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BeautyPlus Review: A Deep Retouch Toolkit With a Trial You Must Watch

Is BeautyPlus Free? Diamond Icons, Ads and a 3-Minute Video Cap

The download costs nothing, and the help center says a free version will remain: any tool without a diamond icon is free. Since mid-2026, low-star Google Play reviews in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Indonesian describe formerly free features moving to Premium, and a September reviewer found the concealer and smoothing locks only at the save step. Free use also brings ads. Google Play shows the Contains ads label, the terms ask users to agree to receive them, and App Store reviewers describe ads that play before the camera opens; removing them is a Premium perk. Video recording stops at 3 minutes for everyone, and Premium extends it to 10 minutes on iPhone only. The watermark, by contrast, is a Settings toggle.

Retouch, Makeup and Hair Tabs, and What HD Retouch Requires

The Retouch tab holds Head, Dark circles, Firm, Resize, Acne and Contour; Makeup splits into Lipstick, Eyebrow, Eyeshadow, Contour and Blush, with lipstick shades coded RD03 or PK04; the hair panel adds Hair Dye, Hair Style, Hair Part and Hairline, the last two diamond-marked in store screenshots. September 2026 updates added Head Shaping, symmetry options and jawline controls, while July brought Auto-Mosaic, which detects faces and blurs them before sharing. HD Retouch is the one-tap route, and the help center sets three conditions for it: an active Premium plan, a stable internet connection and a photo showing a complete face. A help notice updated in February 2026 says avatars and some other features were temporarily removed over quality issues.

Premium From $11.99 a Month, and the Trial Rules Behind the Complaints

In the US App Store, Premium is listed at $11.99 a month, with two annual options, $39.99 and $59.99, both marked with a free trial. Google Play lists items from $0.10 to $99.99, and a July 2026 review with more than 8,000 helpful votes objects to paying $7 a week. Prices vary by region. More than 20 reviews from 2026, across both stores and three languages, say a trial ended in an annual charge, several of them immediately. The help center explains part of it: trials go only to people who never subscribed, returning users pay at once, and cancelling must happen at least 24 hours before the trial ends. AI credits are sold separately, are non-refundable and are forfeited on uninstall.

Face Data, Ad Partners and the Meitu Connection

The help center says photos stay on your device, but the privacy policy, last modified in November 2024, says cloud editing features upload photos and their EXIF data, which can include GPS coordinates, to company servers. Its US section lets Pixocial use facial recognition to collect biometric information for identity checks, service improvement and internal research; where Illinois law applies, that data is deleted within three years of last use. Storage may be in Singapore, mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea or the US. Google Play's Data safety form lists only device IDs, shared for advertising, and crash logs. FaceApp, by contrast, says it deletes uploads 24 to 48 hours after the last edit. Meitu's 2023 filing calls Pixocial its overseas business, and in March 2026 Meitu redeemed all outside investors' preference shares in it.