One is the biggest wardrobe app there is and costs nothing to use. The other asks $12.99 a month and is the most polished thing in the category. That sounds like an easy decision until you look at what the free one meters and what the paid one throws in.
| Whering | Indyx | |
|---|---|---|
| Scale | Around 10 million users; $7M raised July 2026 from eBay Ventures and Google's AI Futures Fund | Smaller and deliberately so; recommended by Wirecutter |
| Rating | 4.7 across roughly 11,000 ratings | 4.8 across roughly 1,500 ratings |
| Price | No subscription — credits bought as needed | $12.99 a month or $74.99 a year |
| AI images | One credit per try-on, and per regeneration | Unlimited outfit selfies, no second currency |
| Storage | Unlimited, free | Included |
| Human stylists | No | Yes — a mini lookbook of three outfits from about $60, ten outfits from about $150 |
| Social | Friends' closets, shared wishlists, building outfits from someone else's wardrobe — free | Open closets and collections; receiving outfit suggestions from others sits in the paid tier |
| Ads | None | None |
Whering costs nothing until you want images, then costs per image. Indyx costs $12.99 whether you use it or not, and then stops charging no matter how much you generate. Everything else is detail.
So the question is how often you actually want to see something rendered. Someone who opens the app twice a month to check an outfit will spend less with Whering, possibly nothing. Someone who plans a week of outfits every Sunday will hit Whering's credit purchases repeatedly and find the Indyx subscription cheaper by the second month.
Polish, mostly, and it is not a small thing in an app you open daily — everything lands where your thumb expects it. Then there is the part no software replaces: you can book an actual person to style your actual wardrobe, starting at around $60 for three outfits. Reviewers keep making the same point, that it makes having a stylist affordable rather than aspirational. If that is what you want, no amount of free changes the answer.
Ten million people, and some of them are your friends. Style Submissions — building an outfit out of somebody else's wardrobe and sending it to them — is free there and paid at Indyx, which tells you what each company thinks it is selling. Whering treats the social loop as how it grows; Indyx treats it as a feature you buy.
Both ask for a full-body photo to render clothes onto you. That is worth a moment's thought regardless of which you choose: read what each says about how long the image is kept and whether it is used for anything beyond your own results. The answers are in their privacy policies rather than their marketing, and they are short enough to read.
We are Fitwear, a third app in this category, and we sit between the two models on this page: a subscription like Indyx, but with a stated number of renders included rather than unlimited, and a whole layered outfit — 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 — coming back as one image rather than one garment at a time. We are much newer than both, with no ratings yet. Both apps above are safe choices; that is why they are the subject and we are the footnote.