Comparison

Beauty Box vs Retinol Guide

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Beauty Box

Discover personalized beauty tips for eyes, lips, hair, and skin, generated directly on your device. Browse by category, save your favorites, and access them anytime, even offline. Enjoy a private experience with no accounts or data collection.

Highlights
  • On-device beauty tip generation
  • Categorized beauty advice
  • Save favorite tips
  • Offline access
  • No accounts or data collection
Features
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Beauty Box is a beauty routine that lives on your phone and nowhere else. Tips for skin, hair, lips and eyes — hand-written, plus fresh ones generated on your device by Apple Intelligence. No account, no login, no cloud. NEW: ASK SIRI "Hey Siri, log my morning routine." Ticks the whole morning off without touching your phone — useful when your hands are wet and the phone is across the room. Also "what's my Beauty Box streak?" and "give me a beauty tip". All three work from the Action Button, Shortcuts and Spotlight too. WHAT YOU GET FREE • Hundreds of hand-written tips across skin, hair, lips and eyes • Fresh tips generated on your device, offline, whenever you want them • A morning and evening routine built from your Beauty Profile — the first two steps of each in full • Save favourites and read them again any time, offline • One tip a day as a notification, at a time that suits you • Streaks, milestones and a history calendar • A weekly treatment plan you can send to your own calendar • Home Screen widgets, Control Center and Spotlight BEAUTY BOX PRO Pro opens the rest: your full morning and evening routine, the reasoning behind every step — what we're seeing in your profile, why this step, what to expect and when — and every category tailored to your skin instead of the general set. There's a 7-day free trial. After that Pro is a monthly subscription. Beauty Box Pro — $0.99 per month, billed monthly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.indyinc.co.uk/privacy/ YOUR BEAUTY PROFILE A short set of questions about your skin, hair, concerns and how much time you actually have. Beauty Box reads it and infers — oily and dehydrated at once, post-spot pigmentation, vascular dark circles — then builds a routine around what it found and tells you why. It also holds back. If you have started a retinoid in the last few weeks, it says to give it four weeks before adding anything else. It flags what not to do as clearly as what to do. PRIVACY Your profile, your favourites and your routine never leave your device. No accounts. No tracking. No advertising. No data collection. The privacy label says "Data Not Collected" and that is the whole truth. Made by Indy.inc in the United Kingdom.

About

Retinol Guide

Features
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Your helpful retinol guide to assist you in your Skincare routine journey: Start managing your routine seeing in which part of the week you should apply retinol, track ingredients that are compatible with it or that are not compatible. See useful tips.

Screenshots

Beauty Box4 screens
Retinol Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Retinol Guide at 18.0 against Beauty Box's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Beauty Box versus Retinol Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeauty BoxRetinol Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndy.incNicola Marai

In-app purchases

None

Beauty Box

No in-app purchases

None

Retinol Guide

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beauty Box free?
Beauty Box is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Retinol Guide free?
Retinol Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beauty Box or Retinol Guide have ads?
Neither Beauty Box nor Retinol Guide shows ads.

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