ShelfSense vs Vanity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ShelfSense
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Make the most of the skincare and makeup you already own. Photograph your shelf once. ShelfSense reads every bottle on it, then turns what you have into celebrity looks, at-home treatments and a weekly routine — so the good stuff gets used while it is still good. GET THE LOOK FROM YOUR OWN SHELF Celebrity, movie, skincare and hair looks, each one ranked by how much of it is already sitting on your shelf. • Every step names your product: "Your Victoria Beckham Satin Kajal Liner" • Missing one thing? It stays in the plan, and you decide whether to buy it • Try it on: take a selfie and see the look on your own face, with your features and skin tone kept exactly as they are AT-HOME TREATMENTS, NO SHOPPING TRIP Facials, exfoliation resets, vitamin boosts, gua sha and scalp massages, built from the products you own. • "You have 5 of 6" before you start, so you know what tonight can be • Steps in the right order, with the time each one needs to sit • Build your own: pick a purpose, and it slots in your products and finds a free evening ONE PHOTO, THE WHOLE SHELF Point the camera at a shelf, a cabinet or a whole vanity and take one picture. Every product is identified and labeled on the photo as it is found — brand, product, type, shade and size. • Nothing is saved until you confirm it • Anything already in your stash is flagged, not duplicated • Low-confidence reads are marked so you can correct them YOUR WEEK, FROM YOUR OWN BOTTLES ShelfSense plans your evenings around the actives you already own, and it never puts retinol and an exfoliating acid on the same night. Every step names your bottle and tells you why the other one is sitting this evening out. • Own several of something? It opens the one closest to its date first • Still introducing a retinol? It starts you at two nights, not three • Tonight, step by step, in about four minutes NOTHING GOES OFF UNUSED Opened products have a clock on them. ShelfSense tracks period-after-opening for everything on your shelf, reads the printed expiry date off a label, and gives the forgotten ones a job in your routine. • See what is expiring, what is forgotten and what you doubled up on • A reminder about a week before something is past it • Log your empties and see what you actually finished YOUR SHELF, FINALLY WRITTEN DOWN One tidy beauty inventory of everything you own, what it cost, how much is left and how much of it is actually in rotation. • Filter by skincare, makeup, hair or body • Add products from email receipts too (Gmail, Outlook and iCloud Mail) • In the shop? Check first. It tells you when you already own two a lot like this ALSO IN THE APP • Duplicate spotting — five shampoos and three near-identical corals, grouped, with a straight answer on which one to finish first • Read my skin — a photo of your face, and a gentle routine written for what is visible in it. Not a diagnosis, and it says so before the camera opens • Sign in with Apple or Google and your stash follows you across devices. No account is needed for your first scan SHELFSENSE PRO Three shelf reads a month are free. ShelfSense Pro adds unlimited scans, the look try-on, the skin read, the dupe finder, email receipts and the full look, treatment and evening detail — free for 7 days, then a monthly or yearly subscription. Cancel anytime. ShelfSense is not a medical device and does not diagnose skin conditions. If something about your skin concerns you, please see a professional. Privacy Policy: https://noordwell.com/pages/shelfsense-privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Vanity
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Which cream was it? The one that finally worked, two winters ago, in a white bottle. Vanity remembers it for you: every product you try, with a photo, a verdict and your own words about it. SNAP THE JAR Take a photo and Vanity cuts the product out of the background and reads the brand, name and size from the label. It all happens on your phone; nothing is uploaded. Check the fields, fix anything, and the product lands on its shelf. A VANITY THAT LOOKS LIKE ONE Skincare, Makeup and Perfume, each with its own hand-painted room. Inside: Face, Lips, Eyes, Hair, Body, Nails and more, and inside those, types like serum, SPF, mascara or lipstick. Add your own types when the list isn't enough. STAMPS, NOT STARS Holy grail. Repurchase. Meh. Never again. Four verdicts in the words you already use, pressed onto the product like a rubber stamp. A year later, "never again" tells you more than three stars ever did. USE IT BEFORE IT TURNS The Expiry tab lines up what runs out first, counted from the day you opened the jar and the months printed on it. FIND IT IN THE AISLE Search by brand, type or any word from your notes. Filter by stamp to see your holy grails at a glance. SHARE AND KEEP Send a friend a pretty PDF of your vanity with photos, stamps and notes. Keep a full backup in a ZIP file and restore it on a new phone. YOURS, ON YOUR PHONE No account and no server of ours. Photos and notes stay on your iPhone and, with Pro, sync through your own iCloud. In English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Hindi, Ukrainian and Russian. FREE FOR 35 PRODUCTS The first 35 products are free, with every stamp, note, search and expiry date. Pro removes the limit and adds iCloud sync, backup and PDF export. If you cancel, everything you added stays. SUBSCRIPTION AND TERMS Vanity Pro is an auto-renewable subscription: Month ($4.99 per month, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers) or Year ($47.99 per year, charged on purchase). Prices are in US dollars and vary by country. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Any unused part of a free trial ends when you buy a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://dmapps.app/vanity/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Vanity at daily against ShelfSense's every 6 days. ShelfSense's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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. ShelfSense sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Vanity sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ShelfSense ships an update every 6 days, Vanity daily. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ShelfSense | Vanity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 84 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NoordWell B.V. | Dmitrii Kopytov |
In-app purchases
ShelfSense
- ShelfSense Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- ShelfSense Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Vanity
- Month7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Year$47.991 Year









