Because the tool relies on automated structural stripping, it operates as a bit of a black box, which introduces the risk of over-correction. If the cleaning engine strips out subtle, intentional design accents, clean bullet styling, or compact multi-column sidebars that look great to a human recruiter, your resume can easily end up looking like a completely generic, uninspiring block of unformatted text. The platform needs to integrate a live, side-by-side visual diff layer before the download stage so users can inspect exactly what structural elements were modified or removed. Furthermore, handling full resumes means processing dense, highly sensitive personal data (including full names, phone numbers, home addresses, and employment timelines). Even without a formal sign-up requirement, the tool needs to provide highly visible, explicit transparency regarding local browser-side execution or instantaneous server-side purging metrics to clear data privacy concerns.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Dmytro, the maker of CV Cleaner.
I built this after watching too many friends get ghosted by recruiters - not because their experience was weak, but because their CVs were a mess of inconsistent fonts, broken tables, and formatting that ATS systems couldn't parse.
What CV Cleaner does:
• Strips out formatting noise (weird fonts, hidden tables, broken bullets)
• Restructures your CV into a clean, ATS-friendly layout
• Keeps your content intact - just makes it readable for both humans and machines
• Works in seconds, no account required
Who it's for: anyone applying for jobs who's spent more time fighting Word than writing about their experience.
It's free to try - I'd love your honest feedback, especially on edge cases (weird PDF exports, multi-column layouts, non-English CVs). Roast it, suggest features, tell me what's missing.
Thanks for checking it out!
Nice focused scope, 'upload, clean, download, no sign-up' is refreshing when most tools in this space push you into an account before doing anything. Question: how do you handle the ATS side? Do you test output against actual ATS parsers, or is it based on general formatting best practices? That distinction would matter a lot to me as a job seeker. Congrats on the launch!
How does it handle resumes with custom graphics or unique layouts, does it strip those out entirely or offer some control over what stays? Also wondering what the pricing looks like once the free tier runs out.
Finally a tool that strips out the weird spacing from exported Word files without mangling my bullet points. Whole process took maybe 20 seconds and the cleaned version went straight through an ATS check on the first try.
Love that it skips the sign-up step, that's the right call for something this quick. One idea: add a side-by-side preview showing the original and cleaned versions so people can spot what got stripped. Would help build trust and also teach folks what formatting issues to avoid next time they save a doc.
Finally something that strips the random spacing and weird bullet styles from my old Word resume without making me start over. Cleaned it in under a minute and it passed an ATS check on the first try.
Uploaded a heavily formatted resume and it came back actually readable, not just stripped of style. The before/after preview side by side was a nice touch.