Umax vs RankMyFace: Which Face Rating App Should You Use?

Umax popularized the AI face-rating category: upload a selfie, get scores, get "glow up" tips. RankMyFace is our take on the same idea — so this is an interested party's comparison, and we'll flag exactly where we're biased. Still, the differences are real and worth knowing before you spend money on either.

Where they're the same

Both give you an overall attractiveness score with sub-scores from a selfie, both estimate your potential, both offer improvement advice, and both run on a paywall (nobody's GPU time is free). If all you want is a one-time number for curiosity, honestly — either will scratch the itch.

The real differences

Platform Umax is a mobile app you install. **RankMyFace runs in the browser** — any phone or laptop, no App Store, nothing on your home screen. (Whether an app icon that says "face rating app" on your phone is a feature or a liability is your call.)

What the subscription is for This is the philosophical split. Umax's loop centers on ratings and tips. RankMyFace treats the rating as the *entry point* and the subscription as a **program**: a personalized plan (skin, hair, grooming, eyewear, jawline factors — prioritized by your actual weakest scores), a daily routine with streak tracking, and weekly rescans plotted on a progress graph. If you just want numbers, that's overkill. If you want the number to *move*, it's the point.

Honesty calibration We anchor scores to a population average of 5.0 and instruct the model to use the full range — our thinking on this is in the [PSL scale breakdown](/blog/psl-rating-scale-explained). Sub-scores are deliberately allowed to diverge, because "your skin is a 4.6 while your symmetry is a 7.8" is the actionable sentence.

Privacy We'll state ours plainly: photos are stored on our own servers, never sold, never used to train models, and there's a one-click "delete my face data" in settings that wipes everything. Check any competitor's policy for the equivalent before uploading your face — this category deserves that scrutiny.

Pricing Umax has typically run around $4–5/week. RankMyFace is **$6.99/week or $39.99/year** — the weekly is comparable; the yearly works out to $0.77/week for people actually running the multi-month program. First scan (score + potential + all sub-scores) is free either way here.

The honest recommendation

• Want a quick score on your phone with minimal commitment → Umax is fine.
• Want a calibrated baseline, a prioritized plan, and a graph that proves your glow-up is working → that's literally what RankMyFace is built around, and your first scan is free.

Either way: read our guide to using any rating healthily. The number is a tool, not a diagnosis of your worth.

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