A cover letter that matches the resume
Written from your tailored resume and the posting it's aimed at — so it repeats the same true things, in the tone you pick. Nothing invented. Edit any line, then copy it or download it.
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How it works
Tailor your resume
Upload it, paste the posting, and review the changes. The letter needs both to have anything true to say.
Read it, then pick a tone
Direct is free and comes first. Switching to warm or formal rewrites the letter, so you're comparing real drafts, not restyled ones.
Make it yours
Edit any paragraph in place, then copy it or download the .txt. It stays saved with that tailored resume.
The letter can only say what you can back up.
Most AI cover letter tools will happily write that you're “passionate about the mission” and “thrived in fast-paced environments” — sentences that are true of no one and survive no interview. Worse, some will quietly hand you a skill the posting asked for and you never claimed.
Ours draws on two sources and no others: the resume you tailored and the job description you pasted. If the posting wants something that isn't in your resume, the letter leaves it alone — and you get to decide what to do about the gap, which is a far more useful thing to know than a fluent lie.
Questions
- Does it make things up?
- No. The letter is written from two sources only: the resume you tailored and the job description you pasted. It can rephrase and emphasise what's in your resume; it can't award you a skill, a job or a number you didn't put there. If a posting wants something you don't have, the letter won't claim it — and you'll see that gap rather than have it papered over.
- Do I need to tailor a resume first?
- Yes, and that's the point. The letter is drafted from your tailored resume plus the posting, so it echoes the same real experience the resume leads with. Writing one from nothing would just be a generic template with your name at the top.
- Can I change the tone?
- There are three — direct, warm and formal — and switching actually rewrites the letter rather than swapping a few adjectives. Direct is the free one, and it's the default: short sentences, specifics first. Warm and formal are part of Pro.
- Is the cover letter free?
- A complete letter in the direct tone is free — editable, copyable, downloadable, no watermark and nothing held back. It's the same split as our resume templates, where Atlas is free and the rest are paid: what Pro buys you is the alternate voices, not the feature.
- Can I edit it?
- Every paragraph, in place. Click a line and type. Your edits are kept as you go, so you can leave the page and come back to your version rather than a fresh draft.
- What format do I get?
- Copy it to the clipboard, or download it as a plain .txt file. Plain text is on purpose — cover letters get pasted into an application form far more often than they get attached, and text pastes cleanly everywhere.
- Should I send a cover letter at all?
- When the application has a field for it, yes — a short, specific letter is one of the few places you can explain a career change, a gap, or why this particular job. When there's no field, don't force one. And keep it under a page; nobody reads the second one.
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Start with the resume.
Tailor it to the job first — the letter writes itself from there, and both say the same true thing.