Most people write a CV a few times a decade, usually in a hurry, and usually in a word processor that was never made for it. One extra line pushes a heading to the next page, a tab stop drifts, and the PDF looks different from the document you edited. CV builders on the web fix the layout, then ask for money the moment you want your own file.
PearlCV is our answer. You write on the real page, and the page lays itself out as you type: spacing, alignment, page breaks and all. What you see on your iPhone, iPad or Mac is exactly what the PDF will be, because both are drawn by the same engine, line for line.
Templates with a point of view
Each template is a design in its own right rather than one layout in six colours. Pearl is clean and modern. Classic is a calm serif. Ledger puts dates in the margin. The Pro designs go further: Atelier has a deep sidebar, a portrait and a timeline of roles, Meridian has editorial serif headings, and Bloom a colour banner and skill meters. Switching between them keeps every word you wrote.
Pearl is free, and its PDFs export free forever, without a watermark. You can try every other design with your own CV for as long as you like; PearlCV Pro, by the week or once for good, unlocks them all along with unlimited CVs, Applications and the hiring-systems check.
Honest about hiring systems
Applicant tracking systems read the text inside a PDF, not the picture of it, and some of them lose their way in two columns. Rather than promise that a design will pass, PearlCV extracts the text from your PDF the way parsers do and shows you what comes out. Every design passes that check as it ships, so one CV can go everywhere. With PearlCV Pro, if your own changes trip a check, Export says what and takes you to the fix, or makes an ATS-safe copy in the same design. We wrote more about what hiring systems actually read.
One profile, many CVs
You write your experience once. Each CV is made from that profile, with its own template, layout and language, so you can leave a role off one CV without losing it, or reword a line for one application only.
PearlCV keeps everything on your devices and in your own iCloud. There is no account, no advertising, and no AI reading your CV. It is coming to iPhone, iPad and Mac.