MAKEAPP Reviews

I heard about MAKEAPP on Reddit and wanted to try it. First off, let's just talk about MAKEAPP and not what it actually does (or doesn't) do. You only get to use it about 3 times before it tries to charge you. I can't imagine who would actually want to pay for this. Now, I was only able to use MAKEAPP on a few pictures of myself, but the results were ridiculous. It doesn't recognize winged liner, so it leaves it. That's hilarious. It also doesn't recognize sparkles or lip gloss, so my glittery eyeshadow could still be seen and my lips were still shiny, just very pale. Okay... Last, I tried it on a picture of myself already not wearing makeup. It just made me super pale and removed my eyelashes. You could see the edges of the filter around my eyes where it had messed up. Stupid idea, stupid app, and stupid people believing this is accurate.

I figured I’d put MAKEAPP’s “remove makeup” feature to the test with one no-makeup selfie, one male model, two heavy makeup pictures, and one natural makeup picture. The last four were googled, of course. The no-makeup selfie was a crack head, as expected. The male model didn’t see much change - just general desaturation. The two heavy makeup pictures were poorly filtered. The fake eyelashes, eyeliner, eyeshadow, highlighter, and purple lipstick all survived the purge. The only thing it really did was desaturate the skin and thin out the (still fake) lashes. The natural makeup picture almost looked normal. She still had fake eyelashes, highlighter, and (slightly less) filled in eyebrows, though.
I played around with the makeup adding filters, too, but none of them looked good. MAKEAPP basically photoshopped a new set of eyes onto them and airbrushed the rest.
Oh, but on the note of MAKEAPP being sexist - no, it’s not inherently sexist. It is, however, sexist to say that women are liars/catfishing because they wear makeup and to point to MAKEAPP as a reliable way to “expose” them.

I downloaded MAKEAPP to see how accurate it would be in detecting the amount of make up I have on my face. So as a control, the first picture are used on MAKEAPP was one of me with no make up. I was surprised to find that MAKEAPP could not detected the lack of make up that was already in the picture and when I try to “remove“ the make up it made me look worse. It made my skin tone lighter because I’m assuming MAKEAPP thought I had foundation on and it seemingly added spots on my skin that weren’t there. I also noticed that it exaggerated my eyebags and just overall made my skin look older than it is. And when I used a picture of me with makeup, it didn’t completely remove the makeup. It maybe just me but take the results with a grain of salt.

So, I played around with MAKEAPP for a while, and honestly it isn’t worth the download, or definitely the paid version.
I just wanted to test out how well it worked, and basically what it does is worsen complexion, over pluck the eyebrows, and wash out color.
I tried some pictures with and without makeup, and it really just made every picture look worse. I know what these people look like without makeup, and I’m not going to kid myself that this is what they look like without it.
If you want to believe that you’re “pulling the mask off of people” feel free, but you’re kidding yourself, it’s just an ugly Snapchat filter.

I heard about this on Twitter and wanted to see how it actually worked, since people are only reviewing this based on their political and controversial standpoint of it, I thought I’d critique MAKEAPP itself. I have a few problems. 1) You only get 5 pictures you can alter, I wasn’t aware of that and didn’t save the ones I did while I was playing around in MAKEAPP , I have no idea how to get more or if you can. 2) It decreases the actual quality of the photo, it blurs the whole picture a little bit. 3) All the “remove” filter does is take off any apparent color, soften lines, and redden the skin. All of the pictures I have of myself are makeup-less, I choose not to wear make up and that’s fine, I don’t care who does and who doesn’t, but MAKEAPP made me look like I was on a meth bender (Just to make it clear, I don’t and never have done meth). 4) If you looked at the other filter that put make up on the picture, the quality is just terrible, it looks like someone else’s eyes are cropped onto yours.
In my personal opinion the only people MAKEAPP is useful to is shallow guys that only want to get laid but don’t very much.
All controversy aside, I genuinely think this is a bad app.

For the few people looking at this who don’t understand the flood of reviews or why MAKEAPP is suddenly so popular it’s due to outrage because of MAKEAPP’s “remove” filter, which is just that. A filter. And it’s not even a decent filter at that. Apparently the outraged people don’t understand that filters just use a certain preset algorithm and color set to decide how to cover an image (honestly there are better makeup apps that don’t use filters to cover your face, but that’s because they use facial recognition and then have you choose each piece separately. There are still downfalls with that setup though)
If it weren’t for the outrage I’d imagine MAKEAPP wouldn’t nearly be as popular.

Works well on earlier iPads and iPhones, really amazing to see how it transforms photos with its algorithm — fairly consistent results with celebs, friends, and family.

It doesn’t work on the newest iPad Pro 12.9, options to remove cosmetics and/or add show up as dark panels.

Not sure if MAKEAPP will be supported/updated going forward, developer’s privacy policy has expired. No new updates in nearly over a year as of Nov 2018. Hopefully someone else will continue work on this useful app in the near future.

I used pictures of myself both with somewhat heavy makeup and with very little makeup (I almost always have on B.B. cream and eyeliner at least) but there were things it wanted to fix about my face that were natural such as lightening eyebrows that had no product in them and removing the natural pink of my lips. It also didn’t seem to realize that purple is not my natural lip color and couldn’t remove that so well, as well as black lipstick. It does pretty well on the eyes and removing eyeliner/fake eyelashes though, I think!

