AI Cover Letter Generator

What this AI cover letter generator writes

This AI cover letter generator wants four things from you: the job title, the company, a few highlights from your own work, and the posting if you have it. You get back a draft of 250 to 350 words to edit.

The writing happens on our server through an AI provider, so it needs a free account with a verified email. Free accounts get 10 AI runs a day.

The draft comes back in three or four short paragraphs, starting at "Dear Hiring Manager" and ending with your name. No address block and no date.

There are no templates either, so it works more like a cover letter writer than a cover letter builder. Press Copy and paste it wherever the letter is going.

Jordan's run: what I typed and what the tool did with it

I ran one application through the form on November 6, 2026. Jordan Lee, applying for a Customer Support Specialist job at Northwind Traders. Here is the highlights box, four lines and 226 characters:

• Answered 60 to 80 support tickets a day at a software company for two years.
• Cut average first reply from 9 hours to 3 by writing 40 saved replies.
• Trained four new hires on the help desk.
• Tools: Zendesk, Slack, Google Sheets.

Into the job description box went the posting. 198 characters: Zendesk, a 4-hour first response target, help center articles, onboarding.

Press Generate and the form checks the boxes first. Job title and company, up to 120 characters each. Highlights, at least 30 characters and at most 2,000. Posting, optional, up to 2,000. All passed.

Next the tool bundles your entries (594 characters for Jordan) with an instruction of its own, 799 characters long. That part is hidden from you. Roughly, it reads:

• 250 to 350 words, US English, three or four short paragraphs.
• First paragraph: name the job and the company, give one reason to want it.
• Middle, one or two paragraphs: match the highlights to what the job needs, with the results in them.
• End on a confident ask for the next step.
• No made-up employers, degrees or numbers. If it isn't in the highlights, it stays out.
• Stay away from "I am writing to apply", "team player", "passionate".
• Write in the tone picked on the form.

So Jordan's draft can say "cut first reply from 9 hours to 3" because Jordan typed it. A degree? Jordan didn't type one, so none should appear. See a number you never typed? Delete it. Models do slip, so the result card says to review before you send.

One honest note. The AI step is switched off on my test copy of the site, so the lines above describe what the tool checked and sent. I cannot show you the letter that came back.

The 30-character floor is only a floor

I tried a second highlights box: "Good with customers, team player." That is 33 characters, and the form accepted it.

So the check won't save you. Hand the model three adjectives and it has nothing to work with. You'd get a letter that could be anyone's.

Each of my lines gets:

• a job, project or class, plus when or how long
• the thing I did, as a verb (answered, cut, trained, built)
• a number for how many, how much, how fast or how often
• a tool the posting names that I've actually used

Three or four of those are plenty. Ten would be wasted, since a letter this size has room for two or three.

Never had a job? Use a class project, a campus job, volunteering, a club role. Same recipe per line. Our cover letter for an internship example shows two full letters built from them.

Free limits on the AI cover letter generator

These come from the plan settings in our code, as of November 6, 2026.

• A free account gets 10 AI runs a day, and every AI tool here eats from those same 10. Pressing Regenerate uses one too. Midnight UTC resets it. How many are left? Look at the badge up in the header.
• 2,000 characters in the highlights box and 2,000 in the posting box. Trim a long posting to its duties and requirements.
• 10 AI requests a minute, on any plan.
• Pro: 200 runs a day and 10,000 characters per box, plus the provider's larger model and a history of your drafts kept for 90 days. Prices are on the pricing page.
• Your own API key, added under Account and then AI keys, removes the daily cap. You pay that provider for the tokens instead.

A run that fails because the provider is down does not count against you. Ads on this page pay for the free plan.

What leaves your device, and what we keep

Press Generate and the form goes to our server: job title, company, highlights, posting, tone, and whatever is in the Name box, which starts as your account name. Clear it and the letter ends with [Your Name] instead.

From our server, that text plus our instruction goes to the AI provider named on our AI disclaimer page. Your email address and account ID stay behind.

Each run adds one line to our log. It holds the tool, provider, model, token counts, time taken, ok or failed, and a hashed form of your IP address. Never the text.

On a free account the letter itself is kept nowhere. Close the tab and it is gone, so press Copy first.

Pro with history switched on keeps the job title, company, highlights, tone and the letter for 90 days. The posting and your name are not saved. A letter started from an application in your tracker is saved with that application on any plan.

Nothing you type trains an AI model. The privacy policy has the rest.

Four tones

Professional is what you get unless you change it. I'd keep it for a bank, a law firm, a government office. Startup or nonprofit? Enthusiastic. Confident is for senior jobs and sales. Conversational fits small teams that write casually themselves.

Not sure? Read two lines of the posting out loud. Match how it sounds.

A checklist for a tailored cover letter that gets read

The draft is the start. Before I send a letter for a job, I run these, in order.

1. Company name and job title, checked letter by letter against the posting.
2. Every number traced back to the highlights box. Anything new goes.
3. One detail only you could know, like a product of theirs you have used.
4. First paragraph cut to 40 words or fewer in the word counter. That is about what a ten-second skim takes in.
5. I read it out loud. Any line I'd never say to an actual person gets rewritten.
6. Then the swap test. Put a different company's name in. Still reads fine? Then it was never about this job.
7. Into the AI writing checker it goes, and I fix whatever it flags.
8. Length check: 250 to 400 words. Save as PDF, your name in the file name. Jordan's was Jordan-Lee-Cover-Letter.pdf.

More detail lives in two guides, what goes in each paragraph and how long a cover letter should be.

Covering letter, letter of application, motivation letter

In the UK and Ireland the same document is a covering letter or a CV letter. An application letter, a letter of application and a job application letter are the same thing too, and so is a resume letter or a CV cover note.

The generator writes in US English. Change "organization" to "organisation" and similar spellings before sending it there.

University and scholarship forms often say motivation letter (or motivational letter). Those care more about why you're applying than what you've achieved. The generator will draft one. Some programs make you declare AI use, though, so read their rules before you start.

Our guide to what a cover letter is covers the parts of one and when to skip it.

Who made it

GetJobTools built this cover letter generator and the other tools on the site; the about page has the story. It sits in our cover letters topic. Got a draft with a fact you never gave it? Tell us on the contact page and we'll tighten the instruction.

FAQ

How long is the letter the generator writes?

Aim for one page, which is 250 to 400 words over three or four short paragraphs. The generator stops at 350 or so, leaving space for a line of yours. Our guide on cover letter length shows a 512-word letter cut down to 318.

Is the cover letter generator free?

Yes. Sign up free, no card. That gets you 10 AI runs a day, split across all our AI tools, and 2,000 characters a box. With Pro it's 200 runs and 10,000 characters, and your drafts stay in History for 90 days.

Will the draft read as AI-written?

Sent untouched, it might. Edit it, and make sure every fact came from you. I paste the posting, give it two or three results with numbers, and redo any sentence I wouldn't say out loud. Applying to a school or a scholarship? Read what they say about AI first.

The letter came out generic. What should I change?

Almost always the highlights. Every adjective should become a result. What did you do, for whom, what changed, and is there a number? Then paste the whole posting and run it again. Two sharp highlights beat six fuzzy ones.

Does it work for an internship or a first job?

Yes. Your highlights can be class projects, part-time work, volunteering, club roles. Write each one as what you did and what it led to. Same letter shape. Our internship cover letter example has two finished ones.

Is a covering letter the same as a cover letter or a motivation letter?

A covering letter is the UK name for a cover letter, so yes. A motivation letter is the term on many university and scholarship forms and leans more on why you are applying. For a job, use the word the posting uses when you name the file.