Published by PutTogether, which makes one of the two apps compared. No affiliate links. Both apps were tested on iOS 26 against the same wardrobe in April–May 2026 and again in August; Cladwell was also run on a Pixel 9.
Scope: a two-way head-to-head between the two apps in this category that decide a daily outfit from your own closet by the weather. The wider field is in Every Digital Closet App in 2026, Ranked; the free alternative with a shopping rail is compared in Alta vs PutTogether.
This is the right comparison to make, because these two apps agree about the job. 
Cladwell's listing says it gives "daily outfit inspiration based on your clothes, the weather, and what you wear most." 
PutTogether's subtitle is "Daily Closet Fits by Weather." Both take your closet, both read the forecast, both hand you a decision. Most closet-app comparisons put one of these next to a filing cabinet and call it a tie. This one puts them next to each other.
At a glance
| Cladwell | PutTogether | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014, Cincinnati; acquired by Erin and Colin Flynn in 2019 | 2026, Los Angeles |
| Platform | iPhone + Android | iPhone |
| Price | $7.99/mo or $59.99/yr; free tier with 5 AI messages a month | Mini $9.99/mo (25 pieces) to Atelier $34.99 (200); no annual plan |
| The daily outfit | Flat-lay card when you open the app | Drawn on your mini-you at your wake-up time, pushed to you |
| Reason given | None on the card; chat if you ask ("Ask Cladwell, powered by ChatGPT") | Two or three sentences under every look |
| Weather | Daily high and low | Hourly forecast, feels-like, rain, wind, UV |
| Closet model | Capsule; about 50 pieces works best | Whole closet, 25 to 200 pieces by tier |
| Setup | One garment at a time | Outfit photos; every piece extracted and drawn |
| Trips | Travel capsule (a filtered closet) | Dress me: looks plus an itemised packing list, five-year climate averages past the forecast |
| Last update | 6 March 2026 (v5.12.4) | 8 September 2026 (v2.2) |
| App Store | 1K ratings, 4.3 | 21 ratings, 5.0 |
What we could not test. Cladwell's per-tier AI-message caps are not published; we treated Premium as the daily-recommendation tier. We did not run a 200-piece closet through either app. PutTogether's numbers are from a shipping build we can read the source of; Cladwell's are from its listing and from use.
Round 1: The morning
Open Cladwell and there is a card: four or five garment thumbnails on white, the day's high and low above, "Choose outfit" below. In our May test the whole interaction took under five seconds, and that is Cladwell's argument. The decision is small on purpose.
Open PutTogether and the decision has already been made. The look was generated at the wake-up time you chose, from your closet and the hourly forecast, drawn on the mini-you, and pushed to your phone with the first line of the reason. What you see is a portrait of you wearing it, the pieces underneath, and two sentences: "LA is sitting at a heavy 58°F with cloud cover all day — cool enough that the black leather biker jacket does the real work here."
Those are different products at the same moment. Cladwell answers "what goes together" fast. PutTogether answers "what do I wear, and why" before you asked.
Round 1: PutTogether. A card with no reason is a suggestion; a drawing with one is a decision.
Round 2: The weather
Cladwell reads the day's forecast and shows the high and low. Its picks stayed capsule-basic in both our runs: correct for the temperature band, indifferent to whether it rains at four.
PutTogether's server fetches Apple's forecast minutes before it generates the look and gives the stylist the current temperature, feels-like, the hourly forecast through the evening, rain probability, wind and UV. The reason text talks about the day's shape, not just its number. On rainy days Dress me's packing list adds an umbrella by itself.
Round 2: PutTogether, and it is the round that matters most in a city with a morning-to-evening swing.
Round 3: The closet
Here Cladwell has a position and PutTogether has a range.
Cladwell is built on capsule doctrine. Fifty pieces or so, rotated with intent; the daily picks cycle through what you own and treat repeats as the goal. In our 30-day diary the reviewer opened it on 14 of 30 days, and less often as the weeks went on, because the picks did not expand the wardrobe; they rotated it. For a strict capsule that is the feature. For an 84-piece closet it was a constraint.
PutTogether takes the whole closet, up to 200 pieces on Atelier, and the stylist sees every piece plus the last 30 days of looks. It is told to avoid repeating the last two days and to favour underused pieces across the month, varying fabric, cut and colour rather than swapping item IDs. Repeats are allowed; "Wear tomorrow" on a piece forces one.
Setup is the other half of this round. Cladwell wants one garment at a time. PutTogether wants outfit photos: every piece in the frame is detected, cut out, redrawn as a watercolor sticker, and shown to you for a keep-or-drop check before it is charged. A 25-piece closet is in within an evening.
