GeniusCV — CV Analyzer

GeniusCV — CV & Resume Analyzer Browser Extension · Free · No Account Required What is GeniusCV? GeniusCV is a free browser extension that analyzes CVs, resumes, and cover letters directly in your browser — no uploads, no accounts, no waiting. Open any LinkedIn profile, paste your resume into a web page, or navigate to a CV hosted online, and GeniusCV gets to work instantly: scoring your document across multiple dimensions, surfacing the keywords recruiters and ATS systems look for, and giving you concrete, actionable suggestions to improve your chances of getting hired. It's built for job seekers who want honest feedback on their CV without paying for a subscription or handing their personal career data to a third-party service. The analysis happens entirely on your device, inside the extension itself. Your CV text never leaves your browser. What It Does When you open GeniusCV on a page containing a CV or resume, it extracts the visible text and runs it through a local analysis engine. Within seconds, you get: CV Score Tab A composite score out of 100 built from six weighted dimensions: Impact, Keywords, Formatting, Tone & Voice, ATS compatibility, and Structure. Each dimension is shown individually as a progress bar and visualized together on a radar chart so you can see at a glance where your CV is strong and where it needs work. Below the scores, three health cards give you quick stats that matter to recruiters: your total word count (with a color-coded indicator for whether it's too short, too long, or in the ideal range), the number of quantified achievements found (metrics like percentages, monetary figures, or multipliers), and the count of strong action verbs detected. A section checklist shows which standard CV sections — Summary, Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications, Languages, Projects, Achievements — were detected in your document. At the bottom of the tab, a suggestion panel identifies the most impactful improvements you can make: replacing weak passive phrases like "was responsible for" with active verbs like "led" or "delivered", adding measurable outcomes to your bullet points, and covering keyword gaps that ATS systems commonly check for. Cover Letter Tab If a cover letter is detected on the page, GeniusCV analyzes it separately. You get word count, paragraph count, an overall score, and an estimated ATS compatibility percentage. Four sub-scores — Opening Hook, Persuasion, Job Fit, and Closing — are shown as bars and as a radar chart. Suggestions target the specific weaknesses found: a generic opening, missing company references, a lack of concrete examples, or a weak call to action. Keywords Tab A keyword cloud shows every recognized professional keyword found in your document, from technical skills to business competencies (stakeholder management, KPIs, cross-functional leadership) to soft skills. A second cloud highlights commonly expected keywords that are missing — the gaps an ATS might penalize you for. A bubble map visualizes word frequency across the entire document. A skills mix bar breaks down what proportion of your keywords fall into technical, business, and soft skill categories, which can help you tune your CV for a specific type of role. Five Languages The interface is available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. The language selector is in the top bar; switching languages re-renders the entire interface instantly, including all scores, labels, and suggestions. Privacy By Design GeniusCV was built with one principle at the center of every architectural decision: your data belongs to you, and it stays with you. The entire analysis engine runs locally inside the browser extension. When you open GeniusCV on a page, the extension reads the visible text from that page, runs it through a JavaScript analysis engine embedded in the extension itself, and displays the results — all without any network request carrying your CV content anywhere. There is no backend server receiving your resume text. There is no analytics pipeline ingesting what you typed or what score you received. There is no user account for us to associate your data with. No CV text, no personal details, no scores, and no usage patterns are transmitted to any cloud service, database, or third party that we are aware of. The only data that persists between sessions is your language preference, stored locally in your browser's extension storage using Chrome's chrome.storage.local API — which is entirely on your machine and never synchronized to any external server unless you have Chrome Sync enabled in your browser settings. This is privacy by design, not privacy by policy. We haven't built the infrastructure to collect your data because we don't want it. The extension works offline. It will keep working even if our servers go down, because it doesn't depend on them for its core functionality. Known Limitations & Current Flaws We believe in being straight with you. GeniusCV is a work in progress and has real limitations you should know about before you rely on it. PDF Support in the Extension (Currently disabled) This is the biggest current limitation. When a PDF CV is open in Chrome's built-in viewer, the extension attempts to fetch and parse the raw PDF binary, decompress its content streams, and extract the text. This works for some PDFs — particularly those produced by simpler tools with uncompressed or straightforward FlateDecode streams. But many modern PDFs — especially those exported from Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or LaTeX — use cross-referenced indirect stream lengths, multiple nested compression filters, encrypted content, or font-encoded text that our lightweight parser cannot reliably reconstruct. The result is that PDF analysis in the Chrome extension is inconsistent. Some PDFs work perfectly; others return no content at all. We've made multiple improvements to the parser and will keep working on it, but we want to be honest: PDF CV a…