skincarebyself vs TheMsChoice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
skincarebyself
Discover a curated selection of high-quality skincare and lifestyle products across various price ranges. This platform aims to bring the latest trends and effective solutions to empower your journey to achieving your best skin.
- High-quality skincare products
- Lifestyle product selection
- Variety of price points
- Introduction of new products
- Latest skincare trends
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At Skincare by Self, our mission is to provide high-quality skincare and lifestyle products that cater to a variety of price points. As passionate skincare enthusiasts, we are committed to continually introducing new products to the local market, ensuring our customers have access to the latest trends and advancements in skincare. We believe that everyone deserves effective and luxurious skincare solutions, and we strive to empower our community to achieve their best skin.
TheMsChoice
Discover and shop curated beauty products tailored to your skin type and concerns. This app offers a personalized shopping experience with detailed product information, routine building, and easy account management for skincare enthusiasts.
- Curated skincare, makeup, and hair care selection
- Personalized product recommendations based on skin type
- Build and manage morning/night skincare routines
- Detailed product information including ingredients
- Wishlist and cart management
- Order history and reordering capabilities
- Language switching between English and Arabic
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TheMsChoice is a curated beauty shopping app made for skincare lovers in Iraq. It brings the brand's vintage, hand-drawn shopping experience to your iPhone: warm, personal, easy to browse, and built around finding products that fit your skin. Shop curated skincare, makeup, and hair care from an organized catalog featuring trusted global favorites like **The Ordinary**, **CeraVe**, **La Roche-Posay**, **COSRX**, **Beauty of Joseon**, **Huda Beauty**, and **NYX**. Explore best sellers, new arrivals, brands, categories, and skin-type browsing. Search for products, filter by price and skin type, and sort by newest, best-selling, or price so you can move quickly from discovery to cart. Build a routine around your skin. During setup, TheMsChoice can save your age, skin type, and main concerns to personalize your profile. Profile Care helps you find matched products, view a recommended routine, and keep a morning and night routine you can update as your needs change. Each product page gives you the details you need before ordering: product images, brand, price, available variants, description, how to use, ingredients, wishlist, cart controls, and the option to add products to your routine. Your account keeps the practical parts close: wishlist, cart, saved addresses, coupons, order history, order details, reorder, language switching between English and Arabic, and direct contact with the TheMsChoice team. Whether you are restocking a favorite **Bioderma** cleanser, building a full K-beauty routine with **Anua** and **SOME BY MI**, exploring makeup from **Maybelline**, or simply saving products for later, TheMsChoice keeps beauty shopping focused, personal, and easy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: skincarebyself at every 8 days against TheMsChoice's every 3 weeks. TheMsChoice's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ratings volume, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
TheMsChoice holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 11 respectively.
skincarebyself ships an update every 8 days, TheMsChoice every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | skincarebyself | TheMsChoice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shilpa Goyal | Mustafa Kareem |
Customer experience
skincarebyself
TheMsChoice
In-app purchases
skincarebyself
No in-app purchases
TheMsChoice
No in-app purchases








