The best face-rating and face-training apps, compared honestly.
The honest answer about the best looksmaxxing apps is that the right one depends on what you want to happen after the number — so instead of crowning one, this page puts four iPhone apps side by side on three criteria: where the photo is processed, what arrives after the score, and whether the advice carries any grade of evidence. Everything below is what each app says about itself on its own App Store listing, its own App Privacy label and its own privacy policy, quoted rather than summarized wherever the wording matters.
Facts checked on 6 September 2026.
Where we’re level
- All four put a number on a selfie. Every app on this page reads a photo of a face and hands back a rating of it, and in every case that number is a model’s estimate of taste rather than a measurement of a person. If a numeric face score is the whole of what you came for, all four give you one, and the choice between them is about everything that happens next.
- All four are Lifestyle apps, not medical ones. Umax, LooksMax AI, Mogged and LOOKSMAXBRO are all listed under Lifestyle in the App Store — none of them sits in Medical, and none is a substitute for a dermatologist or a doctor. Whatever each app hands you, it is an aesthetic read of a photograph rather than a clinical one — and the table row “Saying out loud that it is not medical” prints what each of the four says about that in its own words.
The four apps, in alphabetical order
The order below is alphabetical, not a ranking — the ranking depends on the criterion, and the criteria are in the table above. Each card says the same five things about its app, taken from that app’s own App Store listing, its own App Privacy label and its own privacy policy.
LooksMax AI
Category. Lifestyle, also listed under Health & Fitness. Developer: Mnkybrain Labs, Inc.
What its listing says it does. Three steps: “1) Upload your photos 2) LooksMax AI will then analyze your traits 3) Get your results and personalized advice”. It calls itself “your personalized AI coach”.
App Privacy label. Data Used to Track You — Usage Data. Data Not Linked to You — Analytics (Usage Data, Product Interaction); App Functionality (User Content, Photos or Videos, Usage Data, Product Interaction); Diagnostics (Crash Data).
Where the photo goes, per its policy. Its policy is explicit: “Your face data is collected directly from the photos you upload into the app”, and “Your face data is retained for a period of 30 days after which it is automatically deleted from our servers.”
What its listing describes after the score. “Results and personalized advice”, plus “the essential tools and insights to embark on your journey of self-improvement”. Its listing does not describe a daily plan, timed lessons or a re-scan schedule.
LOOKSMAXBRO
Category. Lifestyle, also listed under Entertainment. The app this site is about.
What its listing says it does. Scans the face on the iPhone and returns an Overall score, a Potential score and eight facial metrics, then builds a repeating 30-day plan of daily habits around the lowest of them.
App Privacy label. Data Used to Track You — Identifiers. Data Linked to You — Developer’s Advertising or Marketing (Device ID); Analytics (Purchase History, Device ID, Product Interaction); App Functionality (Purchase History, User ID, Device ID, Product Interaction). Data Not Linked to You — App Functionality (Health). There is no “User Content” row and no “Photos or Videos” row, because neither ever leaves the phone.
Where the photo goes, per its policy. Nowhere: “The scoring model is compiled into the app and runs on your iPhone’s own Neural Engine”, and “You can put the phone in airplane mode and a scan still works.” The photos are “never uploaded to us or to anyone else” and are excluded from your iCloud device backup.
What its listing describes after the score. A daily habit list, timed lessons with a player, an evening close-out, per-habit streaks and a re-scan once a week that reports a delta per metric rather than a fresh verdict.
Mogged
Category. Lifestyle, also listed under Health & Fitness. Developer: Metellus Productions LLC.
What its listing says it does. “A daily glow-up tracker that helps you improve your appearance, build better habits, and stay consistent — all in just 30 days”, with “AI Face Scans”, a “Daily Task Plan” and “Progress Streaks”.
