AI skin analysis
Selfie-based skin scanners and routine builders, read on their makers' own pages and set against independent tests. The claims that matter here are what is measured, what accuracy figure is published and against what, how it performs across skin tones, and what happens to your face.
Five lines we check on every skin analysis app
Every guide here reads these lines on the maker's own page and dates what it found. The full method is on how we check.
- 01
What it measures
Wrinkles, spots, redness, pores or a "skin age", and from which photo.
- 02
Accuracy published
The figure, what it is measured against, and whether it is repeatability or accuracy.
- 03
Skin tones
Whether results are published by Fitzpatrick type.
- 04
What it sells
Whether it recommends its own or a client brand's products.
- 05
Your face
Whether the selfie is kept, for how long, and whether it trains the model.
Every skin analysis app guide
Each one prints the date its figures were read and the date they will be read again.
How accurate are AI skin analysis apps?
Repeatable is not the same as right: what the makers publish, and what an independent test found.
Best AI skin analysis app
Ten scanners by what you want from them, who they sell, and what happens to your selfie.
Where the law stands. Where a tool scans a face, Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act defines a scan of face geometry as a biometric identifier, which is why these guides read what each app says it keeps.