# Luni Skincare — Skincare that actually works > Skincare that actually works (iPhone/iPad app by Nastassia Michalenya.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/luni-skincare/id6785001138 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Nastassia Michalenya](https://appshunter.io/developer/6785001140) - Category: Health & Fitness, Lifestyle - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 69 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-07-16 - Data updated: 2026-08-25 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/luni-skincare/id6785001138/reviews.md ## What is Luni Skincare? Most skincare apps open with something to sell you. Luni opens with the shelf you already own, and the four questions that decide a purchase. WHAT DO I OWN? The catalog runs to 9,808 products across 252 brands, every one read from its published ingredient list, not its marketing. Or photograph the list on the back of the bottle — read on your phone, never uploaded. Or paste a link, or the list. IS IT ANY GOOD? Luni scores a formula on what an ingredient list can honestly support: which actives are in there, how confident we can be they sit at a useful amount, and how much of the name is hype. 994 of them — sunscreens and OTC formats — show a dash instead of a score: ingredient order tells you nothing about dose there, and a number we cannot stand behind is worse than none. DOES IT FIT WHAT I ALREADY DO? A score on its own is trivia. Luni weighs the product against your goals and the rest of your shelf, then gives one of six verdicts — Worth Adding, Good but Duplicate, Wait Until You Finish Another Product, Skip — with its reasoning. It builds your morning and evening routine out of what you own, flags conflicts and over-exfoliation, offers a night-by-night rotation for strong actives, and keeps the eye area its own thing, with its own coverage score. SO WHAT SHOULD I BUY? Usually less than you expect. The shopping list is built from real gaps, and when your shelf already covers your goals it says so instead of finding you something. Compare two products side by side. Use What I Own reads the whole shelf and tells you what to use now; Pro opens the rest — what to rotate, finish first, save, or give away. AND IF YOU OWN AN LED MASK The same loop, a different shelf, free. Pick your device from 34 masks and 131 programmes, choose your days, and Luni lays the sessions across your week. A session opens with a preparation checklist, then a timer that stops at the planned length, never past your device's own maximum — with no button anywhere to add a minute. Because Luni is what put your retinoid at night, it knows what goes on after a session and what is better saved for another evening. No dose is ever calculated: the light-output figures on a box are unregulated marketing numbers. Blue programmes are quoted from the manufacturer, not written by us. Safety questions come first, and they can only withhold — no answer clears you, and some send you to a clinician. WHAT STAYS AFTERWARDS Product history keeps what you finished or gave away — your own verdict and score, a private note — after it leaves your shelf. And any product's score, or any Learn article, goes out as an image card or a message. LUNI PRO The Advisor answers three questions free, then Pro: a chat that has read your shelf and your goals. The Skin Coach runs cosmetic check-ins and says when two photos are not fairly comparable; Pro opens the trends and the before-and-after. Routine Builder writes a full morning and evening from scratch, budget to premium. Plus the full shelf lists and unlimited analysis. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your goals, shelf, routine and sessions stay on your device. Coach photos are analysed and never stored on our servers. We don't sell your data or track you across other apps. Delete your account any time from Profile → Privacy & Data. Luni gives cosmetic, evidence-based guidance for education. It is not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always patch-test new products and consult a dermatologist for medical skin concerns. Luni Pro is an auto-renewing subscription (monthly, or annual with a 7-day free trial). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yourluni.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://yourluni.com/terms ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **Subscriptions** | Subscription | Price | Period | | --- | --- | --- | | Luni Pro — Monthly | $4.99 | per month | | Luni Pro — Monthly | $39.99 | per year | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.1.0 — 2026-08-19 Sunscreens now show a dash instead of a score — all of them. Where a product's job is UV protection, the order of its ingredients tells you nothing useful about how well it works, so we would rather show nothing than a number we cannot stand behind. This release also finds the sunscreens that were filed as serums and moisturisers: more than two hundred products built on UV filters — French pharmacy fluids, K-beauty sun sticks, SPF day creams — now sit in the sunscreen category, so Luni stops telling you SPF is missing while one is on your shelf. Anything below SPF 15 can no longer fill that slot. Peptide scores changed, and most went down. Every peptide used to count the same; they are now weighted by which one it is. The handful with human trials on skin — Palmitoyl Pentapeptide-4, Acetyl Hexapeptide-8, Matrixyl 3000, copper tripeptide and a few others — count more than peptides resting on laboratory work, and a label that says only "peptide complex" counts less, because it has not told us which one. 545 scores moved, all downward. Luni also stopped printing invented names: "Peptide-22" is Decapeptide-22, and every active now shows the name on the label. Some scores went up. When a label states the strength of its active — "Salicylic Acid 2%" — that is better information than an ingredient's position in a list. Products that state a strength now have it trusted; twenty-three scores went up, twenty-two of them a full band. Compare and "similar products" now recognise the ingredients products are actually sold on — cica, snail mucin, mugwort, ferments, DMAE and around sixty more — not only the ones with an evidence grade. Hype now measures the gap between a product's name and its formula, so a "gold" serum with no gold reads High and an honest name reads Low. Sodium DNA counts as PDRN, and a new Learn article covers what PDRN injections proved and serums have not. Your light-therapy plan may get shorter. Where a maker publishes no usable schedule, Luni now falls back to the four sessions a week the trials ran, and says that number is ours, not the device's. Existing plans are offered a revision; nothing you have logged is lost. AI Skin Coach: taking a rescan with the camera now shows your previous photo ghosted over the live preview so the framing matches. If your before-and-after photos went missing after an update, they are back — a bug on our side, now fixed. Pro members can switch on Cloud Backup for their check-in records (scores and dates only — photos never leave your phone) and get the weekly insight worded by AI, with the measurements still computed on your device. The Learn library has been through a pass: one article that read like a clinic protocol is rewritten around what a comedone is and which ingredients act on it, and every article now says it is educational, not medical. Housekeeping: Luni was keeping an old copy of its catalog on your phone every time it updated — this build deletes them, which frees space in proportion to how many updates your phone has been through, up to a few hundred megabytes. Twenty-eight product names now say what the product is instead of a transliteration, two products that were invisible to search are findable again, duplicates are gone, and Prescription Skincare joins the catalog. ### 1.0.9 — 2026-08-10 A light-therapy plan you can actually follow. 