Comparison

Grail vs Glossbook

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

Head to head
About

Grail

Organize your beauty collection, track product expiration dates, and create shareable "Shelfies." This digital vanity helps you manage your skincare and makeup routines without waste.

Highlights
  • Digital vanity for beauty collection
  • Track product expiration dates (PAO)
  • Design and share digital "Shelfies"
  • Visually organize skincare and makeup
  • No account or cloud server required
  • Home Screen widgets (Pro feature)
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Grail Skincare Tracker is the ultimate digital vanity for skincare enthusiasts. Stop managing your expensive beauty routines with clunky spreadsheets or guessing when your products expire. Grail helps you curate your collection, track expiration dates (PAO), and design beautiful "Shelfies" to share with your friends. WHY YOU'LL LOVE GRAIL: — Your Digital Vanity Visually organize your skincare, makeup, and holy grails in one beautifully crafted space. No cluttered UI. Just a clean, premium canvas that makes managing your beauty stash feel like a daily ritual. — Never Waste a Drop Smart PAO (Period After Opening) tracking ensures you never use expired products. Your personal Beauty Coach will gently remind you before any of your expensive investments go to waste. — Curate & Share Dress up your products with premium aesthetic frames. Design stunning digital "Shelfies" of your current routine to save for yourself or share with the skincare community. — Privacy by Design No accounts to create, no cloud servers. Your entire collection stays securely and privately right on your device. GRAIL PRO: Upgrade to Pro to track your entire collection unlimitedly, unlock all premium aesthetic frames, enable Home Screen widgets, and access automated expiry alerts. Protect your beauty investment today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://taide27.github.io/privacy/

About

Glossbook

Features
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Glossbook is the beautiful way to catalog your beauty collection — skincare, makeup, hair, body and fragrance — and actually use what you own. Add a product in seconds, track how much you use it, and get a clear picture of your stash: what it's worth, what's expiring, and what's just sitting there. Whether you're a minimalist or a proud collector, Glossbook helps you shop your own shelf first. — YOUR COLLECTION, ORGANIZED — • Add products by pasting a link, scanning the label, or entering details by hand • Sort by category, brand, status, shade, volume and more • Powerful search across names, brands and ingredients • Track status at a glance: unopened, opened, in use, finished — KNOW WHAT YOU OWN — • See the total value of your collection, broken down by category • Ratings and notes so you never forget how a product performed • Expiration and PAO (period-after-opening) tracking, so nothing goes to waste • Country of origin, price, purchase and open dates — all in one card — USE IT UP — • Project Pan: create use-it-up challenges and watch your progress • Daily "used today" logging to build better habits • Rotation view surfaces what you haven't touched in a while • Home-screen widgets for your collection value, today's products and Project Pan progress — INSIGHTS THAT ACTUALLY HELP — • Analytics on your collection, spending and habits • Spending by category and brand • Your most-used products and best value per use • Beautiful charts that make sense of it all — PRIVATE BY DESIGN — • Your data lives on your device • No account required, no tracking, no ads Glossbook Free lets you build a real collection at no cost. Upgrade to Premium for an unlimited collection and wishlist, unlimited Project Pans, and full analytics. PREMIUM • Monthly or yearly subscription • Payment is charged to your Apple ID • Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period • Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings Privacy Policy: https://liliyagerber.github.io/glossbook-legal/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Grail3 screens
Glossbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

Grail and Glossbook 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. Grail sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Glossbook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Grail versus Glossbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrailGlossbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.216.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer锐 张Liliya Gerber

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Grail

Subscriptions1
  • Grail Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time9
  • Frame — Coquette Chic$1.99
  • Frame — Wild Bloom$1.99
  • Frame — Sugar Couture$1.99
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  • Frame — Glazed Aura$1.99
  • Background — Dermic Pure$1.99
  • Background — Texture Fluidy$1.99
  • Background — Organic Matter$1.99
  • Background — Golden Glow$1.99
  • Pro one time purchase$29.99
2 purchases

Glossbook

Subscriptions2
  • Glossbook Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly$19.991 Year

Questions

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

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