These are the two biggest digital wardrobes most people end up choosing between, and the feature lists make them look similar. The pricing does not. One charges you per image, the other by how many clothes you keep — and that single difference decides which is cheaper for you far more than anything on the feature list.
Acloset sells shelf space. The free tier holds 100 items and shows ads. Basic at $3.99 a month holds 300, Premium at $9.99 holds 1,000, Expert at $24.99 removes the ceiling. Their own help pages are explicit that archived garments still count against the limit, because storage costs them money. AI features draw on a second currency, beans, bought in packs from $1.99. Beans do not survive account closure, and their terms reserve the right to change what a bean buys.
Whering sells images. There is no subscription at all — their own wording is that access runs on a credit system. One credit is one try-on, one regeneration, or one garment digitised. Storage is free and uncapped, and there are no ads anywhere.
| Whering | Acloset | |
|---|---|---|
| Scale | Around 10 million users; raised $7M in July 2026 from eBay Ventures and Google's AI Futures Fund | Millions of users, shipping since December 2020, a Google Play Editor's Pick |
| App Store rating | 4.7 across roughly 11,000 ratings | 4.4 across roughly 4,700 ratings |
| How you pay | Credits, per image | Subscription by closet size, plus beans for AI |
| Free tier | Unlimited clothes, no ads | 100 clothes, with ads |
| Photoreal try-on | Yes — upload a full-body photo, one credit per try-on and per regeneration | Yes |
| Breadth | Wardrobe, outfits, moodboards, strong social layer | Wider: calendar, wear tracking, cost-per-wear, personal colour, fit diagnosis, email import, community, marketplace |
| Platforms | iOS, Android, web for your own wardrobe | iOS, Android, web; 18 languages |
No ceiling on garments and no ads is a genuinely different offer from 100 items with ads. The social layer is the other reason people stay: you can see friends' closets, save from their wishlists, and build an outfit out of someone else's wardrobe and send it to them. That last one — they call it Style Submissions — is the feature nobody else gives away.
The feature list is simply longer. Wear tracking and cost-per-wear turn a wardrobe into data about your own habits, which Whering does not really attempt. Personal colour and fit diagnosis answer questions a catalogue cannot. If you have a big wardrobe and want it measured rather than just photographed, this is the more serious tool.
Rough arithmetic rather than a verdict. If you own 400 garments and rarely generate images, Acloset Premium at $9.99 covers you and Whering costs you nothing at all for storage. If you own 80 garments and want to see twenty outfits rendered this month, Whering's credits are the ones adding up, and Acloset's beans are doing the same thing under a different name. The honest advice is to count what you actually do for a month before picking, because both models punish the behaviour the other one subsidises.
Neither app tells you how many AI generations a plan includes, because in both cases the answer is none — generation is metered separately, by credits or by beans. That is a legitimate way to run a business, and it is also why comparing their monthly prices tells you very little.
We are Fitwear, and we make a third app in this category. It renders a whole layered outfit in one image — nine pieces on one of our models on any plan, shoes and jewellery included, or three to nine on your own photo depending on the plan — and includes a set number of those each month rather than metering them. We are far smaller than either app above, and newer, with no App Store ratings yet. If that sounds like the wrong trade, the two apps on this page are both good, and we said so above before mentioning ourselves at all.