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Face Harmony vs Umax: 2.3 stars vs 4.6

A creator-brand app with a poor rating against the category's biggest name with an old build — and before any of that, the question of which of the three current “Face Harmony” apps you are actually looking at. Written by a competitor, disclosed plainly.

Published 2026-08-12 · ~7 minute read · Listing facts read 2026-08-12

Read on 12 August 2026: Face Harmony by Clavicular holds 2.3 stars from 104 ratings; Umax — Become Hot holds 4.6 from 51,343. On the face of it that is not a close comparison. Two things complicate it: at least three unrelated apps are currently called some form of “Face Harmony”, so a lot of reviews are describing a different product than the one they link to; and Umax's high rating sits on a build last updated in June 2024. Both numbers are Apple's, not ours.

Disclosure: SoftMaxx (this site) builds a competing face-analysis tool. Every listing fact below was read on 12 August 2026 and is attributed to a specific App Store product ID, because several unrelated apps share these names. Opinions are marked as opinions.

How these numbers were read

Star ratings, rating counts, seller names and update dates come from Apple’s own app-lookup feed rather than from page text, because the two disagreed: one listing renders an 18+ badge where Apple’s data field says 17+. In-app purchase prices are not in that feed and were read from the listing pages the same day. Prices and ratings move — re-check before you spend anything.

1. Which Face Harmony are you looking at?

Before comparing anything, this has to be settled, because three unrelated products were live under the name on 12 August 2026:

ListingIDSellerRating
Face Harmony by Clavicular6781068829Nathan Kest2.3 (104 ratings)
Face Harmony: Face Rating6762082467Stuke Digital LLC4.6 (101 ratings)
Face Harmony: Looksmax AI6759776797Jace InglisNo ratings yet

Note how easily this misleads: two of them have almost the same number of ratings (104 and 101) and averages two full points apart. A review that says “Face Harmony is rated 4.6” and a review that says “Face Harmony is rated 2.3” can both be correct and describe different apps.

It gets one layer worse. ID 6762082467 is indexed by search engines under two different names — “Face Harmony: Face Rating” and “FaceMax: Face Rating AI” — because the listing was renamed and the old name is still cached. The numeric ID is the only stable identity. This article means the Clavicular app (6781068829), which is the one people mean when the name comes up in the looksmaxxing context.

2. Face Harmony by Clavicular

Clavicular is one of the more visible figures in looksmaxxing, with an audience built on documenting his own transformation; the app is that audience productised. Read 12 August 2026: seller Nathan Kest, version 1.1.2 dated 28 July 2026, iOS 15.6+, age rating 4+, 2.3 stars from 104 ratings.

It is actively maintained — a release two weeks before this was written — which is more than can be said for its comparison here. The rating is the problem, and it deserves an honest reading in both directions:

Pricing: Harmony Weekly $9.99, Monthly $9.99, Pro Monthly $19.99, Lifetime $49.99. The weekly is $519.48 a year; the $49.99 lifetime is genuinely unusual here and is the most buyer-friendly price in this article. Fuller write-up: our Face Harmony review.

3. Umax — Become Hot

ID 6471026798, Improvement Tech LLC. 4.6 stars from 51,343 ratings, age rating 17+, iOS 13.4+, current version 1.4.3 dated 28 June 2024.

The ratings base is the story and the caveat at once. 51,343 ratings is genuine, hard-won signal that almost nothing else in this category has. It was also largely accumulated around a build that is now roughly two years old. A high average and a stale release date are not contradictory — ratings persist, code does not — but a buyer comparing the two apps on stars alone is comparing 2024's Umax to last month's Face Harmony.

Pricing is weekly-first: $3.99, $4.99, $6.99 and $9.99 tiers listed concurrently, monthly to $24.99. See our Umax review.

4. Head to head

Face Harmony (Clavicular)UmaxSoftMaxx (us)
App Store ID67810688296471026798Web — no app
Rating2.3 (104)4.6 (51,343)Not an App Store product
Last updated28 Jul 202628 Jun 2024Continuously
Age rating4+17+18+ by our terms
Cheapest full year$49.99 lifetime$207.48 weekly tierFree first scan
Weekly tier annualised$519.48$207–$519$239.88 on Pro monthly
Method publishedNoNoYes — ~50 ratios from 478 landmarks

5. Verdict

On the checkable facts, Umax is the stronger of the two on reception and Face Harmony on maintenance and on price structure — a $49.99 one-off against $207–$519 a year is the single biggest practical difference here, and it is the one most comparisons skip past to talk about stars.

Our actual opinion, marked as opinion: this is a choice between two unverifiable scores, and the more useful question is not which app rates you higher but whether either can tell you what specifically is driving the number. Neither publishes that. If a score you cannot check is fine for your purposes, take the $49.99 lifetime and stop paying weekly for anything.

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6. Common questions

Which Face Harmony app is which?

Three unrelated listings were live on 12 August 2026. Face Harmony by Clavicular (ID 6781068829, seller Nathan Kest) holds 2.3 stars from 104 ratings and is the one tied to the looksmaxxing creator. Face Harmony: Face Rating (ID 6762082467, Stuke Digital LLC) holds 4.6 from 101 ratings and is a different product entirely — search engines also index that same ID under the name “FaceMax”. Face Harmony: Looksmax AI (ID 6759776797, Jace Inglis) has no ratings yet. Check the ID before trusting any review.

Is Face Harmony better than Umax?

On Apple's ratings, no — 2.3 from 104 ratings against 4.6 from 51,343, for the Clavicular app. But the comparison is less lopsided than those numbers suggest: 104 ratings is a small sample that a few dozen billing complaints can move a long way, while Umax's average was largely built in 2024 on a version it has not shipped past. Neither publishes what its score measures.

Is Face Harmony a scam?

We have no evidence of that and would not publish the claim if we did without proof — we compete with them, which is exactly why we are careful here. What is verifiable: the app is a real listed product from a named seller, it has a 2.3-star average from 104 ratings, and its weekly tier is $9.99, which is $519.48 a year. A poor rating is a reason to read the reviews yourself, not evidence of fraud.

How much does Face Harmony cost?

Apple's listing for the Clavicular app shows Harmony Weekly at $9.99, Monthly at $9.99, Pro Monthly at $19.99, and a Lifetime purchase at $49.99, read 12 August 2026. The weekly tier annualises to $519.48. The $49.99 lifetime option is unusual in this category, where almost everything is a recurring subscription.

Why does Umax have such a high rating?

It has 51,343 ratings, by far the largest base in the category, collected over the period when the app was widely shared on social platforms. That is real signal about how people felt about it. It is worth knowing that ratings are sticky and builds are not: the current version, 1.4.3, is dated 28 June 2024, so the average describes an app as it was rather than as it is being maintained today.

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