What it actually is
Mog Academy (App Store id6760635132, bundle com.pslacademy.pslacademy) is developed by Amethyst AI LLC (App Store artist name: Rithik Reddy). Its subtitle reads "Expert Human Ratings & Mog 1v1," and its own description promises facial scoring from "trained analysts" who manually review photos, competitive "1v1 mog battles," and personalized transformation guidance covering diet, exercise, and grooming.
Apple's own iTunes Lookup API puts it at 4.68 out of 5 stars from 94 ratings, released April 30, 2026 with a current version dated June 30, 2026 — confirmed by direct fetch rather than a secondhand estimate.
The app's own domain and privacy policy both use the name "PSL Academy" rather than the App Store's "Mog Academy," a branding inconsistency worth noting but not itself a claim about data handling.
What it costs: a free download, then six overlapping purchases
The app itself is free to download. Its own live App Store listing then shows six separate in-app purchases: "psl_academy_weekly" at $9.99, "psl_academy_monthly" at $11.99, "psl_academy_annual_discounted" at $19.99, "psl_academy_annual_trial" also at $19.99, "psl_academy_annual" at $29.99, and a "Lifetime" option at $49.99 — two differently-named annual purchases sharing one price, and a third annual purchase priced differently again.
Source: Mog Academy on the App Store and the Apple iTunes Lookup API, both fetched directly — claims and pricing shown there may change over time.
The gap between "expert human ratings" and what its privacy policy discloses
The app's own marketing describes "expert human ratings" from "trained analysts" who "manually review photos to identify landmarks and proportions," positioned explicitly against "inaccurate AI filters." A direct fetch of the developer's own published privacy policy (pslacademy.io/privacy) never mentions a human reviewer anywhere.
Instead, it discloses that uploaded facial images and derived landmarks are shared with "Google Gemini API (provided by Google LLC) for automated feature detection and image transformation" and with cloud hosting providers "such as Amazon Web Services," and that data is "retained only while the account is active," removed "within 30 days" of account deletion.
Reported here as an observed gap between the marketing claim and the disclosed processing pathway — not a claim that no photo is ever reviewed by a person, only that the developer's own policy doesn't say so.
A second mismatch: Apple's own privacy label versus that same policy
Two separate direct fetches of the live App Store listing both returned the identical App Privacy heading: "Data Not Collected" — "the developer does not collect any data from this app." That is difficult to square with the developer's own privacy policy at pslacademy.io/privacy, which explicitly describes collecting uploaded facial images and landmarks and sharing them with Google's Gemini API and AWS hosting, as quoted above.
Both statements are quoted directly from their respective primary sources, one from Apple's own App Store page and one from the developer's own separately-hosted policy page. This page reports the contradiction plainly rather than resolving it in either direction.
Where Mogalytics actually differs
- A continuous live-camera reading settled over 30 frames, not a single uploaded photo sent anywhere.
- No frame or photo ever leaves the browser — nothing to reconcile a privacy policy against a privacy label, because nothing is collected in the first place.
- A single $12 one-time unlock — not a free download gated by six overlapping in-app purchases.
What it doesn't do: replace a live duel, diagnose anything, or guarantee a specific score. See the practice guide for what the six measurements actually are.
Related reads
- Blackpill AI: Mogged & PSL alternative — another free download gated by a recurring subscription, this one with a genuine age-rating discrepancy of its own.
- Mog 1v1 alternative — a free download whose own listing lists one purchase name three times at three different prices.
- FacePSL alternative — a free download with three overlapping-priced in-app purchases and no explanation of what separates them.
- PSL Scale & Looksmax: LooksUP alternative — a different app with its own internal contradiction between a privacy policy and a marketing claim.
- Face-rating & PSL apps compared — this app alongside dozens of others, pricing and one documented note each, in one sourced table.
- Omoggle alternatives, explained — the three different things people mean by that search, and which one Mogalytics is.