Comparison

A Umax alternative that runs in your browser

Umax is a subscription app that scores your face and hands back a looksmaxxing roadmap. This is a different trade: the measurement is free and runs on your own device, the formula is published, and the full report is a one-time payment.

What Umax is

Umax is a mobile app in the looksmaxxing category. It scans your face, returns a PSL-style attractiveness score with sub-scores for things like symmetry, golden ratio and jawline, and builds a personalised improvement roadmap with a skincare and glow-up tracker. It re-scores you weekly as part of the subscription.

It is easily the best known product in this space: reporting in 2026 puts it past 7 million downloads, on a subscription commonly reported at US$3.99 per week. Check the App Store listing for current pricing — subscription prices move and differ by region.

Side by side

	Umax	Face Analyzer
How you use it	iOS / Android app, install required	A web page — nothing to install
What it costs	Weekly subscription (reported US$3.99/week, ≈$207 a year)	Measuring is free; the optional full report is US$6.99 once
Your photo	Uploaded for analysis	Never uploaded — the 478-point model runs in your browser
The scoring method	Not published	Every weight and formula is on the page, with references
Rescoring	Weekly re-scores as part of the subscription	Scan again any time, free
Language	English	English and Traditional Chinese

Where Umax is genuinely better

It is a real app, and that matters

Camera access, push notifications, saved history across scans and a home-screen icon are all things a web page does worse. If you want to track a score week by week on your phone, an app is simply the right shape for that.

It gives you a single number and a plan

A PSL-style score is one number you can talk about, share and watch move. That is a large part of the appeal, and this site deliberately does not do it — the score here is compressed into 50–98 and framed as a proportion readout, which is less satisfying to screenshot.

Far more people use it

Seven million downloads means a bigger community, more comparison points and more content about it. A small site cannot match that, and pretending otherwise would be silly.

Where this site is different

Your photo does not leave the device. The 478-point face model is downloaded into your browser and the measurement happens locally. There is no upload step, which means there is no deletion policy to trust. You can confirm it yourself: open your browser's network panel during a scan and watch for outbound image requests.

The arithmetic is on the page. Every weight, every reference value and the compression to 50–98 are written out on the scanner page and in how accurate face rating is. Umax does not publish its method. Neither approach is wrong, but you can only argue with the one you can see.

One payment, not a renewal. Measuring is free forever. The full report is US$6.99 once, with no account and no subscription to cancel.

It says what it cannot measure. Nose projection, true gonial angle, forehead slope, skin quality and how you look when you smile are all listed as not scored, because a single front photo cannot see them.

Who should pick which

Pick Umax if you want a phone app, a single shareable score, weekly tracking, and a subscription is acceptable.

Pick this if you want the measurement free, the method visible, your photo kept on your device, and a one-time report instead of a recurring charge — or if you want it in Traditional Chinese.

There is also a third answer: run the free scan here first. It costs nothing and tells you which proportions are actually worth your attention before you pay anyone.

FAQ

Questions people ask

Is there a free alternative to Umax?

Yes. This site measures the same kinds of things — facial thirds, fifths, symmetry, jaw-to-cheekbone, canthal tilt and a face-shape classification — for free and without an account. The measurement runs in your browser using a 478-point face model, so there is nothing to install and no photo to upload. A paid report is optional and is a one-time US$6.99 rather than a subscription.

Does Umax charge a subscription?

Umax is a subscription app. Third-party reviews in 2026 report US$3.99 per week, which works out to roughly US$207 a year if you keep it. Prices change and vary by region, so check the App Store listing for the current figure. The report on this site is a single payment with no renewal.

Is a PSL score the same as what this site measures?

No, and that difference is worth understanding. PSL-style scores try to compress attractiveness into one number on a scale borrowed from online forums. This site scores how close individual proportions sit to ranges a camera commonly measures, then compresses the total into 50–98 on purpose, because a 2D photo cannot see depth, skin or expression. It is a proportion readout, not a verdict on how you look.

Why does this site not upload my photo?

Because it does not need to. The face model is a 4 MB file your browser downloads once, and the measurement happens on your own device. Nothing is sent, so nothing has to be deleted later. The one exception is the optional AI hairstyle feature in the paid report, which asks for consent first and sends a cropped square that is deleted after generation.

Which one should I use?

If you want a fast, social, phone-native score and do not mind a subscription, Umax has by far the larger app-store presence. If you want the arithmetic shown, no install, no subscription and your photo kept on your device, start with the free scan here.

Updated 2026-09-11

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Measure your face first

The free scan gives you ten proportions, a face-shape classification and the arithmetic behind the score. No account, no install, and the photo stays on your device.

Front-facing, unobstructed, evenly lit photos work best. Your photo is analysed on your phone or computer and is never uploaded.