Scan your resume here
The same scanner the homepage runs, on this page. It reads your file in your browser: the file is never uploaded, and your score and findings show with no name or email.
Drop your resume, or browse
Your ATS score in about 10 seconds. Free, and your resume file never leaves your device.
This checks the CONTENT half: contact details and section headings. It cannot check layout, columns, or whether your file reads as an image, because those live in the file itself. We will tell you exactly which checks we ran.
Finish the real scan on your computer
We will email you the link. The four checks we could not run are where most resumes lose points.
- Runs in your browser
- Your resume stays private
- Free
scans run in the last 30 days. Every one free, private, and honest.
Resumes we build get scanned by this exact tool, with no special treatment.Check it yourself.
Your scan
Reading your resume the way a bot does...
What you see
Preview appears here.
What the bot reads
What we found
Email me this report
Everything above is yours already. If you want a copy to work from later, tell us where to send it.
Changed something? Run it again.
Fix one thing from the list, save the file, and scan it again. You will see exactly what that change was worth. Free, as many times as you like.
Fix every one of these, automatically.
You have seen what the bots see. Bounce Studio rebuilds your resume so it parses clean and re-points your real experience at each job, without inventing anything.
What you get back
Not a grade out of ten. The machine's actual transcript of your resume.
The literal characters a parser pulls out, in the order it reconstructs them. If your two-column layout scrambles your job titles into your skills, you will see it happen.
Name, email, phone, employers, dates, titles. And, more usefully, the ones it could not find, which is how you learn your contact details are stranded in a header.
Every finding names the thing and the fix. Most are formatting, not rewriting, and most take five minutes in your own file.
How this runs without uploading anything
The claim is checkable, so here is how to check it.
- Parsing happens on your device. The PDF and DOCX readers are loaded into your browser and run there. Your file is never turned into a network request.
- Verify it yourself in about twenty seconds. Open your browser developer tools, click the Network tab, then run a scan. If you see your resume leave your machine, we are lying and you should say so publicly.
- Your resume file is never stored, so it cannot leak. The file is parsed on your device and never sent, and seeing your score needs no details at all. If you ask for the emailed report, what we keep is your email, your name and phone number if the form holds them when you send it (it fills both in from your resume, so clear either one you would rather not give), your score and its one-line verdict, the findings with their one-line detail, and which page and campaign brought you here. We also store your IP address for about an hour to rate-limit the form, and we record aggregate page usage. That is in the privacy policy, in plain words.
What an ATS actually does with your resume
Understanding the sequence is most of the fix, and it is less dramatic than the internet suggests.
It pulls characters out of your file. A PDF exported from a design tool is often an image of text, which extracts as nothing at all.
It reconstructs what order those characters were meant to be read in. This is where multi-column layouts, tables, and text boxes fall apart.
It labels the pieces: this is a name, this is an employer, this is a date range. Headers and footers are frequently skipped entirely.
Your resume becomes a searchable record. A recruiter searches it. That is the part everyone imagines is an automatic rejection, and mostly it is not.
About that 75% statistic
You have read that 75% of resumes are rejected by an ATS before a human sees them. That number traces back to a 2012 sales claim from a company called Preptel, which shut down in 2013 without ever publishing a study, a sample size, or a method. You can watch it drift between 70, 75 and 88 percent across marketing pages that all cite each other. Applicant tracking systems are databases with search on top. Greenhouse's own documentation states its AI does not score or rank applications and nothing auto-advances or auto-rejects on an AI rating. The real failure mode is quieter and more fixable: your resume parses badly, so a recruiter searching for what you actually did never finds you.
What this tool can and cannot tell you
| It can tell you | It cannot tell you |
|---|---|
| Whether your text extracts cleanly at all | Whether any specific employer will interview you |
| Whether your name, email and phone are findable | What score their system gives you, because most do not produce one |
| Whether your dates and section headings use formats parsers handle | How you rank against the other applicants |
| Whether words from a job posting appear in your resume | Whether a human will like your writing |
A note on our own number: the score this tool shows is our heuristic, calculated by us. It is not any employer's number, and we are genuinely uncomfortable printing one at all. We show it because a single number makes the findings easier to prioritize, not because it exists inside anyone's hiring software.
How this compares, on things you can check
Only checkable axes. No opinions about whose AI is smarter.
| Bounce | Typical free checker | |
|---|---|---|
| Account needed to see results | No account, no name, no email. An email only if you want the report sent | Usually yes, or a blurred result with an unlock button |
| Your file leaves your device | Never | Usually yes. "Processed securely and not stored" still means uploaded |
| Free scans | Unlimited | Commonly 1 to 3, then a trial |
| Shows the extracted text | Yes | Rarely. Most return a score and a checklist |
Checked against publicly documented behaviour on 2026-08-04. If any of this is wrong or has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
If the scan finds problems
Most findings are yours to fix in five minutes, and you should. If the layout itself is the problem, Bounce Studio rebuilds it so it parses clean, using only the experience you already have. It never invents anything, and you can run any export back through this same scanner to check our work.
Guides from the Library
More in the Library, free and without an account.
Questions
Is this ATS resume checker really free, and what do you ask for?
The scan itself is free, there is no account, no card and no scan limit, and your resume never leaves your device. The score and the findings show on the page without a name or an email. We ask for an email only if you want the report sent to you in writing, and a first name is optional. If you would rather not, keep what is on screen and close the tab: nothing has been taken from you. We do sell paid tools and you will see them mentioned, but the scan is not a trial of anything.
Does my resume get uploaded anywhere?
No. The parsing runs in your browser, on your machine. The file never becomes a network request. You do not have to take our word for it: open your browser developer tools, click the Network tab, and run a scan. If you see your resume leave, we are lying and you should say so publicly.
What does an ATS actually see when it reads my resume?
It sees text, not your layout. The system extracts the characters, tries to reconstruct what order they were meant to be read in, then tries to label the pieces: this is a name, this is an employer, this is a date range. Everything after that is search. This tool shows you that extracted text so you can read exactly what survived.
Is it true that 75% of resumes are rejected before a human sees them?
No, and we would rather lose the sale than repeat it. That number traces to a 2012 sales claim from a company called Preptel, which shut down in 2013 without publishing a study, a sample size, or a method. Applicant tracking systems are mostly databases with search on top. The real risk is that your resume parses badly and never surfaces in a recruiter search.
What is a good ATS score?
Honestly, the question does not have a real answer, and we are uncomfortable that our own tool prints a number at all. The score here is our heuristic. It is not the employer's number, and most hiring systems do not produce a single score for a candidate. Treat it as a way to prioritize the findings, nothing more.
Can this tool tell me if I will get the interview?
No, and nothing can. It can tell you whether your text extracts cleanly, whether your contact details are findable, whether your dates and headings are in formats parsers usually handle, and whether words from a posting appear in your resume. Everything past that is a human decision in a market we cannot see.
Can I check a resume that Bounce did not write?
Yes, and we would encourage it. Drop in a resume you wrote yourself, one a friend sent you, or one another AI builder produced. Resumes built in Bounce Studio go through this exact scanner with no special treatment, which is the point.
No account, no upload, no limit. Or read the Library if you would rather understand the mechanics first.