Face Jam AI vs Flashbacks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- AI face style blending
- Hair color modification
- Baby face generator
- Virtual hair transplant
- Cartoon face transformation
- Local device processing
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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.
Flashbacks
Discover photos you've captured near your current location. This app offers a refreshing alternative to endless social media feeds, letting you joyfully revisit your own memories. Expand your search radius with an in-app subscription.
- View photos based on current location
- Adjustable photo search radius
- Alternative to social media doom scrolling
- Rediscover personal memories
- In-app subscription for expanded features
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Flashbacks is a delightful way to see photos that you've taken near wherever you are standing. By default, the app will allow you to see photos within 10 meters of your current location; an in-app subscription purchase allows you to zoom in or out to allow you to see all photos in the immediate neighborhood, city, region, or more! This app is the perfect antidote to social media apps that encourage infinite doom scrolling, comparing your life to someone else's. With Flashbacks, you get to scroll through your own wonderful memories from wherever you happen to be! Terms of use for this app are the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA). Details can be found at: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flashbacks at 5.0 against Face Jam AI's 2.8. Face Jam AI's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). 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
Both are free to download. Face Jam AI sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month and Flashbacks sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.29 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flashbacks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Face Jam AI has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Face Jam AI ships an update every 3 weeks, Flashbacks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Face Jam AI | Flashbacks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 572 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brett Kuprel | Benjamin Carroll |
Customer experience
Face Jam AI
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In-app purchases
Face Jam AI
- Subscribe to Face Jam$4.991 Month
Flashbacks
- Monthly Unlock$0.291 Month
- Yearly Unlock$2.991 Year









