What RealSmile actually is
RealSmile scores 17 facial metrics — symmetry, jawline angle, facial width-to-height ratio, canthal tilt, and more — from 68-point landmark detection, and adds a feature most rivals in this category skip: a published validation number, a cross-validated correlation of roughly 0.8 against the academic SCUT-FBP5500 human-rated face dataset.
It also offers an optional "Human Score" — real people rating your uploaded photo — alongside its AI-generated "Face Score," a combination its own marketing describes as unique in this category.
What RealSmile costs
Free: a percentile Face Score plus your single strongest metric, up to 5 scans a day, no account required. Paid, on its own pricing page: a $14.99 "Looksmax Report" (regularly $19.99 — all 17 metrics, a 7-9 page PDF audit, 3 free days of Pro), a $19.99 Dating Audit (up to 10 photos ranked for dating-app slot order), and a $49 Professional LinkedIn Audit.
On top of those one-time tiers there's also a $3.99/week Pro subscription after a 3-day free trial, covering unlimited scans, progress tracking, and ad-free browsing.
Mogalytics has exactly one price, shown on every page and at checkout: a $12 one-time unlock with unlimited use afterward — no free tier at all, in either direction.
Source: RealSmile's own pricing page and privacy policy — claims and pricing shown there may change over time.
"They never touch a server" — except on mobile, where they do
RealSmile's own /face-score page states plainly: "Your photos are analyzed in your browser. They never touch a server." The same page then discloses the exception: on mobile, "your photo is processed in memory by our scan server" and deleted only after landmarks are measured — a server round-trip the headline claim doesn't mention.
Its privacy policy adds a second wrinkle: paid-audit images are "retained only for the lifetime of the audit record," and a separate opt-in checkbox lets a submitted community photo train future scoring models. None of this is hidden. But it's narrower than "never touch a server" suggests on its face.
Mogalytics never sends a camera frame to a server on any device, for any tier, free or paid, and there's no opt-in checkbox that changes that — there's simply nothing to opt into, because nothing ever leaves the browser.
A validated percentile, or a geometry reading
RealSmile's headline number is a percentile against a real, cited benchmark dataset — a genuinely more rigorous claim than most face-scoring competitors make, and worth crediting as such. Mogalytics instead reports six named geometry ratios (canthal tilt, jaw ratio, cheek ratio, midface, bridge, and symmetry) over a 30-frame trimmed-mean window, without claiming to be validated against any external human-rating dataset.
Both are legitimate but different framings of the same underlying question. Neither company's number is objective attractiveness, and Mogalytics makes no claim about how accurate RealSmile's benchmark correlation is in practice.
Where Mogalytics actually differs
- No camera frame is ever sent to a server, on desktop or mobile, for any tier — RealSmile's own policy discloses a server round-trip specifically on mobile.
- One public $12 price, unlimited afterward — no free tier, no $3.99/week subscription, and no per-report tier to pick between.
- No opt-in photo-training program of any kind, because no photo is ever transmitted to opt in with.
- Built and disclosed as 18+ only; RealSmile's general service is stated as 13+, with an 18+ line only for its community-rating feature.
What it doesn't do: replace a live duel, publish a benchmark validation figure, or guarantee a specific score. See the practice guide for what the six measurements actually are.
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- Face Rating AI: Beauty Score alternative — a reviewer calls its advertised free lifetime offer a "bait and switch," with ten overlapping purchase listings.
- Why most face-rating apps are free — the paywall-timing mechanics behind the cheaper end of this category.
- Face-rating & PSL apps compared — this category's pricing patterns, in one sourced table.
- Omoggle alternatives, explained — the three different things people mean by that search, and which one Mogalytics is.
- Ascension alternative — another "photos never leave your device" claim, this time contradicted by a named server transmission in its own privacy policy rather than a same-page disclosure.