YouCam Makeup, Glam Up and UGlow all start from your face, but they do different things. YouCam Makeup changes how your photos look (virtual makeup, retouching, try-ons). Glam Up analyzes a selfie for face shape and color season and suggests makeup. UGlow gives paid daily fitness, diet and skincare tasks and tracks face scans over time. Glod doesn't scan your face at all: it coaches daily sunscreen, sleep and strength training, the habits that change how you look in real life, not in a photo.
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YouCam Makeup vs Glam Up vs UGlow vs Glod
| App | Rates your face? | What it does | Pricing as listed on the App Store | Rating and age rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouCam Makeup: Face Editor (Perfect Corp.) | No | Photo editor + virtual try-on. "Your all-in-one face editor, makeup app, and beauty cam." Live makeup try-on, filters, face shaping and "AI Facelift," skin smoothing, hair, nail and outfit try-ons, a body editor, AI image and video generation, and an "AI Beauty Agent" chat. It edits photos; it doesn't track habits. | Premium (Monthly) $5.99–$9.99. Premium (Yearly) $31.99–$39.99. Pro Yearly offers $79.99. | 4.7 (about 156,000 ratings). 9+, contains ads. iPhone and iPad (iOS 17+), Apple Vision. |
| Glam Up - Perfect Your Look (Glam Up AI) | It doesn't list a score, but it analyzes your selfie and shows "your glow-up potential." | Selfie analysis + makeup. Subtitle: "Get a Glow Up." From a selfie: face shape, eye shape, skin tone, color season and palette, celebrity lookalikes, step-by-step makeup routines and product picks. The listing notes that "analysis require[s] subscription." | Glam Up Pro $5.99–$10.99. Glam Up Pro+ $8.99–$12.99. Premium+ $8.99. | 4.5 (about 33,000 ratings). 4+. iPhone and iPad; also Apple-silicon Macs and Apple Vision. |
| UGlow: GlowUp Boost Confidence (Muhammad Yunus) | No score is listed; it tracks face scans over time. | Tasks + face-scan tracking. Subtitle: "Fitness, Diet, & Skincare." Daily personalized fitness, skincare and diet tasks, a "Face Scan Progress Tracker," a meal logger with calories and macros, an AI coach and a habit builder with reminders. Every feature is marked "(Paid)." It lists no sleep features. | Monthly Subscription $8.99. Yearly Subscription $62.99. | 4.9 (8 ratings). 4+. iPhone (iOS 15.3+). |
| 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+). |
Names are confusing here. Search engines still show one listing as "Glam Up: Beauty Scanner & Score," but that listing is now UMorph: AI Looksmax & Glow Up, a different, face-rating app. There's also YouGlow: AI Glow-Up Coach, which is built on face scans. We compared Glam Up by Glam Up AI, Inc. We only checked the US App Store.
Which one should you pick?
- YouCam Makeup if you want to try makeup, hair colors or nails virtually, or retouch photos. It's the most mature of the four, with about 156,000 ratings. It changes the photo, not your skin.
- Glam Up if you want to know your face shape and color season and get makeup routines for them.
- UGlow if you want calorie and macro logging built in alongside fitness and skincare tasks. It overlaps most with Glod, but everything is paid and it has very few ratings so far.
- Glod if you want the habits with the best evidence, free to start, and no face scans or scores.
What changes how you look over time
- 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.
Glod is built to help you keep these going. Its glow score tracks whether you did your habits, not what your face looks like.
FAQ
Does Glod scan or rate my face?
No. Glod's glow score runs from 0 to 100 and is based on how consistently you do your habits.
What happens to my face photos in Glod?
Your progress and skin photos stay on your phone. Only if you choose to create the AI "future self" preview, the photo you pick is sent to our image provider (OpenAI) to make the image. Glod doesn't store it afterwards, and it isn't used to train AI models. The details are in our privacy policy.
Before uploading a selfie to any app
Face-scan apps need your photo to work. Read the "App Privacy" section of the listing first: for example, YouCam Makeup's label lists location, identifiers and usage data as "Data Used to Track You," and Glam Up's lists identifiers.
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.
Change your skin, not just the photo
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.