Comparison

GlowMe vs iCut

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

Head to head
About

GlowMe

Enhance your portraits with advanced AI technology. This app offers tools to refine skin, adjust lighting, refresh hairstyles, and create polished profile pictures that look natural and camera-ready.

Highlights
  • AI portrait editing
  • Skin smoothing and brightening
  • Hairstyle preview and enhancement
  • Makeup style adjustment
  • Lighting and color tone correction
  • Facial harmony and symmetry refinement
Features
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Upload a photo. Enhance your portrait. Refresh your hairstyle. Create a polished profile picture. Make every photo look clearer, cleaner, and more camera-ready with Glowup AI. Glowup AI uses advanced AI portrait editing and photo enhancement technology to improve the overall quality of your photos. Simply upload a photo, choose a beauty style, and let AI create a natural-looking enhanced version of your portrait. The intelligent engine helps adjust lighting, skin appearance, facial details, face structure appearance, face shape appearance, hairstyle, makeup style, color tone, facial harmony, face symmetry appearance, and overall portrait balance while keeping your identity recognizable. Glowup AI is an AI photo editor, selfie editor, portrait editor, face retouch app, makeup editor, skin retouch app, hairstyle app, hair style preview app, profile picture editor, glow up app, glow up photo editor, looksmax app, looksmaxxing app, and AI portrait enhancement app designed to help you create polished, natural-looking photos. Glowup AI improves skin appearance, makeup style, hairstyle, hair color, facial harmony, face symmetry appearance, face shape appearance, facial detail clarity, brightness, contrast, color tone, and overall portrait quality while preserving your original look. Our AI photo editor performs face retouch, skin retouch, makeup enhancement, photo enhancement, portrait enhancement, and natural portrait editing. Uneven lighting and uneven skin appearance can be softened. Skin can look smoother, fresher, cleaner, and more refined. Small visible skin details, redness, rough texture, dark circles, blemishes, and photo imperfections can be softened with advanced AI portrait retouch and skin retouch technology. Glowup AI is more than a photo editor. It is also a profile picture editor, portrait enhancement tool, makeup editor, hairstyle preview tool, glow up app, facial harmony editor, face symmetry editor, looksmax app, looksmaxxing app, and AI photo styling app. Want fresher-looking photos? Glowup AI includes skin smoothing, skin brightening, wrinkle softening, eye-area refinement, tone adjustment, and portrait clarity enhancement to help your photos look more natural and polished. The AI makeup editor enhances makeup appearance, lip color, eyebrows, eye definition, eye brightness, skin glow, complexion quality, and overall makeup style. Glowup AI is also a hairstyle app and hair styling tool. Explore hairstyle enhancement, hairstyle preview, hairstyle transformation, hair color preview, and hair styling options that better match your face shape appearance, facial harmony, photo style, and personal preference. Glowup AI helps improve portrait quality, refine lighting, adjust color tone, enhance skin appearance, refresh hairstyle, improve makeup style, adjust facial harmony, face symmetry appearance, face shape appearance, and create cleaner, brighter, sharper, polished selfies and profile pictures. ------------------------ Subscription: Face Glowup PRO is an auto-renewable monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, and renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://facepro.meiease.com/#terms Privacy Policy: https://facepro.meiease.com/#privacy

About

iCut

Features
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Pick a photo and iCut removes the background cleanly. Works on the latest iOS. Saving is free with no watermark, and your photos never leave your device. Great for marketplace and online shop listings, social posts and stickers. ■ Remove the background, just by picking a photo • On-device AI finds the subject and removes the background automatically • Copy, share or save the result as a transparent PNG ■ Finish it as a product photo • Use white, black, any color or one of your photos as the background • Adjust a natural shadow, margins, and the subject's size and position • Choose the output size (original / 1024 / 2000 / 3000 px) • Save a transparent PNG and a white-background JPEG at once ■ Fix the details by hand • Trace to erase or restore, with the cursor just above your finger so it never hides the spot • Erase similar colors in one tap to cut out logos and illustrations • Choose which subjects to keep, or set an area before cutting out • Change how the edges are cut and try again ■ Batch background removal • Process many photos at once (up to 20 per run; 5 photos a day in the free version) ■ Peace of mind • All processing happens on your device. Photos are never sent to a server • Open images from the camera, Photos, Files or the clipboard • Supports iPad drag and drop, side-by-side layout and Shortcuts • Available in 16 languages, with Dark Mode ■ New in 1.1 • Lasso: draw around what you want to keep and erase everything outside it (or erase/restore inside) • Magnifier: see a close-up around your finger while you fix the details • ID photos: automatically sized from the face position for résumé, passport and other formats, with a background color of your choice, plus a print sheet (faces are never retouched) • Export stickers at 370×320 and 512×512 • Manual edits are kept until you save, so you can pick up where you left off • Open photos straight from the Share menu of Photos and other apps • Choose the sticker outline color: white, black or any color • ID photos: red background option, saved with 300 dpi information, and print sheets in 4×6 in too • Draw with Apple Pencil and move the picture with your finger (double-tap the Pencil to switch erase/restore) ■ Saving is free • Cutting out, manual edits, saving and sharing are free with no watermark, at the original size • Transparent PNGs stay transparent. iCut also explains how to send them when a chat app turns them white ■ iCut Premium • Removes ads and unlocks unlimited batch background removal • Unlocks background photos and subject placement • Choose a one-time purchase or a monthly plan Terms of Use: https://umebo.net/en/terms/

Screenshots

GlowMe4 screens
iCut4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iCut at none against GlowMe's 5. iCut also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). GlowMe's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. GlowMe sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. iCut asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GlowMe ships an update fortnightly, iCut weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
GlowMe versus iCut: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlowMeiCut
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBeijing Beauty Face PSL Attraction Information Technology Co., Ltd.Koichiro Umemiya

In-app purchases

5 purchases

GlowMe

Subscriptions5
  • Filters & Masks Weekly$0.997 Days
  • All Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Face Glowup PRO Monthly$6.991 Month
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  • Filters & Masks Yearly$14.991 Year
  • All Pro Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year
None

iCut

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GlowMe free?
GlowMe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iCut free?
iCut is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GlowMe or iCut have ads?
iCut shows ads; GlowMe does not.
Which is updated more often, GlowMe or iCut?
GlowMe ships an update fortnightly, and iCut weekly. Most recently, GlowMe was updated on October 24, 2026 and iCut on October 26, 2026.

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