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SkinLately vs Glass
The short answer
The short form of this Glass skincare app review: Glass reads four dimensions — very close in spirit to our five — and pairs them with a product shelf that makes swapping products easy to follow. It recommends products; we never will. It charges per scan through credit packs as well as by subscription; we charge one flat price and scanning is unlimited. Those two facts are the whole comparison.
Glass skincare app review: the shelf, the credits, the score
| SkinLately | Glass | |
|---|---|---|
| What it takes in | One selfie a day | Face scan + routine tracking |
| How often | Daily | Scan-based, credits per scan |
| What it reads | Hydration, texture, calmness, clarity, under-eyes | Clarity, hydration, evenness, smoothness |
| Recommends products | No | Yes |
| Platform | iPhone — not yet released | iPhone |
| Price | $2.99/wk or $29.99/yr, 3-day trial | $6.99–$12.99/wk · $9.99/mo · $39.99–$59.99/yr · credit packs $4.99–$99.99 |
| Free browser tools | Three, no upload, no account | No |
| Available today | No — not released | Yes |
The "what it reads" row uses Glass's own wording rather than ours. The vocabulary an app picks is one of the more informative things about it, and it is vocabulary we do not use ourselves.
What Glass does better
Four-dimension read closest in spirit to ours, plus a product shelf that makes swapping products easy to track.
The four-dimension read is the closest thing in this category to the way we think about the problem, and the product shelf solves something we simply ignore: if you are swapping products, having them listed where the score is makes the connection visible. We do not have that and are not building it, which means a Glass user gets an answer to "which product changed this" that our user has to keep on paper.
Where we went the other way
- Recommendations, permanently. They recommend; we do not, ever, and there are no affiliate links anywhere on this site. A tracker funded by the things it measures has a conflict it can disclose but never remove. Theirs is a coherent business model and it is not ours.
- Credits versus unlimited. Credit packs mean the cost of looking again scales with how often you look. A daily habit does not survive that, which is why our scanning is unlimited inside one flat price. If you scan rarely, credits may well be cheaper.
- Four dimensions versus five, and what they are called. Very close, and the naming differs in one way that matters to us: none of our five is the name of a condition, and we will not add one that is.
What we could not verify. Glass shows a wide price band — weekly, monthly, yearly and credit packs across a large range. We print the whole range rather than the flattering end, because apps in this category commonly show different prices to different people and a single number would be a quote we are not in a position to give.
Where SkinLately is worse
It is not released, and Glass is something you can install today. Ours is an iPhone app in development with no App Store listing. We also publish no figure for how far our own reading moves when nothing has changed — that study is still collecting — and we journal nothing, name nothing, and recommend nothing, all of which are features somewhere else in this table.
Frequently asked
Does Glass recommend products?
Yes — it is recorded as yes in our table, checked against its own App Store listing. That is not a criticism, it is a different business model, and it is the main thing to decide about before choosing either app.
Is a product shelf a good thing or a bad thing?
Both, and which one depends on who is paying. It is genuinely useful for connecting a change in your routine to a change in a number. It also means the app has an interest in you buying something, which ours structurally cannot have.
Which is cheaper?
It depends entirely on how often you scan. Credits reward rare use; a flat subscription rewards daily use. Our yearly price is below the bottom of their yearly band as published on the date we checked, and we are not released yet.
Is this Glass comparison neutral?
No, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest version. It is written by a competitor. What we can offer instead of neutrality we do not have is checkable facts: every row above came from a source Glass controls, read on 2026-08-15 and linked at the bottom of this page, and every gap says "not verified" instead of being filled in. There are no affiliate links here and nobody paid to be included. The full table puts all 8 apps on the same rows.
Where these numbers come from
We cite, we do not endorse. None of the sources below has any relationship with SkinLately, and none of them has reviewed this page.
- Glass's own listing or site, read on 2026-08-15 — every fact in the table above comes from it. App Store listing
- American Academy of Dermatology, "How to maximize results from anti-aging skin care products" — most products need at least six weeks, sometimes three months, and one new product at a time. No tracker of any kind changes that arithmetic. aad.org (retrieved 15 August 2026)