App Privacy label. Data Used to Track You — Identifiers. Data Linked to You — Developer’s Advertising or Marketing (Device ID); Analytics (Device ID); Product Personalization (Email Address); App Functionality (Email Address, User Content: Photos or Videos, Device ID). Data Not Linked to You — Third-Party Advertising (Device ID).
Where the photo goes, per its policy. Its listing says “Your scans and data stay on your device.” Its privacy policy says “We collect and process facial data from photos you voluntarily upload” and that “Face data is processed using secure cloud computing services”, while the TrueDepth 3D face mesh “is stored only on your device… never uploaded to our servers”.
What its listing describes after the score. “A focused 3-task system that covers the basics: skincare, sleep, hydration, exercise, sunlight, posture, and more”, daily and weekly scans, reminders, and a 30-day streak that “resets” if you miss a day.
Umax
Category. Lifestyle, also listed under Health & Fitness. Developer: Improvement Tech LLC.
What its listing says it does. Three steps: “1) Download the app 2) Take a selfie 3) Get your analysis”, plus “the tools and information to begin your self improvement journey”.
App Privacy label. Data Used to Track You — Usage Data. Data Not Linked to You — Analytics (Usage Data, Advertising Data); App Functionality (User Content, Photos or Videos).
Where the photo goes, per its policy. Its policy does not say whether the analysis runs on the device or on a server. It does name “selfies” and “biometric data” among what it processes, states “Our servers are located in the United States”, and says “We will only keep your face scans for a maximum of one year, unless required otherwise by law.”
What its listing describes after the score. An analysis of the selfie and recommendations that “should be viewed as suggestions”. Its listing does not describe a daily plan, timed lessons or a re-scan schedule.
Pick by what you want
Want a one-off rating? A dedicated rating app gets you there in the fewest taps. Umax and LooksMax AI both describe the same short loop — a photo, an AI analysis, a set of suggestions — and if the number itself is what you came for, the machinery in a program app is weight you will not use. That is a real thing to want, and neither of them pretends to be anything else.
Want a plan you will actually run? Then the question is what shows up tomorrow morning. Mogged’s listing describes a three-task daily plan with a 30-day streak that resets on a missed day. LOOKSMAXBRO’s is a repeating 30-day program built from your lowest metrics — timed lessons you run with a player rather than read, an evening close-out, and a weekly re-scan that reports the delta per metric — and every habit in it is printed with the grade its evidence earns, so a weak habit is labelled weak instead of sold to you.
Want to measure just one thing, free, without installing anything? Then none of the four apps is the answer, because all four are downloads — though two of these sites, Mogged’s and this one, publish browser tests you can run without installing either app.
Four LOOKSMAXBRO tools run inside this browser tab instead, with no app and no account: the photo is read by a landmark model loaded into the page, and it never leaves the tab.
- Face symmetry test Score how closely the two halves of your face mirror each other, region by region. Runs on your own device.
- Canthal tilt test Reads the angle of both eyes from one front photo, and says what it can and can’t mean.
- Forward head posture check One photo from the side. The angle from your shoulder up to your ear, measured in your browser.
- Face shape test Four measurements from one photo, the closest of seven face shapes — and the ratio that decided it.
These are the same measurements the app puts on your weekly scan, measured here on their own, without a plan attached to them.
One app at a time
This page reads four apps across three criteria at once, which is the fast way to see the shape of the market and the slow way to decide between two of them. Each page below takes one rival on its own — the same quotes, the same App Privacy labels, the same read date, against a single app instead of a table.
- Umax alternative What LOOKSMAXBRO and Umax each say about themselves — where the photo is processed, what arrives after the number, and where the two are level.
- LooksMax AI alternative What LOOKSMAXBRO and LooksMax AI each say about themselves — where the photo is processed, what arrives after the rating, and where the two are level.
- Mogged alternative What LOOKSMAXBRO and Mogged each say about themselves — where the photo is analyzed, what the daily plan is built from, and where the two are genuinely level.
