The best AI stylist apps compared, and a stylist that learns how you dress

The short answer

Choose by how much of the work you want to hand over. If you want your clothes in one place, with outfit ideas, your colours or a try-on, a wardrobe app will do, and several of these do it well, some for free. If you want the joining up done too, such as what’s at the cleaner’s, who saw which look last time and what needs replacing before Thursday, you need a stylist that knows your week and learns from every choice you make. That’s what we’re building Retenna’s stylist to be, as one of a team of experts in one app.

Why most AI stylist apps fall short, and what a good one knows

Getting dressed well takes more decisions than it looks, and most outfit apps help with only one part: they catalogue your clothes, suggest looks or sell you more.

That leaves the hard part with you. A suggestion that ignores Thursday’s rain, or the client who saw your grey suit last month, isn’t much of a suggestion. A good AI stylist knows:

• Your wardrobe: what fits now, and what you actually reach for, without hours spent adding it.
• What suits you: your colours and your shape, and how a look sits on you before you wear or buy it.
• Your week: the pitch on Tuesday, the dinner on Thursday, the wedding next month.
• The weather where you’ll be, down to the walk to dinner.
• Who has seen what, so the same people don’t see the same look twice.
• Your taste, as it changes, so it asks you less each week.

Then it turns all that into less to think about, with a reason for every choice. “Leather, not suede, in the rain” beats a picture of a shoe.

The top AI stylist apps at a glance

We looked at the stylist and wardrobe apps people talk about most, chosen by their reach and how long they’ve been around.

App by app

Alta

Cost

Free

Where

iPhone, Android, web

App Store

4.9 from 17K ratings

Alta builds daily outfits from your own clothes, the weather and your preferences. You add clothes from photos, forwarded email receipts or its own database. If you connect your Google Calendar, its privacy policy says it reads your upcoming events, read-only, to spot the ones that need an outfit and suggest a dress code (checked 26 October 2026). It packs for trips with several stops, lets you try outfits on an avatar of you, tracks what you wear and suggests what to buy to fill gaps.

Worth knowingIts terms give Alta wider rights over what you upload, including using it to train AI, than its privacy policy describes, so read both. Glossy reports it earns from affiliate links and brand collaborations.

Acloset

Cost

Free up to 100 items; $3.99 to $24.99 a month

Where

iPhone, Android

App Store

4.5 from 5.4K ratings

Acloset is one of the most complete digital closets: add several garments from one photo, or import purchase histories, Gmail receipts and product pages. It suggests outfits for the weather and your plans, for today or any day in the coming week, tracks what you wear, plans packing, analyses your colouring and body type, and lets you try clothes on an avatar made from your photo. A side panel lets you check your closet while you shop.

Worth knowingIts outfit calendar is its own; connecting your real calendar isn’t mentioned. Its second-hand marketplace closed in August 2024.

Dressly

Cost

Premium from $7.99 a week

Where

iPhone, Android

App Store

4.4 from 32K ratings

Dressly centres on you more than your wardrobe: a selfie colour and body analysis, scores for outfits you photograph, a chat stylist, capsule wardrobes and photo-based try-on, personalised from the style, size and budget details you give it. Weather, your calendar and packing aren’t mentioned.

Worth knowingIts homepage says it never sells or shares personal data, but its privacy policy allows sharing with service providers and marketing partners. Its own help pages say try-on is inspiration, not an exact fit.

Whering

Cost

Free; try-on credits from $2.99

Where

iPhone, Android

App Store

4.7 from 12K ratings

Whering says more than 10 million people use it. It’s a free wardrobe with no item limit and a database of over 100 million items to add clothes quickly, plus an event planner with the weather for each date, packing lists, and reports on what you wear and what it costs per wear.

Worth knowingWhering says its planner suggestions use its own styling rules, not AI; a separate chat handles AI styling. You can opt out of your contributions training its models. Thinking of switching? See our Whering alternatives guide.

