RealSmile vs Umax AI: Two Looksmaxxing Apps vs a Free Browser Face Scan

What the two Umax apps say they do

"Umax - Become Hot" gives three steps in its listing: download the app, take a selfie, get your analysis. It calls itself "the looksmax AI tool to help YOU looksmax" and notes that analysis results require a subscription. Its App Store version notes fill in the rest: an option to "generate images to see what you would look like as a 10/10" (sold in the app as "You as a 10/10" for $6.99), daily routines and progress pictures, personal coaches, color analysis and group scanning. Google Play shows more than 10 million downloads and 4.5 stars from about 400,000 reviews; the latest App Store version is dated June 28, 2024.

"Umax AI: Face Scan & PSL Rating" is a broader kit. Its App Store listing names seven areas: a face scan with a PSL score; jawline and mewing exercises; a hair and beard studio; color analysis; voice analysis; "Gymmaxing & Body Analysis", with a physique rating and scores for chest, shoulders, arms and vascularity; and "viral modes", among them an "Animal Face" mode that asks "Are you your typical Fox, Deer, or Puppy?", a celebrity lookalike and an ancestry estimate. It is the smaller of the two, with about 1,900 App Store ratings and more than 10,000 Google Play downloads, and its listing says the app contains ads.

RealSmile is built the other way round: nothing to install, a free result that needs no account, and a method you can read before you upload anything. It also does less than either Umax app: it measures your face only, with no body, voice or color analysis. The tools answer different questions.

Fox/Deer/Puppy animal types vs a score per metric

The animal types belong to Umax AI: Face Scan & PSL Rating, which lists them among its "viral modes" rather than as its main score; its Google Play listing names them as Fox, Eagle or Hunter instead. Umax - Become Hot's listing does not mention animal types. A Fox, Deer or Puppy label is easy to remember and easy to share. Like any single label, it cannot tell you which feature put you there, and the listings do not say how a type is assigned.

RealSmile's free result is also one headline number, your Face Score (a percentile), plus the metric where you measure strongest. The optional report goes further. Every metric your photo supports (typically 15 of 17) gets a 0-100 score for how close its reading is to that metric's ideal range, the measured value itself (a canthal tilt in degrees, an FWHR ratio), a band from Below average to Elite, and a 30-day plan for your three weakest. Those per-metric scores measure closeness to an ideal range, not rank against other people; the Face Score is the percentile. The free scan returns your Face Score and strongest metric, and the face report page shows what the full report covers.

How each score is worked out

Neither Umax app explains its scoring. Umax AI: Face Scan & PSL Rating calls its result "an objective score based on symmetry, masculinity, and the PSL Scale" and, on Google Play, says it is "Powered by state-of-the-art AI vision models". Toon Tech's privacy policy says your photo is sent to Google (Gemini) and OpenAI for the analysis, processed in memory and deleted once the result is generated, and that those partners may not use it to train their models. Umax - Become Hot's listings and website do not describe how its rating is made; its privacy policy says face scans are kept for a maximum of one year.

The measurements guide explains each of the 17 measurements RealSmile's engine takes and which ones you can change, the citations page writes up 12 peer-reviewed studies, and the validation page shows how the Face Score was checked against human ratings. The Face Score comes from a facial-appearance model fitted to human ratings, and it moves between photos: between two photos of one person taken the same day, a median of 11 points. Three studies matter most here. Little, Jones and DeBruine 2011 (PMC3130383) reviews the facial traits that affect attractiveness judgements, such as symmetry, averageness and sexually dimorphic shape. Carré and McCormick 2008 (PMC2570531) linked a wider facial width-to-height ratio to aggressive behaviour in men, in a lab task and among hockey players. Willis and Todorov 2006 (PMID 16866745) found that judgments made after a 100-millisecond look at a face closely matched judgments made with no time limit.

When Umax AI is the better pick

A fair comparison should say where the other tool is the better pick. A Umax app fits if you want one app on your phone for a whole glow-up rather than a face score: Umax AI: Face Scan & PSL Rating adds hair and beard try-on, color and voice analysis, jawline exercises and a physique rating, and Umax - Become Hot adds daily routines, progress pictures, coaches and an image of "what you would look like as a 10/10". It fits if you want an animal type or a PSL score to share (Umax AI: Face Scan & PSL Rating), or a group scan (Umax - Become Hot). RealSmile does none of the body, voice or color work, and we are not pretending it does.

When RealSmile is the better pick

RealSmile is the better pick when you want a face score without installing an app, making an account or starting a subscription: the free scan opens in the browser at /looksmaxxing-test and returns your Face Score and strongest metric in under 10 seconds. It is the better pick when you want to see how the score works: the measurements guide, the citations page and the validation page are public. And it is the better pick when the question is which dating photo to lead with: the $19.99 Premium Dating Photo Audit takes up to 10 photos in one go, scores each one, picks your lead photo, lists the ones to delete and adds a 30-day plan in a 5-page PDF. Neither Umax listing describes a multi-photo audit.

Pick by what you actually want from the tool

The Umax vs RealSmile question splits on whether you want an all-in-one glow-up app or a face score you can check. Four common situations:

• Doing a multi-month glow-up and want face, hair, body and voice in one app: Umax AI: Face Scan & PSL Rating lists all four; Umax - Become Hot adds daily routines and progress pictures. RealSmile is face-only.
• Wants an animal type to share: Umax AI: Face Scan & PSL Rating. Its "Animal Face" mode (Fox, Deer or Puppy) is listed as a viral mode; RealSmile has no equivalent.
• Picking a lead photo for Hinge, Tinder, or Bumble: RealSmile. The $19.99 audit takes up to 10 photos, ranks them and marks the deletes; neither Umax listing describes a multi-photo audit.
• Wants to check the method behind the score: RealSmile. The measurements guide and the citations page publish the method and the studies; neither Umax app explains how its score is made.

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