The best face yoga and face massage apps in 2026

Nodi is the best of these 7 apps if you want a less puffy face and a routine you'll still be doing next month. It's the category leader and the only one of the 7 filmed in a professional studio with experts, and it teaches one technique, facial lymphatic drainage. Four of the others are face yoga apps built around exercise catalogs, so choose among them if muscle exercises are what you want.

The other two, Mellow and DePuffMe, teach drainage like Nodi does. We rank Mellow below Nodi, and DePuffMe last, because it teaches with drawn illustrations.

Nodi is our app. Every rating, price and date below comes from each app's App Store listing or website, checked in August 2026, except Mellow and DePuffMe, which we added in October 2026.

How the 7 apps compare

The 7 apps differ most in what they teach, how they show it and how clearly they state a price.

These figures come from US App Store listings in August 2026. Nodi's, Mellow's and DePuffMe's rows are as of October 2026.

An App Store page lists purchase rows without saying what period each row covers. Nodi, Koko Face Yoga and DePuffMe state the period on the prices they list, and Mellow's 3 rows state none.

How we compared them

We read each app's US App Store listing and its website in August 2026. We also downloaded 4 of the other apps, started a trial on each and watched their sessions, and we looked through DePuffMe's tutorials. Here are the 5 factors we considered:

• What it teaches. Face yoga contracts muscle, and lymphatic drainage moves fluid with light strokes. Face yoga vs lymphatic drainage explains the difference.
• How it's shown. Studio footage of hands on a face, a diagram, or a still image with a synthetic voice.
• Time a day. The minutes the listing asks for.
• Price. Whether you can tell what you'll pay before you tap.
• Privacy. Whether the app uses your camera, and where the photo goes.

Ratings, prices and dates come from the listings. What we say about how sessions are filmed comes from watching them.

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Nodi, our top pick for dealing with puffiness

Nodi is our top pick for puffiness because morning puffiness is mostly fluid, and Nodi teaches fluid drainage and nothing else. It works through the jawline, under eyes, cheeks, neck and full face.

Nodi is the only app of the 7 filmed in a professional studio. We film every session there with experts, on a real face, at real speed, which makes the strokes the easiest to follow. None of the other apps we trialed films in a studio, and DePuffMe's tutorials are drawings. The videos are copyrighted, and you'll find the full sessions only in the app.

Nodi is backed by a team of researchers who are running trials on lymphatic drainage. Research papers will be shared soon. More than 5,000 creators have posted our videos, and they've been watched over 1 billion times, which has made Nodi the category leader.

A short quiz builds your plan, and sessions run 2 to 10 minutes. A daily streak with freezes keeps the routine going, so one missed morning doesn't end your run.

Nodi costs $8.99 a week or $59.99 a year, with a 3 day free trial on the annual plan. It's an iPhone app. Setup offers an optional face scan, and if you take it, the photo is read on your phone, deleted there and never uploaded.

Luvly, the biggest catalog

Luvly is for you if you want the biggest catalog, with skincare, breathing and meal plans alongside the face exercises. It has the most ratings of any app here, 4.6 from 20,000, and it asks for 15 minutes a day.

Read the purchase screen before you confirm. The App Store page lists 10 purchase rows from $5.99 to $54.99, and 2 of them are both named Quarterly Premium Access, at $29.99 and $34.99. A 4 star review titled "Great exercises and tracking with one big distraction" says most of the videos use a text to speech narrator. Nodi vs Luvly has the full comparison.

FaceYogi, the highest rated of the large apps

FaceYogi is for you if you want a general face yoga and massage program with the highest rating of the large apps, 4.8 from 16,000. It asks for 8 minutes a day and builds a 7 day program from the concerns you pick.

FaceYogi's App Store page shows a last update of February 26, 2025. The purchase rows run from $5.99 to $49.99, and only one states its period, a weekly row at $7.99.

Koko Face Yoga, a face yoga method with camera features

Koko Face Yoga is for you if you want a named method and camera feedback. Founder Koko Hayashi splits the facial muscles into ones to wake up and ones to relax, and the app lists a mewing detector and asymmetry analysis. Both of its prices state their period, $9.99 a month and $99.99 a year.

The app is small, at 4.4 from 153 ratings. Reviewers on its page report missing voice guidance and content that didn't appear after they subscribed.

Glowbe, last updated in March 2024

Check the update date on Glowbe's App Store page before you pay. In August 2026 the page showed version 3.8.4, released on March 22, 2024, as the latest. The same page lists purchases from $9.99 to $159.99, including 3 weekly rows at $9.99 and $14.99.

Glowbe covers face yoga, massage, meditation and affirmations in about 7 minutes a day, and it's rated 4.5 from 2,300 ratings.

Mellow, a drainage app with 108 ratings

Mellow is for you if you want a drainage-only app and don't mind a small field. It's from Glacier Labs LLC, first released on June 8, 2026, and rated 4.6 from 108 ratings in October 2026. In August 2026 it was listed as Lymphi.

Its listing describes step-by-step guided technique videos, a personalized program and streak tracking. All 3 purchase rows are named Unlimited, at $6.99, $19.99 and $29.99, and none states a period. We rank Mellow below Nodi, which teaches the same technique in studio-filmed sessions and labels both of its prices.

DePuffMe, the lowest ranked of the 7

DePuffMe is the app we'd rank last, because its tutorials are simple drawn illustrations and not footage of hands on skin. Facial lymphatic drainage depends on how lightly you press and which way you stroke, and a drawing can't show either, so a beginner has little to copy.

DePuffMe is from Kairos Labs LLC, first released on August 6, 2026. Its App Store page showed no ratings in October 2026. The listing offers guided drainage and massage routines of about 5 minutes a day, a quiz-built plan and a streak, at $19.99 a month or $69.99 a year with a 7 day free trial. Its update of September 10, 2026 added weekly options, which the page lists from $9.99 to $12.99.

Nodi teaches facial lymphatic drainage in studio-filmed sessions you can follow at real speed, and the annual plan starts with a 3 day free trial. The best face massage apps compares the massage side of this category, or you can get the app.