GlowinMe vs Vanity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GlowinMe
This app helps you manage your beauty products, routines, and experiences. Track skincare, makeup, expiration dates, and spending. Create custom collections and share your looks with friends.
- Track beauty products and routines
- Monitor skincare progress with notes and selfies
- Manage product expiration dates
- View total spending on beauty products
- Create custom collections and categories
- Compare makeup swatches
- Record and tag makeup looks
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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
Vanity
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Which cream was it? The one that finally worked, two winters ago, in a white bottle. Vanity remembers it for you: every product you try, with a photo, a verdict and your own words about it. SNAP THE JAR Take a photo and Vanity cuts the product out of the background and reads the brand, name and size from the label. It all happens on your phone; nothing is uploaded. Check the fields, fix anything, and the product lands on its shelf. A VANITY THAT LOOKS LIKE ONE Skincare, Makeup and Perfume, each with its own hand-painted room. Inside: Face, Lips, Eyes, Hair, Body, Nails and more, and inside those, types like serum, SPF, mascara or lipstick. Add your own types when the list isn't enough. STAMPS, NOT STARS Holy grail. Repurchase. Meh. Never again. Four verdicts in the words you already use, pressed onto the product like a rubber stamp. A year later, "never again" tells you more than three stars ever did. USE IT BEFORE IT TURNS The Expiry tab lines up what runs out first, counted from the day you opened the jar and the months printed on it. FIND IT IN THE AISLE Search by brand, type or any word from your notes. Filter by stamp to see your holy grails at a glance. SHARE AND KEEP Send a friend a pretty PDF of your vanity with photos, stamps and notes. Keep a full backup in a ZIP file and restore it on a new phone. YOURS, ON YOUR PHONE No account and no server of ours. Photos and notes stay on your iPhone and, with Pro, sync through your own iCloud. In English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Hindi, Ukrainian and Russian. FREE FOR 35 PRODUCTS The first 35 products are free, with every stamp, note, search and expiry date. Pro removes the limit and adds iCloud sync, backup and PDF export. If you cancel, everything you added stays. SUBSCRIPTION AND TERMS Vanity Pro is an auto-renewable subscription: Month ($4.99 per month, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers) or Year ($47.99 per year, charged on purchase). Prices are in US dollars and vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://dmapps.app/vanity/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GlowinMe at none against Vanity's 2. GlowinMe also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Vanity's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Vanity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. GlowinMe asks for nothing beyond the download.
GlowinMe ships an update every 3 weeks, Vanity daily. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GlowinMe | Vanity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (261 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 261 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Glowinme technologies corporation | Dmitrii Kopytov |
Bugs and 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
Vanity
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GlowinMe
No in-app purchases
Vanity
- Month7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Year$47.991 Year









