Comparison

Era vs Bare

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

Head to head
About

Era

Visually document and track your personal growth journeys, from skincare routines to habit building. Capture progress with photos and notes, compare changes side-by-side, and celebrate small wins over time. This app helps you see your evolution and appreciate the milestones on your path to self-improvement.

Highlights
  • Organize goals into dedicated chapters
  • Document progress with photos and notes
  • Interactive before-and-after comparisons
  • Build a timeline of milestones
  • Appreciate small improvements
  • Track skincare, hair growth, habits, and more
Features
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ERA: SKINCARE TRACKER Know your skin. Know what works. Skincare is frustrating when you can't tell what's actually making a difference. You try a new product. Change your routine. Wait weeks. Then look in the mirror and wonder: Is this actually working? ERA helps you document your skin, track your routines, and see changes over time so you can stop relying on memory and start learning what works for you. BUILD YOUR SKIN JOURNEY Create visual chapters for your skincare goals and document your progress with photos, routines, products, and notes. SEE CHANGES YOU MISS Your skin changes slowly, and seeing yourself every day makes those changes easy to overlook. Compare photos with interactive before-and-after views and see your progress side by side. TRACK YOUR ROUTINE Keep your skincare journey in one place. Record what you use, when you use it, and how your skin changes over time. EXPERIMENT WITH YOUR SKIN Try new products and routines, then document what happens. Build a personal record of what works, what doesn't, and what your skin responds to. UNDERSTAND YOUR PROGRESS Small changes add up. ERA turns your everyday skincare journey into a visual record you can actually look back on. MADE FOR SKINCARE • Skincare progress tracking • Routine tracking • Product tracking • Before-and-after comparisons • Skin progress photos • Visual skincare timelines • Personal skincare experiments • Long-term skin journeys Know your skin. Know what works. Start your next skincare chapter with Era. Privacy Policy: https://eraglow.app/privacy Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Bare

Features
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Your mirror can't tell you whether four weeks of a new routine did anything. Bare measures it. Take a guided scan and Bare reads five things from the photo — clarity, tone, texture, balance and under-eye brightness — then tracks them over weeks so you can see what your routine is actually doing. WHY BARE IS DIFFERENT Most skin apps let you photograph yourself in any light, at any distance, from any angle, then draw you a chart. That chart measures your lighting, not your skin. Bare won't let you take the shot until your framing, distance and light match your last one. An alignment ring, a ghost overlay of your previous scan and a lighting check do the work. That's what makes a six-week comparison mean something. WHAT YOU GET • Guided capture that keeps every scan comparable • Five measured metrics, not vague impressions • A regimen built from what your scan measured, which you approve or edit • Trend charts for any metric across weeks or months • Then-and-now comparisons, side by side • A shelf built from the products you actually own • Morning and evening routine checklists • Daily reminders so the habit sticks • A shareable before-and-after card FROM SCAN TO ROUTINE A score on its own doesn't tell you what to do. After each scan Bare proposes a morning and evening regimen aimed at your two lowest measurements, using the products already on your shelf wherever it can and telling you plainly when something isn't. Every line explains which measurement it's responding to. Untick anything you don't want, then accept — your checklists update to match. BUILT AROUND YOUR ROUTINE Bare asks what you're working on and what your skin is like, then suggests a starting shelf — and never assumes you own products you don't. Tick what's actually in your bathroom and your checklists match reality from day one. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every photo and every calculation stays on your iPhone. There's no account, no server and no analytics. Nothing is uploaded, because there's nowhere to upload it to. Delete your scans in Settings and they're gone everywhere. SUBSCRIPTION Bare Plus unlocks the full app after a 3-day free trial: $9.99 per month or $49.99 per year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://becktechapps.com/bare-privacy.html Bare tracks the appearance of your skin over time. It is not a medical device and does not diagnose conditions. Talk to a dermatologist about anything that concerns you.

Screenshots

Era4 screens
Bare4 screens

Verdict

The call

Era and Bare are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Era sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Bare sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Era versus Bare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEraBare
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size161 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOHN LLOYD DIVINOAustin Beck

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Era

Subscriptions2
  • Era Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Era Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
2 purchases

Bare

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Yearly$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Era free?
Era is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bare free?
Bare is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Era or Bare have ads?
Neither Era nor Bare shows ads.

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