Your CV
isn't bad.
It's just
not read.
I got tired of paying €29 a month for CV tools that do one useful thing per quarter. So CVGlow does that one thing, charges by the credit (from €0.50 a run), and tells you what's wrong with your CV in the plainest English I could manage.
- Responsible for managing team projects and deliverables← did what?
- Worked on improving application performanceby how much?
- Helped with code reviews and mentoringeveryone says this
- Used various technologies for backend developmentwhich? name them.
Three things, in order.
Nothing else.
It reads your CV line by line and tells you which bullets are doing work and which are hiding. Not a "score." An actual list of sentences, with notes next to them.
You paste in the job ad. CVGlow finds the phrases that ad actually ranks on, checks which ones are missing from your CV, and stops there. It won't put words in your mouth.
If you want, it rewrites the weak lines in your own voice. You see every change, approve or reject one at a time. Export as a PDF that ATS systems can actually parse.
That's the whole product. No dashboard bloat, no "insights," no email digest of your "career trajectory." I promise.
Hi, CVGlow exists because I spent a week out of work last year and tried every CV tool on the internet. Most of them were the same four features wrapped in different purple gradients, billed at €29/month.
CVGlow is smaller than that on purpose. Three things that actually matter, bolted together, charged by the use. It is not trying to become a "career OS."
It's also new. A few things you should know before trusting it with your CV:
- caveatThis was built in evenings and weekends. Things will break sometimes. When they do, email us, we'll fix it quickly. Credits you've already bought stay valid.
- dataYour CV stays in your account until you delete it. When you do, it's removed from our servers. It's never shared with anyone and never used to train anything. CVGlow simply can't afford to train anything.
- aiYes, there's a language model in here. No, it doesn't write from scratch, it rewrites the lines you already wrote. You approve each suggestion before it lands.
- numbersNo big user-count billboard to show you. A handful of people using CVGlow every week, plus a few emails that keep it going. That's it, and that's fine.
the CVGlow maker
still here · hello@cvglow.org
Pay by the credit.
First three are free.
One credit runs a full CV rewrite. A few lighter actions (keyword check, ATS pass, section tweaks) cost half a credit. Buy more when you need them, they never expire, there's no subscription, and no surprise charges.
Things you probably want to ask
but haven't, out of politeness.
- Why should I trust a small tool with my CV?
- You probably shouldn't, fully. Try it on a CV you've already sent out, one where the data's already in the wild, before your most sensitive one. For what it's worth, your CV only sits on our servers as long as you keep it, and nothing is used to train anything.
- Isn't this just ChatGPT with extra steps?
- Partially, yes. What CVGlow adds: parsing your PDF cleanly, comparing against the exact job description you paste, showing you the diff line-by-line instead of a wall of text, and exporting a PDF that doesn't break when an ATS parses it. You could do all of that yourself. Most people don't.
- Will this make my CV sound like AI wrote it?
- Probably, if you accept every suggestion. Don't. CVGlow shows you one rewrite at a time; reject the ones that sound robotic. It works best as a mirror, not a ghostwriter.
- Is there a free version that does everything?
- The first three CVs are free, that's enough to run a full diagnosis and rewrite. After that it's €1 each. There isn't a permanently-free tier because the AI bill doesn't pay itself.
- Does it work in German?
- Yes, and that was 60% of the reason it got built. Most CV tools treat German like broken English. CVGlow doesn't.
- Who's behind this?
- A small team, doing this quietly on the side. Email hello@cvglow.org and a real person will reply, usually within a day.