Comparison

My Beauty Guide vs GlowinMe

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

Head to head
About

My Beauty Guide

Discover and review thousands of beauty products with a community of enthusiasts. Scan barcodes, search by name or category, and get inspired by others' experiences. Participate in test panels and competitions to earn beauty levels and benefits.

Highlights
  • Read thousands of beauty product reviews
  • Write your own product reviews
  • Scan product barcodes for quick info
  • Search products by name or category
  • Participate in beauty product test panels
  • Join competitions and win prizes
  • Follow other beauty enthusiasts
Features
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Aloha BeautyLover My Beauty Guide is your digital BFF - when you are looking for the best beauty product and want to avoid making the wrong purchase! You can read reviews of over thousands of beauty products that our amazing beauty community has written for you. And where you can also write your own reviews of beauty products - so you can guide others to e.g. the best mascara, best body lotion or best shampoo for curly hair. You can read reviews in several ways: • Scan the product barcode • Search by product name • Search under the categories e.g. setting spray, lip gloss, peeling or nail polish You can look forward to: • Apply to participate in test panels with beauty products • Participate in competitions • Follow your BeautyBesties and get notified when they review a new product • Inspire others with your reviews • Get inspiration from other Beauty-nista's reviews - what to buy and what to avoid • Achieve benefits from our BeautyLevels; BeautyLover, BeautyEditor and BeautyBoardMember • Read inspiring articles in our BeautyFeed Create a free profile in the My Beauty Guide app and become part of our MBG family We look forward to reading YOUR review Yours sincerely Anne Weichenfeldt Steenberg CEO & Founder - My Beauty Guide

About

GlowinMe

This app helps you manage your beauty products, skincare routines, and makeup collections. Track product expiration, spending, and create custom swatch collections to make informed purchasing decisions. Monitor your skin's progress with notes and selfies, and easily share your collections with friends.

Highlights
  • Skincare routine tracking
  • Product expiration date alerts
  • Total spending overview
  • Smart product search
  • Makeup swatch collections
  • Customizable product views and sorting
  • Customizable collections and categories
  • Shareable collections
Features
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GlowinMe is your free personal beauty tracker that helps you keep track of your beauty products, routines, and experiences, so you can focus on being the best version of yourself. From skincare routines to makeup looks, makeup swatches, expiration dates, and so on, we help you manage them all. STAY ON TOP OF YOUR SKINCARE ROUTINE Get your glow-game on! Create a skincare routine for your needs, whether it be for the day, night, summer or winter. Track your routine by checking products off as you use them and never miss a step again. Take notes and selfies, so you can monitor how your skin is progressing towards achieving skin that glows. Best of all, your records are saved securely to the cloud, so you can review how your skin progresses over time. KEEP TRACK OF YOUR PRODUCTS With all your beauty products in one place, you can easily find out what you have and what is missing. Keep an eye on the ones that are expiring soon and note down your likes and dislikes. SEE TOTAL SPENDING See how much your collection is worth and how much you paid for each product or per product category. ADD PRODUCTS WITH EASE Adding a product is easy with GlowinMe’s smart search. You can add a product instantly with a simple keyword, such as the name of the colour, the product, or the brand. SEE YOUR COLOUR COLLECTION GlowinMe can help you avoid buying the same colours again. By creating swatch collections of your makeup products, you can easily compare the swatches between different products and make smart decisions on which products to buy next. Use the custom swatch view to rearrange your swatches to your liking. VIEW AND SORT GlowinMe offers various layout views for your needs. Use Single to view more details, Large Grid to view your products nice and large, Small Grid to see more products, and Swatches to see your colours at-a-glance. You can easily sort your products by A to Z, Custom order, Expiry date, and New to Old based on date entered. CREATE CUSTOM COLLECTIONS GlowinMe comes with default collections: My Stash, Wishlist and Favourite to help jumpstart your GlowinMe journey. You can also create custom collections of what is important to you such as products in your travel makeup bag, products to swatch, samples you have tried or want to try, and more! CREATE YOUR OWN CATEGORIES Do you prefer a certain way of categorizing your products? You can easily create custom categories in GlowinMe. Alternatively, you can also choose from our existing list of product categories. When viewing your collection, you have the ability to expand and collapse specific or all product categories! SHARE YOUR COLLECTION Easily share your wish list, collections, and makeup looks with your friends so they know what you have and don't! You can share them as images or as a web link. RECORD YOUR LOOKS You can also upload images of your looks and tag them with the products used. This way, you can easily recall the products used to create the flawless makeup looks. Best of all, you can share your masterpieces with your friends and let them know what products you are using without typing up all the product names one by one. ENJOY PEACE OF MIND Your data is backed up with our server on the cloud. This means your data will never be lost. Access your account on any device and your data will automatically be synced. GlowinMe is constantly evolving. We would love to know what your thoughts are about the app, so we know what features to release in the future. Please email us at contactme@glowinme.com or use the built-in feedback app function to let us hear from you. If you are loving the app, please share your review and rating in the App Store. It is greatly appreciated! Thank you for your support. With love, Your GlowinMe Team