Style DNA

Cost

Subscription from $7.99 a month

Where

iPhone, Android

App Store

4.3 from 7.5K ratings

Style DNA starts from you: seasonal colour analysis and body-type guidance from a selfie, five outfit ideas a day, a chat stylist, and a camera check on clothes in shops to see whether they suit you and go with what you own. Weather, your calendar and packing aren’t mentioned.

Worth knowingIts privacy policy says original analysis selfies aren’t stored, and sharing your profile with a brand needs a separate opt-in for each brand.

Stylebook

Cost

$4.99, once

Where

iPhone and iPad

App Store

4.7 from 8.9K ratings

Stylebook has been around since 2009. It’s a planner more than a stylist: unlimited items, AI background removal, an outfit shuffle, an outfit calendar, packing lists, wear counts, and a label for whether each piece is clean, in the laundry or at the cleaners.

Worth knowingYour closet stays on your device and in your iCloud, which is about as private as it gets. There’s no Android or desktop version, and it discloses that it earns from some shopping links.

Combyne

Cost

Free; optional Premium

Where

iPhone, Android

App Store

4.8 from 88K ratings

Combyne is a social outfit app: you build outfit collages from a large catalogue and your own items, share them and join challenges. It has added AI background removal and try-on, but personal outfit planning, the weather and your calendar aren’t mentioned.

Worth knowingIt includes sponsored content and shoppable partner items.

Where Retenna’s stylist goes further

Some of these apps are very good at what they do: Acloset at a detailed closet, Style DNA and Dressly at your colours and shape, Alta at daily outfits from your calendar, Whering at a free wardrobe. Retenna’s stylist is built to cover those basics too. It holds your whole wardrobe, with no limit on how many items you add, adds your clothes from photos, receipts and order emails, product links and more, brings your wardrobe over from other apps, such as Whering, finds your colours, guides you on what suits your shape and lets you try looks on.

Then it goes further: it learns your taste, dresses your whole week, gets things ready in time and works with your other experts. And your colours and shape aren’t a one-off report. They shape every look it plans and every gap it shops for.

Yes

The maker documents it.

Partly

A lighter version you run yourself: an outfit calendar you fill in rather than your real one, a record of what you wear that isn’t said to shape its ideas, a closet check you do as you shop, or an “at the cleaners” label you set.

–Dash

Not mentioned in the maker’s own materials. That doesn’t prove it can’t.

The top rows are where the best apps meet, and Retenna is built to match them. The lower rows are the difference. None of the seven mentions remembering who has seen which look, doing things for you inside rules you set, or knowing your skin, training and sleep. What you should wear depends on the rest of your week, and a stylist that can only see your wardrobe has to guess the rest.

A week with Retenna’s stylist

It’s Sunday evening. Your week has a pitch on Tuesday at 10:00, a client dinner on Thursday at 19:30 and rain on the way, and you haven’t thought about clothes yet. Retenna has, for all five days, right down to who has seen what.

What it joined upYour calendar. Your wear history: the client saw your grey suit at the last dinner, six weeks ago. The forecast for your route: showers from 18:00 on Thursday, as you walk over. A mark on the navy blazer’s cuff, which you noted on Friday. And three things it has learned about you: you feel sharpest in the navy blazer, you rate new clothes lower on big days, and you swapped suede for leather the last time it rained.

What it ruled outThe new jacket for the pitch, because you rate new clothes lower on big days. The grey suit on Thursday, because the client has seen it. Suede loafers on Thursday, because of the showers.

Five mornings with nothing to decide, your sharpest look cleaned in time, a look the client hasn’t seen, and dry feet. So on Tuesday, all you think about is the pitch.

Big days, trips and shopping, planned weeks ahead

A normal week is the easy part. The bigger the day, the earlier the work starts, so your stylist looks days, weeks and months ahead.

When something changes, only what it affects moves. If the launch rehearsal moves earlier, your training and sleep are rearranged, and the outfit and the haircut stay as they are.