Round 3: split. Cladwell for a deliberate capsule. PutTogether for a real closet and the setup.
Cladwell has a position; PutTogether has a range. A capsule believer should pick the position. Everyone else has more clothes than that.
Round 4: Price and platform
Cladwell is $7.99 a month, $59.99 a year, and runs on Android. PutTogether is $9.99 a month, no annual plan, iPhone only. Over a year at list, that is $59.99 against $119.88.
What the $9.99 buys is set out in What Closet Apps Actually Cost: a drawn look every morning with no metering, Dress me with three asks a day, and credits only for adding pieces. What the $7.99 buys is the card and unlimited chat. Whether the drawing and the reason are worth $2 a month more is the actual purchase decision, and it is yours.
Round 4: Cladwell, on price and on Android.
Round 5: Trips
Cladwell organises "by season, work, or travel" and lets you build a travel capsule, which is a filtered view of your closet. Nothing itemises it into garments you tick off, and nothing in it knows the weather at the destination beyond the forecast.
PutTogether's Dress me takes a city, any date range and an occasion, returns looks from your own clothes, and builds a packing list grouped by section with pieces de-duplicated across looks, per-trip check-off and a share sheet. Past the ten-day forecast it averages the same dates over the previous five years, so a December trip booked in September gets a real number. The full ranking is in The Best Closet App for Packing.
Round 5: PutTogether, uncontested.
Round 6: Staying power
Cladwell has shipped for twelve years, survived an acquisition, and is still updated; its last release was in March 2026, six months before this article. PutTogether shipped in April 2026 and released v2.2 in September. One has the track record; one has the cadence. Neither exports a wardrobe another app can read, so this round is about which company you expect to be there in five years. That is your call; the dates are above.
Round 6: Cladwell, on the record.
The verdict
Three rounds to PutTogether, two to Cladwell, one split. Cladwell wins where it is cheaper, older and on Android. PutTogether wins on the morning itself: the outfit is already decided, it is shown on you, and there is a reason underneath it. If the thing you want from a closet app is the decision, that is the whole comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Cladwell vs PutTogether, which should I pick?
PutTogether if you want the daily outfit decided before you open the app, drawn on a portrait of you, with a two-sentence reason and hourly weather; it is $9.99 a month on iPhone. Cladwell if you are on Android, keep a deliberate capsule, or want the lowest price for a daily card; it is $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year. Both decide from your own closet by the weather, which is why they are the right two to compare.
Is Cladwell worth $7.99 a month in 2026?
For a capsule dresser, yes: the paid tier is the daily recommendation loop, the card takes about five seconds, and the free tier already handles cataloguing with five AI messages a month. For a large or growing closet it is a constraint, because the picks rotate what you have rather than expand it. It was last updated in March 2026.
Does Cladwell use the weather?
Yes. Its listing says daily outfit inspiration is "based on your clothes, the weather, and what you wear most," and the card shows the day's high and low. In our tests the weather logic stayed at the temperature-band level. PutTogether feeds the stylist the hourly forecast, feels-like, rain, wind and UV, and the reason text names the temperature.
Is Cladwell free?
There is a free tier with closet management and five AI messages a month. The daily recommendation loop is Premium at $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year; the App Store listing also carries a $9.99 monthly SKU and a $21.99 quarterly one.
What is the best Cladwell alternative on iPhone?
PutTogether, if what you liked about Cladwell was the daily decision and what you wanted more of was the reason, the weather detail and seeing the outfit on yourself. Fits if you want a free catalogue with the AI optional. Stylebook if you want to build outfits yourself and keep an archive for $4.99 once.
Does PutTogether do capsule wardrobes?
It does not impose one. The Mini tier is a 25-piece closet, which is a capsule by size, and Dress me builds a trip capsule with a packing list. But the daily stylist sees your whole closet and is told to favour underused pieces across a month rather than to rotate a fixed set. If you want the app to enforce a capsule, Cladwell is built for that.
Sources & references
- Testing: both apps on iOS 26, April–May and August 2026, same wardrobe; Cladwell on a Pixel 9. The 30-day diary and setup timings are published in 7 Virtual Closet Apps, Tested for 30 Days.
- Cladwell App Store: description, "Ask Cladwell, powered by CHATGPT" (v5.7.0 release note), IAP SKUs, v5.12.4 dated 6 March 2026, rating count. Cladwell pricing. Ownership: They Got Acquired, 2019.
- PutTogether App Store, v2.2 dated 8 September 2026. Scheduling, weather inputs, the 30-day variety instruction and Dress me mechanics are described from the shipping build.
- PutTogether is the publisher of this article and wins it three rounds to two; the rounds and their criteria are stated above so you can re-weight them.
