Resume Designer

An AI-assisted résumé builder that turns one master profile into polished, job-tailored résumés — privately, on your own machine.

What it is

Resume Designer is a desktop app for building résumés. You keep one master profile — your full work history, skills, education, and projects — and spin off as many tailored variants as you need, each pointed at a specific role. An optional AI assistant (powered by your own OpenRouter key) helps you draft, rewrite, and tailor content to a job description, and every AI edit is shown as an inline diff you approve or reject.

Your résumé data never leaves your machine except for the AI calls you explicitly make — there's no account, no backend, and no telemetry.

Features

Build

• One master profile → many tailored résumé variants.
• 11 layouts — Sidebar, Stacked, Stacked Vertical, Right Sidebar, Compact, Executive, Classic, Classic Featured, Modern, Timeline, and Creative.
• Click-to-edit inline editing, drag-to-reorder sections, add/remove/restructure from a structure panel.
• Version history so you can step back through changes, plus zoom and live text-formatting tools.
• Page setup — choose page size (Letter / A4) and margins; content paginates across multiple pages, both on screen and in the exported PDF.

AI assistant (bring your own key)

• One OpenRouter key → many models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more), with a model picker and per-model reasoning-effort control.
• Generate a résumé for a job: paste a posting and the assistant builds a brand-new tailored variant from your master profile.
• Tailor an existing résumé: the assistant rewrites it for a posting — applied as inline diffs you review before they land.
• Responses stream live, including the model's reasoning, with a stop control, web-search citations, and per-run token/cost stats.
• A chat panel for free-form drafting/feedback with per-résumé conversation threads, plus token-usage and cost tracking across every feature.

Import & export

• Import an existing résumé from PDF or Word (.docx) to bootstrap your profile.
• Export to PDF — true vector, multi-page PDF with per-page sizing (native print-to-PDF on the desktop app; image-based fallback in the browser).
• Back up and restore all your data as a JSON file.

Make it yours

• Color palettes + a custom accent color, font choices, and spacing/typography controls.
• Optional profile photo.
• Light / dark themes, plus a translucent "liquid glass" treatment on the desktop app.

Desktop

• Native macOS and Windows builds with automatic updates — the release changelog is shown before and after updating, with a browsable "What's new" history in Settings.
• macOS app menu with Settings and Check for Updates.

Download

Grab the latest installer from the Releases page:

Platform	File	Notes
macOS (Apple Silicon)	Resume Designer_<version>_aarch64.dmg	Signed & notarized
macOS (Intel)	Resume Designer_<version>_x64.dmg	Signed & notarized
Windows	Resume Designer_<version>_x64-setup.exe	Currently unsigned — see note below

The app updates itself: when a new release is published, it prompts you to download and restart.

System requirements: macOS 14.4 (Sonoma) or later · Windows 10 (1809) or later.

Windows note: the installer is not yet code-signed, so Windows SmartScreen may warn on first launch. Choose More info → Run anyway to proceed.

Prefer not to install anything? You can also run it in a browser — see Run from source.

Using the AI features

The AI features are optional and use your own OpenRouter API key:

1. Create a free OpenRouter account and generate an API key.
2. Paste it into Resume Designer when prompted (or in Settings).
3. Pick a model and start chatting or tailoring.

Your key is stored locally on your device and is sent only to OpenRouter to make the AI requests you trigger. You only pay OpenRouter for what you use; everything else in the app works without a key.

Privacy & data

• Local-first: résumés, profile, and settings live on your device — the desktop app stores them as plain files under its application-support folder; the browser build uses browser local storage.
• No account, no backend, no analytics. Network use is limited to three things: the AI requests you make to OpenRouter; the desktop app's automatic update check on launch (GitHub Releases); and web fonts for the résumé document — a Google-Fonts typography pairing loads from fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com only while it's the selected style. Choose a system-font pairing in Settings and the app makes zero font requests; its own UI fonts (Geist) are always bundled. (The desktop update check runs regardless; the browser build checks for neither updates nor telemetry.)
• Export a full JSON backup any time, and import it on another machine.

Run from source

The app is a React + Vite front end wrapped in a Tauri 2 desktop shell. All commands run from the resume-designer/ directory.

git clone https://github.com/ashproto/Resume-Designer.git
cd Resume-Designer/resume-designer
npm install

# Run in the browser (no desktop shell) at http://localhost:3000
npm run dev

# Run the native desktop app with hot reload (requires the Rust toolchain)
npm run tauri:dev

Build

# Browser bundle
npm run build

# Native desktop app for the current platform
npm run tauri:build

Prerequisites for the desktop build: Node.js 20+, the Rust toolchain, and platform build tools (Xcode Command Line Tools on macOS; Visual Studio C++ Build Tools + Windows SDK on Windows). The first Tauri build compiles Rust and takes a few minutes; later builds are cached.

Full build, signing, notarization, and release details are in resume-designer/TAURI.md.

Tech stack

• Front end: React 19 + shadcn/ui (Radix + Tailwind) for the app chrome, with the resume document rendered by framework-free vanilla JS that the React shell hosts but never touches; Vite and a small reactive store underneath. Chrome typography is Geist, self-hosted via @fontsource.
• Desktop shell: Tauri 2 (Rust) — native dialogs, file system, auto-updater, and a WKWebView/WebView2-based PDF capture through a hidden print.html window.
• AI: OpenRouter HTTP API (bring your own key), streamed over SSE with live reasoning, citations, and usage accounting.
• Notable libraries: pdfjs-dist + mammoth (PDF/DOCX import), html2pdf.js + html-to-image (browser PDF export), marked + DOMPurify (sanitized chat rendering), diff (inline AI-edit diffs), @dnd-kit (drag-to-reorder), sonner (toasts), lucide-react (icons).

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. For anything substantial, please open an issue first to discuss the approach. By contributing, you agree your contributions are licensed under the project's CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

License

Free · source-available · noncommercial — Resume Designer is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). See LICENSE for the full terms.

• Use it for anything, including at work. Creating resumes, profiles, exports, and other application materials — personal or commercial — is fine. The noncommercial term is about the app itself, not the work you produce with it.
• Your documents are yours. Resumes, PDFs, backups, profile data, and other outputs you create with Resume Designer are not licensed by this project license.
• Don't commercialize the app. No reselling, repackaging-and-selling, or offering it as a paid hosted service.
• ShareAlike. Distribute modified versions under these same terms.

Want a commercial arrangement this license doesn't cover? Open an issue. This is a source-available, noncommercial license — not an OSI-approved open-source license.