Why it’s better with your other experts

Your stylist shares one living model of you, and one picture of your week, with every other expert. So what you wear fits the week you’re actually having:

• Your beauty and grooming expert. Your party look skips the shimmer, which shines in flash photos, and brows move to Thursday so any redness settles first.
• Your personal trainer. Gym kit goes on the Leeds packing list because the hotel has a gym, and new running shoes arrive with the four weeks you like to break them in.
• Your wellbeing coach. Before moving day, it plans a first-night box with tomorrow’s clothes in it, so the first night isn’t a hunt through boxes.
• Your planner. Every occasion and trip comes with its outfit, from a client dinner to a weekend away.
• Your personal shopper. It buys for the gaps in what you own, not more of the same, in the colours and cuts that suit you, and gets your money back on what you don’t wear.
• The people you love. Anything that involves them, from the family lunch to a lift for a friend, asks you first.

The everyday jobs it takes off your hands

Add it up, and this is the work that stops living in your head.

How it learns your style

Everything your stylist knows sits in one living model of you. It learns from what you do, what you choose and what you tell it, and every fact it learns says where it came from:

• You feel sharpest in the navy blazer. Your top pick on 5 of your last 6 big days.
• You rate new clothes lower on big days. Across your last 9 first wears, so new things get their first outing on a relaxed evening.
• You’d rather wear leather than suede in the rain. You swapped its suede for leather last time, so now it starts with leather.
• Navy and camel suit your colouring. From your colour analysis, so the shopper looks for those shades first.
• Your scarf is a favourite. You’ve worn it 11 times, so a near-copy in your basket can wait.

The more it learns, the less it needs to ask:

1. Day one Your clothes go in from the wardrobe app you use now, such as Whering, or from photos, receipts and order emails, product links and more. Then it asks. What do you feel sharpest in, and what would you wear to Tuesday’s pitch? You choose, and it remembers.
2. Within weeks It suggests. “The navy blazer for the pitch, and leather loafers for Thursday’s showers?” One tap, and the week is planned.
3. In time It decides the way you would, further ahead. The week is dressed by Sunday evening, and the launch outfit and haircut are sorted ten days out.

And it keeps learning. Every look you wear, swap or undo tells it a little more about how you dress.

How you shape it, and stay in charge

Your rules, in your own wordsYou choose what it simply does and tells you about after, and what waits for your yes. To start with, your own plans and places you’ve used before are done for you, and anywhere new and new spending ask first. Anything that involves another person always asks first. Change a rule, and your week changes with it. Here’s the same Monday under each setting for places you’ve used before:

A reason and an Undo, every timeEvery look comes with why it was chosen, and an Undo. Undo the leather loafers and wear the suede, and it learns from that too.

It notices what you undoKeep undoing the same kind of choice, such as the trainers it picks for office days, and it says so and suggests a rule, like asking you first next time.

See, change or forget what it knowsYour living model is yours to read: “You feel your best in the navy blazer”, from your wear notes. Change it or forget it, and it stops planning around it. You can also export or delete everything Retenna holds about you.

How to choose

If you only want a better wardrobe app, one of these will do it well. If you want a stylist that learns you, dresses your whole week and takes the work off your hands, that’s Retenna.

For your wardrobe on its own

• WheringA free digital wardrobe that can hold everything you own
• AclosetOne of the most complete closet apps, with colour analysis and try-on
• AltaDaily outfits that follow the weather and your calendar
• Style DNAFinding your colours and what suits your shapeOr Dressly, if outfit scores and try-on matter more.
• StylebookA private planner for one price, on iPhone
• CombyneMaking outfits for fun and sharing them

For a stylist that learns how you dress

How Retenna’s stylist works

Questions

Sources

• Alta: website, privacy policy, terms, App Store
• Acloset: website, help, privacy policy, marketplace notice, App Store
• Dressly: website, privacy policy, try-on help, App Store
• Whering: website, how outfit suggestions work, terms, App Store
• Style DNA: website, privacy policy, App Store
• Stylebook: features, privacy, App Store
• Combyne: website, privacy policy, App Store
• Third-party reporting: Glossy, on fashion’s AI boom

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