Fabulous is a broad habit and self-improvement app: morning and evening routines, journaling, meditation, short workouts and coaching series on things like anxiety and productivity. Glod is narrower: a daily plan for the habits with the best evidence for how you look, namely daily sunscreen, sleep and strength training with enough protein. Pick Fabulous for general routines and mental wellbeing; pick Glod if your goal is a glow-up.
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Fabulous vs Glod at a glance
| App | Rates your face? | What it does | Pricing as listed on the App Store | Rating and age rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabulous: Daily Habit Tracker (Fabulous) | No | General habits + coaching. Subtitle: "Morning Routines & ADHD Help." The listing says it "started as a habit tracker, but it evolved into a self-improvement, coaching, and mental health platform." Routines, a daily planner, journaling, affirmations, meditation and breathing, short workouts, a goal tracker, community challenges, and coaching series. Premium adds one-on-one coaching. No skincare features are listed. | Ten in-app purchases listed, from $16.99 to $59.99, including Fabulous Annual Subscription $49.99 and Premium Quarterly $39.99. | 4.4 (about 89,000 ratings). 9+. iPhone (iOS 17+), Apple Watch and Apple Vision. |
| Glod: Glow-Up Coach (Glod, us) | No | Habit coach. Coaches daily sunscreen, sleep, strength training with enough protein, and simple skincare as a short daily checklist, with short lessons and an AI coach chat (Pro). It also makes an AI "future self" preview, which the listing calls "a motivator, not a prediction." Its glow score is based on your habits, not your face. | Free basics. Pro: $4.99/month or $29.99/year. No weekly plan. | Rating: 5.0 (1 rating). Age rating 18+. iPhone (iOS 17+). |
Where Fabulous is the better pick
Fabulous is much bigger and more mature: about 89,000 ratings, an Apple Watch app, live community challenges and, on Premium, one-on-one coaching with a person. If you want help with routines in general, with focus, or with anxiety and mood, it covers far more ground than Glod, which doesn't do mental-health coaching or journaling.
Where Glod is the better pick
Glod is built around one goal, looking and feeling better, and around the few habits with real research behind them:
- Daily sunscreen. In a randomized trial of 903 adults under 55, the daily-sunscreen group showed no detectable increase in skin aging after 4.5 years, and 24% less skin aging than people who used sunscreen when they chose to (Hughes et al., 2013).
- Sleep. In a small experiment (23 people), strangers rated the same people as less healthy, more tired and slightly less attractive after a night of sleep deprivation than after normal sleep (Axelsson et al., 2010).
- Strength training with enough protein. A meta-analysis of 49 trials found that extra protein added to the muscle and strength people gained from resistance training, with no further gain in lean mass above about 1.6 g of protein per kg of body weight a day (Morton et al., 2018).
These studies measured skin aging, how rested people looked and muscle gained. They didn't test any app, including ours.
Fabulous's listing mentions sleep and short workouts, but not sunscreen, skincare or protein. Glod builds those into one daily checklist, adds a few habits at a time, and links the studies in its lessons. Its glow score tracks whether you kept your habits.
FAQ
Can I use Fabulous and Glod together?
Yes. If you use Fabulous for your morning routine or journaling, Glod can cover sunscreen, sleep and training without duplicating much.
How much does each cost?
Fabulous's listing shows Premium prices from $16.99 to $59.99; Apple doesn't say the billing period for most of them. Glod's basics are free; Pro is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, with no weekly plan.
Does Glod rate your face?
No. Glod's glow score runs from 0 to 100 and is based on how consistently you do your habits.
Why should I trust a comparison written by Glod?
You don't have to. Every fact about another app comes from its own App Store listing, linked so you can check it. Nobody paid to be included. If we got something wrong, email vilde@vevatne.no and we'll fix it.
A glow-up plan, not just a habit list
Glod turns sunscreen, sleep and strength training into a short daily checklist. Free to start.
Get Glod on the App StoreEducational only — not medical advice. App facts are taken from each app's public US App Store listing on November 7, 2026, and may have changed since. Glod is a competitor of the other apps listed, and nobody paid to be included. App names belong to their owners.