An AI face scan app that measures, instead of guessing.

What an AI face scan actually is

A face scan is a measurement tool, not a verdict. The software locates landmarks on your face — pupil centres, the alar base of the nose, the vermilion border of the lips, the gonial angle of the jaw — and then computes the relationships between them: angles, ratios, and distances.

Those relationships are the part that matters. A single measurement like “eye-to-eye distance: 63.4 mm” means nothing on its own. It becomes useful only when it’s compared against a documented range that facial-anatomy researchers have published.

How the GlowAI scan works

Two photos, taken on a normal phone: one front-facing, one side profile. The front photo carries most of the horizontal geometry — eye spacing, facial fifths, mouth width, jaw width. The side profile carries everything the front photo physically cannot show: chin projection, nasal angles, and total facial convexity.

• Capture. Front view, then side profile. Neutral expression, even light, hair off the jawline.
• Measure. 75 measurements are computed and each is compared against its ideal range.
• Score. The individual metrics roll up into one composite harmony score from 0–100.
• Prioritize. Metrics are sorted by how much improving them would move your overall score — and by whether they’re realistically changeable at all.

What gets measured, and against what

Every metric in GlowAI carries the citation it was derived from — published anthropometric work by Farkas, Powell, Naini, Sarver, Goode, and Mommaerts among others. Nothing in the app is a black box you have to take on faith. A representative sample:

That’s six of seventy-five. The full scan covers the eyes, nose, lips, jaw, chin, midface, and profile.

What a face scan can’t tell you

Being straight about the limits is part of taking measurement seriously:

• It can’t tell you whether you’re attractive. Attraction isn’t a geometry problem, and no anthropometric range captures expression, personality, or presence.
• It can’t give medical or surgical advice. Ideal ranges are population statistics, not treatment plans.
• It can’t out-measure a bad photo. Tilt your head, smile, or shoot in hard side light and the angles shift — that’s a photography problem, not a face problem.

What happens to your photos

Photos are encrypted at rest, signed for at most seven days, and stored only inside your own account. You can delete your photos and your entire account from inside the app, and deletion cascades to every backend record — not just the copy you can see.

Getting a usable scan

• Face a window, or any large soft light source. Avoid overhead spotlights.
• Neutral expression — no smile, lips together, jaw relaxed.
• Camera at eye level, roughly an arm’s length away.
• Hair off the forehead and jawline; glasses off.
• For the side profile, turn a full 90° rather than three-quarters.

GlowAI runs on iOS 16+ and Android 9+, and the scan pipeline is identical on both. You can read more about how the whole app fits together, or how the same measurements get turned into a day-to-day plan.

Common questions