CurvLife vs Type One Style
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CurvLife
This app offers a revolutionary approach to artificial nails, providing busy women with quick, long-lasting, and stylish manicures. It aims to boost confidence and empower women to embrace their individuality.
- Artificial nails
- Ready-to-wear glue-on nails
- Chip-free French manicures
- Press-on nails
- Long-lasting results
- Comfortable and stylish designs
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CurvLife is a 21st century brand that inspires confidence in women by providing art nails. The Brand is designed with the busy working mom in mind. To help her be confident, and her strong self for whatever she has in her life journey.It empowers women and girls with the knowledge that when a woman is confident, she thrives. But she’s the only one to define her life. At CurvLife.com, we’re in the business of confidence. We want to see confident, empowered women live life to the fullest. We supply artificial nails, followed by ready-to-wear glue-on nails (including a chip-free French mani), press-on nail–literally revolutionized the beauty industry: Women could get a perfect looking mani, in minutes, with reliably long-lasting results.. Our obsession with comfort, effectiveness, and style remains aligns with our sustainable goals: Art Your Nails, Art Your Life! A.R.T is not about finger painting nor craft it is the acronym for:A - Activating confidenceR - Reshaping Nail T - Take control of destiny
Type One Style
This app offers vibrant, high-quality patches to personalize and protect diabetes monitoring devices. It aims to make managing diabetes more colorful and positive, fostering a supportive community and offering discounts on products.
- Device protection patches
- Personalize medical devices
- Diabetes community access
- Discount on first order
- Raise diabetes awareness
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We're on a mission to raise awareness of diabetes through colour & positivity. To provide useful products of the high quality that people with diabetes deserve, in a fun way. Take your devices from cold & clinical to bright & beautiful with our world-leading patches. Live without the fear of losing a Dexcom or Libre (and many other devices) ever again. The proof? We've already protected over 1,000,000 diabetes devices around the world, and this number keeps climbing. Join our diabetes community today and get 20% off your first order when you install our app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: CurvLife at none against Type One Style's shown. CurvLife also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (18K vs 191). Type One Style's advantage is review sentiment (85% vs 53%). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for CurvLife against 4.8 for Type One Style. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CurvLife has 18K ratings behind it against 191, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of CurvLife's written reviews are positive against 85% of Type One Style's.
CurvLife ships an update every 2 months, Type One Style every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CurvLife | Type One Style |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (18K ratings) | 4.8 (191 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.1% of reviews | 84.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18K — better | 191 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Firsple Limited | Type One Style Limited |
Customer experience
CurvLife
Type One Style
User reviews
CurvLife
From 18K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to apply
- 🚀 Long-lasting
- 🚀 Easy to remove
- 🎨 Variety of designs
- 👍 Good customer service
Room to improve
- ⏱️ Slow shipping and delivery
- 🐛 Incorrect or missing items in order
- 🔌 Glue doesn't hold well
- 🤔 Search filters need improvement
- 🤔 Some nails not labeled correctly
Type One Style
From 191 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy and quick ordering
- 👍 Great app design and usability
- 👍 Stays on well, even in water/warm weather
- 👍 Good for sensitive skin
- 👍 Cute and varied designs
Room to improve
- 🐛 Difficult to peel off backing
- 🐛 Sticky residue left on devices
- 🐛 Delivery takes too long for the fee
- 🐛 App spams notifications
- 🐛 Colors not as bright as online
Bugs and requests
CurvLife
Reported bugs
3 issues- Glue not working as advertised
- Nails not staying on
- Tracking numbers not working
Requested features
3 requests- Dark mode option
- More size/shape options
- Improved search and filtering
Type One Style
Reported bugs
3 issues- Cannot log in to account
- Tracking information shows nothing for shipped orders
- Automated replies to customer service inquiries
Requested features
3 requests- More Medtronic stickers
- Option to turn off specific app notifications (e.g., promotional)
- Cut out for Dexcom or Omnipod
In-app purchases
CurvLife
No in-app purchases
Type One Style
No in-app purchases
