How our AI face tools work
No magic and no marketing. Here is what each tool does, how well it does it, and what makes it wrong, from the person who built them.
There are three tools, and they all work from a single photo, run in a few seconds, and delete your image right after. They are estimates meant for fun and self-curiosity, not medical assessments.
Face age: how old do I look
The age test detects a single face in your photo, crops to it, and passes it to a deep-learning model that predicts apparent age, the age a person looks, from visual cues like skin texture, fine lines, under-eye area and overall structure. It is an estimate of how old you appear, not a lookup of your real age.
How accurate is it? Close, but not exact, and that is true of every tool in this category. Modern facial age models typically land within a handful of years of a person's real age on clean, well-lit photos, and drift further on hard ones. Lighting, angle, expression and photo quality all move the number, so the same face can get different results across two photos.
AI age progression: older or younger
The age progression tool generates a new version of your face at a different age. It uses FRAN, an open-source, U-Net based re-aging model (based on Disney Research's face re-aging work, MIT licensed), which learns how a face changes over time and applies that change while keeping your identity, background and lighting intact. It works entirely on the photo you upload, and the result is your own face, re-aged, so there is no one else's likeness involved.
Limits: it is an estimate from a single photo, so a clear, front-facing, well-lit shot gives the most believable result. It reshapes aging cues; it cannot know how you will actually age.
Skin analysis: how old is your skin
The skin analysis reads your photo with classic computer vision, no trained model, and scores six visible skin qualities: fine lines, texture, even tone, redness, dark circles and radiance. It combines them into a skin score and an estimated skin age, and reads your skin type from how much shine shows in your T-zone. When we can also estimate your face age, we show your skin age next to it.
Limits: it reads what is visible in the photo, so lighting, makeup and photo quality strongly affect it, and it is a fun estimate, not a dermatological diagnosis. For any skin health concern, see a dermatologist.
What we do with your photo
Across every tool, your image is processed only to produce your result and is deleted right after. It is never stored long term, never sold, and never used to train anything. The tools are free and funded by advertising, not by your data. More detail is in the privacy policy.
What these are not
These are novelty and self-curiosity tools. They are not medical, diagnostic, or biological-age assessments, and nothing here should be used to make health decisions.