Free tools

Small things that answer one question well. Both run entirely in your browser — your letter and your CV never leave the page, which is a structural guarantee rather than a promise.

• Cover letter length checker

  Paste a letter, see whether it's the length recruiters actually read — plus skim time and the two structural faults that get letters skipped.

• ATS CV checker

  See what an applicant tracking system extracts from your CV: missing contact details, unrecognised headings, broken dates, extraction gibberish.

For the whole application rather than one piece of it, paste a job posting or read the guides.