Why privacy is the first criterion here
Privacy is the first criterion on this page because a photo of your face is biometric data, and it is the only item on this list you cannot take back. A score you disagree with can be ignored; a habit that does nothing costs you five minutes and a bit of pride. A selfie that has been uploaded is on someone else’s disk, under someone else’s retention window, and getting it back depends on that company’s deletion promise rather than on anything you can do from the phone — which is why the deletion commitments each of these apps publishes are quoted above rather than waved away.
It is also why the criterion is written as “where is it processed” rather than “do they promise to look after it”. Encryption, deletion windows and “we don’t sell your data” are all promises about a copy that exists. On-device scoring is the absence of the copy: the LOOKSMAXBRO model is compiled into the app and runs on your own iPhone, so the photo has nowhere to go — you can put the phone in airplane mode and a scan still works, which is the cheapest way to check the claim without taking anybody’s word for it.
And to be straight about the rest of it: LOOKSMAXBRO is not silent on the network. An anonymous account carries your plan progress and points so they survive a reinstall, anonymous product analytics record how far through the app you got, and — only if you allow the tracking prompt — one install-attribution signal is sent. Neither the photo nor the facial map leaves the phone in any of that, and the score travels only in the two shapes the LOOKSMAXBRO privacy policy names event by event: your Overall rounded into a half-point bucket, and the delta between two scans.
What a face score can and cannot tell you
A face score tells you how a machine-learning model, trained on photos that panels of human volunteers rated, estimates such a panel would have ranked one photo of you. That is the whole of it, in all four of these apps, and it is why LOOKSMAXBRO reads the number as a trend across weekly scans instead of as a fact about a face.
It cannot tell you where you stand among other people, whether a face is good or bad, or anything medical — and lighting, angle, expression and last night’s sleep move it about as much as months of honest work do. Every app on this page is answering the same narrow question; what separates them is what they ask you to do with the answer.
Facts checked
Every statement about the other three apps on this page was read off that app’s own App Store listing, its own App Privacy label and its own privacy policy on 6 September 2026, and is quoted rather than summarized wherever the wording matters. Where a policy is silent — Umax’s, on whether the analysis runs on the device or on a server — this page says it is silent instead of guessing. Where a listing and a policy describe different arrangements, both are printed in the developer’s own words. Store listings change, and anything here that stops matching an app’s own pages is corrected at the next check.
- LooksMax AI — App Store listing and App Privacy label, apps.apple.com/us/app/looksmax-ai/id6474518292, and its site looksmax.ai, read 6 September 2026
- LooksMax AI — privacy policy, looksmax.ai/privacy, “effective as of December 15, 2023”, read 6 September 2026
- Mogged — App Store listing and App Privacy label, apps.apple.com/us/app/mogged-glow-up-for-men/id6748418458, and its site moggedupapp.com, read 6 September 2026
- Mogged — privacy policy, moggedupapp.com/privacy-policy, read 6 September 2026 (its “Last updated” line is generated from the current date, so no revision date is quoted)
- Umax — App Store listing and App Privacy label, apps.apple.com/us/app/umax-become-hot/id6471026798, and its site umaxapp.com, read 6 September 2026
- Umax — privacy policy, umaxapp.com/privacy/, which redirects (301) to umaxapp.wordpress.com/privacy/, “Last updated October 16, 2023”, read 6 September 2026
- Apple’s own app lookup for the same three ids — itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=6474518292, ?id=6748418458 and ?id=6471026798, read 6 September 2026
- LOOKSMAXBRO — App Store listing and App Privacy label, apps.apple.com/us/app/looksmaxbro/id6790798364, and its privacy policy at looksmaxbro.com/privacy, last updated 6 September 2026
LOOKSMAXBRO is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by LooksMax AI (Mnkybrain Labs, Inc.), Mogged (Metellus Productions LLC) or Umax (Improvement Tech LLC). Those names appear on this page only as the names of those apps.
