A CV builder we built with real care.
Job hunting is hard enough on its own. We built cvitae so that putting together a professional CV isn't one more thing weighing you down. Free to start, and built for the phone already in your hand.
I did not start cvitae to build another piece of software. I started it because I kept watching people I care about get stuck on something that should never be this hard: putting their own hard-earned experience into a CV that actually gives them a fair shot.
I have watched someone spend an entire evening fighting with margins in Word instead of thinking about what they actually achieved in their last job. I have watched someone hesitate to share their CV publicly because they were scared of what putting their phone number out there might invite. I have watched someone freeze the moment a recruiter asked for references, because suddenly their safety and their job search were tangled up together. Every part of cvitae exists because one of those moments happened to someone real.
This is not a side project for the people building it. We work on cvitae because we care what happens to the person on the other end of the screen, tired after another day of searching, hoping this next application is the one that lands. We sweat the small details because the small details are what make someone feel like a product was built for them, not just shipped at them.
We are still building, every week, because a real gap showed up in how people actually use cvitae, not because a roadmap told us to. That is not going to stop. This is not a project we are winding down. It is one we are still deeply proud to keep improving.
Thank you for trusting us with something as personal as your career. We do not take that lightly.
Craig
Founder, cvitae
Everything you need, none of the busywork
Every one of these shipped because someone on our team saw a real person struggle without it.
Guided Mode, or full control
A free step-by-step editor asks one thing at a time and shows your CV strength climbing as you go. Prefer to work fast on one screen? Switch to Advanced any time.
CV Match Score + AI-written fixes
Paste any job ad for a live score against your actual CV. AI rewrites weak bullets, flags missing keywords, and now tells you what to cut too. You approve every change yourself. Nothing is edited behind your back.
Already have a CV? Upload it
Drop in your existing PDF or Word CV and we'll do our best to rebuild it inside cvitae, section by section, so you're not starting from a blank page.
Contact-Reveal, our privacy flow
Share a hosted CV without putting your phone number and email in the open for bots to scrape. Recruiters request your details, you approve or decline with one tap.
References, done right
Add references the same privacy-safe way. Name, role, and company stay visible, and their number stays hidden behind the same approve-or-decline flow as your own.
20 designer templates
Every template is built to pass ATS software and still look sharp to the person reading it next, with a pixel-perfect PDF export whenever you're ready to download.
Our core principles
These are not values we picked for a slide deck. They are what the last few months of shipping actually looked like.
Mobile-first, actually
Most job seekers get online from a phone, not a desktop. Every part of cvitae, from writing to photo uploads to switching templates to the full A4 preview, works from your phone, because that's where you already are.
Privacy and security by default
Your data sits behind modern encryption and strict database controls, and nothing about you goes public until you choose to share it. Contact-Reveal is aligned with POPIA, GDPR, and CCPA.
Free to start, always
A real free tier, with genuine PDF export, free templates, and hosting, no card required. Pro at R59.99 a month adds premium templates, watermark-free exports, and AI-powered suggestions for anyone who wants to go further.
Ready to build a CV you're proud of?
Free to start, no credit card, and no design skills needed. Pick a template and we'll handle the rest.