Most wardrobe apps take your photos of your clothes, cleans the background off, and lets you arrange the pieces into a collage. When we were ourselves trying to find a wardrobe app to use, we quickly realised this was not for us. We need more help and we want to be able to visualise how the outfit looks on a body. How the outfit fits - if you so will.
There are two apps that do this. Alta renders a photorealistic version of you. Fetch dresses a paper doll made from your selfie. But there, the similarities stop. This is our honest comparison.
The same 5 items, photographed once and uploaded to both apps. And despite the obvious visual distinction (a doll vs a photorealistic render) the main difference is what happens when you change your mind.
How Alta does it
You build the outfit the way you would in any other wardrobe app - pick the pieces and assemble them as a collage. When you are happy with it, you press "Generate avatar" and, after it loads, Alta shows a photorealistic render of you wearing that outfit. The likeness is built from a profile photo and a full-body photo, so it approximates your build as well.
Two constraints matter. The render is a finished image, not an editable scene, so swapping one piece means generating the whole thing again (and there is a cap of 20 renders a day). Reviewers also note the fit can come out wrong - a low-rise skirt rendering as high-rise, that kind of thing - which is a known and honest limitation of generating clothing onto a body rather than compositing it.
How Fetch does it
Fetch front-loads the work. Your clothes are processed into item wearables when you upload them. It takes about 4 minutes per item and it happens once. Dressing the doll therefore means putting together pre-made layers, so there is no wait to load. Neither is there a cap, because the garments were processed in the upload. You can also tweak the look - tops can be tucked into bottoms, belts can slide up and down the waist, you can flip a bracelet or bag to the other arm, etc.
Another difference is that your Fetch doll, while deriving its features from your selfie, is purposefully a doll, and is not trying to be photorealistic.
When it matters: changing your mind
Not everyone gets an outfit right the first time. You put the jacket on just to decide the boots are wrong, change the boots, which makes you realise you need to then switch the bag.
In Fetch, swapping the boots and the bag is two taps and you see the result on your doll immediately. In Alta, each change means waiting for a re-render of the whole outfit, which ticks up towards your daily budget of 20 renders.
Which to choose
If you want to see one carefully-chosen outfit on a photo-realistic version of yourself, Alta's model is the right one. If you want to try on all of your tops to see which one looks best with a certain skirt, Fetch's might be right for you.
But honestly? Get both if you are curious. They're free, and uploading a couple items to both to compare is worth the time investment.
Alta screenshots and recordings are the property of Alta and are reproduced here for comparison and commentary. Details checked August 2026 - apps change, so check current features and limits yourself.
