Love looking stylish but need some TLC for your wardrobe? Get inspired with our best fashion apps for your phone or tablet…
Stylebook
Would you like your own personal stylist and advice on how to make the most out of your unique wardrobe? Stylebook is a must-have app for women who want to spice up their style or know what to wear on their next business trip.
First, Stylebook takes pictures of your clothes so you can create your favorite outfits. Then organize your virtual closet by clothing, accessories, shoes, seasons, and brands. If you travel frequently, Style book organizes all outfits for you by destination with detailed packing lists.
Tracking fashion is also easy; Stylebook provides a calendar, personal list, and value for all the outfits you wear. Not sure what to donate or keep for your wardrobe? This app provides style stats where you can see what clothing, shoes, or accessories you use most frequently or rarely, and what their value would be if kept or sold.
More ideas from an inspiration library are available as well, including new outfits from bloggers. How about a personal service from a stylist expert? You can find advice about tailoring, clothing care, and window shopping from savvy individuals in the fashion industry with Stylebook.
Style.com
Combine a little New York Times and InStyle together to get Style.com’s app a hot news source for fashion. Find the latest styles at your fingertips, and news about the greater fashion industry in the same app. (Browse for your favorite evening outfit and witness updates from Fashion Week at the same time…it’s so awesome!)
Our favorite part about the Style.com app is the extensive fashion coverage. From runway shows, model videos, parties, men’s looks, and industry news — it’s all featured. With photos and videos of models on each designer catwalk, it is almost like you have front row seats. Reviews are also included for each runway show, so you can compare Rag & Bone to Elie Saab on your lunch break. Chanel’s ready to wear collection for Fall 2014 is also worth watching. (Witness the runway video covered by Style.com that features models “shopping.”)
Knowing the latest fashion news is also possible thanks to Style.com’s StyleFile blog. Articles posted throughout the day feature updates about global fashion pop-up shops and collection partnerships. If you want a fine mix of fashion appreciation, news, and savvy looks, this app is the way to go.
Polyvore
Fashionistas and interior designers provide all the goods with Polyvore. On Polyvore, women can find inspiring outfits created by others who share a passion for styling and follow their favorite muses.
A lightning bolt directs you to trending looks (the Femme Fatale trend is one of our favorites!) in the fashion, accessory, and beauty industries. You can like, comment, or share anything on Polyvore instantly through this feature. Trending posts vary from how to wear your favorite maxi skirt to top global fashion steals.
Creating style boards and sharing them with friends is awesome as well…since it isn’t limited to just famous people in the industries. With Polyvore, you can create your own fashion collage by selecting clothes, shoes, jewelry, and accessories from the style database on the app. Your new outfits can come to life also because you can purchase anything featured on Polyvore. (Those Gucci aviators and Free People pants? You can add that to your wardrobe instantly.)
Plus, Polyvore features items from both major designers to local boutiques. If you want to amp up your style and have access to the latest looks too, Polyvore is your go-to app.
Pose
Fashion blogging, social media, and a stylish marketplace come together with Pose. You will admire the fashionable women who post on this app. Some are famous bloggers or people emerging into the fashion industry and you can follow all their profiles. They truly dedicate themselves to spicing up your wardrobe by showing you versatile looks and providing tags for purchasing their items. From NYC to London…Pose has your street, work, and evening style covered.
For a fashion app, Pose allows people to fashionably connect with inspirational posts and a virtual marketplace. If you want to show off your new looks, you can create a profile and share with other bloggers on Pose. Not only will you get major likes on your outfits, but you can connect with the greater fashion community too.
The marketplace on Pose leaves you endless choices too. With the ability to buy, sell, and trade your favorite looks, your wardrobe will receive a great upgrade. The best part about trading items? For every trade, you can choose a new pair of shoes, clothes, bags, or jewelry. Do we need to say more?
Style Thief
So you’re eyeing the gorgeous pumps on the woman next to you in Grand Central. If only you could find out the designer without talking to her. Style Thief is your rescue app when it comes to this situation.
Snap a picture of the shoes (without anyone watching of course!) and upload the photo onto Style Thief. Instantly, you will have access to information about your shoes like the designer, trendy looks, and other marketplaces that sell similar styles. Plus, if you want to buy or share your style with friends, Style Thief provides it’s own chat.
