How your score works

Your skin score is the average of seven measurements, from 0 to 100. Higher means clearer skin on every one of them, so it is one number you can watch move as your skin does.

What this app is, and is not

• What it is for. One honest, consistent way to watch your skin change over time.
• What it is not. A diagnosis, a treatment recommendation, or a substitute for a dermatologist. If something changes suddenly or concerns you, that is a conversation for a doctor, not a number in this app.

How we get from a photo to a score

1. Your photo. Taken with the guided camera, which suggests better light when it can, so the photo is usable before it ever reaches a measurement.
2. Finding your face. The photo is analyzed on your phone to locate your face and divide it into regions (forehead, cheeks, under the eyes and more), so each measurement looks at the right part of your skin.
3. Measuring each region. Each of the seven measurements looks at color and texture patterns within those regions. This is a measurement, not a judgment: nothing about it decides what a pattern means for your health.
4. One score. The seven measurements are averaged into your skin score, so there is one number to watch, with the full breakdown always underneath it.

The seven measurements

• Redness. Extra redness across your skin, measured apart from your natural skin tone.
• Texture. How rough or smooth your skin’s surface looks: bumps, dryness, and unevenness you might feel more than see.
• Pores. How visible your pores are.
• Spots. Dark spots and discoloration, counted separately from redness and from overall evenness.
• Acne. Active breakouts: inflamed bumps, not scarring left behind afterward.
• Evenness. How uniform your overall tone is across your face, apart from any spots.
• Wrinkles. Fine lines and creases, mostly around the eyes and forehead.

What the number does, and does not, mean

• Look at the trend, not the day. Lighting, sleep and timing move a single reading around. The direction over weeks is what tells you something.
• It is still being calibrated. The scoring is checked against real readings as they come in, so today’s exact number matters less than how it moves as that calibration improves.
• We work to keep it fair. We aim for the score to respond the same way across skin tones and lighting, and we keep improving it. Deeper skin, and dim light, can still read a little less accurately, which is one more reason a trend over weeks matters more than any single reading.
• It is yours alone. The app never compares your score to anyone else’s.

Questions? Visit Support and write to us, or see How to use Véda.