CV Generator is a free, open source resume builder that treats your professional history the way it deserves to be treated: as data, not as a pile of documents.

The real problem

Every professional keeps the same information scattered across a dozen places. A Word file, a "final" Google Doc, a PDF you emailed last year, a LinkedIn profile that says something slightly different, and one version you tailored for a job back in 2023. Every time you need a CV you open whichever file you find first, notice it is out of date, copy from another copy, reformat, and lose track of what is actually current.

Writing the CV was never the hard part. The hard part is that you do not have a single source of truth. Your experience, your skills, your education: that is one dataset. It does not change depending on where you apply. What changes is which parts you highlight and how you present them. We have been maintaining dozens of divergent copies instead of keeping one canonical record and generating views from it. It is the same mistake as copying a database instead of querying it.

What it does

CV Generator flips the workflow. You maintain one complete, structured record of everything, and you generate a tailored CV from it on demand.

  • One knowledge base. A structured editor covers every field: personal info, summary, experience, education, skills, languages, projects, certifications, publications, volunteer work, and awards. You can import your data as JSON, or upload your LinkedIn profile PDF and let it populate the fields for you.
  • Generate, do not duplicate. Paste a job description and the AI reads it, selects the most relevant experience, emphasizes the right skills, and adjusts the tone. The output is a tailored CV, and your source data stays untouched. You can generate in any of 13 languages, watch it stream in real time, review a diff against the previous version, and apply only the changes you like.
  • Presentation is a separate concern. 18 templates, 14 color palettes plus a custom picker, 4 layout modes, A4 or US Letter, a paginated preview with accurate page breaks, and PDF export through the browser print dialog. Your content is never locked into a single format.

AI assists, you decide

The AI can draft, suggest, and optimize, but you always have the final word. It also runs on your terms. Eight providers are supported, from local Ollama (free and fully private) to OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, and any OpenAI compatible endpoint. Skip AI entirely and the editor, templates, and export still work perfectly. The tool adapts to your workflow, not the other way around.

Why I built it

Two reasons. First, every decent CV builder charges a monthly fee just to let you download a PDF, so I wanted a free, permanent alternative with no account, no ads, and no catch. Second, once you see the single source of truth idea you cannot unsee it: tailoring a CV should be a solved problem, not a recurring chore.

Everything lives in your browser. A built in storage manager shows you every key it holds, its size, and what it is for, and nothing leaves your machine unless you explicitly send it to a cloud provider. If you run the AI locally with Ollama, your professional history never leaves at all.