1.0.9 let you pick your mask and told you what was safe. This turns that into a plan: pick a goal, and Luni lays the sessions across your week — never longer than your own device allows, and never more often than its published schedule where the maker gives one. Then a session screen that runs it. A preparation checklist you tick before Start unlocks, a timer that ends when your device's own protocol says it ends, and no button anywhere to add another minute. More is not better, and the app shouldn't let you pretend otherwise. It fits around the skincare you already own. Luni is what put your retinoid at night, so it can tell you where each product belongs around a session — what goes on afterwards, what is simply better on a different evening, and what to hold while your barrier is recovering. No universal bans: "never combine light and retinal" is confident and wrong for most people, so every verdict is about placement in YOUR routine and carries its reason. Coaching that won't flatter you. Safety first, then what can't be concluded yet, then encouragement — in that order, so two reports of eye discomfort never sit below a streak. Sessions you cut short or skipped are shown separately from the ones you completed, and a missed session is never something to make up. The strongest claim it will make is that something coincided with consistent use — never that the device caused it, never a percentage. Travelling without the mask? Mark the dates and Luni closes those sessions off rather than leaving them to come due — and there is still nothing to make up. Share what Luni found. Any product's score as an image or as a message, and any Learn article the same way. Products we deliberately do not score — sunscreens and OTC formats, where ingredient order is not a usable guide to dose — show a dash instead of a number. A shared image outlives the conversation it was sent in, so it should not carry a claim we can't stand behind. Product history. Everything you have finished or given away, with your own verdict and score, a private note, and a comment you can choose to share. It stays after you remove the product from your shelf. The catalog is now 9,808 products across 252 brands, every one of them read from its published ingredient list rather than its marketing. Fixes from your reports: the brand no longer appears twice on a product; the date you finished something is readable again; numbered peptides are no longer collapsed into one another; certified-organic ingredient lists, which mark ingredients with an asterisk, now parse correctly; and a sunscreen is read as a sunscreen even when it also contains niacinamide. ### 1.0.5 — 2026-08-06 Your LED mask, honestly measured. Light therapy — pick your mask from 34 devices, from Omnilux, CurrentBody and Dr Dennis Gross to Therabody, Foreo, Panacea and Aduro, and Luni suggests how long and how often for the red programmes. Never longer than your own device allows: if the maker says three minutes, Luni says three minutes. What it won't do is invent numbers. Light-output figures on box and website are unregulated marketing claims, so Luni never calculates a dose from them. Blue programmes are quoted from the manufacturer rather than written by us. Colours with no real evidence get no schedule at all — log them if you like, but we won't pretend. Fitted around the routine you already have. Luni is what put your retinoid at night, so it tells you where a session belongs: your recovery nights if you're skin cycling, or the morning if actives run most evenings. Always on clean, bare skin. A few safety questions first — free, always. Some answers mean Luni won't plan sessions for you and will point you to a clinician instead. It will never tell you that you're cleared to go ahead. Then track it: your week's rhythm, an honest note on how early you still are, and an optional reminder that quotes your device's own protocol and goes quiet once you've done enough for the week. More is not better. Mask not in the list? Log it anyway, and ask us to add it. Eye care, redesigned — the eye area now opens with your own score and the pillars your routine covers, followed by an honest progress section: each concern has its own window, and Luni tells you when it's actually fair to judge rather than pretending week one means anything. Product history that remembers — removing a finished product from your shelf no longer erases it from your history. Those are two separate choices now. Your own score on finished products — the finish survey asks five quick questions and suggests a score you can accept or set yourself. Also: real product photos in your shelf and history lists, and a new Learn note on what the 2026 peptide research actually shows. ### 1.0.4 — 2026-08-02 • Product history & finish survey (Profile → Product history; the survey also appears when marking a shelf product Finished): the verdict and personal note are stored on-device. An OPTIONAL comment can be shared to our backend, but shared comments are NOT displayed to any other user in this version — they are collected for a future, moderated feature. No user-generated text is visible to other users anywhere in the app. • Eye care: owned eye products can now be added inside the eye area, and an Eye Routine Health score summarizes coverage — same cosmetic, educational framing and disclaimers as the rest of the app. • The app may show the standard iOS rating prompt (SKStoreReviewController) after moments of completed value (e.g. a routine built) — Apple's rate-limited system sheet only, never a custom dialog. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-07-26 Use What I Own — for everyone with too many products. Luni reviews your whole shelf and gives every product a decision: use now, rotate weekly, finish first, save for later or give away — with the reasons, a simple morning and evening routine, and an honest answer to the question that matters: do I actually need to buy anything? (Usually: no.) Better recommendations — every "fill a gap" page now leads with the top 3 picks and lets you browse the full catalog, sortable by score, budget or name. And the catalog itself grew to 250 brands — from EltaMD and La Prairie to Etude House and e.l.f. — every product still backed by its real ingredient list. Every shelf analysis is free. The weekly rotation and the detailed finish/save/give-away lists are part of Luni Pro. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-25.*