Face Reading DIY vs FaceSyma
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Face Reading DIY
Discover insights into your personality and life path using ancient Chinese facial analysis techniques. Upload a photo to receive a detailed report within 24 hours, including annual fortune ratings and highlights of auspicious and challenging years.
- Ancient Chinese facial analysis
- Personality and life path insights
- Comprehensive life overview (birth to 100 years)
- Annual fortune ratings
- Auspicious and challenging year highlights
- Photo upload for analysis
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Face reading unlocks fascinating details about your personality and the path your life is taking. Our app leverages ancient Chinese techniques of facial analysis, providing a complete overview of your life from birth right up to 100 years old. It carefully analyzes your facial features to reveal parts of your personality and life story that you might not be aware of. Simply upload a photo, and within 24 hours, you'll receive a comprehensive report. This report not only gives an annual rating of your fortune but also highlights particularly auspicious and challenging years in your life.
FaceSyma
This app analyzes facial features using historical and AI-driven techniques to provide detailed character insights. Discover more about yourself and others by simply taking a selfie or uploading a portrait.
- Facial feature analysis
- Historical analysis methods
- Contemporary virtual intelligence
- Image processing
- Scientific techniques
- Selfie analysis
- Photo upload analysis
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FaceSyma analyzes your appearance combining historical methods of thousands of years and contemporary virtual intelligence and image processing and scientific technics. It gives detailed and scientific information about you and the others by taking selfie or uploading portrait photos from your gallery. Give yourself a chance to know about the characters of yours or others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: FaceSyma at 5.0 against Face Reading DIY's 4.0. FaceSyma also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 8 months). Face Reading DIY's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (44 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Face Reading DIY sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and FaceSyma sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FaceSyma holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Face Reading DIY has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Face Reading DIY ships an update every 8 months, FaceSyma monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Face Reading DIY | FaceSyma |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ming Hei Tsui | FACESYMA YAZILIM VE TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI |
Customer experience
Face Reading DIY
FaceSyma
In-app purchases
Face Reading DIY
- Get 1 x Token$0.99
- Get 5 x Tokens$4.99
- 1 x Report$7.99
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- Get 10 x Tokens$8.99
- 3 x Reports$15.99
- Get 50 x Tokens$41.99
FaceSyma
- 1 character analysis$0.99
- 2 character analysis$0.99
- 1 analysis credit$2.99
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- 10 character analysis$4.99
- 12 character analysis$5.99
- 14 character analysis$6.99
- 16 character analysis$7.99
- 18 character analysis$8.99
- 20 character analysis$9.99
- 10 analysis credits$14.99
- 50 analysis credits$19.99
- 100 analysis credits$29.99
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