ComfiSkin vs INCI Beauty
INCI Beauty scores cosmetics out of 20 and makes most of its money from showing you ads. ComfiSkin has no ads, reads labels from a photo for free, and tells you whether a product suits your skin.
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The short answer
INCI Beauty runs on ads. By its own account they’re its biggest earner, and it shares your device ID for advertising. Its score out of 20 can flatly contradict other apps on the very same product. And the feature that saves you typing, reading a label from a photo, is locked behind Premium.
What that means: in the free version, your attention is what’s being sold, and the score is one app’s opinion dressed up as a measurement. ComfiSkin has no ads, gives you an answer about your skin, and charges nothing.
Side by side
| ComfiSkin | INCI Beauty | |
|---|---|---|
| What you see after scanning | What each ingredient does, in plain words, and whether the product suits your skin | A score out of 20, the same for everybody |
| Ads | None | Yes, its biggest source of income1 |
| Reading a label from a photo | Free | Paywalled3 |
| Shares your device ID for advertising | No | Yes, says its Google Play listing4 |
| What it costs | Nothing | $14.99 a year to remove the ads3 |
| Checks gift sets and advent calendars | No | Yes |
The score depends on which app you ask
A score out of 20 looks precise. It isn’t. It’s one app’s opinion turned into a number, and other apps disagree. Marie Claire found CeraVe’s Foaming Cleanser rated green on INCI Beauty and “poor” on Yuka.6 A French tech site found a deodorant scored 11.7 out of 20 on INCI Beauty and 79 out of 100 on Yuka.5
That matters because people act on these numbers. They bin products, swap brands and second-guess routines based on whichever app they happened to open. If the apps can’t agree, the number was never telling you whether the product is safe or right for you. It was just making you feel like it did.
ComfiSkin skips the single number. It explains what each ingredient does and tells you whether the product suits your skin type, your concerns and the ingredients you avoid.
What that means for you: if two apps can call the same cleanser both green and “poor”, neither number tells you anything you can trust about your skin.
Ads come first, and you’re what’s being sold
INCI Beauty publishes a page about its finances. It lists its income “in order of importance”: advertising first, then Premium, then a Pro offer. The app is financed by Touslesprix.com, a French price comparison company.1 On Google Play, it says it shares device IDs with other companies for advertising or marketing.4
An app paid by ads wants you scanning often and staying long, because every screen is another chance to show an advert. One reviewer called the full-page ads the app’s one big drawback, and said they once mistook an ad for a Facebook sign-in screen.2 That’s not a small annoyance. It’s an ad convincing enough to be mistaken for a login page, in an app you trust with skincare decisions.
ComfiSkin earns nothing from your attention. No ads means no reason to keep you scrolling, no reason to share anything about your phone, and nothing standing between you and your answer.
What that means for you: the more you use INCI Beauty’s free app, the more ads you sit through and the more useful your phone becomes to advertisers.
Pay to make it usable
INCI Beauty Premium costs $14.99 a year. It removes the ads and unlocks reading ingredients from a photo for products without a barcode, ingredient filters, offline scanning and unlimited routines.3 In other words, the free version is the one with ads and fewer tools, and the comfortable version is the one you pay for.
In ComfiSkin, all of that is just part of the app, along with routine clash checks and reminders for when products are past their best. There is no upgrade, because there’s nothing held back.
What that means for you: to use INCI Beauty comfortably, you end up paying $14.99 a year. ComfiSkin gives you more, free.
What to do if you use INCI Beauty
- Don’t treat the score as a safety rating. Two apps can disagree completely about the same product.
- Look at which ingredients pulled the score down, and how far down the label they sit. Near the end usually means a very small amount.
- Check it against your own skin. Scan it in ComfiSkin to see whether it suits you, with no ads in the way.
Sources
- INCI Beauty, “How does INCI Beauty finance its activities?”. incibeauty.com
- Google Play review of INCI Beauty, 19 May 2021. play.google.com
- INCI Beauty on the US App Store: description, in-app purchases and App Privacy label. apps.apple.com
- INCI Beauty on Google Play, data safety section. play.google.com
- Tom’s Guide France, on why cosmetics apps give different results, 5 November 2018. tomsguide.fr
- Marie Claire UK, “The rise of ingredient anxiety”, 5 August 2026. marieclaire.co.uk
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No ads, no subscription, just what’s in it and whether it suits you.
- 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.