Snagfit vs Lykdat: a subscription or 99 cents?

Lykdat and Snagfit both search shopping listings from a picture of clothing. They ask for money in shapes that suit opposite habits, and the arithmetic is simple enough to do in one line.

What US$3.99 a month buys on Lykdat

Lykdat's own homepage shows the offer as "Sign Up at US$3.99/month". What it says that covers is exclusive coupons, discounts and personalised style recommendations.

Read that carefully, because the subscription is described around coupons and recommendations rather than around the search. Whether the image search itself works without signing up is not stated on the homepage, and lykdat.com has no pricing page to check tiers against. So this post will describe what Lykdat publishes and stop there, rather than guessing at a free tier that may or may not exist.

Snagfit publishes its price in one number. The first look is free with no account. Every look after that is 99 cents, charged one at a time, with nothing recurring and no tier above it.

Four looks a month is where the cheaper option changes

Here is the arithmetic, since it is the part most comparisons leave vague.

Four Snagfit looks cost $3.96, and the first look of all is free. Lykdat's stated fee is $3.99 a month. So the two land within a few cents of each other at four searches a month.

Below four searches a month, Snagfit costs less, and the gap widens the less you search. One screenshot in a month costs 99 cents on Snagfit against $3.99 for a month of Lykdat.

Above four searches a month, the subscription costs less, and that gap widens too. Twenty searches would be $19.80 on Snagfit against the same $3.99.

That is the entire pricing question. Count how many outfits you looked up last month, compare that against four, and you have your answer. Most people guess high on this, so count real screenshots rather than intentions.

Lykdat is built for browsing before you know what you want

Lykdat's homepage carries trending searches, with examples on the page like shoulder pads, cut-out tops and sequin dresses. It has a curated inspirations section and influencer-based style recommendations.

Those are features for somebody who arrived without a specific garment in mind. You open the site, see what is trending, follow a look you like, and end up shopping things you were not searching for. It is a discovery product with a search inside it.

Snagfit has no feed, no trending list and no inspiration section. There is an upload button. You arrive holding a screenshot of something you already decided you liked, and you leave with links for the garments in it.

Which of those is better depends on whether you already know what you want. For somebody who does, a feed is something to scroll past. For somebody who does not, an upload button is no use without a photo to put in it.

Text search is a real feature Snagfit does not have

Lykdat's homepage offers a text search next to its image search. Type a description, get results.

Snagfit has nothing like it, and that is a genuine gap rather than a design principle worth defending. If you can already describe the garment in words, typing it is faster than finding a photo of it.

What Snagfit does instead is write the description for you. It reads each garment in your photo, writes out what it sees, then searches current shopping listings using that description. How outfit search actually works goes through that in order. The point of the photo is that it saves you needing the words, which is the situation most people are actually in when they screenshot something.

Both earn a commission, and both say so

Lykdat discloses affiliate links at the top of its homepage. It earns a commission when somebody buys through a recommended product.

Snagfit works the same way and discloses it on its legal page: a buy link may be an affiliate link, Snagfit may earn a commission if you buy something, and it costs you nothing extra. Neither site sells the garment or handles your card.

Worth knowing what that arrangement does and does not change. It gives both sites a reason to send you to shops that pay commission, which is most large retailers. It gives neither site a reason to raise the price you pay, because the retailer sets that, and the commission comes out of the retailer's margin.

The thing to actually check is the one both sites push you to: the retailer's own page. That is where the real price, the real stock and the real returns policy live, and what to check before you buy from a result lists what to read there.

What cannot be checked about a coupon

Lykdat's stated benefits include exclusive coupons and discounts. The homepage does not publish which retailers those cover or what they are worth.

So the value of that half of the subscription is unknown until after you have paid, and no honest comparison can put a number on it. It might be the best part of the deal. This post has no way to tell you.

Snagfit makes no coupon or discount claim anywhere. What it shows is the price the retailer has listed, which is what you would see loading that shop yourself. When a lower-priced alternative exists, it appears as a separate garment in the results rather than a code to apply at checkout. Why the same item has different prices covers why two shops list the same coat at two figures.

Neither one asks you to install anything

Lykdat's homepage describes a website, with no iPhone or Android app mentioned on it. Snagfit is a browser page by design.

So on this point they match, and both have an advantage over the installed apps in this category. An Android phone, an old iPhone, a work laptop with locked permissions and a library computer all open a web page. Copped's own App Store listing covers Apple devices only, and Beauty AI runs its features inside an installed app.

If the device in your hand is the one you borrowed, that leaves only the browser tools straight away.

What a personalised recommendation needs from you

Lykdat's stated subscription benefits include personalised style recommendations, and its homepage also offers influencer-based recommendations.

Personalisation of any kind runs on a record of what you liked before. The feature can only work that way. A site can suggest things in your taste once it has watched enough of your taste to form an opinion, and the suggestions get closer as that record grows. The cost is that the record exists, and that the site you bought coupons from now holds a picture of what you shop for.

Snagfit builds no taste profile. It reads the photo in front of it and searches on what that photo contains, so the tenth look behaves the same as the first. Signing in with Google keeps your past results readable across devices, and that history is there for you to reopen rather than to shape what you get shown next. The history feature is a list of what you looked at, and nothing reads it back to you as advice.

Which behaviour you prefer is a real preference rather than a right answer. Some people want a site that learns them and gets better at guessing over a year of use. Other people want a tool that behaves identically every time they open it, and holds nothing about them between visits.

Which one to pay for

You search fewer than four outfits a month. Snagfit. The first look is free, each one after is 99 cents, and no charge sits on your card during the weeks you do not use it.

You search most days and want the coupons as well. Lykdat's $3.99 a month is the cheaper shape at that volume, and its coupons may add something on top, though nothing public says how much.

You arrived without a specific garment in mind. Lykdat's trending and inspiration sections are built for that. Snagfit has no answer to give somebody who has no photo.

You have a screenshot and want every piece in it. Snagfit returns four to eight garments from one upload, most prominent first, each with its own links.

For the other paid option in this category, here is Snagfit against Copped, which charges by the week instead. For the free ones, here is FetchFashion.