Brevy vs Jobscan
the diagnosis, and what you do with it
Jobscan popularized a correct idea: a resume has to answer the posting's words. That's true, it's measurable, and the tool measures it well.
This comparison is written by the Brevy team. So it starts by correcting a belief that flatters everyone in our industry — us included.
First, let's set a myth aside
You've probably read that "an ATS automatically rejects resumes below a certain score." That's false, and repeating it does job seekers a disservice.
An ATS — Workday, Greenhouse, Lever — is first and foremost a database. It parses your resume, files it, and lets the recruiter filter and search inside it. There is no secret 75% threshold binning your application.
What is true: the recruiter searches by keyword, and reads fast. A resume that doesn't use the role's words doesn't surface in their searches and doesn't read like an answer to their need. The result looks like automatic rejection, but the mechanism is human.
So a match score measures something real — vocabulary overlap. It is not a passing grade.
What Jobscan does well
- It compares your resume to a posting and gives you a match rate.
- It lists the missing keywords, which is concretely actionable.
- It flags formatting problems that interfere with parsing.
- It also offers a resume builder and LinkedIn optimization.
- The free plan allows 5 scans a month, plenty to evaluate it.
It's a good diagnostic tool. On that ground, it's very solid.
The difference: diagnosing isn't treating
Jobscan tells you what's missing. Then it's on you to reopen your resume, work out where each term goes without lying, rephrase, redo the layout, and — usually — rescan to check.
Brevy does the other half: it rewrites the resume and letter in the posting's vocabulary, shows you every change before you accept it, and hands back a PDF ready to send.
And a broader difference: Jobscan works on the posting you bring it. Brevy also surfaces the postings, from companies' own career pages.
The table
| Jobscan | Brevy | |
|---|---|---|
| Resume/posting match score | ✅ The core product | ✅ Fit Check |
| Missing-keyword list | ✅ | ✅ |
| Resume rewriting | Paid AI assistance | ✅ Full rewrite |
| Tailored cover letter | Limited | ✅ In the same pass |
| PDF ready to send | Via their resume builder | ✅ |
| Surfaces job openings | ❌ | ✅ Career pages + France Travail |
| Weekly job email | ❌ | ✅ |
| French | English interface | ✅ Interface and documents |
| Free tier | 5 scans a month | 1 tailoring and 1 letter per week |
| Paid | Monthly, quarterly or annual (see their page) | EUR 9.90/mo or EUR 24.90 for 3 months |
Which to choose
Take Jobscan if you mainly want to audit a resume you've already written, you're comfortable making the edits yourself, and five scans a month is enough.
Take Brevy if you don't want to make those edits by hand forty times, and you want the openings to arrive along with the tailored document.
A note that applies either way: don't chase the score. Stacking keywords to gain ten points produces a resume that passes the measurement and fails the human read. The honest method is in How to tailor your resume to a job description.
What Brevy does not do
- Brevy does not promise to "beat the ATS." No white text, no keyword stuffing — those tricks are detected and treated as fraud.
- Brevy does not apply for you.
- Brevy invents no skills to push a score up.
FAQ
Does an ATS automatically reject my resume if my score is too low?
No. An ATS is primarily a database: it parses your resume, stores it, and lets the recruiter filter and search. There is no automatic threshold that discards an application. What actually happens is that a resume without the role's words doesn't surface in the recruiter's searches and doesn't read like an answer to their posting.
Is Jobscan's match rate reliable?
It measures something real and useful: the vocabulary overlap between your resume and the posting. It's a good indicator, as long as you don't treat it as a pass mark. Optimizing the number for its own sake, by copying keywords in, produces a resume that scores well and loses the human reader.
Is Jobscan free?
The free plan gives you 5 resume scans a month, with the match rate and keyword gap. Full reports, assisted optimization and unlimited scans require a subscription, offered monthly, quarterly or annually.
What's the best Jobscan alternative?
It depends what you want from it. If you only want a diagnosis, several tools give a match score and Jobscan remains a reference. If you want the fix done — the resume and letter rewritten, and a PDF ready to send — you want a tailoring tool rather than an analysis tool.
How do I optimize a resume for ATS without cheating?
Pull the repeated skills, named tools and verbs out of the posting, then rewrite your real experience in those words. Move what's relevant up, cut what doesn't serve this application. What you must never do: invent a skill, paste in a keyword list, or use white text — that's detected and treated as fraud.
What match score should I aim for?
No number has absolute value, since no threshold exists on the ATS side. The right test is qualitative: a recruiter reading your resume for ten seconds should recognize the main requirements of their own posting. If the skills mentioned twice or more in the ad appear on your resume, carried by real experience, the work is done.
In short
Jobscan measures the gap. That's useful, and its free plan is enough to see it.
Brevy closes the gap, on postings it surfaces itself — without ever crossing into invention.