Beautify is our app, so weigh our take accordingly. Every competitor fact below comes from that app’s own App Store listing or website, checked in October 2026, and nothing here comes from hands-on testing. Most “best AI beauty app” lists are really lists of photo editors. This one separates the two: apps that analyze your face or skin come first, and editors that change your photo are listed after them.
What is the difference between an AI beauty analysis app and a photo editor?
An analysis app reads your selfie and returns information, while a photo editor changes the image. Analysis apps tell you things like your face shape, eye shape, skin type or a set of scores, and then suggest what to try. Editors apply filters, retouching, virtual makeup or new hairstyles to the photo. Both are useful, but they answer different questions: “what suits me?” versus “how would this look?”
How we chose these AI beauty apps
We included apps whose own listings describe analyzing a selfie for beauty or skin, and kept two well-known editors in a separate section for comparison. The criteria:
- It analyzes, rather than only edits. The listing must describe reading your face or skin.
- It explains what you get. Scores, features or skin concerns are named on the listing.
- It suggests a next step. Routines, tips, products or a plan.
- Its pricing model is clear from the listing.
How do these AI beauty apps compare?
Beautify is the only app here whose scores are stated as out of 100, and face shape and skin coverage vary widely across the rest.
| App | Best for | Platforms | Scores out of 100? | Face shape | Makeup help | Pricing model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautify - Glow Up | Scores plus face shape, eye shape and skin type | iPhone | Yes (eight scores) | Yes | Yes (ten step-by-step tutorials) | Free download; results need a weekly subscription |
| Glam Up | Color season and feature analysis | iPhone, iPad, Android | Not stated | Yes | Yes (step-by-step routines) | Free download; analysis needs a subscription |
| Skan | Skin concerns and product matching | iPhone, Android | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Free download; weekly, monthly or yearly subscription |
| Sister Glow Up | Many analyses in one app | iPhone | Not stated (lists “a beauty score”) | Yes | Partial (makeup style by face shape) | Free download; weekly, monthly or annual subscription |
| Glow - AI Beauty Coach | Face scan with a coach chat | iPhone, iPad | Not stated | Not stated | Partial (routines and hacks) | Free download; analysis needs a subscription |
| Hiface | Face shape and style matching | iPhone, Android | Not stated | Yes | Yes (virtual try-on) | Free download; subscription plus extra analysis credits |
| YouCam Makeup (editor) | Virtual try-on and photo editing | iPhone, iPad, Android | Not stated | Yes (per its own blog) | Yes (virtual try-on) | Free download; monthly or yearly subscription, some features use credits |
| Perfect365 (editor) | Virtual makeup on selfies | iPhone, iPad, Android | Not stated | Not stated | Yes (virtual makeup, creator videos) | Free download; monthly or yearly subscription plus one-off packs |
Which AI beauty apps analyze your face or skin?
Six apps on this list describe analyzing a selfie rather than editing it. They differ in what they read: scores, features, color season or skin concerns.
1. Beautify - Glow Up: best for scores and features in one scan
Beautify reads one selfie and returns eight scores out of 100 alongside your face shape, eye shape and skin type. The scores are Overall, Potential, Skin Quality, Facial Symmetry, Eyes, Nose, Lips and Cheekbones; see our rate my face page for what each one covers. Each characteristic opens a page of makeup tips, hairstyles or skin type routines, and a Glow Up Guide lays out step-by-step skincare, hair, fitness, sleep and nutrition sections. Premium also includes ten makeup tutorials and an AI beauty advisor (BeautyAI in the app) for follow-up questions. It does not edit your photo.
- Platforms: iPhone only, English only.
- Pricing model: free to download; results need Beautify Premium, a weekly subscription.
- Limitation: you get one analysis scan per subscription week. More scans need a one-off Superboost purchase.
2. Glam Up: best for color season analysis
Glam Up’s listing describes a “Color Analysis scan” to find your color season, plus facial analysis that finds your “face shape, eye shape, skin tone, and all your facial features”, celebrity lookalikes, a glow-up guide and step-by-step makeup routines. iPhone, iPad and Android. Free to download; the listing notes analysis requires a subscription.
3. Skan: best for skin concerns
Skan - #1 Skincare App is a skin-only analyzer. Its listing says you “take a selfie to understand visible skin concerns like acne, redness, pores, pigmentation, wrinkles, eye bags”, then offers a product finder, product scanner, routine builder, ingredient insights and progress tracking to “compare your progress over time”. It states that “Skan is not a medical device”. iPhone and Android, with weekly, monthly or yearly subscriptions.
4. Sister Glow Up: best for breadth of analyses
Sister Glow Up lists color analysis, face shape, age, body shape and “type of pretty” analyses, a beauty score, a celebrity look-alike, daily routines and progress charts. iPhone only, with weekly, monthly or annual subscriptions. The listing shows an 18+ age rating.
5. Glow - AI Beauty Coach: best for a scan plus chat
Glow describes a face scan “for AI analysis” with personalized product recommendations, beauty routines and a “24/7 AI beauty coach chat”. iPhone and iPad; analysis requires a subscription.
6. Hiface: best for face shape only
Hiface - Face Shape Finder detects your face shape and suggests “hairstyles, beards, glasses, or makeup” to match, with virtual try-on and an “Ask Style AI” chat. iPhone and Android, with subscriptions and extra analysis credits.
Which AI beauty apps are photo editors instead?
YouCam Makeup and Perfect365 are AI photo editors: they change how your selfie looks rather than analyzing it.
YouCam Makeup: best for live virtual try-on
YouCam Makeup: Face Editor lists “Live Makeup Virtual Try On”, “hundreds of looks”, “Face Shaper”, “AI Facelift”, “Skin Smoother”, 250+ preset hairstyles and a chat-based beauty and editing assistant that needs a subscription. Its own blog says the app identifies your face shape. iPhone, iPad and Android; monthly or yearly plans, with some AI features using credits.
Perfect365: best for virtual makeup looks
Perfect365: Face Makeup Editor describes “over 100 AI-powered makeup and beauty editing tools” and “over 3,000 professionally designed Hotstyles”, plus skin smoothing, blemish removal, hair color and step-by-step videos from beauty creators. iPhone, iPad and Android; monthly or yearly PLUS plans and one-off packs.
Bottom line: which AI beauty app should you use?
Use an analysis app when you want to know what suits you, and an editor when you want to see a change on your photo. Among analysis apps, Beautify gives scores plus face shape, eye shape and skin type in one scan, Glam Up covers color season, and Skan is the skin specialist. For skin alone, see our best skin analysis apps.