You get the templates, the editor, the cover letter builder and PDF export without paying. If you have used free Android utilities before, you know the trade you are making, and there is no second decision to make about whether to upgrade.

Because there is no paid tier, there is nothing to upgrade to. What you see on install is what you work with. The developer does offer a resume writing service and support alongside the app, which is a separate thing from the software itself and something to look into directly if you want a person to review your document.

The absence of purchases is refreshing in a category where the free download often turns out to be a preview. You are trading a bit of screen real estate for a complete tool.

How it compares with the alternatives

The realistic alternatives are a word processor, a dedicated desktop publishing tool, a paid resume service, or a web-based builder that keeps your documents in an account. Against a word processor, this app wins on speed and on the fact that the layout work is already done; you are choosing a design rather than constructing one. Against a paid service, it wins on cost and loses on the human review that a service provides.

A web-based builder may appeal if you want to edit from a computer as well, though the developer here emphasizes PDF output, which is convenient when you are applying from a phone. A design tool gives you more control but assumes you know what a good resume looks like; the examples and samples in this app assume you do not.

Where this app sits is the middle ground: more polished than typing a document yourself, less hand-held than paying someone to write it. For most people applying to ordinary jobs, that is the right place to be.

A dependable choice for a first or fast resume

I would point students, recent graduates and anyone applying for hourly, part-time or entry-level work toward this app first. The examples, the template range and the free PDF export cover exactly what those applications need, and the step-by-step guide means you are not starting from a blank page. Experienced professionals will find the section manager and formatting controls sufficient, though they may want to spend time trimming a template down to something restrained.

The app has been available since early 2019 and was updated in September 2026, with recent changes covering new templates, advanced features and performance work. That continuity matters for a tool you might return to every few years when a job comes up. With a 4.5 average across more than half a million ratings, it is clearly doing something right for a large number of people.

The trade-offs are straightforward: you accept ads in exchange for a free, complete builder, and the guidance is written for an English-speaking job market. If those fit your situation, this is an easy install before your next application.

What's new in version 8.8

New templates added Fixed all bugs Added few advanced features Performance improvements