Free AI skin analysis, built for melanin-rich and tropical skin
Scan your face with your phone and read your skin in about twenty seconds: a score for each of the four conditions tropical skin actually faces, what each one looks like on you, and a routine that answers it. No appointment, no clinic, nothing to pay.
The four conditions we grade
They come from Xcape's own clinical work — analyses run in Cameroon and across the 36 states of Nigeria, read with doctors, to find what tropical skin is actually contending with rather than what a general skin tool expects to find.
- Hyperpigmentation — Dark marks, uneven tone and the spots left behind after a spot heals — the most common complaint on melanin-rich skin, and the slowest to fade.
- Over-sebaceous activity — Shine, congestion and breakouts — oil production pushed up by heat and humidity rather than by anything you are doing wrong.
- Surface dehydration — Tight, dull, rough skin that can still be oily underneath — the one most often mistaken for dryness and treated with the wrong thing.
- Weak elasticity — Loss of firmness and bounce — the quiet one, because it arrives years before anybody calls it a wrinkle.
How the scan works
- Three photographs: straight on, then each side. The camera takes them itself once it sees a face.
- Ten visible signs are scored, and those build the four conditions.
- You get a report: what is visible, where it is on your face, and the products and customised mixes that answer it.
Common questions
- Is XSkin AI free?
- Yes. Four skin scans a day, in every country, with no account and nothing to pay. You give an email address or a WhatsApp number only if you want the report sent to you.
- Does AI skin analysis work on dark skin?
- Most of it works poorly, because most of it was calibrated on light skin and reads every deep tone as pigmented. XSkin AI grades against the four conditions Xcape's own clinical work in Cameroon and across Nigeria's 36 states found in tropical skin, which is a different question from the one a general tool is asking.
- How long does a skin scan take?
- About twenty seconds. Three photographs — straight on and each side — and the report comes back on the same screen with a score for each condition and what to do about it.
- What happens to my photographs?
- Face detection runs on your own phone, so the framing never leaves it. The photograph is sent for analysis and kept with your report so you can compare scans over time. Photographs are removed after twenty-four months, and you can delete yours at any time.
- Is this a medical diagnosis?
- No. It is cosmetic guidance: what is visible on the surface of the skin and what is likely to help it. A persistent, painful or changing skin condition is for a doctor, not an app.
- Which countries can order products?
- Cameroon orders in the app today. Nigeria can scan and read a full report now, with ordering opening shortly. Everywhere else is served by the Xcape website.