How Old Do I Look

Review by eFreeware

Most photo editors ask you to choose a filter. How Old Do I Look starts from a question instead: what would you look like older, younger, or as somebody else entirely? GlintTec Apps has built the whole app around that single photo, then stacked aging, face swapping, celebrity matching, cartoon styles and costume looks on top of it. It is a free download in the Beauty category, and the install count, past a million, suggests plenty of people have been curious enough to try it.

That framing is what makes the app easy to place. You do not need to be a photo editor or a design hobbyist to get something out of it. Anyone with a selfie and a few spare minutes can run a face through an age scan, see a baby-face or future-self result, or drop themselves into a pilot, chef or firefighter look. The appeal is curiosity and amusement rather than serious retouching, and the app is content rated for Everyone, so it can be passed around a group without much worry.

The developer also keeps adding to it. The most recent update brings in hairstyle try-on, a text-to-image mode, a makeover tool, face enhancement and a background remover, alongside a library of more than 5,000 face swaps. That is a lot of directions for one app to grow in, and my expectation is that most people will settle on two or three modes they like and ignore the rest.

A photo app built for curiosity, not retouching

The core promise is age. You feed in a picture and the app runs it through what it calls a face age scanner, turning a current photo into an older or younger version. There is also a baby generator for guessing what a child might look like, and a future-self mode that pushes the same idea forward in time. The developer presents these as smart age progression tools, and for anyone who has wondered how they will age, that is the hook.

Around that sits a second layer of play. Face swap and gender swap modes let you put yourself in someone else's place, and celebrity look-alike matching offers a comparison point. From there the app fans out into cartoon and anime treatments, sketch and pencil art, comic styles, stickers and hairstyle try-on. Some of it is cosmetic fun, some is closer to a conventional beauty camera with retouching and body editing tools.

What holds it together is the single-photo workflow. If you enjoy seeing a familiar face rendered in a dozen different ways, there is a lot here to work through.

Aging, baby faces and the future-self modes

The age tools are the part I would expect people to open first. The app takes a photo and produces an older or younger version of the same face, with a baby generator on one end and a future-self filter on the other. The developer describes the age progression as smart, which is the kind of claim worth treating as marketing until you see your own result.

These modes are best understood as entertainment. They give you a plausible guess at another stage of life, not a portrait you would print and frame. For a family comparing generations, or a group of friends trading baby-face results, that is exactly the right level of seriousness. The same photo can be pushed in several directions, so you can look at a younger version and an older one side by side without starting over.

I would not expect consistency across every image. Face photos vary enormously in lighting, angle and expression, and any age simulation has to make assumptions from what it is given. Go in expecting an amusing approximation and the mode does what it sets out to do.

Face swaps, gender swaps and celebrity matches

Face swapping is the second pillar. The app offers swap tools that place your face into another context, with a gender swap option for seeing yourself on the other side of that line.

Celebrity look-alike matching works on a similar premise: rather than swapping you into a scene, it offers a comparison between your face and a known one. It is the sort of feature that gets shared in a group chat within minutes of being tried. The developer pitches the whole set as one transformation tool, and that is a fair description of how the modes relate to each other.

The practical caveat is that swaps depend on the source photo as much as the app. A clear, front-facing shot gives the tools more to work with than a crowded group picture or a dim indoor snap. That is true of this style of editing generally, and it is worth keeping in mind before you judge a result.

Cartoon, sketch and costume styles

Beyond faces, there is a whole styling layer. The app turns photos into cartoons, anime and comic-book looks, and offers sketch, pencil art and vintage treatments for a more nostalgic finish. Sticker and name tools let you decorate a result rather than just transform it, and there are hairstyle options to try on without committing to a haircut.

The costume and occupation themes are where the app gets playful. You can see yourself styled as a pilot, chef, doctor, nurse, singer, scientist, engineer, news anchor or firefighter, among others. Seasonal themes cover Christmas, Halloween and carnival, and there are country and culture looks for seeing yourself in a different setting.

