Looking for a read.cv alternative?
read.cv set the bar for calm, design-first profiles. It’s gone — but the idea doesn’t have to be.
What happened to read.cv
read.cv was acquired by Perplexity in January 2025 and wound down; profile exports ended around May 2025. A lot of people lost a page they’d quietly tended for years — and the community that recognized their work along with it.
If that was you, the loss wasn’t just a URL. It was a profile that treated your work with typographic respect instead of engagement mechanics. That’s the part worth replacing carefully.
What Path shares with it
Path is built on the same convictions: a profile is a piece of craft, not a feed; typography and restraint beat widgets; and your page should carry experience, projects, education, and writing — not a wall of links. There is no algorithmic feed and nothing on your page except you.
It also goes further in places read.cv didn't: 18 layouts with live color and type customization, a built-in blog (Pro), a custom domain (Pro) so the next platform shutdown can never take your URL, and PDF resume import that rebuilds your page in about 7 seconds instead of an evening of retyping.
Owning it this time
The read.cv shutdown is the argument for the thing we'd recommend anyway: put your profile somewhere you can point your own domain at, with your content exportable as plain, structured pages. On Path, Pro profiles live on your domain — see Your domain is the cheapest brand you'll ever own — so the address on your resume outlives any platform, including this one.
What you get on Path
Free
- Beautiful page — A polished layout, ready to share.
- Connected & searchable — Be discovered by the right people.
- Free path.cv domain name — Claim a shareable path.cv URL.
- Show about, experience, projects, and more sections. — Publish your full resume with essential sections.
- Optimized SEO & Page performance — Fast, indexable pages by default.
- Basic analytics — Track visits and top pages.
Pro
- Premium themes — Extra layouts for a standout look.
- Custom domain — Use your own domain name.
- Personal blogging — Share your thoughts and articles.
- Advanced analytics — Detailed visitor insights.
- Remove branding — Make the experience fully yours.
What we won’t pretend
read.cv’s community — the posts, the mutual recognition among designers — was part of its magic, and no profile tool honestly replaces a community. Path has a people directory and messaging, not a social feed; that’s a deliberate choice, and if a feed is what you miss most, we’re not it.
The short version
If read.cv was your profile’s home, Path is the closest thing to moving in rather than starting over — calmer by design, and this time on an address you can own.