# A digital closet app built from your outfit photos Canonical: http://localhost:3000/use-cases/digital-closet Updated: 2026-09-24 > Outfello is a digital closet app that turns ordinary outfit photos into a catalogue of cut-out garments. Every piece in a photo is detected, lifted off its background and tagged with a category and colours. The closet can then be filtered by tops, jackets, bottoms, shoes and accessories, and sorted by colour. A digital closet is only useful if it is complete, and most people give up on one while photographing the second drawer. Outfello starts from the other end: it takes the photos you already have, finds the clothes in them, and files each garment as a clean cut-out. This page covers what a digital closet app does in Outfello today, what it does not, and how to get a wardrobe into it. ## What the digital closet app does The closet is a gallery of garments, each one shown as a cut-out on the same neutral ground. A mirror selfie, a product screenshot and a flat-lay end up looking alike, which is what makes the grid readable at a glance. - **Parts.** Every piece belongs to one of five parts: tops, jackets, bottoms, shoes or accessories. Each part is a one-tap filter. - **Sorting.** The grid sorts by newest, name, colour or category. Sorting by colour is the quickest way to see how many navy jumpers you really own. - **Colours and tags.** Colours are picked from the cut-out automatically, and you can add detail tags such as "linen" or "wide leg". - **Outfits.** Saved looks sit in the same grid as the pieces they are made from. ![The Outfello gallery: a grid of cut-out garments filtered by category](http://localhost:3000/screenshots/gallery.webp "The gallery, filtered by part") ## How clothes get in You drag, drop or paste a photo into the gallery. Outfit shots, mirror selfies, screenshots from a shop and product pages all work, as long as the garment is visible. The photo is prepared in your browser before it uploads. Every garment in the frame is detected, not just the most obvious one. A photo of jeans, a T-shirt and trainers becomes three pieces. Each is cut out on its own, background removed, then named, categorised and colour-tagged. Nothing lands in the closet unreviewed. Detected pieces wait in a tray where you can rename them, move them to another part, correct their colours, add tags or drop the ones you do not want. If an import fails, it retries without asking you to upload the photo again. For tips on getting clean cut-outs, see [how to photograph clothes so background removal works](http://localhost:3000/guides/photograph-clothes-for-cutouts). ## Working with the closet day to day Open any piece and the editor shows its cut-out beside a modeled photo, with its name, category, colours, detail tags and style. All of it can be corrected at any time. Styles are casual, smart casual, sport, elegant, formal, outdoor, lounge and work, and they feed the outfit builder and the daily planner. ![A piece open in the Outfello editor, with its modeled photo beside the name, category, colour and tag fields](http://localhost:3000/screenshots/editor.webp "The piece editor") From the closet you can stack a jacket, top, bottoms, shoes and accessories into an outfit, and optionally render a piece or the whole outfit onto one full-body photo of yourself. That is covered on the [virtual try-on](http://localhost:3000/use-cases/virtual-try-on) and [outfit planner](http://localhost:3000/use-cases/outfit-planner) pages. ## What it does not do Being honest about scope saves you an afternoon: - There is no text search. Filtering by part and sorting by colour or name is how you find things. - There is no automatic duplicate detection. Sorting by colour inside a part puts near-identical pieces side by side, which is usually enough to spot them. - There is no price or purchase-date field, so cost-per-wear has to be worked out elsewhere. ## Where it runs and who sees it Outfello runs in the browser on a phone or a computer. The closet belongs to your account and syncs to every device you sign in on, and a local copy keeps the gallery usable when you are offline. It is private: nothing is shared or listed publicly, and you can download everything the account holds as a single file from your account settings. How many pieces the closet can hold depends on the plan; the free plan is enough to try it with a real part of your wardrobe, and the limits for every plan are on the [pricing page](http://localhost:3000/pricing). ## Getting started The fastest route is to gather twenty or thirty photos you already have, in which you are wearing your most-worn clothes, and drop them in together. The step-by-step version is in [how to digitize your wardrobe in an afternoon](http://localhost:3000/guides/digitize-your-wardrobe), and if you are coming from a spreadsheet, [spreadsheet vs app for a wardrobe inventory](http://localhost:3000/guides/wardrobe-inventory-spreadsheet-vs-app) covers what carries over. ## Frequently asked questions ### Do I have to photograph every item separately? No. A single outfit photo, mirror selfie or screenshot can hold several garments, and each one is detected and cut out as its own piece. Photographing items flat or on a hanger works too if you prefer. ### Can I fix a wrong category or colour? Yes. Every detected piece waits in a review tray where you can rename it, move it to another part, pick its colours off the cut-out, add detail tags or drop it. The same fields stay editable in the piece editor afterwards. ### How many pieces can my digital closet hold? That depends on your plan. The free plan has a capped wardrobe, and the paid plans raise the number of stored pieces; the current limits are on the pricing page. ### Is there a phone app? Outfello runs in the browser on phones and computers, and the wardrobe syncs across every device you sign in on. There is no separate app store download. ### Can other people see my closet? No. The wardrobe is private to your account and nothing in it is shared or listed publicly.