“Can’t use anything without paying — This app is misleading it comes up as free but after you download it you can’t use any features without having to subscribe first”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 264 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.5 ★24,075 ratings
—Downloads
17+Age rating
233 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Facey is probably the best face editor for perfect selfies. Facial reshaping, real-time makeup, teeth whitening, skin smoothing, etc. All the functions you ever thought about will all be found in Facey.
*** Impressive FEATURES ***
【Real-Time Makeup】 Virtual makeover in real time. Mix and match hundreds of different makeup and beauty products. DIY your own look and save it for further use. Apply a complete look just in seconds.
【Facial Reshaping】 Reshape your nose, lips, chin, or forehead freely. Whiten your teeth for a magazine-worthy smile. Enhance your facial contours in every way.
【Flawless Skin】 Remove blemishes to fix the imperfections. Smooth wrinkles to rejuvenate your skin. Adjust or change your skin tone as you want.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 3.4.25 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 3.4.25, updated 2026-06-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (4.9% of 264 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (3 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I LOVE IT, but... — I absolutely love this app and I pay to use it, but there’s one thing that I can’t get over and for that it gets one star. Why on earth is the Facey logo on my pictures!?!? I’m paying for the app, I shouldn’t have to…”
“NO STARS — NOT WORTH YOUR TIME, EVERYTHING BUT GOOFY MAKEUP AND EMOJIS COST MONEY.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 3.4.25.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$3.49
Highest$49.99
Monthly$6.99
Yearly$44.99
Face$39.99
Sticker$5.99
Facey Pro$39.99
Show 5 more purchases
Facey Pro+$41.99
Lipstick$3.49
ALL Feature$49.99
Facey Makeup$24.99
Facey$34.99