Cover Letter
AI cover letter generator.
One letter per Target Role, written from your resume and the posting in the tone you pick. The AI is instructed to use only what is in your resume, and nothing checks the letter afterwards.
SupaCV's Cover Letter generator is a tab on a Target Role. An AI model reads a short brief of your resume and the posting text you added, and writes the letter in a professional, enthusiastic or concise tone. It does not look the company up and it does not score the letter.
Your resume's ATS score is free with no credit card. A letter is written on a Target Role, and the plan table below shows which plans include Cover Letters.
Where cover letters go wrong
Four problems, and the part of the generator that answers each.
A generic letter could be sent to anyone.
A letter that never names the company or the work it asks for reads like a template, whoever it is addressed to.
What the generator does: Each letter is written for one Target Role, from its company, its title and the posting text you add to it.
Retelling the resume in paragraphs.
A cover letter that only restates the resume gives the reader nothing new.
What the generator does: The instructions ask the AI to pick a few achievements from your resume that match the posting, not to retell it.
Buzzwords that read as machine-written.
Buzzword-heavy phrasing is one of the patterns reviewers notice in text that reads as AI-written.
What the generator does: The letter is instructed to avoid a list of overused AI phrases. It is an instruction and not a filter, so edit any phrase you would not use yourself.
A letter can say things your resume does not.
Every claim in a letter is one you may be asked to back up, and an invented achievement or a guessed name is easy to spot.
What the generator does: The instructions tell the AI to use only what is in your resume, to invent no numbers and to open with "Dear Hiring Manager:", because no recipient name is given. Nothing checks the result afterwards, and the limits below say so.
How it works
Six steps, from a posting to a letter you can copy or export.
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Add a Target Role with the posting
A letter belongs to a Target Role: a posting you are pursuing, with its company, its title and its description. Paste the description in. Without it, the AI writes a general letter for that title, which says little about the work or the company.
- 2
Open the Cover Letter tab and pick a tone
On the Target Role, the Cover Letter tab has a tone menu: professional, enthusiastic or concise. The tone is an instruction to the AI model.
- 3
Select Generate
One AI call writes the letter from a short brief of your resume and the posting. It reads the Resume the Target Role was created on, not a Tailored Version made from it.
- 4
Read it and edit it
The letter appears in a text box you can edit, and an Unsaved changes marker shows until you select Save. Your edits are stored as one block of text, so there is no version history.
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Copy it or export a PDF
Copy puts the text on your clipboard. Export PDF downloads the letter on US Letter paper with 0.75 inch margins, set in Helvetica or Arial at 11 point. Your name, the contact line from your Resume and the day you export go at the top, then the company and a Re: line with the title.
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Regenerate to replace it
Regenerate writes a new letter over the saved one, and the app asks you to confirm first. Copy or export a letter you want to keep before you replace it.
What it does not do
The limits are part of how it works, so they are listed here.
- Nothing checks the letter once it is written. The instruction to use only what is in your resume sits in the AI model's prompt, and no step compares the finished text with your resume. You are the check, so read the letter against the Resume it came from.
- It reads a short brief of your resume, not the file: a summary, your most recent work history with a few bullets for each employer, your skills and your education. Older work history and further bullets never reach the AI, and a very long posting is cut off.
- It uses what your Target Role holds. The company name, the title and the posting text are all it has about the company, so it does not look the company up and it knows nothing you left out.
- The letter is not scored, ranked or compared with the posting afterwards. The only link to the posting is the instruction to draw on the skills and requirements it names.
- One letter per Target Role, with no history. Generating again overwrites the saved letter once you confirm, and the earlier one cannot be brought back. The letter is deleted with its Target Role, so copy or export one you want to keep.
- The layout is fixed and the export is a PDF only. There is no template picker and no A4 option, the paper is US Letter, and nothing keeps the letter to one page, so a long one runs onto a second.
- Letters open with "Dear Hiring Manager:" because there is no field for a recipient's name. Edit the text to add one.
- Writing a letter and exporting one each have an hourly limit, and a monthly fair-use budget for AI is shared with every AI tool in your plan. There is no monthly count of letters, so the Target Roles your plan allows are the practical cap.
A letter is a draft in a tone you chose. Whether it lands with the reader is out of its hands, and nothing here predicts it.
What each plan includes
A letter sits on a Target Role, so the Target Roles row is what bounds them. This is the same table as on the pricing page.
| Feature | Free | Pro | Career |
|---|---|---|---|
| Target RolesA Target Role is one specific posting you're pursuing: it holds the job description, your company resume, cover letter, and interview prep for that role. Free includes one, with its job match score and keyword gaps. Tailoring and cover letters are on Pro and Career, and Interview Prep is on Career. | 1 in total | 3 per resume | Unlimited |
| Cover Letter generator | Not included | Included | Included |
Go deeper
The letter is written from your Resume and one posting. These pieces cover both, and what comes after.
Free ATS resume checker
The letter draws on your Resume, so see how that scores first.
Check your resume →Tailor your resume to the job description
Edits to your Resume for the same posting, each one yours to accept or reject.
See how tailoring works →AI resume builder
No Resume to write the letter from yet? Build one in a conversation.
See how the builder works →Does AI-Written Show on a Resume? What Reviewers Actually Flag
What reviewers react to in writing that was not written for the company, a cover letter included.
Read the article →The UK CV Guide: What Actually Differs From a US Resume
The paper size and the other differences when you write for a UK employer, since the letter export is US Letter.
Read the article →Interview questions by company
After the application, what each company's process looks like and what it asks.
Browse the playbooks →Frequently asked questions
Will the AI cover letter make things up?+
It is instructed to use only what is in your resume: no invented employment history, achievements or numbers, and no invented recipient, so a letter opens "Dear Hiring Manager:". That is an instruction to the AI model and not a check. Nothing compares the finished letter with your resume, so read it against the Resume it came from and edit anything you could not stand behind.
Is the letter written from my Tailored Version?+
No. It is written from the Resume the Target Role was created on, not from a Tailored Version made from it. If tailoring changed how a bullet reads, the letter does not know, so check that the achievements it cites match the version you are sending.
Do I need the posting to write a letter?+
A letter belongs to a Target Role, so you add one first with the company, the title and the posting text. With the posting, the AI draws on the company and the work it describes. Without it, the AI writes a general letter for that title, so paste the description in before you generate.
Does the letter avoid AI-sounding phrases?+
The letter is instructed to avoid a list of overused AI phrases. That is an instruction in the prompt and not a filter, so a stock phrase can still get through, and nothing is run on the finished text to test how it reads. Edit any phrase you would not use yourself.
What reviewers flag in AI-written text→How many cover letters can I write?+
A Target Role holds one letter, so the number of Target Roles your plan allows is the practical cap; the Target Roles row of the plan table on this page shows it. There is no separate monthly count of letters. Writing a letter and exporting one each have an hourly limit, and a monthly fair-use budget for AI is shared with every AI tool in your plan.
A letter is only as specific as the resume and the posting behind it. Start with how your resume scores.
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