Screenshots

My Beauty Guide3 screens
GlowinMe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: GlowinMe at 75% against My Beauty Guide's 0%. My Beauty Guide's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

My Beauty Guide ships an update every 3 weeks, GlowinMe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
My Beauty Guide versus GlowinMe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Beauty GuideGlowinMe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (220 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews74.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings220 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB56 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAnne Weichenfeldt SteenbergGlowinme technologies corporation

Customer experience

My Beauty Guide

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

GlowinMe

All ratings220 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral6.8%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive74.7%
Neutral10.7%
Negative14.7%

Bugs and requests

My Beauty Guide

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

GlowinMe

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Email verification not sending on account creation
  • Password reset emails not arriving
  • App crashes when loading items with corrupted photos
  • Products not appearing in collections despite multiple additions
  • Photo uploads displaying extremely zoomed in
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  • Search function only works with descriptions, not brand names
  • Duplicate categories created automatically with no merge option
  • Contact form showing 'please enter a message' error
  • Persistent notification prompts with no permanent dismiss option
  • Performance degradation with large item counts (300+)
  • Tag loading delays in large collections
  • Wishlist scrolling lag with many items
  • App freezing and requiring sign-in again
  • Password not recognized after forced sign-in
  • Photo taking functionality broken for some users
  • Wrong product images appearing in random locations
  • Unable to remove preset routine steps
  • Description/ingredients field not accepting text input
  • Cleaning supplies and applications not visible on home screen

Requested features

26 requests
  • Barcode scanner for quick product addition
  • Statistics page showing spending trends
  • Bulk tag addition capability
  • Tag organization by color
  • Custom main categories beyond preset ones
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  • Ability to merge duplicate categories
  • Data export to Excel or CSV format
  • Separate calendar views for individual routines
  • Customizable routine steps
  • Separate alarm times for different routines
  • Streak feature for routine consistency
  • Product usage counter in diary view
  • Ability to change product categories after creation
  • Edit manually entered product details
  • Landscape/tablet orientation support
  • Font size adjustment settings
  • Share routines on social media
  • Celebrity routine examples
  • Animal cruelty-free product indicator
  • Ingredient/allergy tracking section
  • Scroll wheel navigation for large collections
  • Icon-only view mode for collections
  • Product quantity tracking per item
  • Multiple photos (front/back) per product
  • Web scraping for product information
  • Ability to delete items without entering detail page

In-app purchases

None

My Beauty Guide

No in-app purchases

None

GlowinMe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is My Beauty Guide free?
My Beauty Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GlowinMe free?
GlowinMe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do My Beauty Guide or GlowinMe have ads?
Both My Beauty Guide and GlowinMe show ads.
Which is updated more often, My Beauty Guide or GlowinMe?
My Beauty Guide ships an update every 3 weeks, and GlowinMe every 2 weeks. Most recently, My Beauty Guide was updated on June 3, 2026 and GlowinMe on September 8, 2026.

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