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An open-source alternative to Zety

Reactive Resume is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Zety. It is documents software with 45.1K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Write resumes and cover letters, check them and track job applications.

Reactive Resume helps job seekers write a clean resume and see the finished page as they type. It also checks the resume against a job posting and keeps track of where each application stands. The project has no tracking, no adverts and no paid tier, and you can run it on your own server.

  • Edits resumes and cover letters with a live PDF preview and 18 templates.
  • Checks readability and matches your resume against a job posting.
  • Tracks job applications in list, board, insights and calendar views.

What people use it for

Rebuild an old resume in a new layout

Import an existing resume from a PDF, a Word file, a LinkedIn data export or JSON Resume. Pick one of the 18 templates, filtering for one-column, two-column or ATS-safe designs, and adjust fonts, colours, spacing and paper size. Download the finished resume as a PDF or Word file.

Tailor a resume to a job posting

Save the job from its URL or paste in the posting text. Run the resume checks to see readability findings and which keywords from the posting are missing, and view the text that hiring software reads from your PDF. If you have connected an AI provider, the assistant can propose edits and draft a matching cover letter for you to accept or reject.

Keep track of every application

Add each job to the applications tracker and drag its card through stages such as Applied, Interview and Offer on the board view. Record contacts, notes, follow-ups and the documents you sent, and schedule interviews that can be exported as calendar events. Applications can be imported or exported as CSV.

45.1K starsMITTypeScriptLatest release 2 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Reactive Resume.

  • Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 29, 2026 (2 days ago)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in TypeScriptMain language on GitHub
  • Does not meet: Recommended in a stackNot in any of our stacks yet

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