Like FlowCV?
Keep the resume, own the website.
FlowCV is one of the best free resume builders around, and it also spins up a tidy one-page personal site. If a clean resume and a light landing page cover what you need, FlowCV is a fine place to stay. Reach for Portfolio when the resume should become a full multi-page website on your own domain, drafted in about a minute, with a designer resume, a live ATS score, and a matched cover letter. Both fits are compared honestly below.
What FlowCV does well.
A fair look before any comparison. FlowCV earns its reputation on the resume side, and its free tier is genuinely useful. If that is the whole job, this is a solid tool.
A clean editor with real templates. For a quick, readable resume it is hard to beat at no cost.
A light landing page that pulls from your resume. Enough for a basic online presence.
Cover letter drafting and resume guidance sit right alongside the builder.
People who want a good resume fast, with a small page attached, are well served here.
FlowCV and Portfolio, side by side.
These tools overlap on the resume and diverge on the website. FlowCV wins on a free, fast resume. Portfolio wins when you want a real multi-page site you own with scoring built in.
| FlowCV | Portfolio | |
|---|---|---|
| Best at | A free, clean resume, fast | A multi-page website drafted from your resume |
| Free resume | Yes, a real strength | Resume tooling ships with the site, not free-standing |
| Website | One simple personal page | Separate pages for work, about, projects, contact |
| ATS scoring | Formatting guidance | A live ATS score as you edit the resume |
| Cover letter | Yes, drafting included | A cover letter matched to the same profile |
| Designs | Resume templates | 60 designs tuned for professional sites |
| Custom domain | On paid plans | Yes, TLS handled automatically |
| API | No | REST API |
For a fast free resume with a small page, FlowCV is a great answer. For a full website you own with a scored resume beside it, that is what Portfolio is built for.
When to stay on FlowCV.
Portfolio is not a free resume builder, and it does not try to be. If the resume is the whole point and cost matters most, FlowCV is the better pick, and we will say so plainly.
Move to Portfolio if you
- +Want the resume to become a multi-page website, not a single landing page.
- +Care about a live ATS score you can watch improve while you edit.
- +Want a matched cover letter and a designer resume that share one profile.
- +Need the whole thing on your own domain with certificates handled for you.
Keep FlowCV if you
- −Only need a clean resume and want it for free. FlowCV is excellent here.
- −Are happy with one simple personal page rather than a full website.
- −Prefer to tweak a resume by hand without building anything larger.
- −Are early in a search and just want something readable out the door today.
FlowCV questions, answered.
Direct answers about where the two tools overlap and where each one wins.
Is Portfolio a free resume builder like FlowCV?
No. FlowCV has a genuinely strong free resume builder, and if that is all you want, it is a great choice. Portfolio bundles resume tooling with a full website: it turns your resume into a multi-page site, a designer resume, a matched cover letter, and a live ATS score. The resume is part of a bigger job, not a stand-alone free tool.
Can FlowCV build a multi-page website?
FlowCV builds one simple personal page from your resume, and it does that cleanly. For separate pages covering work, about, projects, and contact, Portfolio is the better fit, since it drafts a multi-page site from the same resume in about a minute.
What does the ATS score actually do?
It shows, as you edit, how readable your resume is to an applicant tracking system, so nothing important gets lost in parsing. You can try the free ATS score checker before you build anything.
Do both let me use my own domain?
Yes. FlowCV supports a custom domain on its paid plans, and Portfolio connects one with TLS handled automatically. On that point the two are comparable.
How does Portfolio turn a resume into a website?
You paste the resume and it drafts the pages, the copy, and a matched designer resume for you. See resume to portfolio for how each section becomes a page.
Should I leave FlowCV?
Only if you have outgrown a resume and a single page. FlowCV stays a great free resume builder. Move to Portfolio when you want a full website you own with scoring beside it, not before.
Keep reading.
The product, how a resume becomes a site, and the free tool to check your resume.
Resume ready?
Turn it into a website.
Keep FlowCV for the free resume it does so well. When you want that resume to become a full multi-page website you own, paste it into Portfolio and get a site, a scored resume, and a matched cover letter in about a minute, with TLS handled for you.