Free ATS resume checker: see exactly what recruiters' software reads
Most resumes are rejected by software before a person opens them. KlarCV's ATS checker re-reads your file the way an applicant tracking system does — plain text, section by section — and shows you which fields survived, which were lost in tables or graphics, and what to change first.
The template opens straight in your workspace — even if you have never saved it before.
What the ATS check actually measures
The checker runs the same extraction steps a parser runs, then scores the result instead of guessing from a template name.
- Parse rate: how much of your text is machine-readable at all
- Field recovery: name, email, phone, job titles, dates, employers
- Section detection: experience, education, skills, certifications
- Structural risks: text inside images, multi-column flow, headers and footers
- Keyword coverage against the job ad you paste in
Fix problems instead of only reading about them
Every finding links to the field that caused it. Date formats, ambiguous job titles and skills buried in prose can be corrected in the editor and re-checked in seconds, so the score moves while you work rather than after another upload cycle.
Free, and free to leave with
Running the check costs nothing and does not require a subscription. You can copy the extracted plain-text version, download it as an ATS-safe TXT file, or export a clean PDF that keeps real, selectable text instead of flattened graphics.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the ATS resume checker really free?
- Yes. The parse simulation, field report and keyword comparison are free to run as often as you like, and you can export the plain-text version at no cost.
- What is a good ATS score?
- Aim for 90% or higher parse rate with every core field detected. Below 70% usually means a two-column layout, a graphic header or text inside an image is blocking extraction.
- Which file format is safest for ATS?
- A text-based PDF exported from a structured editor. Scanned PDFs, images and heavily designed Word files are the most common cause of lost data.
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