Facemakr vs Grain Social
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Facemakr
Create unique, high-quality avatars with a vast array of customizable parts. Its intuitive multitouch controls allow for precise scaling and rotation of over 600 elements, including eyes, hair, and accessories. Save your creations and express your artistic vision.
- Create custom faces and avatars
- Over 600 customizable parts
- Multi-touch scale and rotate controls
- Position and color parts
- Save created faces
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Definitely check it out. - Appolicious / AppVee Facemakr is a clever toolkit for making faces & avatars. Its intelligent multitouch controls and vast number of parts make it ideal for creating unique high quality faces, quickly. "The genius in Facemakr is that it lets you customise your faces to an infinite degree." - T3 Here's a run down of Facemakr: Multi-touch scale & rotate from over 600 parts for detailed Avatars. Position and color parts like: eyes, hair, ears, hats, piercings etc. Save faces. "I recommend Facemakr for budding avatar artistes out there, it’s easy to use and comes with a complete feature set and robust graphics engine." - Nine Over Ten "I have done a number for my family and its pretty darn good!" - app.itize.us Facemakr comes highly recommended as an essential part of anyones app collection.
Grain Social
This photo-first social networking app allows users to share galleries of images with titles, descriptions, and locations, as well as ephemeral 24-hour stories. It offers multiple feed options including following, curated content, camera type, and location-based browsing. Sign-in is integrated with a Bluesky account.
- Post image galleries with titles and descriptions
- Share 24-hour ephemeral stories
- Browse feeds by following, curated, camera, or location
- Add alt text to photos
- Integrates with Bluesky accounts
- Supports @mentions, #hashtags, and links
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Grain is a photo-first social app. Post galleries, share 24-hour stories, and browse feeds by following, For You, camera, or location. Galleries One photo or a full set. Each gallery has a title, description, and location. Add alt text on individual photos. EXIF is read from the file and kept intact. Stories Share something in the moment. Stories disappear after 24 hours. Favorite and comment the same as on galleries. Feeds Pin the ones you want: following, For You, by camera body, or by location with a map. Mentions, hashtags, links @mention people, add #hashtags, paste links. All tappable. Sign in with your Bluesky account No new password. Your Bluesky handle and followers come with you. People who follow you on Bluesky can find you on Grain, and the people you already follow are here too. Don't have a Bluesky account? Make one at bsky.app, then sign in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Grain Social at Free against Facemakr's $2.99. Grain Social also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). Facemakr's advantage is review sentiment (70% vs 50%) and chart position (#73 vs unranked). On rating, ads, 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
Grain Social is free to download; Facemakr costs $2.99 up front. Facemakr sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grain Social asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Facemakr against 3.8 for Grain Social. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Facemakr has 34 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 70% of Facemakr's written reviews are positive against 50% of Grain Social's.
Facemakr ships an update every 3 months, Grain Social every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Facemakr | Grain Social |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (34 ratings) | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 34 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #73 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hawken King | Chad Miller |
Customer experience
Facemakr
Grain Social
In-app purchases
Facemakr
- Facemakr Plus$2.99
Grain Social
No in-app purchases
