Read.cv alternative
Read.cv signed off.
The personal page shouldn't have to.
When the Read.cv team was acqui-hired and the product wound down in 2025, what people mourned wasn't the CV format — it was a calm, beautiful page that felt like theirs. Kard is a home for exactly that part, with one twist: you make one page per audience, not one for the whole internet.
✦ 7-day free trial on Kard Plus · iOS 17+
What's different
The person, not the CV.
Let's be precise about what Kard is not: it doesn't do work-history timelines, case studies, or a jobs board. If you need a portfolio with deep project pages, pair Kard with your own site.
What Kard does is the part Read.cv quietly nailed and nobody else picked up: a page about who you are, not just what you shipped. Your tastes, your obsessions, the anecdotes that actually say something about you — organized once, in a private card on your iPhone.
Then the twist Read.cv never had: you publish a separate Kard per audience. A sober one on Monolith for clients. A warmer one on Archive for the people you meet at meetups. A playful one on Arcade for friends. Each with its own link and its own boundary — and a Pro template ships out of the box.
And because Read.cv set the bar on typography and restraint: Kard's 20 themes are designed, not generated — Gazette's modern-newspaper spread, Archive's laid-paper book page, Blueprint's millimetric grid, Terminal's CRT phosphor.
Migrating from Read.cv
An evening, not a weekend.
Fill your card once
The "about" energy of your old profile — interests, principles, current obsessions, the personal footnotes — goes into one private card, category by category.
Publish per audience
Start from the Pro template for your work-facing page, then add others — 9 templates, 20 themes. Edits sync live to every published page.
Own every link
Reserve a handle for URLs like kard.you/you/work. Recipients need no app, no account. Revoke any page with a tap — it returns 410 Gone instantly.
Side by side
Read.cv vs Kard, honestly.
| Read.cv | Kard | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Wound down in 2025 | Live, actively developed |
| Model | Team acqui-hired, product sunset | Solo, bootstrapped, subscription-funded |
| Focus | Professional profile, one per person | Personal identity, one page per audience |
| Work history & case studies | Yes | No — items, notes and photos instead |
| Community & posts | Yes | No — Kard is pages, not a network |
| Control | Public profile | Private by default, revocable links (410 Gone) |
| Editor | Web | iOS app (iOS 17+) — pages open anywhere |
| Price | Free | Free tier · Plus at $14.99/yr |
Built to last
Why Kard won't sign off.
Read.cv didn't fail — it was simply absorbed. That's the standard fate of beloved free products built by funded teams: the team gets a better offer, and the product gets a farewell post.
Kard is structured so that fate isn't available. It's built by one independent developer, runs on deliberately small infrastructure, and is funded by subscriptions rather than investors. There's no team to acqui-hire and no board pushing for an exit. Paying users are the business model, not the growth story.
If you ever leave anyway, your data lives on your iPhone and exports in one tap — and shared pages are end-to-end encrypted, so we couldn't read them even if we wanted to.
Also rebuilding a Bento page? There's a page for that too.
FAQ
Before you switch.
Is Kard a resume or portfolio tool like Read.cv?
No. Kard doesn't do work-history timelines, case studies or job boards. It replaces the part of Read.cv people actually miss: a quiet, beautiful page that says who you are — and it lets you tune that page per audience: one for clients, one for peers, one for friends.
Can Kard disappear like Read.cv did?
Kard is built by one independent developer, funded by subscriptions, with deliberately small infrastructure. No investors, no acqui-hire scenario, nothing to sunset. Your data also exports from the app at any time.
Do people I share with need the app?
No. You author from the iOS app; recipients open a plain web link with no install and no account. A public handle gives you readable URLs like kard.you/you/work.
How much does it cost?
The free tier includes 2 active Kards, 3 templates and 3 themes. Kard Plus is 14.99 €/year or 2.99 €/month with a 7-day free trial, and unlocks unlimited Kards, 9 templates, 20 premium themes, custom slugs and watermark removal.
Give your page a home that lasts.
Download Kard and rebuild your page in under a minute. 7-day free trial on Kard Plus.
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