The Optimists Books vs Makeup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Optimists Books
Access uplifting messages and prayers from two classic books published in the early 1900s. This app provides daily inspiration, allowing you to search, sort, and share messages to foster a more positive outlook.
- Daily inspirational messages
- Non-denominational prayers
- Search and sort messages
- Save favorite messages
- Share messages with others
- Ad-free experience
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Discover a treasure trove of wisdom and inspiration with this remarkable app that brings together two beloved books from 1907 and 1910. Originally gifted to the app creator's grandmother as a young girl in the 1920s, these books have stood the test of time and continue to offer uplifting messages that resonate with people of all ages and backgrounds. With the entire contents of these two books now available in one easy-to-use app for iPhone and iPad, you can start your day on a positive note with a message of hope, inspiration, and optimism. Each day, you'll receive a carefully curated thought or quote from one of hundreds of authors, accompanied by a non-denominational prayer that reinforces the message and helps you apply it to your own life. As you use the app, you'll discover a wealth of tools and features that make it easy to customize your reading experience. You can sort and search messages by author, date, or topic, and save your favorites to come back to later. You can also easily share messages with friends and family via text, social media, and more. What's more, this app is completely free of ads and in-app purchases, so you can focus solely on the positive and inspiring messages that it offers. And if you ever have any comments, suggestions, or requests, the app creator is always happy to hear from you. So why wait? Start your journey towards a more positive, optimistic, and fulfilling life today by downloading this amazing app. You'll be amazed at how much of a difference it can make in your daily life, and in the lives of those around you.
Makeup
Practice your daily brow and lip makeup routines in a gamified, calm environment. Trace shapes, fill colors, and receive instant scores on accuracy and symmetry. Improve your muscle memory with short, focused practice sessions.
- Trace eyebrow shapes hair by hair
- Fill lip outlines with various shades
- Instant scoring on accuracy and symmetry
- Multiple brow and lip shapes
- Variety of brow and lip brushes
- Timed challenge mode
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Brows not matching? Lip lines going over the edge? Open the app and today's shape is already on the screen. Trace the dashed guide once with one finger, tap Score, and see exactly what to fix next time. ONE PASS FILLS THE BROW Follow the dashed brow with your finger and the hair strokes grow in on their own, head to tail, in the right direction. Trace it again to build density. Hair Stroke, Pencil, and Pomade brushes, ten brow colors, and a stroke-length slider are one tap away when you want them. A SHAPE A DAY, SIX BROWS AND FOUR LIPS Every day opens on a new shape: Willow, Straight, High Arch, Peach Petal, Distant Mountain, Natural. Your streak counts the days you scored a round, and the result card already shows tomorrow's shape. SCORES IN PLAIN WORDS On the line. Both sides match. Filled in. Each one gets a two-word verdict, the lowest is circled on a thumbnail of your drawing, and the tip is in millimeters: "the right tail ends about 4 mm short of the left." Building up in layers scores higher than a single pass. LIPS: TRACE THE LINE, THEN FILL Four lip shapes with Matte, Gloss, and Liner finishes and ten colors. The liner snaps to the lip line, the fill stays inside it, and you get scores for outline, fill, and precision. A REALISTIC CLOSE-UP TO DRAW ON A skin-toned brow and eye area with closed lashes, no cartoon face. On iPad the canvas fills the screen height with the tools beside it. Draw with your finger, or Apple Pencil on a compatible iPad. All shapes, brushes, colors, untimed practice and the 30-Second Challenge are included. No account or ads. Available in English, Korean, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese. This is on-screen drawing practice with fixed templates. It does not scan faces, offer virtual try-on, analyze makeup on your face, or reproduce the feel of real skin. An internet connection is needed to load the interface.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Makeup at Free against The Optimists Books's $0.99. Makeup also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). The Optimists Books's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 2). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Makeup is free to download; The Optimists Books costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Makeup holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Optimists Books has 26 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of The Optimists Books's written reviews are positive against 100% of Makeup's.
The Optimists Books ships an update every 2 months, Makeup weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Optimists Books | Makeup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bryan Hall | Yeonni Lee |
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The Optimists Books
Makeup
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The Optimists Books
No in-app purchases
Makeup
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