Nodi vs Luvly: which one to pick in 2026

Nodi is the one to pick if your face wakes up puffy and you want a routine you'll still be doing next month. Luvly is a much broader program: face yoga, massage, skincare guidance, breathing and meal plans, with a 15 minute daily ask. Nodi teaches one technique, guided facial lymphatic drainage, in filmed sessions of 2 to 10 minutes.

Nodi is our app. Prices and session lengths below come from each app's own listing, checked in August 2026 unless a row says October, so you can verify all of it.

How do Nodi and Luvly compare?

Nodi and Luvly differ most in scope, session length and how clearly they state a price.

What does each app teach?

Luvly teaches a bundle, and Nodi teaches one technique. Luvly is listed as "Luvly: Face Yoga Exercises" on the US App Store, from developer Gismart Limited, and it spreads across face yoga exercises, massage, skincare guidance, breathing and meal plans.

Nodi teaches guided facial lymphatic drainage and nothing else. The library covers the jawline, under eyes, cheeks, neck and full face, and a short quiz builds your plan. These are two different practices and not two versions of one, since face yoga contracts muscle and lymphatic drainage is very light and works on fluid. Face yoga vs lymphatic drainage separates them.

What do you pay, and can you tell before you tap?

With Nodi you can tell before you tap, and with Luvly it depends on the row. Nodi is $8.99 a week or $59.99 a year with a 3 day free trial on the annual plan, as of October 2026. Both prices are labeled by period, and they're the same whichever page you arrived from.

Luvly's US App Store listing in August 2026 showed 10 purchase rows: $5.99, $15.99, $19.99, $29.99 twice, $34.99, $49.99 twice, $54.99 and another $5.99. Most don't say what period they cover. Two rows are both called Quarterly Premium Access, at $29.99 and $34.99, and a row named Yearly Premium Access at $29.99 sits below a half-year row at $49.99.

Luvly's website led with a 50 percent off offer and not a list price. What you're offered depends on the funnel you land in, so read the confirmation screen before you agree to a recurring charge.

See what your routine could look like

Download Nodi, answer a few questions, and it builds a short daily face routine around your goals.

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How long is a session?

A Nodi session runs 2 to 10 minutes, and Luvly's listing asks for 15 minutes a day. The gap matters because the app that works is the one you still open in week 6, and 15 minutes needs a fresh decision every morning.

Short sessions suit the technique too. Facial lymphatic drainage is light, repetitive work, so a few minutes on most days makes a routine, and a long session you do twice and drop doesn't.

What do you watch while you follow along?

In Nodi, you watch real hands on a real face, and we film every session in a professional studio with experts. You see the pressure, the angle and the direction at real speed. We downloaded the other apps in this category, started a trial on each and watched their sessions, and none of them is filmed in a studio.

On Luvly's App Store page, a 4 star review titled "Great exercises and tracking with one big distraction" says most of the videos use an obvious text to speech narrator. A 3 star review titled "The words don't always match the photo" says the spoken instructions don't line up with the demonstration. Those are two reviewers on Apple's page, and neither is a verdict on the whole app.

What happens to your photo?

Nodi's face scan is optional, and the photo never leaves your phone. As of October 2026, Nodi's setup offers it and you can skip it. If you take it, a model built into the app reads one photo on your phone, and the app deletes it as soon as it has been read.

What leaves your phone is a short list of numbers measured from the picture, which an AI model turns into your scores, and we don't keep those numbers. Nodi's privacy policy lists everything that's sent. Luvly's App Store description doesn't mention a face scan.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Luvly if you want meal plans and skincare guidance bundled with a large catalog of exercises, and you can hold a 15 minute slot every day.

Pick Nodi if you want a less puffy, fresher looking face and a routine that survives a real morning. That means short filmed sessions, a price list of 2 lines and a plan built from the quiz. Nodi was built in 2026 around whether you keep doing it, with streak freezes so one missed morning doesn't end your run.

Our videos have been watched over 1 billion times, posted by more than 5,000 creators, which is why we call Nodi the category leader. The best face yoga and face massage apps ranks the wider field, and does face yoga work covers Luvly's side of the question.

Neither app sells secret information. Both sell structure and repetition, and Healthline's review calls the cosmetic evidence mostly anecdotal, so the realistic result is a face that looks less puffy for a few hours plus a routine you keep. Get the app and see what your first week looks like.