Skincare habit coach · iPhone
You do your skincare every day. Can you tell if it is working?
A photo from last month, in a different bathroom light, does not answer that. SkinLately adds ten seconds: one selfie in the same light, one Glow Score, three things to do today — and a side-by-side you can actually trust.
Two free browser tools. No account, no upload, nothing to install.
What SkinLately is
SkinLately is a skincare habit coach for iPhone. You take a 10-second selfie in the same light every day; it gives you a Glow Score across five cosmetic-level dimensions — hydration, texture, calmness, clarity, under-eyes — plus three things to do today, and keeps your streak. It shows whether your routine is working for you, relative to your Day 1. It is not a diagnosis tool and does not rate your looks. Free tools on the web; the daily scan is a subscription ($2.99/week or $29.99/year, 3-day trial).
Free, and free of catches
Two tools that solve the boring part
Progress photos fail for one reason: the light moved, not your skin. Both of these run in your browser. Your photos are never sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for them to be sent.
Same-Light Check
Point your camera at the spot you photograph in. It reads the actual pixels and tells you whether the light is usable — too dark, blown out, too flat, or good enough to keep coming back to.
Open the checker →
Before/After Maker
Two photos in, one aligned side-by-side out — in feed and story sizes. Line the eyes up with a slider, hide the top of your face or the background if you want, then download it.
Make a side-by-side →
The measurement
Five things, every day, in the same light
Every scan reads the same five cosmetic-level dimensions and rolls them into one Glow Score. The words are deliberately plain: they describe how skin looks today, not what anything is.
The score is a relative reference. Its only job is to be comparable with your own score from yesterday and from Day 1 — which is exactly why the lighting has to hold still. We are measuring how much it moves when the light changes.
Start reading
The 30-day version, in writing
Everything the app does, you can do by hand. These are the instructions, for free, with no sign-up:
- Is my skincare working? — the 30-day protocol, and why the mirror cannot answer this
- How to take skin progress photos — light, position, time, and the one variable rule
- How long skincare takes to work — what the sources actually say, by ingredient
- Every skin tracker app we could verify — including the ones better than us at things
Boundaries, on purpose
What SkinLately will never do
- Name a skin condition, or hint at one. Not once, not carefully.
- Rate how you look, rank you against anyone, or show a percentile.
- Recommend or sell a product. No affiliate links, no brand partners — a tracker that sells you the thing it measures is not a tracker.
- Upload a photo from this website. The browser tools have no server.
- Take payment on the web, or ask you to make an account to try something.
If something in a photo is outside what a cosmetic tool should comment on, you get one sentence and no interpretation: “Worth a professional look. Something here is outside what a cosmetic tool should comment on — please show it to a dermatologist.”
Common questions
Do I need the app to use the tools?
No. The Same-Light Check and the Before/After Maker run entirely in your browser. No account, no upload, no limit on how many times you use them. They work offline once the page has loaded.
What does SkinLately actually measure?
Five cosmetic-level dimensions — hydration, texture, calmness, clarity and under-eyes — combined into one Glow Score. The number is only meaningful next to your own previous numbers. It is not a grade, and there is no comparison with other people anywhere in the product.
Is this a skin analysis that tells me what is wrong?
No, and it is built so it cannot become one. It never names a condition and never gives a severity. If something in a photo falls outside what a cosmetic tool should comment on, you get one fixed sentence: “Worth a professional look. Something here is outside what a cosmetic tool should comment on — please show it to a dermatologist.” — nothing else, no description, no guess.
How much does it cost?
$2.99 a week or $29.99 a year, after a 3-day free trial. Cancel any time. That is inside the iPhone app. This website never takes payment, and the browser tools are free with nothing attached.
When is the app out?
It is not on the App Store yet. The tools and the guides are live now; leave an email on any page and you get exactly one message when the app ships.