Launched in 2011, the PrettyScale application was launched with the aim of measuring the percentage of beauty just by analyzing your photo and using some standard criteria to obtain such a result. At first, the App was released as a joke, but in a short time it went viral and caused adverse opinions. When searching the Play Store for the term “Sou Feio” some are offended by the result, while others take it in stride.

We decided to test the Application and bring you some results, using photos of some artists, but you can use your own photo and do the test. But first we would like to explain how everything works and present you with some test results:

How does the App work?

To start with, the user has to select their gender and then either upload the photo or take a photo from the camera. Then you can start analyzing: align the face with the model and place the markers following the algorithm's visual instructions.

The developer ensures that PrettyScale analyzes the mathematical beauty of the face, which gives priority to proportionality, so it's best to choose a frontal image. By the way, we found a robot that likes your ID photo!

Natalie Portman

The application calculates some characteristics that are considered essential for beauty tests, such as face shape, forehead size, distance between the eyes, among others, as exemplified in the image above.

Angelina Jolie

What was the conclusion we made when testing PrettyScale?

• It is very sensitive to adjustments and the position of the face in the photo, so sometimes when analyzing different photos of the same person, we get totally different results;
• With the same prominent features, the program can show different percentages that show the presence of traps in the algorithm;
• This robot doesn't like men, but he loves passport photos;
• In the English version there is a warning that people with poor self-esteem should not use this application, so the best advice is to accept it with humor, although our analysis never gave bad results that could cause great indignation from users.

The app is available on PlayStore