Modebase vs Meta's Style Sketch: Two Ways to Outfit Yourself From Clothes You Already Own
You open your wardrobe, it is full, and you still have nothing to wear. Now Meta has launched an app that promises to fix exactly that, using the clothes you already own.
It is called Style Sketch, and TechCrunch reported on it on 29 October. If you saw the headline, you probably have the same questions we would have. What does it actually do? Can I use it? Is it better than what I have now? And what happens to all those photos of me and my clothes?
We make Modebase, so we are not neutral. We have kept this fair by using only what TechCrunch reported and what we can show.
What TechCrunch reports about Style Sketch
According to the TechCrunch piece, Style Sketch:
- Suggests outfit combinations from clothes you already own, matched to your style.
- Lets you build a virtual closet by connecting Instagram, so it can use photos you have already posted, or by adding items yourself with a photo, a short video, or images from your camera roll.
- Lets you pick one item and get outfit ideas built around it.
- Offers a virtual try-on with a model that the app description says is "matched to your body shape and skin tone."
- Plans trips: you enter a destination, trip length and activities, and it returns a day-by-day outfit plan that takes the weather forecast and your itinerary into account.
- Is available on iOS and Android in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. TechCrunch notes it is unknown whether Meta plans a wider launch.
TechCrunch also notes that Meta did not respond to its request for comment, and that the article does not cover pricing or how user data and photos are stored or used. We do not know the answers to those questions either, so we will not guess at them here. We have not tested the app ourselves.
The shared idea
Both apps start from the same place, and it is the right place. You do not need more clothes. You need to see the clothes you own as a set that works together. Both turn photos into a digital wardrobe, both suggest outfits from what is in it, and both help you plan ahead. If you have ever stood in front of a full wardrobe and felt like you had nothing to wear, either approach is a step in the right direction.
Where Modebase is different
Your wardrobe is not stuck in one app
Modebase keeps your wardrobe as a database of your pieces, each one catalogued and tagged, rather than as a feature inside a single app. You can open it on the website, and you can reach the same wardrobe from ChatGPT and from other assistants that support it. You can export your whole wardrobe as a spreadsheet, one row per piece, so it is yours to keep. You can also take your looks with you, as a presentation you can keep or share, and as planned outfits in your own phone calendar. The TechCrunch report does not say whether Style Sketch lets you take your wardrobe out of the app, so we cannot compare it.
It connects to the rest of your life, in ChatGPT
Modebase has a connector for ChatGPT, so you can style your real wardrobe by simply talking, in the same place where you already plan your week, your trips and your shopping. Ask what to wear to a wedding, ask for a week of work looks, or ask for a packing list, and the answer is built from your own pieces and shown as a card with your own clothes in it. You can add pieces, plan looks, save them and share them without leaving the conversation. Already built a wardrobe in ChatGPT? You can move it over in one guided flow.
Find the gaps, then shop them
A good wardrobe is as much about what is missing as what is there. Modebase can audit your wardrobe, show where the gaps are, work out the cost per wear of what you own, and tell you whether you already own something like the piece you are about to buy. Because it lives in ChatGPT, you can take that straight into the conversation and ask for help closing the gap, with your whole wardrobe in front of you. Pieces you want go on a wishlist that is kept in the chat.
Selling what you do not wear
Most wardrobe apps stop at "wear more". Modebase also helps you let go, in a cycle that you stay in charge of:
- Spot what is worth reselling, automatically. Every day Modebase reads the latest fashion press to build a "trending now" list. Each week it runs that list over your wardrobe, and if you own something that matches a trend, you get a notice in the app that the piece may be worth selling now. It also looks at the pieces you are not wearing, using wear counts, cost per wear and pieces you have never worn, and it takes the season into account, so a winter coat is not flagged in summer. At the end of a season those pieces are put forward to sell.
- Choose what to sell. You pick the pieces, and a rough resale estimate is shown, clearly labelled as an estimate.
- Get the listing ready. For marketplaces such as Depop and Vestiaire, Modebase prepares the listing text and a suggested price, with photo guidance.
- List it. You paste the listing into the marketplace yourself and save the link on the piece. Modebase does not post to marketplaces for you, because they do not accept listings from other apps.