This is the broadest part of the app, and also the least predictable. Styles that lean on a strong visual gimmick tend to be fun once and forgettable; the ones you return to are usually the ones that flatter the original photo. Trying a handful and keeping the two or three that suit you is the sensible approach.

Beauty tools, enhancement and the newest additions

Not everything here is a novelty. The app includes a beauty camera with retouching and face-and-body editing, and the latest update adds a face enhancement mode for sharpening and tidying selfies. A background remover lets you erase or replace what is behind you, which is a genuinely useful utility alongside the playful filters.

The update also introduces a hairstyle mode, a makeover tool and text-to-image generation, where you type an idea and the app produces an image from it. That is a different kind of feature from the age and swap tools, and it broadens what the app can be used for beyond portraits of yourself.

My reservation is one of focus. An app that ages faces, swaps them, styles them, removes backgrounds and generates images from text is doing a great many things, and depth in any one of them is not guaranteed. If you come for the age tools, the extras are a bonus; if you come expecting a dedicated photo editor, the breadth may feel like a scatter of half-finished ideas.

What it costs and what comes with it

How Old Do I Look is free to download and carries ads. It also offers in-app purchases, so some parts of the experience involve spending money. The sensible approach is to treat the free download as a way to explore and decide from there.

The app has been available since March 2017 and was last updated in October 2026, so it is a long-running title that still receives new features rather than one that was published and left alone. It holds a 4.0 average from more than 11,500 ratings, with 461 written reviews, which is a reasonable signal for a free app of this type.

It is rated for Everyone, and the content is the sort you could show a child without concern. Between the ads and the purchases, this is a typical free photo app arrangement: you get a lot without paying, and you accept interruptions and prompts along the way.

Alternatives worth weighing

The closest comparison is a general-purpose photo editor with a filter catalog. Those tend to be stronger on manual control, color correction and precise retouching, and weaker on the automatic, one-tap transformations that define this app. If your goal is a polished edit of a specific image, a conventional editor will usually serve you better.

A dedicated aging or baby-face tool is the other option. Those focus on a single trick, which can mean a cleaner result within that narrow task, but they leave you switching between apps for swaps, cartoons and costume looks. The case for How Old Do I Look is that it keeps all of these in one place, which matters more if you are browsing than if you have one specific result in mind.

A cartoon or avatar app is a third point of comparison, and again the trade-off is specialization against breadth. None of these alternatives is wrong; the question is whether you want one app that does many things adequately or several that each do one thing well.

A playful pick for anyone curious about their own face

How Old Do I Look is at its best when treated as a toy rather than a tool. The age scanner, baby generator and future-self modes give you a quick, amusing answer to a question most people have asked themselves, and the face swap, celebrity match and costume styles turn that into something you can share. It is free, it is rated for Everyone, and there is enough variety to keep a curious afternoon occupied.

It suits people who enjoy seeing themselves rendered differently and do not mind ads or the presence of in-app purchases along the way. It also suits families and groups looking for something light to pass around. Anyone hoping for precise, professional-grade editing should look at what a dedicated editor offers instead, because that is not the job this app is built for.

If you install it, start with the age tools and the face swaps, since those are the features the app is organized around, and treat the styling and generation modes as extras to explore afterward. On that basis, it is an easy download to justify.

What's new in version 7.0.77

- 💇‍♀️ Hairstyle AI – Try trending hairstyles instantly! - ✨ AI Photo Makeover – Write anything & transform your photo! - 🧠 Text-to-Image – Type any idea and see it come alive with AI - 🔍 Face Enhance – Sharpen and beautify your selfies - 🪄 Background Remover – Erase or replace backgrounds in one tap - 🔁 5000+ Face Swaps – Discover endless new looks - 🦸‍♂️ Comic - 🖌️ Painting - ✏️ Sketch