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I read in the news that this app was all the rage, so decided to give it a shot, and boy did I feel like a fool. This app is really nothing special and definitely not worth ANY money. Someone managed to very successfully “hack the system” to get this app so much attention when it really has zero to offer. First of all, before you can try or even see anything in the app, you have to sign up for a $20 monthly subscription (comes with a 3 day trial-period). You can cancel the subscription through your AppStore settings before the trial is over, but I imagine many will forget and get charged involuntarily. Apple’s new way of charging iPhone users is going to become very popular among the app developers, sadly! When I finally got access to the app functions, I can only say it was deeply disappointing. Filters and functions are not anything special at all, some of them are even really bad, you can get the same or better for free or a flat fee elsewhere. Secondly, the so-called face-comparison that’s supposed to tell you which celebrity you look like is complete and utter garbage, most people will get the same familiar results. Who else here looks like Angela Merkel raise a hand? The app just throws you random celebs and you’re supposed to think that’s funny? Please! Do yourself a favor and just stay clear of this app.

Yeah this app is super sketch. The whole subscription thing didn’t really bother me mainly because I was only going to check out the ethnicity estimate and delete it after messing around for a bit, but the more I read the reviews while it was downloading, the more creeped out I got. Not going to go into detail here, just read a few of the other one star reviews, but I can tell you that I did check it out in settings and it’s really weird. Speaking of reviews, Jesus Christ are there a lot of fake ones. It’s pretty easy to tell that the five star reviews are fake, if you actually read them (which I know most people don’t because they’re looking for bad ones), and they all have really generic titles. One last thing. The devs did respond to one of the reviews talking about the sketchy stuff, (not the review that started it though hmmm) and the response also came off a bit weird to me. I don’t know if it just seemed not really genuine or a bit automated, but is didn’t really prove anything. Honestly, go ahead and download this app if you want, just read some more reviews because they go way more into detail then me.

It was a funny waste of time. You have to pay for a subscription that’s TWENTY DOLLARS MONTHLY to do anything, BUT there is a 3 day free trial. I immediately cancelled after laughing at the app for like 10 minutes. The celebrity look alike feature doesn’t work at all. I got Willow Smith and Vanessa Hudgens as look alikes, and if those two looking nothing alike wasn’t enough for you, I’m a ginger. The classical portrait feature just poorly pastes your face on an old portrait painting, doesn’t even color match or anything, just kinda slaps it on there. The ancestry thing just spit out random white nationalities when I used it with my face, so I used a picture of one of my black friends and it said she was a male of Emirati, Jewish, American, and North Korean dissent. Tried it on another one of my black friends and it said she was Egyptian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Caribbean. Only one African nation came up, so I’m guessing this “AI” isn’t too familiar with people of color. All the editing features are mediocre and you could get way better tools with a free app like PicsArt.