Guide · Last updated 9 July 2026
The best wardrobe apps in the UK (2026)
Digital wardrobe apps have multiplied fast, and most round-ups are written by people who've never opened them. We build one of these apps, so we know the category from the inside — here's an honest guide to the six worth your time, judged on free tier, AI styling, virtual try-on, resale and how well each fits UK users.
Full disclosure: Alama Wardrobe is ours. We've listed where every app — including ours — falls short, based on public store listings and websites as of the date above.
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1. Best for try-on and pre-loved resale
Alama Wardrobe
Free (100 items) · Organiser and Style Pass subscriptions · credit packs
The only UK wardrobe app that combines photo-real AI try-on on your own photo with a built-in pre-loved marketplace — escrow payments, tracked labels and returns, with a 15% fee on sold orders only. The free tier is a full digital wardrobe (100 items, 25 outfits, 3 collections), and there are no ads on any tier. Where it falls short: it's newer than the apps below, so the community is smaller — and features like an outfit calendar are still on the way.
This is our app — we've kept the rest of this list honest to keep this entry credible.
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2. Best free planner with a big community
Whering
Free · optional in-app extras
The UK's best-known digital wardrobe: cataloguing, "dress me" outfit shuffles, a planner with calendar, weather and packing lists, and strong sustainability stats like cost-per-wear. It's completely free. Where it falls short: no virtual try-on on your own photo as of writing, and selling happens via hand-offs to partner platforms rather than in the app.
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3. Best for feature breadth
Acloset
Free (100 items) · subscription for more
A Korean app with an enormous feature set: AI stylist chat, colour analysis, outfit calendar, weather suggestions and a marketplace. Where it falls short: the sheer breadth can feel cluttered, and the marketplace and community are least developed in the UK.
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4. Best for serious cataloguing and human stylists
Indyx
From $12.99/month · stylist services extra
The "serious wardrobe" choice: meticulous cataloguing, receipt scanning, strong analytics, and the option to hire a human stylist for lookbooks or professional wardrobe cataloguing. Where it falls short: it's a paid product at heart, and there's no try-on or built-in resale.
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5. Best one-time purchase
Stylebook
$4.99 one-time (iOS only)
The veteran of the category — a one-off purchase with no subscription, loved by long-time users for its manual control. Where it falls short: iOS only, no Android, no AI features, and updates have slowed; it predates try-on and in-app resale entirely.
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6. Best AI stylist for shopping new
Alta Daily
Free
A fast-growing US app with avatar-based try-on, daily outfit ideas and "agentic" shopping that can find and buy new pieces for you. Where it falls short for UK users: it's US-centric, the avatar isn't your actual photo, and there's no resale — it's built around buying new rather than circular fashion.
How to choose
Start with the job you want done. If it's planning outfits from a big free catalogue, try Whering. If it's a meticulous inventory, Indyx or Stylebook. If it's an AI shopping companion, Alta. And if it's seeing clothes on yourself before you buy pre-loved — and selling what you no longer wear, that combination only exists in one place, and it's the reason we built Alama.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a digital wardrobe app?
- An app that catalogues your clothes — usually from photos with automatic background removal — so you can see everything you own, plan outfits, track what you actually wear, and make better decisions about what to buy, keep or sell.
- Are wardrobe apps free?
- Most have a free tier. Whering and Alta Daily are fully free (venture-funded); Alama gives you 100 items, 25 outfits and 3 collections free with paid tiers for AI-heavy use; Acloset is free up to 100 items; Indyx and Stylebook are paid products.
- Which wardrobe app has virtual try-on?
- Alama offers photo-real AI try-on on your own photo. Alta Daily offers try-on via a lifelike avatar. Whering, Acloset, Indyx and Stylebook do not offer generative try-on as of July 2026.
- Which wardrobe app lets me sell my clothes?
- Alama has a built-in UK peer-to-peer marketplace with escrow payments, tracked shipping labels and returns. Acloset has a marketplace with a smaller UK presence. Whering links out to partner resale platforms; the others don't offer selling.
Try Alama Wardrobe free
100 wardrobe items, 25 outfits and 3 collections free — with welcome credits to try AI try-on on your own photo.