LooksMax AI is an iPhone app that rates your face from photos and then gives advice, aimed at men who want to raise their "facial attractiveness." The other big alternatives, like Umax, also rate faces. If you want to change how you look rather than get a score, the alternative is a habit plan: Glod coaches daily sunscreen, sleep and strength training with enough protein, and it never rates your face.
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LooksMax AI vs Umax vs Glod
| App | Rates your face? | What it does | Pricing as listed on the App Store | Rating and age rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LooksMax AI (Mnkybrain Labs) | Yes | Face rating + advice. Subtitle: "Get your rating." You upload photos, it analyzes your traits, then gives results and personalized advice. The listing says its focus is "aiding men in elevating their facial attractiveness and confidence." It lists no skincare, sleep or training features. | LooksMax Pro $3.99. LooksMax AI – Weekly $3.99. Hairstyles Pack $4.99. Boost packs $2.99–$5.99. "Chad Pack" $0.99. | 4.5 (about 43,000 ratings). 13+. |
| Umax - Become Hot (Improvement Tech) | Yes | Face rating. Subtitle: "Get your ratings." It calls itself "the looksmax AI tool." You take a selfie and get an analysis of your facial attractiveness; results need a subscription, and an AI image of "you as a 10/10" costs extra. | Weekly Premium $3.99–$9.99. Monthly Premium $9.99–$24.99. "You as a 10/10" $6.99. | 4.6 (about 52,000 ratings). 18+. |
| 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+). |
Several other App Store apps use "LooksMax" in their name, and they also rate faces: LooksMax Face Rating AI (LooxUP) (4.5, about 37,000 ratings), Looksmaxxing - PSL Face Rating (4.5, 882 ratings) and Mogger: LooksMax AI (4.4, 87 ratings). Check the developer name on the listing to be sure which one you're looking at. We only checked the US App Store.
Which one should you pick?
- Pick LooksMax AI or Umax if what you want is a quick photo-based read on your facial features and tips on hair and grooming. That is what they're built for, and Glod doesn't do it.
- Pick Glod if you want to actually change how you look over the next months: clearer, protected skin, more muscle, and looking rested. Those come from habits, and Glod is a plan for keeping them.
How much can a face score tell you?
Neither LooksMax AI's nor Umax's listing cites research showing its scores are accurate. Research on rating faces shows why one score from one photo is a shaky number:
- The photo matters as much as the face. Ratings of attractiveness varied more between different photos of the same person than between different people (Jenkins et al., 2011).
- People disagree about faces. Each rater's private taste counted about as much as the taste raters shared (Hönekopp, 2006).
More on this, with the research on selfie distortion and how rating models are trained, is in Umax alternatives. For which looksmaxxing ideas hold up and which are risky, see Is looksmaxxing healthy?
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.
FAQ
Is there a free LooksMax AI alternative?
Glod's basics are free (up to 3 starter habits, the daily checklist and the glow score). Pro is $4.99 a month or $29.99 a year, and there's 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. It doesn't look at your face.
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.
Is Glod only for women?
No. Sunscreen, sleep and strength training with enough protein work the same way for men. See Glod for men.
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.
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