# FaceApp: Perfect Face Editor

> Natural Beauty, Selfie Retouch

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/io.faceapp](https://chrome-stats.com/d/io.faceapp)

## Overview

- **ID:** `io.faceapp`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** FaceApp Technology Ltd
- **Category:** PHOTOGRAPHY
- **Downloads:** 585,014,520
- **Rating:** 4.32 / 5 (5,356,827 ratings)
- **Version:** 12.9.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-12
- **First published:** 2017-02-14
- **Publisher country:** CY
- **Size:** 83 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-14
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.faceapp)
- **Website:** [https://www.faceapp.com](https://www.faceapp.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.faceapp.com/privacy](http://www.faceapp.com/privacy)

## Description

FaceApp is a leading mobile app for photorealistic photo editing with over a billion downloads. It offers an extensive range of features to effortlessly enhance your selfies and portraits. With over 60 photorealistic filters, users can transform their look instantly by applying makeup, changing hairstyles and hair colors, adding facial hair, and removing blemishes.

The app also includes fun and creative tools such as gender swap, aging effects, and weight alteration filters. Its intuitive interface allows seamless edits with one tap, eliminating the need for complex photo editing software. FaceApp empowers users to create Instagram-worthy images quickly and share them directly to social media platforms. Always up-to-date with beauty trends, FaceApp is the ultimate tool for natural beauty enhancement and selfie retouching.

## Rankings

- #268 — Overall
- #3 — Photography (Gross)
- #12 — Photography (Free)
- #166 — Top app in Japan
- #17 — photo

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VIDEO`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VISUAL_USER_SELECTED`
- `android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `io.faceapp.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`

## Review summary

Users praise FaceApp for powerful AI-driven edits and fast, versatile features, especially for hair/beard styling. The main drawbacks are monetization and accessibility: a paywall that limits many features, concerns over pricing changes and ongoing costs, and a desire for more free options or ad-supported credits. Overall, the app is capable and quick, but the monetization model drives mixed impressions.

### Pros

- Impressive AI-based editing (GAN-like) delivering high-quality face modifications.
- Fast edits with quick results.
- Feature-rich editing with a wide range of options.
- Hair styling and beard editing features add versatility.

### Cons

- Free version is heavily limited; many features require Pro.
- Pricing changes and ongoing costs reduce perceived value.
- Desire for more unlocked options in the free version or ad-based credits.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/io.faceapp)