Best Free Cover Letter Generators: What's Actually Free

Search for a free cover letter generator and most results say “free” in the title. What that covers varies a lot. It can mean a free draft and a paid PDF, one AI letter and then an upgrade, or a free plan that ends after a week. So I read the pricing and product pages of the tools that come up most often and wrote down what each one says about its free tier.

Disclosure: I build SealApply, which is in this comparison. Everything about the other tools comes from their own pages as checked on 7 November 2026. I didn’t generate letters in them, so this tells you what each vendor states and says nothing about the quality of the writing. Where a page didn’t answer a question, the table says “not stated.”

What is the best free cover letter generator?

For an AI draft with no account, I’d point you to SealApply’s free cover letter generator, with the obvious bias that I made it. For a letter that needs to look designed, Canva is the better choice. If you want a resume builder in the same place and only need a few PDFs, Rezi’s free plan is the most generous of the builders here. Kickresume is a good fit if you’re happy to write the letter yourself and want a clean template.

Free cover letter makers compared

I also looked at Teal and Zety, but I couldn’t load their pricing pages on the day I checked, so they aren’t in the table. If either is on your list, read its pricing page for the same four things. There is an older comparison on the Teal alternative page.

A short note on each tool

SealApply

On the cover letter generator page you upload a resume as a text-based PDF, DOCX or TXT file, paste the job description, and get a plain-text letter you can edit, copy or download as TXT. There’s no account and the page saves nothing, though your resume text does go to an AI provider to write the letter. If you generate too many in a short time, it asks you to wait a minute.

PDF and templates are in the full app, which has no paid plan: an editor, three templates, and PDF or HTML download. The app’s free AI runs through Puter and needs a Puter sign-in, or you can use your own AI key. Three templates is a short list, and if the look of the letter matters most, the next tool is a better fit.

Canva

Canva is a design tool first, and that’s its strength here. Its free plan lists more than 1.6 million templates across all design types, and its cover letter page offers Magic Write, labelled free, to draft text. The free plan has “limited access” to AI on a monthly allowance that Canva doesn’t put a number on. The catch to watch for is premium elements: Canva’s help page says they carry watermarks for Free users until you buy them or upgrade. Pro is listed at US$144 a year.

Grammarly

Grammarly’s AI-powered generator is a three-step form, and its sign-up button says “It’s free.” The page says signing up is how you get the AI writing assistance, and it doesn’t mention a cap on the generator itself. Grammarly’s plans page gives the free plan 100 AI prompts a month, and Pro is listed at $12. The page doesn’t say whether a generated letter counts against those prompts. If you already use Grammarly, you may not need another account.

Rezi

Rezi’s free plan needs no payment and lists unlimited cover letters, with its AI Cover Letter Writer included. The limits are elsewhere: one resume, three PDF downloads, no Word or Google Drive export, and “limited AI tools” without a number. Pro is $29 a month and a lifetime plan is $149. Its generator draws on the resume you’ve built in Rezi, so it suits people who want both documents in one place. Pricing doesn’t say whether a cover letter PDF counts toward the three downloads, so plan as if it does.

Kickresume

Kickresume’s free plan includes four matching cover letter templates, unlimited downloads and limited design options. Its pages differ slightly on AI: the pricing table marks the AI writer as Premium, while the AI cover letter page says you can create your first letter with AI for free. Read that as one free AI letter. Premium is $8 a month billed yearly or $24 month to month, and Kickresume says it’s free for students who verify through ISIC, ITIC or UNiDAYS.

Resume.io

Resume.io has a free plan, but it allows only one resume and one cover letter, with downloads in TXT format. PDF is on the paid plans. Its 7-day trial costs $2.95 and renews at $29.95 every 4 weeks unless you cancel, and a quarterly plan costs $49.95. The trial gives full access and there is a 7-day money-back guarantee, so it can work for a short search if you remember to cancel.

Enhancv

Enhancv’s cover letter page says you can create a fully customized letter for free and describes downloading it as a PDF. Its pricing page is less clear: the free plan is “valid for 7 days,” carries Enhancv branding on resumes, and doesn’t mention cover letters, while the Pro plan lists “300 resumes and cover letters.” I’d treat it as a short free window, and check the PDF before you write a long letter in it.

Free alternatives to paid cover letter tools

If you came here looking for a free trial, it’s worth asking whether you need one. A trial makes sense when you want a paid tool’s full template set for a few days. For one or two letters, these do the job with no card:

• An AI draft from your resume: SealApply’s free cover letter generator or Rezi’s free plan.
• A designed page: a free Canva template with no premium elements, or one of Kickresume’s four free templates.
• Plain text for a form field: any of the above, or a general chatbot if you paste in your resume and the posting.

Whichever you choose, make a throwaway letter and download it before you spend time on the real one. The checks are in how to tell if a job application tool is really free. For tools covering the whole application, not only the letter, see the best free AI job application tools.

Template maker or AI generator?

A template maker gives you the layout and leaves the words to you. An AI generator writes the words from what you give it, and a custom letter depends on that input. If you can write a good letter and want it to look right, a template is enough. If the blank page is the slow part, a cover letter generator that works from your resume and the posting gets you to a draft faster, and you still have to edit it. I covered that editing in how to get an AI cover letter that sounds like you. Before any of this, it’s worth checking whether the application needs a cover letter at all.