How attractive am I?
No one can give you a single true number for how attractive you are. Pheno answers a smaller question: what a model trained on human ratings predicts for this photo of you, and how much that prediction moves when the same photo is framed differently.
What the question really asks
Attractiveness is something people judge, and people disagree. Tastes vary from person to person, between cultures and over time, and they depend on things a still photo cannot show: your voice, how your face moves, how you carry yourself, who you are.
A face score can only estimate how a group of raters would score one photo. That can be interesting to see. It is not a measure of your worth or of how the people who know you see you.
How Pheno scores a photo
- Score and grade. Pheno finds your face and crops it, and a ResNet-50 neural network trained on human ratings of face photos predicts a score from 1 to 10, shown with a letter grade.
- Capture range. The same photo is re-scored at slightly different crops and small rotations. The range shows how far framing alone moves the number. A wide range means the number should be read loosely.
- Percentile. Where your score sits within the model’s own range of scores. It is not a ranking against everyone alive.
- Region effects (full report). Pheno covers one region at a time (eyes and brows, nose, mouth and lips, jaw and chin, cheeks), scores the photo again, and reports how much each one moved the score. Whatever no single region explains is shown as overall harmony.
The full report also draws facial measurements on your photo. They describe your proportions and are not used to calculate the score.
What the score does not tell you
It is not a fact about you and it is not permanent. Light, angle, expression, camera distance and grooming all move it. The ratings the model learned from came from a limited group of raters and faces, so it carries their tastes, and it may be less reliable for faces unlike the ones it learned from.
A low number on one photo says as much about the photo and the model as about you. Pheno is for entertainment and is not medical, psychological or cosmetic advice.
How to take a fair photo
- Face the camera straight on, head level, eyes on the lens.
- Use soft, even light from the front, such as a window in daylight.
- Hold the camera at eye level, at least an arm’s length away, or have someone else take it.
- Keep your hair off your face and remove sunglasses.
- Upload only a photo of yourself. Add more photos to average out a single bad shot.
Questions
- Is the attractiveness score accurate?
- It is an estimate of how human raters would likely score this photo, not a measurement of a fixed trait. The capture range shows how much framing alone moves it, and lighting, angle and expression can move it further. Treat it as entertainment.
- Why did I get a different score from another photo?
- The model scores a photo, not a person. Light, camera distance, head angle, expression and grooming all change what it sees. You can add up to five photos to one scan; the model scores are averaged, which smooths out some of that variation.
- Is it free?
- Yes. The free scan shows your score, letter grade, capture range, percentile and face shape. The full report, with region effects and measurements drawn on your photo, is a one-time $14.99 (launch price until Nov 30, then $19.99).
- Will Pheno tell me to get surgery?
- No. The full report can list appearance options, but only where a measurement supports them, with a rule-based estimate and typical cost. That is research context, not a recommendation. Talk to a licensed professional before any procedure.
- Who can use it?
- Adults 18 and over, with a photo of their own face.
For entertainment. Not medical, psychological or cosmetic advice. How your photo is handled is set out in the Privacy Policy.
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