Read next
- App comparisons Every comparison on this site in one list — LOOKSMAXBRO beside one other face-scan app, on the facts each of them publishes about itself.
- Looksmaxxing What looksmaxxing is, which parts of it the evidence actually supports, what LOOKSMAXBRO refuses to do — and the map of every guide and tool on this site.
What people ask before installing one.
What are the best looksmaxxing apps?
There is no single best looksmaxxing app, because the four compared here answer different questions: Umax and LooksMax AI describe a photo, an AI analysis and suggestions; Mogged describes a three-task daily plan with a 30-day streak; LOOKSMAXBRO scores the face on the iPhone itself and turns the result into a repeating 30-day plan of habits that each carry the grade its evidence earns. Pick the criterion that actually matters to you — where the photo goes, what arrives after the number, or whether the advice is graded — and the shortlist gets very short.
Are there any free looksmaxxing apps?
LOOKSMAXBRO is free to start: the face scan on the iPhone costs nothing, and four measuring tools — canthal tilt, face symmetry, face shape and posture check — run in this browser with no install, no account and nothing uploaded. The eight-metric breakdown of the score is the part that needs Pro, unlocked inside the app. What each of the other three apps includes without paying is stated on its own App Store listing rather than here.
Is there a looksmaxxing app that doesn’t upload your photos?
LOOKSMAXBRO scores the face on your own iPhone, so the photo is never uploaded — the model ships inside the app, a scan still works in airplane mode, and the App Privacy label carries no “Photos or Videos” row at all. Of the other three: Mogged’s listing says “Your scans and data stay on your device”, while its privacy policy says face data comes “from photos you voluntarily upload” and is “processed using secure cloud computing services”; LooksMax AI’s policy says face data comes from “the photos you upload into the app” and is deleted “from our servers” after 30 days; Umax’s policy does not say where the analysis runs.
Umax or LooksMax AI — which is better?
Umax and LooksMax AI describe the same short loop — a photo, an AI analysis and a set of suggestions — and both carry a line saying they do not give medical advice, so the two differences their listings do describe are worth naming: LooksMax AI’s calls itself “your personalized AI coach” and offers “a community for men”, and Umax’s describes neither. The other difference you can check is in their privacy policies — LooksMax AI’s says face data is collected from “the photos you upload into the app” and deleted “from our servers” after 30 days, while Umax’s never says whether the analysis runs on the device or on a server and keeps face scans “for a maximum of one year”. Read both policies before choosing between them.
What app do looksmaxxers use?
Searches for a looksmaxxing app mostly land on face-rating apps: Umax and LooksMax AI each hand back a rating and advice from one photo, Mogged adds a three-task daily plan and a streak, and LOOKSMAXBRO scores the face on the iPhone itself and turns the number into a repeating 30-day plan of graded habits. Which one a person ends up using says more about what they wanted after the number than about the apps themselves.
Are looksmaxxing apps accurate?
No face-rating app is accurate in the way that question means, LOOKSMAXBRO included — there is no objective attractiveness for a model to be right or wrong about, so all any of them can do is estimate how one panel of human raters would have ranked one photo, and different panels disagree with each other. Lighting, angle and expression move such a number more than a face does, which is why LOOKSMAXBRO reports it as a weekly trend against your own earlier scans rather than as a verdict.
Is LOOKSMAXBRO affiliated with any of the other apps here?
No — LOOKSMAXBRO is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Umax (Improvement Tech LLC), LooksMax AI (Mnkybrain Labs, Inc.) or Mogged (Metellus Productions LLC). Their names appear on this page only as the names of those apps, so that someone deciding between them can read what each one says about itself side by side.
The scan is free. The photo stays.
LOOKSMAXBRO scores your face on the iPhone itself, then gives the number somewhere to go: a short daily plan of graded habits, an evening close-out and a re-scan every week.
