Comparison

FaceApp vs Face Jam AI

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FaceApp

Easily enhance your selfies and portraits with a wide range of realistic filters and editing tools. Achieve flawless, natural-looking results in one tap, saving you time on complex photo manipulation. Share your polished images instantly to social media.

Highlights
  • Realistic filters
  • AI-powered editing
  • Hair color and style changes
  • Makeup filters
  • Acne and wrinkle removal
  • Facial feature adjustments
  • One-tap edits
Features
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FaceApp makes photo editing simple and natural. Apply subtle adjustments that fit your style while keeping results realistic. Edit photos quickly and easily - ready for sharing. Use a fantastic set of filters, backgrounds, effects, and other tools to create a seamless and photorealistic edit in ONE TAP. You will never have to spend hours photoshopping again! More than 60 highly photorealistic filters PHOTO EDITOR - Perfect your selfies with Impression filters - Add a beard or mustache - Change your hair color and hairstyle - Add volume to your hair - Try trendy full makeup filters - Creative light effects - Remove acne and blemishes - Smooth wrinkles - Easily enlarge or minimize facial features - Try out the color lens - Easy Compare tool at every step to compare before & after - Total control of temperature, saturation, and more - Discover your best hairstyle and color with our advanced tool READY TO SHARE? Share your FaceApp edits directly to your favorite social media accounts Just ONE tap and your photo is ready for a total social media blitz! - Terms of Use: https://www.faceapp.com/terms - Privacy Policy: https://www.faceapp.com/privacy - Online Tracking Opt-Out Guide: https://www.faceapp.com/online-tracking-opt-out-guide You are welcome to contact us at support.ios@faceapp.com

About

Face Jam AI

This app uses AI to blend the features of two faces, allowing you to alter hair color, generate a baby face from parent photos, or even perform a virtual hair transplant. It also supports transforming real faces into cartoon styles, with all processing done locally on your device.

Highlights
  • AI face style blending
  • Hair color modification
  • Baby face generator
  • Virtual hair transplant
  • Cartoon face transformation
  • Local device processing
Features
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Choose two faces and combine their styles with AI (generative neural nets) Here are a few ways this app can be used: 1) Hair color Set the "input" photo to the person whose hair color you want to change. Choose a photo of a person with the hair color you want for the "style" photo. Since hair color is a relatively shallow style, styles can be mixed at shallow depths here. Mixing deeper styles will transfer deeper properties from the style photo such as face structure, gender, and head pose. 2) Baby generator Choose photos of both parents and mix their styles. If mixing deep styles here, the gender styles will mix. There is a gender slider to adjust for this. If only mixing shallow styles, the gender will be that of the "input" face. 3) Hair transplant This requires deeper style mixing than hair color. Set the input photo to the person who will receive the hair, and the style photo to someone who will donate the hair. Try to find the shallowest depth that transfers the hair style. This seems to be the 2nd to last and 3rd to last layers in most cases. 4) Cartoons Some cartoon faces will be picked up by the face detector and their styles can be mixed with real people. Fun fact: most of the faces used as inputs in the examples were actually generated from this app! Those people do not actually exist. Note: This app does not collect any face data. All processing happens locally on the device. No data is shared with 3rd parties. No data is even stored locally. The only way to export data from this app is to share the generated image using the button in the lower right corner of the "stylized" image. Additional Charges: The watermarks can be removed by subscribing. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Some of the functionality of this app was adapted from the following research: [1] Goodfellow, Ian, et al. "Generative adversarial nets." Advances in neural information processing systems 27 (2014). [2] He, Kaiming, et al. "Deep residual learning for image recognition." Proceedings of the IEEE conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2016. [3] Karras, Tero, et al. "Analyzing and improving the image quality of stylegan." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2020. [4] He, Kaiming, et al. "Momentum contrast for unsupervised visual representation learning." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2020. [5] Huang, Yuge, et al. "Curricularface: adaptive curriculum learning loss for deep face recognition." proceedings of the IEEE/CVF conference on computer vision and pattern recognition. 2020. [6] Richardson, Elad, et al. "Encoding in style: a stylegan encoder for image-to-image translation." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2021. [7] Tov, Omer, et al. "Designing an encoder for stylegan image manipulation." ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) 40.4 (2021): 1-14.

Screenshots

FaceApp4 screens
Face Jam AI3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FaceApp at 4.7 against Face Jam AI's 2.8. FaceApp also leads on ratings volume (1.8M vs 18) and review sentiment (47% vs 23%). Face Jam AI's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FaceApp sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $10.00 per month and Face Jam AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FaceApp holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FaceApp has 1.8M ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of FaceApp's written reviews are positive against 23% of Face Jam AI's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FaceApp ships an update fortnightly, Face Jam AI every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
FaceApp versus Face Jam AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFaceAppFace Jam AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.8M ratings) — better2.8 (18 ratings)
Positive reviews47.0% of reviews — better23.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1.8M — better18
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#9 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB572 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperFaceApp Technology LimitedBrett Kuprel

Customer experience

FaceApp

All ratings1,784,267 ratings
Positive93.1%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews4,625 reviews
Positive47.0%
Neutral6.4%
Negative46.6%

Face Jam AI

All ratings18 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral22.2%
Negative44.4%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive23.1%
Neutral23.1%
Negative53.8%

Bugs and requests

FaceApp

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Frequent crashes and app freezes
  • Inability to restore previous purchases
  • Inconsistent behavior across different devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Bring back face swap/morph feature
  • More free hairstyle and makeup options
  • Improved skin tone and ethnic diversity support

Face Jam AI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

FaceApp

Subscriptions8
  • FaceApp PRO$10.001 Month
  • FaceApp PRO3 Days trial$10.001 Month
  • FaceApp PRO2 variants$20.001 Month
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  • FaceApp PRO$60.001 Year
  • FaceApp PRO7 Days trial$60.001 Year
  • FaceApp PRO3 Days trial$100.001 Year
  • FaceApp PRO2 variants$100.001 Year
  • FaceApp PRO7 Days trial$100.001 Year
One-time1
  • FaceApp PRO$75.00
2 purchases

Face Jam AI

Subscriptions1
  • Subscribe to Face Jam$4.991 Month
One-time1
  • Remove Watermark and Export$0.99

Questions

Is FaceApp free?
FaceApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Face Jam AI free?
Face Jam AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FaceApp or Face Jam AI?
FaceApp is rated higher. FaceApp averages 4.7 out of 5 from 1.8M ratings, while Face Jam AI averages 2.8 from 18 ratings.
Do FaceApp or Face Jam AI have ads?
Neither FaceApp nor Face Jam AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FaceApp or Face Jam AI?
FaceApp ships an update fortnightly, and Face Jam AI every 3 weeks. Most recently, FaceApp was updated on September 24, 2026 and Face Jam AI on August 19, 2026.

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