Free ATS resume checker
Upload your resume and see the exact text an applicant tracking system pulls out of it — plus a 0–100 score made of named checks you can verify, one by one.
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Uploading is the thorough check — the layout problems that break ATS parsing only exist in the file itself.
How it works
Drop in your resume
PDF or Word, the same file you'd send an employer. We read it the way a parser does — as text and coordinates, not as a design.
See what survived
Your score, every check with its result and fix, and the raw text we recovered — so you can check our work instead of taking our word.
Fix, then tailor
Clear the failures, then match the resume to the job you're actually applying for.
What we check
All of it, up front. A checker that won't tell you what it's measuring is measuring your willingness to pay.
- The file itself
- A readable text layer · single-column layout · no text trapped in images · tables · page count
- Contact details
- Name leading the document · email · phone · location · LinkedIn or portfolio
- Structure
- Standard “Experience”, “Education” and “Skills” headings a parser recognises · a summary · enough listed skills · sensible length
- Writing
- Discrete accomplishment bullets · measurable impact (numbers, %, $) · no “responsible for” filler · dates on every role
Nobody can tell you your “real” ATS score.
Applicant tracking systems don't score resumes. They parse them into fields and let a recruiter search. So a tool promising your Workday or Greenhouse score is making one up — usually a bad one, so the fix costs money.
We only check what's actually knowable: whether the parsing works, and whether what comes out is complete. Every point is a named rule with a plain-English fix, and we show you the recovered text so you can check the verdict yourself. Same resume, same score, every time.
Questions
- Is the ATS checker free?
- Yes — completely free, no account, no card. There's a light per-network limit to stop scripted abuse, but nothing a person checking their drafts would ever hit.
- What happens to my resume file?
- It's read in memory to pull the text out, then discarded when the request ends. We don't store the file, we don't keep the text, and it's never used to train anything. Nothing about this tool needs an account, so there's nothing to attach it to. If you'd rather not upload at all, the paste option runs entirely in your browser.
- How is the score calculated?
- It's the share of concrete checks your resume passes, weighted by how much each one matters. Every check is listed with its result and a plain-English fix — a contact email, an “Experience” heading a parser recognises, dates on your roles, bullets with numbers in them, a single-column layout, no text trapped in images. There's no AI and no randomness: the same resume always gets the same score.
- Is this the real score a company's ATS will give me?
- No, and be wary of any tool that claims otherwise. Applicant tracking systems don't hand out resume scores — they parse your resume into fields and let a recruiter search and filter. What we check is whether that parsing works and whether the result is complete, because that's what's actually knowable. Anyone showing you “your Workday score” is inventing it.
- Why should I upload the file instead of pasting the text?
- Because the worst ATS failures live in the file, not the words. A two-column layout that interleaves when read straight across, contact details trapped in an image, a table that scrambles cell order, a scan with no text layer at all — none of that survives into pasted text. Paste still runs the content checks; upload runs all of them.
- My score is high but I'm not getting interviews. What now?
- Then formatting isn't your problem, and that's genuinely useful to know. A readable resume still has to match the specific job. Read the posting for what it actually asks for, and make sure the things you've really done are described in its language — that's what our tailoring does, and it's the next thing to fix.
Readable is the floor, not the goal.
Once a machine can read your resume, the job is making a recruiter see the match in six seconds. That's what Apply Leaf is for.