Oh…did we also mention that Kate Bosworth is the beautiful master mind behind Style Thief?
Kloset Karma
Repeating outfit dilemma is always a battle. Kloset Karma gives your wardrobe major victory from this situation by providing the best fashion app features.
Trade in your almost new clothing and accessories for Karma Points to gain other fashionable additions. Every Karma Point gets you closer to a new favorite outfit or closet makeover. Other fashionistas post their products on Kloset Karma too, so you can totally splurge your points on bags, shoes, jewelry, or clothes without paying anything.
Navigating on the app is also easy. Dashboard and Favorite Finds allow you to organize your favorite products on Kloset Karma. Contact and Map Search provide detailed information about sellers, their products, and available locations for pickup. So let your old outfits go to a good cause, and receive a favorite look too with Kloset Karma.
TrendStop
Keeping up with the latest trends shouldn’t be left to the fashion blogs. TrendStop is a great news source for spicing up your closet. Why? Well this app allows you to read about fashion news from global resources, view runway photography throughout the year, and of course share trends with friends and family. Runway and street trends are easy to research on the app, since editors create daily style posts. Finding fashion boutiques and retailers is also available on TrendStop. So get inspired by the runway, street, and global trends without leaving your phone.
My Runway
Following your favorite designers and brands shouldn’t require massive emails or daily visits to multiple blogs and online stores. My Runway is your best source for finding new collections, sales, trends, and fashion news about the material behind your style.
Opening the app leads you to to the latest from Tory Burch to Zara. Selecting your favorite designers and brands leads you to the latest shoe collection or handbag sale. Once you find the products you want, My Runway provides a store locator search so you can buy them at nearby places. Creating a wish list is also the best part…you can personalize outfit combinations and send them to your friends. (And of course have spare change for that gorgeous skirt or pair of shoes!)
Flink
For most of us, fashion bloggers influence our wardrobe in one way or another. Flink is the latest app that allows you to follow, discover, and get inspired by the fashion bloggers that are major influences to the industry.
You can search over 600 bloggers and find the latest trends and looks immediately on your phone. If you find that incredible outfit, Flink also tells you about each piece and where to buy it. Of course sharing with friends is an option too; this app comes with a messaging section where you can post fashion finds.
Our favorite part about Flink? Fashion editors post collections every week about up and coming brands, the latest trends, and new fashion bloggers on the web. Who seriously wouldn’t want to have this app to connect to fashion bloggers and improve their wardrobe?
Have a fashion app you can’t live without? Share with us below!
I haven’t used any of these except for Polyvore. I love creating outfit sets and planing outfits. Great to see there are other apps I can do that with. Thanks for sharing!
Oh wow! Thanks Genevieve. Thank you for the tips. I had no idea about most of these apps. They sound like they could really help me out organize my closet.
Thank you for these amazing app recommendations. I am going to have to check them out. I think they will come in handy : )
I’ve never used any fashion apps but I definitely should check out some of these. They could help me get more creative! Thanks for the tips and suggestions.
Nice post! Some real cool apps. I’m already a Kloset Karma user. Best fashion & shopping app in my opinion. 🙂
Style thief is LITERALLY the most useful fashion app ever!!!! It’s totally the Shazam of fashion! 🙂
It sounds amazing and very helpful but how am I going to stop strangers out on the street and snap pictures of them when I like their outfit? lol
Brilliant apps and great ideas! I’m not the look book model type, but who wouldn’t want a digital copy of their own closet? Getting these apps ASAP!
This post is so helpful! I just keep pinning outfits and accessories on Pinterest but they don’t always turn out to be like the clothes I already have. So I ended up having to buy the clothes I pin. But I don’t need new or more clothes. I Just need to learn to make better use of my wardrobe, and this is where these apps come in. Thanks so much!
I like the idea of these apps, but I fail at putting outfits together. I’m horribly awful at mixing-matching. Does anybody here know of apps that automatically mix-matches your outfits for you? That’s exactly what I need to be fair.
I keep hearing about Stylebook! But I’m an Android user and couldn’t find it on Google Store. I wish they had an Android version. 🙁