# ATSPrep vs Enhancv

Enhancv builds visually designed resumes in the cloud. ATSPrep shows what a parser recovers from a layout like that, free and in your browser. Page: https://atsprep.com/compare/enhancv

## What Enhancv is

A resume builder aimed at visual design, with an ATS check and tailoring tools built into the editor. Category: Design-led resume builder. Website: [Enhancv](https://enhancv.com)

## Summary

| Comparison | ATSPrep | Enhancv |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Account needed | No | Yes |
| Where the file is read | In your browser | On their servers |
| Built around | Checking the file you already have | Designing the layout |
| Price | Free, no paid tier | See https://enhancv.com/pricing/ |

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## What Enhancv documents about your resume

**Account:** The editor runs behind a signup, including registration through a social account.
Source: [Enhancv privacy notice](https://enhancv.com/privacy/)

Enhancv's privacy notice describes collecting, storing and processing the information you provide through the Services, and the builder itself runs on their servers rather than on your machine.

Source: [Enhancv privacy notice](https://enhancv.com/privacy/)

## Choose Enhancv if

- Your field expects a visually designed document — design, marketing, some creative roles.
- You are applying somewhere that reads the PDF by eye rather than through a parser.
- You want photos, sidebars, icons and colour handled for you.

**What Enhancv does better than ATSPrep:** Making a resume look designed. Enhancv's templates are far more visual than anything ATSPrep exports — though visual layout is also the thing most likely to confuse a parser, which is the trade-off the rest of this site is about.

## Choose ATSPrep if

- Your applications go through an applicant tracking system that parses the file.
- You want to see what a parser recovers from a sidebar-and-column layout before you send it.
- You want a linear, single-column PDF with real text and no watermark, free.

## Verdict

This is the sharpest trade on the page. Multi-column layouts, sidebars and text in graphics are exactly what turns a clean resume into scrambled extracted text — the ATS guides on this site document which systems handle what. That does not make design-led builders wrong; it makes them a considered choice for the situations where a human reads the PDF directly. If you use one, import the finished PDF here before you send it: the importer runs your actual file through a PDF text extractor and tells you whether it resolved to one column or two, while you can still change it.

## About ATSPrep

ATSPrep (https://atsprep.com) is a free ATS resume checker and builder. It shows the exact text an applicant tracking system extracts from a resume, then grades each bullet on whether it carries evidence a reader can verify.

- **Price:** free. Checking, importing, editing and exporting are all unpaid. No premium tier, no export paywall, no watermark.
- **Account:** none. There is nothing to sign up for.
- **Your file:** parsed and exported inside the browser. The resume file itself is never uploaded.
- **Optional:** one button-gated feature, semantic match, sends selected resume lines and job-posting requirement lines to a matching service. Never your name, email, phone, address or links, and nothing is stored.
- **Offline:** works once the page has loaded.
- **Accepts:** PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, or pasted plain text.

Start here: https://atsprep.com/studio