Coildex vs GlossedRoots
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coildex
This app helps you understand and care for your curly or natural hair. It analyzes product ingredients, helps build personalized routines, and tracks your hair journey with a style library and community reviews.
- Aisle Scanner for product analysis
- Ingredient Analyzer with personalized verdicts
- Customizable hair routine builder
- Hairstyle library with detailed filters
- Personalized Hair Guide based on hair type
- Quick Log for tracking hair activities
- Community reviews filtered by hair type
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Your coils deserve more than guesswork. Coildex is the hair-care companion built for Type 3a through 4c — where your routine, your products, your styles, and your progress finally live in one place that actually understands your hair. Scan a bottle, know what you're buying The Aisle Scanner reads any product barcode and instantly tells you: do you already own it? Does it duplicate something in your routine? Is the ingredient list good for your hair type and porosity? Standing in the beauty aisle has never been less of a gamble. Understand every ingredient — for your hair Tap any ingredient in any product to get a personalized "for your hair" verdict in seconds. Paste a full ingredient list into the Analyzer and we break it into Good, Caution, and Avoid — customized to your sensitivities, water type, and damage factors. Watch for clashes inside a routine too — protein-on-protein, silicones blocking your leave-in, surfactants stripping the conditioner you just paid for. Build a routine that fits you Start from 16+ pre-built templates — Wash Day, Deep Condition, Clarifying Wash, Trims, Take Down — or design your own. Drag and drop to reorder, attach products to each step, set it for daily, weekly, monthly, or occasional. A home-screen widget, Live Activities on the Lock Screen, and Siri Shortcuts mean you never have to open the app to mark something done. A hairstyle library worth using 80+ styles — Braids, Locs, Twists, Natural, Updos, Fades, Line-Ups — every one labeled with tension, maintenance, duration, and difficulty. Edge-sensitive? Filter out high-tension styles before they ever reach your head. Bookmark what you've worn, rate it, and build a personal style diary. The science, tuned to you Your Hair Guide isn't a generic 4c article. It factors your porosity, density, texture, and damage history into a protein schedule, oil guide (penetrating vs. sealing), silicone-group recommendations, and a styler order that actually makes sense. As you rate products and routines, the Guide evolves — starring ingredients you've loved, flagging ones that have let you down. Track your journey Quick Log captures every wash, deep condition, protein treatment, trim, length check, and protective-style install in one tap. A calendar heatmap shows your consistency month over month. Streaks, weekly completion, program-day count — the small signals that tell you you're actually showing up. Community wisdom, hair-type filtered Product reviews are filtered by your hair type, porosity, and texture — so you're only seeing what worked for someone with hair like yours. No more wondering if a 5-star review came from someone with completely different hair. Built for real life Offline-first: your completions sync the moment you're back online — you'll never lose a check-in on the subway. Share a routine with a friend via link. Dark mode. OpenDyslexic font toggle. No ads. No selling your data. Free to get started. Your hair knows best. Coildex is here to help you listen. Coildex is a hair care companion, not medical advice. Every head of hair is unique — always pay attention to how yours responds.
GlossedRoots
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GlossedRoots is a premium haircare tracking and routine management app designed specifically and exclusively for Black women. Whether your hair is relaxed, texlaxed, transitioning or natural, GlossedRoots gives you a personalised routine, a smart wash day companion, and the tools to truly understand and celebrate your hair health. Track your products, log your wash days, monitor your scalp health, and watch your hair grow — all in one beautiful app designed with your crown in mind. KEY FEATURES Your Personalised Routine — a custom weekly and monthly haircare schedule built around your specific curl type, porosity, scalp type and hair goals. Your routine adapts as your hair changes. Wash Day Companion — a real time guided walk through your entire wash day with built in countdown timers, step by step technique guidance, and notes that save to your wash day log. Protective Style Tracker — log your protective styles, track days in style, get moisture check-in reminders, and receive smart alerts when it is time to take down your style. Ingredient Scanner — paste any ingredient list to get an instant safety score out of 100 with traffic light flags for harmful ingredients including endocrine disrupting chemicals, and personalised product recommendations. Barcode scanning coming soon. Crown Confidence Tracker — log not just how your hair feels but how your hair makes you feel. Track the emotional journey of your hair health over time. Scalp Health Journal — log your scalp condition independently from wash day with smart alerts if symptoms persist. Hair Growth Tracker — track your length in inches with a shrinkage calculator, side by side photo comparison, and milestone celebrations for every length goal reached. Education Hub — Hair Myth Busters, Ingredient Decoder, Hair Type Deep Dives and The Crown Quiz, plus a full Crown Glossary of every haircare term you need to know. Community — browse and share routines filtered by hair type and porosity. See product reviews from women with the same hair profile as you. GlossedRoots is free to use with a generous free tier. Upgrade to Crown Experience for unlimited access to every feature with a 14 day free trial — no payment needed to start. Your crown. Your journey. Subscription Options: Crown Monthly — £4.99 per month, billed monthly Crown Yearly — £39.99 per year (£3.33/month equivalent, save 34%), billed annually Auto-Renewal: All subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing period (monthly or yearly) unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the renewal date. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the same price as your original subscription. Terms : https://glossedroots.lovable.app/terms Privacy Policy : https://glossedroots.lovable.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Coildex at none against GlossedRoots's 2. GlossedRoots's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. GlossedRoots sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Coildex asks for nothing beyond the download.
Coildex ships an update every 2 weeks, GlossedRoots fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coildex | GlossedRoots |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hello Good Day LLC | Kirsty Dickinson |
In-app purchases
Coildex
No in-app purchases
GlossedRoots
- Pro Monthly14 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Pro Yearly14 Days trial$39.991 Year








