Is there a resume checker that does not store or upload your resume?

Yes — CareerDiary's ATS checker runs the whole scan inside your browser, so your resume text is never uploaded to a server and never stored. The single exception is opt-in and narrow: if you ask for the sample AI rewrite, one bullet from your resume is sent for processing, and no other part of your file leaves your device.

What actually happens when you scan

Every step below runs on your machine:

You paste text, or drop in a PDF or Word file. If it is a file, it is read and its text extracted in the browser — pdf.js for PDFs, mammoth for .docx — not sent anywhere for conversion.
The scan itself is deterministic string analysis: section detection, format checks, bullet grading, and keyword comparison against the job description you pasted. No model, no server, no network request.
The score and the findings are rendered from that local result. Nothing is written to an account, because there is no account.
Closing the tab is the whole deletion story. There is no copy on our side to delete.

The one thing that leaves your device, and only if you ask for it

After a scan, the tool offers a sample AI rewrite of your weakest bullet. That is the only feature on the page that makes a network request, and it fires only from an explicit click.

When you click it, two things are sent: the text of that one bullet (up to 350 characters) and, if you pasted a job description, its first 500 characters as context. That is the whole payload. The rewrite is generated by Google's Gemini API and returned to you; we do not write it to a database, and the only things our logs record are a counter and the model name.

If you never click it, nothing is transmitted at all.

How to verify this yourself in about thirty seconds

You do not have to take our word for it, and you should not have to. Open the checker, press F12 to open your browser's developer tools, and select the Network tab. Now paste your resume and run a scan.

You will see requests for the page and its assets, and no request carrying your resume. Filter to XHR or Fetch and the list stays empty until — and unless — you click the sample rewrite, at which point exactly one request appears and you can inspect its payload yourself.

This is the test we would want to run on someone else's tool, so it is the one we built the page around.

Why most checkers do upload

This is a design trade-off rather than a scandal. A checker built around a language model has to run that model somewhere, and that means the document goes to a server. Tools that parse server-side, store scan history, or compare you against a corpus all need your file on their infrastructure to work.

We made the opposite trade deliberately: the scan is deterministic rules rather than a model, which is what makes running it locally possible at all — and, incidentally, what makes it free and unlimited, since a scan costs us nothing.

Read that as the boundary of the claim, too. This page is about the free checker. Signed-in features like resume tailoring and cover letters are AI features that run server-side against your saved profile; the privacy terms for those are in our privacy policy, not here.

Frequently asked questions

Do you store my resume?

No. The free scan is computed in your browser and your resume text is never sent to us, so there is nothing on our side to store. No account is created and no file is retained.

Do you train AI on my resume?

No. The free scan involves no AI at all — it is deterministic string analysis. The optional sample rewrite sends one bullet to Google's Gemini API to be rewritten and returns the result; we do not retain it or use it for training.

What exactly gets sent if I use the AI sample rewrite?

One bullet from your resume, truncated to 350 characters, plus the first 500 characters of the job description if you pasted one. Nothing else. It is generated and returned, not stored in a database.

Do I need an account or an email address?

No. The checker is unlimited without an account, without an email address, and without a scan cap. A free account only adds saved history and AI features that are separate from the scan.

How can I verify the resume is not being uploaded?

Open your browser's developer tools, select the Network tab, filter to Fetch or XHR, and run a scan. No request carrying your resume appears. The only request the page can make is the sample rewrite, and that fires only when you click it.