An outfit planner app that works from your own clothes

Planning outfits in your head works until you forget the grey trousers exist. An outfit planner app is useful when it shows your actual clothes, not stock photos of clothes you might buy. Outfello builds looks from cut-outs of garments you have imported from your own photos, lets you save the combinations that work, and on paid plans suggests a look for the day based on the weather. This page covers what each part does and where its limits are.

The outfit builder

The builder, "Make an outfit" in the app, has one slot for each part of an outfit: jacket, top, bottoms, shoes and accessories. You fill each slot from the pieces in your gallery, and every slot has its own colour filter, so you can narrow the shoes to browns while you are deciding on trousers.

Because every piece is shown as a cut-out on the same neutral ground, the stacked outfit reads as a whole. A top photographed in a mirror and trousers taken from a shop screenshot sit together without the clash of two different backgrounds. That matters when you are judging proportions and colour rather than just ticking off categories.

Not every slot has to be filled. A summer look with no jacket and no accessories is a normal outfit.

Saved looks

When a combination works, save it. Saved looks appear in the gallery grid alongside the pieces they are made from, so the outfits you already like are one tap away on a rushed morning. A saved look can be worn again, re-rendered or deleted.

If you want to see it on a body rather than as a stack of cut-outs, the whole outfit can be rendered head to toe onto one full-body reference photo of yourself. That uses one try-on from your monthly allowance; the virtual try-on page explains what the photo needs.

Some people build a small library of reliable looks up front, then reach for them through the week. The outfit formulas guide has repeatable combinations that are easy to recreate in the builder.

The daily planner on paid plans

On paid plans, the outfit planner app goes a step further and suggests what to wear today or tomorrow. You choose a city and a style (casual, smart casual, sporty, formal, outdoor, or Auto), and the planner checks the feels-like temperature, rain and wind against the details stored on each garment: its warmth, sleeve and leg length, whether shoes are open or closed, rain protection, wind resistance and breathability.

It also:

• builds around colour schemes such as neutral, tonal, analogous, or neutral with an accent;
• avoids repeating the top you wore in the last two days;
• skips pieces you have marked as in the laundry or unavailable;
• labels each suggestion "Checked", "Idea" or "Partial", and says which garment detail is missing when it cannot confirm a piece.

You can plan a day, mark the outfit as worn, and look back at an outfit calendar of planned and worn days. Snow and ice are left to your own judgement, and the planner says so. The full walkthrough is on the what to wear today page.

What it does not do

• Weather-aware suggestions cover today and tomorrow only. Later days can be planned on the paid outfit calendar, or on any plan by saving one look per day in the builder, but without a weather check. The plan outfits for the week guide walks through that.
• There is no stylist chat and no social feed of other people's outfits. Suggestions come only from your own wardrobe.
• There is no shopping feature. The planner will not recommend items to buy to fill a gap.

Where the limits are

The builder and saved looks are available on every plan. The daily planner and the outfit calendar need a paid plan, and the number of stored pieces, monthly imports and monthly try-ons all depend on the plan you are on; the current figures are on the pricing page. Imports and try-ons are separate allowances, so running out of one never blocks the other.

Getting started

Import the clothes you wear most often first, since the builder can only work with what is in the gallery. Then make three or four looks you already know you like and save them. That gives you a baseline to vary from, and a quick answer on the mornings when you do not want to decide at all.