ComfiSkin vs Bevol
Bevol (美丽修行) is a big Chinese ingredient and review app. Its business arm sells brands data and analysis built partly on its users, and a Chinese state body listed it in 2025 for data-handling violations. ComfiSkin sells nothing about you and keeps your notes on your phone.
Bevol app, version 8.36.0
- Shared personal information without naming recipients or getting separate consent
- No encryption, de-identification or similar security measures
The short answer
Bevol’s business arm says it combines “Bevol app user big data” to sell data, analysis, rankings and marketing to brands and factories (translated). In August 2025, a Chinese state body listed the app for sharing personal information without separate consent and for lacking encryption. Recent reviewers complain of constant ads and being redirected to shopping sites, and its paid plans can’t be refunded once they start.
What that means: the people using the app are part of what it sells. ComfiSkin has no business customers, no ads, and nothing about you to sell or share.
Side by side
| ComfiSkin | Bevol | |
|---|---|---|
| Sells data built on its users | Never | Data and analysis services for brands1 |
| Regulator findings | None | Listed in 2025 for consent and encryption failures2 |
| Ads and shopping redirects | None | Top complaint in recent reviews3 |
| What it costs | Nothing | Memberships ¥9.90 to ¥99, no refunds once started4 |
| In English | Yes | Chinese only |
| A huge product database | Large | Claims 3.5 million+ products |
Its users are part of the product
Bevol’s business site, BEBD, says it integrates whole-industry data and “美丽修行APP用户大数据”, Bevol app user big data, to provide data query and analysis services to factories, raw-material suppliers and brands. It also sells consumer-insight reports, rankings and integrated marketing (translated).1
When a review app sells rankings and marketing to the brands it reviews, and builds its data business on its own users, it’s fair to ask whose side it’s on. ComfiSkin has no brand customers. It works for you and no one else.
What that means for you: what you do in Bevol can feed the reports and rankings it sells to brands.
Listed by a regulator for how it handles data
On 13 August 2025, a Chinese state body listed Bevol version 8.36.0 for two violations: sharing personal information with other processors without telling users who the recipient was or getting separate consent, and not using encryption, de-identification or similar security measures (translated).2
ComfiSkin keeps your skin profile and notes on your phone and shares nothing, so there’s nothing to consent to and nothing to secure in transit.
What that means for you: a regulator found Bevol shared users’ data without proper consent and without basic protection.
Ads, redirects and no refunds
When we checked, 17 of Bevol’s 50 most recent App Store reviews gave one or two stars, and most of those complained about ads or being forced through to shopping sites like Taobao and JD. One asked: “Way too many ads. How much did JD pay you?” (translated).3 Its memberships and AI plans run from ¥9.90 to ¥99, renew automatically, and can’t be refunded once they start.4
ComfiSkin has no ads, no redirects, and nothing to pay for.
What that means for you: looking up an ingredient can land you in a shop you didn’t ask to visit.
What to do if you use Bevol
- Assume what you do in the app may inform what it sells to brands.
- Check auto-renewal before subscribing. Refunds aren’t offered once a plan starts.
- Check products against your skin in ComfiSkin, in English, with nothing shared.
Sources
- BEBD (Bevol big data), about us (translated). bebd.bevol.com
- People’s Daily app, report of the regulator listing, 13 August 2025 (translated). peopleapp.com
- Apple’s public feed of the 50 most recent Chinese App Store reviews of Bevol, read 11 October 2026 (translated). itunes.apple.com
- Bevol on the Chinese App Store: in-app purchases and subscription terms. apps.apple.com
More comparisons
Nothing about you, for sale
Check any product against your skin, in English, with no ads.
- Free, all of itNo plans, trials or paywalls. Every feature, for everyone.
- No sign-upNo account, no email, no password to lose.
- No ads, no trackingNothing about you is sold, shared or followed around the web.
- Your notes stay on your phoneWith a password-protected backup that only you control.
- Never asks for your faceIt reads the label, not you.
- Answers for your skinYour skin type, concerns, avoid list and routine, every time.