Design comparison
Layergrab vs Thefacerating
Designers, ecommerce sellers and social-media editors who need to pull one element off a flat image - a product, a poster's text, a sticker - as a clean transparent layer without opening desktop software. The Chrome extension (right-click any image on the web) is the fastest version of the job. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named company and a refund policy before paying, or for bulk API automation (no developer API is offered). · Anyone who wants a fast, private read on facial proportions before spending money on a haircut, a pair of glasses or a colour palette, and who reads the score as a styling starting point rather than a verdict on attractiveness. Also a useful sandbox: the Studio scores any reference photo against your own face. Not a fit for readers who want the rating to mean something objective, who need a working support mailbox before they pay, or who would rather not involve a face at all - the free scan keeps the photo on the device, but the colour analysis and every try-on require sending a compressed copy to the vendor and its model providers.
| Decision point | LayerGrab | TheFaceRating |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Designers, ecommerce sellers and social-media editors who need to pull one element off a flat image - a product, a poster's text, a sticker - as a clean transparent layer without opening desktop software. The Chrome extension (right-click any image on the web) is the fastest version of the job. Not a fit for anyone who needs a named company and a refund policy before paying, or for bulk API automation (no developer API is offered). | Anyone who wants a fast, private read on facial proportions before spending money on a haircut, a pair of glasses or a colour palette, and who reads the score as a styling starting point rather than a verdict on attractiveness. Also a useful sandbox: the Studio scores any reference photo against your own face. Not a fit for readers who want the rating to mean something objective, who need a working support mailbox before they pay, or who would rather not involve a face at all - the free scan keeps the photo on the device, but the colour analysis and every try-on require sending a compressed copy to the vendor and its model providers. |
| Category | Creative | Creative |
| Price | Freemium. Subscriptions: Basic $12/month for 1,200 credits (~120 layers), Premium $36/month for 3,600 credits (~450 layers), yearly billing saves 31%. One-time credit packs: $20 for 1,800 credits, $60 for 6,600 credits (pack credits expire - see their FAQ). Each image-to-layers split costs 10 credits on Basic, 8 on Premium. Verified 2026-11-02 on /pricing. | Free on-device scan with no account. Paid reports are one-time purchases, not subscriptions: Starter USD 7.99, Pro USD 16.99, VIP USD 24.99, listed identically on the homepage plan cards, the results-page paywall and Terms section 6. Studio credit packs are stated in the Terms only - 10 credits for USD 9.99 and 30 credits for USD 19.99, one credit per rating plus render, credits do not expire. Checkout is a live Stripe session (verified 2026-10-24: cs_live session for 'TheFaceRating Starter Report' at USD 7.99, merchant Vban LLC, Apple Pay and Google Pay offered); applicable tax shows at checkout. Free AI colour analyses are capped at two per day per hashed IP address. |
| AIToolsEssentials editorial score | 3.8/5 | 4.1/5 |
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Subscriptions: Basic $12/mo for 1,200 credits (~120 layers), Premium $36/mo for 3,600 credits (~450 layers), yearly saves 31%. One-time packs: $20/1,800 credits, $60/6,600 credits (pack credits expire per FAQ). 10 credits/layer on Basic, 8 on Premium. Checked 2026-11-02 on https://layergrab.com/pricing (worked cost examples on-page).
Official sources checked 2026-11-02Submitted via form 2026-10-31 05:55 UTC (contact BlaiseZiemehudfv@hotmail.com; site publishes contact@layergrab.com mailto, MX = Cloudflare Email Routing). Editorial entry written independently from live pages. Chrome Web Store extension verified live (cfkdlnfbbdbihhpbmciigdpbbpeinapa). Privacy names Google sign-in + Chrome Limited Use; uploads 'not sold, not used to train our own models'; the AI model partner is unnamed ('our processing partner'). No entity/jurisdiction/refund page/contact page. Registered 2026-09-27 (Cloudflare registrar); NS eric/reza - not the s07811005141 cluster pair (damon/violet); img2layers.org was unreachable for a text-similarity check, so no cluster claim is made.
Free on-device scan, then one-time reports: Starter USD 7.99, Pro USD 16.99, VIP USD 24.99, each marked 'One-time - no subscription'. Verified on three independent surfaces that agree - the homepage plan cards, the results-page paywall reached by running a real scan, and Terms section 6 - and confirmed purchasable by opening the checkout, which returned a live Stripe session (cs_live) titled 'TheFaceRating Starter Report' at USD 7.99 with merchant Vban LLC and Apple Pay / Google Pay offered. Studio credit packs are priced only in the Terms: 10 credits USD 9.99, 30 credits USD 19.99, one credit per rating plus render, credits do not expire. Free colour analyses are limited to two per day per hashed IP. No subscription price exists anywhere on the site.
Official sources checked 2026-10-24submitted via form by vendor; editorial entry written independently. Received through FormSubmit on 2026-10-24 12:49 UTC from vban@mail.grokbot.com, no prior submission under this name or domain in the repository, the hold ledger or any mail folder. Live pages fetched 2026-10-24: /, /tools, /tools/face-shape-detector, /tools/attractiveness-test, /studio, /privacy, /terms, /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt all 200; /pricing, /privacy-policy, /terms-of-service, /about, /contact, /refund-policy, /sample-report, /refunds and /llms.txt all 404 (the nav's Pricing link is the homepage anchor, and Terms section 7 is the only refund text). Product behaviour verified rather than read: the free scan was run in a logged headless Chrome against the vendor's own sample image (/examples/ai-face-rating-sample.jpg) after instrumenting window.fetch and XMLHttpRequest - the scan produced 478/478 landmarks, 78/100 harmony, a face shape and per-region bands with zero outbound requests, and the following step posted to /api/scan/create a body of sha256 + geometry + celebrity match and no photo field when the consent step was declined. A result page was created at /scan/<uuid> with no account. The paywall there lists the same three one-time prices as the homepage and Terms, and clicking Unlock Starter opened a live Stripe checkout for USD 7.99; the checkout was abandoned and no payment was made. Analytics read from the shipped markup: GA4 G-VGC2RBRR2T preloaded and configured inline with anonymize_ip, allow_google_signals false and ad personalization off, plus an unnamed Cloudflare Web Analytics beacon. Domain registered 2026-09-15 (Spaceship), Cloudflare NS johnathan/athena, and no MX record at all, so every published @thefacerating.com address - privacy@ in the policy and Terms - cannot receive mail; the submission address on a separate domain resolves to AWS inbound SES and is the only working route we could identify. An SMTP RCPT probe against that host returned 550 5.7.1 'IP address blacklisted by recipient' for both the candidate address and a random local part, so the probe says nothing about the mailbox - SES is refusing this machine's IP, not the address; the real send left through Gmail's SMTP. Entity 'Vban LLC' with a Sheridan, Wyoming address and Wyoming governing law is named in the Terms but did not surface in a public company search. No name collision of consequence: 'The Face Rating' is descriptive, the nearest properties are the competing products the site itself names (TheFaceReport, Umax, Qoves, PinkMirror, FaceIQ Labs), and the product is already indexed by third-party directories (ainave.com, aisotools.com). Category submitted as Creative - accurate.
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