FormuLens vs Timbre
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FormuLens
Decode cosmetic ingredient lists by scanning product labels. Understand the function of each ingredient, compare different formulas side-by-side, and organize your favorite products for informed skincare choices. All analysis is done on-device for privacy.
- Scan and decode ingredient lists
- Understand ingredient functions
- Compare product formulas side-by-side
- Save and organize favorite products
- Recognizes 800+ ingredients
- On-device scanning, no internet needed
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FormuLens helps you scan ingredient labels, decode INCI lists, compare products, and check how your routine works together. SCAN INGREDIENT LISTS Take a photo or import one from your library. Scan cleanser, serum, moisturizer, sunscreen, makeup, hair care, body care, and fragrance labels. If a label is long, scan it across multiple photos and the app combines the results. UNDERSTAND EACH INGREDIENT See what each ingredient is doing in the formula, from humectants and emollients to surfactants, preservatives, exfoliants, antioxidants, and fragrance components. FormuLens highlights key ingredients for the product type and calls out unusual ones that are worth a closer look. Tap any ingredient for a plain-language explanation and optional reference links. COMPARE PRODUCTS OR CHECK YOUR ROUTINE Compare products of the same type side by side to review shared ingredients, overall similarity, formula differences, and a simple verdict. Check a routine to review layering order, ingredient conflicts, overlap between steps, a build-up of EU-regulated fragrance allergens, and what may be missing. Scan a mixed collection when you want a clear per-product breakdown. SAVE PRODUCTS FOR LATER Keep products you analyze with a photo, custom name, tags, and notes. Search by name, tag, or ingredient, and filter by tag any time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Ingredient analysis happens on your device. Your photos and scans stay with you. No account required. FEATURES - Ingredient scanner for skincare, makeup, hair care, body care, fragrance, and SPF - INCI list reader with multi-photo scanning - Ingredient function breakdowns in plain language - Key and unusual ingredient highlights by product type - Active and Inactive sections for sunscreen and SPF labels - Side-by-side product comparison - Routine order, conflict, overlap, fragrance allergen, and gap insights - Saved products with photos, names, tags, notes, and search - Built for iPhone and iPad
Timbre
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We keep ten thousand photos and almost never keep a voice. A voice is the fastest trace of a person to disappear from memory, and the quickest to bring them back. timbre keeps the sound of the people and places you love. Press and hold, and it records a short spoken moment together with the room around it. The recording becomes a small living stone, colored by what it heard and sized by how long you listened, that settles into a timeline. Over months, the timeline becomes a warm field of colored stones: a map of a life in sound. Years later you can still hear exactly how someone said your name. WHAT IT DOES • Press and hold. A living form blooms with your voice while you record. • Words appear as you speak, transcribed on your phone, kept with the sound. • Stones take their color from the world: speech glows amber, rain pulls teal. • Tap a sentence in the transcript and playback jumps there. • Feel a recording through your fingertips. The heartbeat traces its shape, strong enough to know a moment without hearing it. • Gather stones by person and place: forty-one minutes of Mom. • On This Day brings a kept moment back to your home screen, quietly. Tap it to hear the sound again. WHAT IT DOESN'T No account. No feed. No streaks. No ads. Nothing leaves your phone: transcription and sound understanding happen on-device, recordings stay yours, and there is no server to send them to. There is no us. Free for your first 50 recordings. After that a single payment keeps it unlimited — one payment, never a subscription. Everything you have already kept stays yours either way. BUILT FOR EVERYONE Every stone carries a silhouette as well as a color, so meaning never rests on color alone. VoiceOver speaks the capture as it grows, and Reduce Motion is respected throughout. Everything works in airplane mode, from the first press.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Timbre at fortnightly against FormuLens's every 6 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
FormuLens ships an update every 6 weeks, Timbre fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FormuLens | Timbre |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bartlett Butter LLC | William Alston |
In-app purchases
FormuLens
No in-app purchases
Timbre
No in-app purchases









