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In one paragraph
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).
That paragraph is used word for word on the App Store listing, on Product Hunt, in every profile bio and in our llms.txt. If you are quoting us, it is the paragraph to quote — it is the one we keep identical everywhere on purpose.
Fact card
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| What it is | SkinLately is a skincare habit coach for iPhone. |
|---|---|
| Who it is for | People who already have a skincare routine and want to know whether it is doing anything, measured against their own Day 1. |
| What it does not do | It does not diagnose, does not name any condition, does not give a severity, does not rate attractiveness, does not rank users against each other, and does not recommend or sell products. |
| How it measures | One selfie a day in the same light and the same spot. Five cosmetic-level dimensions — hydration, texture, calmness, clarity, under-eyes — combined into a Glow Score that is only ever compared with the same person's earlier scores. |
| Privacy | On the website, nothing is uploaded — the free tools run entirely in the browser. In the app, a photo is analysed and then deleted; five numbers and a timestamp are stored; the original stays on the device; one tap deletes everything. Photos are not used for training. |
| Price | $2.99 a week or $29.99 a year, after a 3-day free trial. Cancel any time. In-app purchase only; no payment is ever taken on the website. |
| Platform | iPhone. No Android version, no web version of the app. |
| Status | Pre-launch as of 15 August 2026. The browser tools and the guides are live; the app is not on the App Store yet. |
| Company | Independent and self-funded. No dermatologist on staff, no medical claim, no brand partnerships, no affiliate revenue. |
| Contact | hello@skinlately.com |
Why it exists
The honest version: everyone doing skincare eventually spends real money on a routine and then cannot tell whether it did anything. The evidence people try to use — a photo from last month in a different bathroom light, plus a memory of their own face — is not evidence. The gap is not knowledge. It is measurement, and the measurement fails for a boring reason: the light moved.
So the product is a habit, not an oracle. Ten seconds in the same spot, every day. And the two most useful parts of it — checking that a spot is usable, and building an aligned side-by-side — are free on this website with no account, because they should be, and because they are the parts that work without us.
What we have decided not to build
This list is more useful than a feature list, because these are the things a product in this category is constantly pulled towards.
- Anything that names a condition. The five dimension names are a hard constraint enforced in code, not a style guide. The model can only choose from a fixed pool of phrases we wrote — it cannot generate free text about your face.
- No score for how you look, and no ranking or percentile. There is no population in the data model to rank anyone against.
- Product recommendations, affiliate links, brand partnerships. Permanent. A tracker funded by the things it measures is an advert.
- Web scanning. The browser tools do not and will not upload a photo. There is no server for them to upload to.
- A checkout on this website. Subscriptions live in the App Store.
- Anything that looks like emotional support or companionship. It is a measuring tool. It does not have a personality and is not going to acquire one.
The one sentence we say about anything unusual, in full: “Worth a professional look. Something here is outside what a cosmetic tool should comment on — please show it to a dermatologist.” No name, no severity, no guess. That sentence is identical in the app, on this site and in everything we write, and it is deliberately the only thing the product will say on the subject.
Who writes this
The guides on this site are written by SkinLately's founder. Not a doctor, not a dermatologist, and not a cosmetic scientist. The background is software and measurement, which is the part of this problem the site is actually about.
What that means in practice: everything here is either about how cameras and comparisons work — which we can speak to — or a citation of somebody who does have the training, clearly attributed and dated. We cite and do not endorse. None of the sources we quote has reviewed this site or has any relationship with us. Where a claim rests on a brand blog rather than a professional body or a paper, the page says so, because the difference matters.
If you find something wrong on this site, email it. Corrections get made and dated.
Press kit
- Boilerplate: the paragraph at the top of this page, used verbatim.
- Logo: SVG — moss green on rice paper. Please do not recolour it or set it on a purple gradient.
- Fact card: the table above.
- Screenshots: the interactive demo at /demo/ is the product flow on sample data — screenshot it freely, and please keep the "sample data" bar visible in anything you publish.
- What we will not supply: before/after photos of real users, an accuracy figure, or a quote calling the product a skin analysis tool.
- Contact: hello@skinlately.com — a person reads it.
How to cite this site
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