What’s most important is that it removes heavy makeup. I know it’s purpose of ideally to find disguised girls being trafficked, and I think the lipstick removal would be less important than eye makeup removal since we focus more on people’s eyes anyway. This is a cool app and I hope it can be used to do some good!

I used it on my gf that wears light makeup and pretty much shows what she looks like. She has healthy skin and freckles so it showed healthy skin and freckles. The inaccurate part is when the person has fish tails which are eyeliner wings things around the eye. When I put remove makeup all the way it only washes out the tails not completely removes them. Sad thing is it makes you pay after 5 photos. Some people in here say use on myself and I did as I predicted it was the exact same. All in all it can be a bit inaccurate from time to time and charges after 5 photos but resembles close to what they look like and is incredibly fun.

First off, it’s a makeup app. It’s not being sexist or anything like the women claim it’s being. Any makeup app allows you to add makeup, and this one is different by showing what you’d look like without it. There’s literally nothing sexist about MAKEAPP. I think it’s neat. The only thing I don’t like, which is why I gave it 4 stars is that it only let me play around with 5 photos. MAKEAPP isn’t “shallow.” People need to stop being offended by makeup, geez.

I don't get what the big stink is over MAKEAPP, if it is indeed MAKEAPP people are losing their minds over. I don't consider myself the prettiest girl in the world by any means but MAKEAPP definitely gave me confidence in that I don't feel like I necessarily need to wear makeup or at least as much anymore. I say people
Who have a problem with MAKEAPP and its makeup removing function have a problem with themselves to address first.

Worst app ever for women who desire to obscure their true face.

To the developer: You're doing a great work, keep it up and don't ever, neither give up, nor give in by the political correctness by controversial feminists.

MAKEAPP is just for removing the color, in other words, the reality is worse than that. Look, shading and other features on the face are still there. Maybe women got upset because they believe MAKEAPP bestows more advantage to them. Lol, this is so stupid

MAKEAPP may exaggerate slightly the photo of the person without makeup, but it still does a great job at showing what a person looks like without makeup. Indeed, makeup can be used as a form of fraud and catfishing when it comes to dating.

I’m confused by the sentiment that MAKEAPP is “sexist” considering that the feminist movement asserts that a female’s value should not be determined by her looks. How can you claim that a woman’s beauty is not relevant to her worth yet assert that MAKEAPP is sexist as it makes women look less attractive without makeup?

Even if it shows women are less attractive without makeup, why does it matter if female value should not be based on beauty? This logic is completely irrational and it’s extremely laughable to see to 180 degree turn many are performing in regards to women and the power they have with beauty. It looks like there is female privilege after all...

It’s purely for entertainment purposes, and anyone who takes it more seriously than that is just looking for something to complain about for the sake of complaining. It doesn’t strip women of their identity, and any woman who feels that way is in turn admitting that the face they wear out in public every day is false advertising. So basically every woman I meet that wears makeup is lying to me right off the start by concealing their true identity?!?!😂

This is a great app for various reasons, but it tends to show its flaws when you use a picture where no makeup is used. The effect it had on my kids is hilarious but it does expose the flaws.

When used on people wearing makeup it was actually surprisingly accurate to how I know they look without it, so as long as that’s taken into context by the user this works really well.

You sir are doing god’s work to protect men from thots everywhere.

I run a Beauty Program called Selfless. I love MAKEAPP. We teach women are beautiful inside and out. We take pictures of them with makeup then we do months of training to boost their self esteem and confidence. Self love is key. We use the pictures of them with makeup to see the facade society has placed on them. At the graduation process we reveal them without makeup using MAKEAPP and use it to show how strong they are. They love who they are with or without makeup. May my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ bless MAKEAPP.

MAKEAPP is actually pretty great. I’m a woman and I honestly don’t see the issue? First of all, MAKEAPP was created to help identify victims of human trafficking. Maybe if you educated yourselves a bit you could put aside your fragile egos and ban together in sisterhood to help people in need rather than whine about an app. And honestly, I don’t wear make up and I see practically no difference in my photos. If you have nothing to hide you have no reason to be upset. Stop acting like children, please.

Not perfect, but MAKEAPP seems to basically work. Most pictures of guys come through basically identical, and girls seem to come through roughly accurately. Cutiepies still come out as cutiepies. Anyone who's seen enough women both with and without makeup can kind of do this in their head, but it's neat to see that someone wrote a program that could do it. I recommend MAKEAPP very highly, and think that five stars is two few - I'd give it six. Millions of people should download MAKEAPP and see the truth.

It works absolutely fine. Pretty funny to use on non-made up faces, like mine 😊 I didn’t know you could add makeup too, which I really liked since I have no makeup skill whatsoever. My only gripe with MAKEAPP is there are only 5 uses for photos and 3 for videos. Not even if you don’t save them! And you can’t go back to the photos/videos you used for those 5 times; each time you select a photo it counts as a use.

Other than that, good job! MAKEAPP is doing what hundreds of women’s magazines have done before for YEARS. By us women ourselves. And we keep buying it! No use getting upset about it now. Let’s just have fun.

Any one that is crying has no self esteem and no knowledge of photo editing programs. Even if you use a picture of someone with no make up it changes the tones, hues etc of the image to look different then they actually look. Its fun to play with pictures of your self and prank your friends. Trust me people know when you pile on tons of makeup, they think your fake for it. Be natural, love your self. It is you with the problem not the world.