Skinli compared with 10 other ways to treat acne

Your acne score and what your photo shows are free, with no sign-up. The full morning and night plan is one payment. The 4 week plan is $19.99 once, for 4 weeks. The 12 week plan is $39.99 once, for 12 weeks. Nothing renews and nothing else is charged. You pay on Stripe's page by card or Apple Pay, and you do not need an account. You sign in only to save the plan or keep daily progress photos. You buy the drugstore products yourself, in any brand, so they cost extra.

No. Skinli has no doctor, nurse or dermatologist. An AI reads your photo and your answers and writes the plan. If you save a photo, you and the Skinli site owner can see it. The prescription services on this page work differently: each one says a licensed clinician reviews your visit before prescribing. If your acne is deep, painful or leaving scars, see a doctor.

Choose a prescription service or a doctor when benzoyl peroxide and adapalene have not helped after 12 weeks of daily use, or when you need a medicine such as tretinoin, clindamycin or spironolactone. A licensed provider can prescribe those, and Skinli cannot. Deep, painful or scarring acne needs a dermatologist in person, because it can need isotretinoin, and Nurx, for example, says it does not prescribe it online.

We read each company's own pages, its App Store listing and Apple's own catalog data on the date shown on each page, and copied prices as listed. Every page lists its sources and marks which ones are the company's own site. When a fact comes only from the company, we write that the company says it. We make Skinli, so read these pages knowing that, and check each company's site before you pay.

Skinli has not had an accuracy test. The research so far is on research models, not on the apps on these pages. A 2025 review in the British Journal of Dermatology pooled 19 studies of AI models that grade how severe a skin disease is. For acne, their sensitivity was 89.7 percent with one grading scale and 69.8 percent with another. Use any app to follow a trend, and a doctor for a diagnosis.

Not for Skinli. It runs in the web browser on any phone or computer, and you can see your score and buy a plan without signing up. Skinli has no App Store listing yet, so it has no store rating. Some tools on these pages are phone apps you install, some run on a website, and each comparison page says which. Prescription services also need an account for the medical visit.

Do not stack Skinli's night gels on top of a prescription retinoid such as tretinoin. Tretinoin and adapalene belong to the same family, and using both at once dries and irritates most skin. If you start a prescription, follow your provider's routine and ask them before you add anything. You can still use Skinli's daily photo tracker to see how the treatment is going.