- Record the sale. Enter the sold price and Modebase tracks what you have earned back.
One photo can add a whole outfit
Building a wardrobe from photos is something both apps do, so it is not what sets them apart. Where Modebase goes further is what happens to each photo. A single photo of an outfit can give you several pieces at once, with every garment pulled out and filed as its own piece, tagged with things like type, colour, brand, fabric and fit. The TechCrunch report does not say how Style Sketch handles this, so we cannot compare it.
Pieces are cleaned up, not just stored
Each piece is turned into a clean, catalogue-style image, so your wardrobe looks like a well-kept shop rather than a camera roll. Outfits are then laid out as flat lays. In the builder you can move and resize the pieces to make a layout of your own, and swap any single piece without starting again.
Try it on, right in the chat
Virtual try-on is not only a Style Sketch feature. When Modebase shows you a look in ChatGPT, you can press Try on and ChatGPT draws the outfit on you, using the exact pieces from your wardrobe. It takes up to a minute, and it is a preview only, so colours and fit may differ slightly from the real pieces.
Planning goes beyond the trip
Trip packing is one of the best uses of a digital wardrobe, and we plan for travel too. But we also plan the ordinary weeks. Ask for a week of looks and drag any look onto any day of the calendar. Capsules, the small edited collections that make a season simple, can be changed day by day.
The Today card
Once you have planned a look, the Today card shows the look planned for that day, so the answer to "what am I wearing?" is waiting for you rather than something you have to work out at 7am. If you like, your stylist can offer a daily outfit reminder that brings the card up each morning at a time you choose. If nothing is planned, it says so in a single line and offers to style something.
Privacy is built into the upload
Photos of clothes often have people in them. On the Modebase website, your phone or computer checks each photo for a face before anything is sent, and if it finds one it blurs the face on your device. That check is automatic and can miss a small or partly hidden face, so we still ask people to upload their own clothes rather than photos of others. Location and device details are removed from each photo before it is stored. Most important of all, your photos are used to build your wardrobe and style your outfits, and nothing else. They are never used to train any AI model.
Free to try
You can try Modebase for free. We do not know Style Sketch's pricing, since the report does not cover it, so we will only say what is true on our side.
Side by side
| Style Sketch (as reported by TechCrunch) | Modebase | |
|---|---|---|
| Builds a wardrobe from your own clothes | Yes | Yes |
| Ways to add clothes | Instagram, photo, short video, camera roll | Photo, camera roll, photos sent in a chat, or a move from a ChatGPT wardrobe. One outfit photo can add several pieces |
| Outfit suggestions | Yes, including around a chosen item | Yes, built from your pieces and shown as flat lays you can edit |
| Virtual try-on | Yes, on a model matched to body shape and skin tone | Yes, in ChatGPT. A "Try on" button on a look has ChatGPT draw it on you, as a preview |
| Trip planning | Yes, with weather and itinerary | Yes, as packing lists and day-by-day plans |
| Everyday planning | Not mentioned in the report | Calendar planning, capsules and the Today card |
| Works inside ChatGPT | Not mentioned in the report | Yes, through the Modebase connector |
| Wardrobe reachable outside the app | Not stated in the report | Yes, on the website and through ChatGPT and other assistants that support it |
| Gap analysis, cost per wear and resale help | Not mentioned in the report | Yes |
| Faces blurred before upload | Not stated in the report | Yes, on your device, where the check can run |
| Photos used to train AI | Not stated in the report | Never |
| Where it is available | iOS and Android in Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand | modebase.co |
So which one should you choose?
If you live in one of the three countries where Style Sketch is available, and you like the idea of a try-on model and building a closet from your Instagram posts, it is worth a look. We would encourage that. A good idea gets better when more people are working on it.
If you want a wardrobe that works the way you already talk to an assistant, that plans your real weeks as well as your holidays, and that treats your photos as yours, Modebase is built for that. You can start with a handful of photos at modebase.co.
Either way, the point is the same. The best outfit is usually already hanging in your wardrobe. You just need a clearer way to see it.
Details about Style Sketch in this article come from TechCrunch's reporting of 29 October 2026, and may have changed since. We have not tested the app ourselves.