Resume Star vs Packmap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Resume Star
Easily create professional, correctly formatted PDF resumes and cover letters in minutes. This app uses industry best practices and battle-tested templates to help you score interviews. It offers unlimited resume creation and direct emailing or printing options.
- Professional PDF resume creation
- Targeted cover letter generation
- Direct email and print options
- Unlimited resume creation
- Professionally drafted examples
- Customizable sections
- Integrated spell check
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Build a professional resume and cover letter in minutes, and pay only if it helps you get the interview. Resume Star is the full app, free to use: no ads, no locked features, and no limits on creating or sending resumes. It is rated 4.9 stars across more than 17,000 ratings. How it works: * Fill in your details, or start from one of the professionally written examples. * Resume Star handles the formatting: clean layout, reliable fonts, correct spacing. * Email, print or export a PDF that looks the same on every device. FIND OUT WHY RESUME STAR IS THE MOST POPULAR RESUME APP BY FAR! ***** Thousands of Five-Star reviews! This is the real deal! ***** BUILD A PROFESSIONAL RESUME IN MINUTES Resume Star creates professional resumes using industry best practices: - Using a battle-tested template with complete sections. - Using the right fonts (did you know that many fonts don't appear the same on Mac and PC?). - Including a targeted and properly addressed cover letter for each company. - Avoiding gaudy colors and styles that send the wrong message. SCORE THAT INTERVIEW, OR PAY US NOTHING! There are many resume apps out there. Resume Star is different. Download it for free and use it unrestricted. Pay us only when you get the interview. That's right, this is not a cut-down, limited free edition. It's the full featured App, and the best one you can buy. There are no annoying ads, or gotcha limits on creating and sending resumes. It has everything you need to score that interview. Use the secure in-App purchase to pay us only when we've earned it. Instead of you taking a risk in trusting an unknown App, we'll trust you instead. How's that for a change? If you like this way of buying Apps, please be sure to let us know in the reviews section. GET TO THE NEXT LEVEL, FAST Resume Star is fine tuned to produce resumes that get the hiring manager's attention (in the right way), and get you in the door. People are using Resume Star to get jobs every day. We're confident it can help you too. Resume Star has a full feature set with everything you need: - Creates cross-platform compatible PDF resumes - Email resumes directly - Print in-App right from your iPad or iPhone/iPod Touch - Export to 3rd party Apps such as Dropbox to upload - Create unlimited resumes, one for each company if you want - 10 professionally drafted examples provide a starting point, or inspiration - Use pre-defined sections or create custom ones - Rearrange sections to suit your needs - Create a specific cover letter for each company, properly addressed - Integrated spell check to help avoid typos - Optional fine adjustments to text and margin sizes to fit the page - Live previews on the iPad BONUS GUIDE Also check out the in-depth guide, How to Score That interview With a Precision Targeted Resume. It's full of tips and tricks to get the most out of Resume Star. It's included free for all Resume Star users. Access it from the options menu. APPS YOU'LL LOVE At Qrayon, we love building Apps that you'll find useful and actually enjoy to use. We hope that Resume Star helps, even in its small way, towards you getting your dream job. If you like it, please be sure to let us know. We love to hear success stories. Oh, and do tell your friends about us too! All the best in your journey, -- All the App Makers @ Qrayon.
Packmap
Easily track the contents of moving boxes with scannable QR codes and color-coded labels. Log items by typing, voice, or photo recognition, and quickly find anything you need when unpacking.
- Printable QR code and color-coded labels
- Item logging via voice, photo, or text
- On-device photo recognition
- Offline functionality
- Plain language search
- QR code scanning for box contents
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Packmap turns a pile of identical moving boxes into something you can actually search. Label each box with a QR code and a big, color-coded badge, then log what goes inside however is fastest — type it, dictate it, or snap a photo and let Packmap name what it sees. When you're unpacking and can't find the coffee maker, just search for it and Packmap tells you which box it's in. The color-coded, named, numbered labels can be spotted from across the room! PRINT SMART LABELS • Create a whole room's boxes at once and print their labels two to a page. • Each label has a scannable QR code and a bold room color so you can spot it across a room. • Renaming a box never breaks its printed label (but you can reprint with the new name and color). LOG HANDS-FREE • Hold the microphone button like a walkie-talkie and rattle off items — they drop into the list as you speak. • Snap or pick a photo and Packmap suggests the items it recognizes. • Or just type. Whatever's fastest with your hands full. FIND ANYTHING • Search in plain language — "where are my headphones?" works. • Scan a box's QR code to jump straight to its contents. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • Everything works on your device, offline, with no account. • Even photo recognition runs on-device — your photos never leave your iPhone. • Nothing collected, no ads, no tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Resume Star at Free against Packmap's $2.99. Resume Star also leads on ratings volume (17K vs 1). Packmap's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On rating, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Resume Star is free to download; Packmap costs $2.99 up front. Resume Star sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Packmap asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Resume Star against 5.0 for Packmap. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Resume Star has 17K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Resume Star's written reviews are positive against 100% of Packmap's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Resume Star | Packmap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (17K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qrayon, LLC | Martes Delta Co, LLC |
Customer experience
Resume Star
Packmap
Bugs and requests
Resume Star
Reported bugs
2 issues- Losing resume data after uninstall and reinstall
- Issues with saving or emailing the resume
Requested features
4 requests- More font and template options
- Ability to add page numbers
- Option to include a summary section
- Sync across devices
Packmap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Resume Star
- Helped a bit Purchase$14.99
- Thank you payment$24.99
- Really helped purchase$59.99
Packmap
No in-app purchases
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