SkinScan

Not a diagnosis · a photo diary for your skin

The useful question is not
“is this bad?” — it is “has it changed?”

No app can tell you whether a mole is cancer from a phone photo, and any app that claims to is lying to you. What software genuinely can do is remember: hold every spot on your body, photographed in the same way on known dates, measured against a coin, so that a real change is obvious instead of invisible.

Start your log — freeWhat it cannot do

How it works

  1. Photograph the spot

    The app checks the photo before it accepts it — focus, lighting, glare, distance. Put a €1 coin next to the mole and it can measure the actual width in millimetres.

  2. Pin it on the body map

    Rotate the model, click where the spot is. Six months later you will not remember whether it was the left or right shoulder blade. The map will.

  3. Four models describe it

    Gemini, GPT-4o, Claude and Qwen each describe the same photo independently. Where they disagree, you are told — disagreement is a reason to see a person.

  4. Come back in three months

    This is the part that matters. A single photo of a mole says very little. The same mole photographed twice, months apart, says a lot.

  5. Ask a dermatologist

    If you want a human answer, send the whole history — every photo, every date, the measurements — to a licensed dermatologist and get a written opinion back.

What you get told

Four outcomes, and every one of them is an instruction about what to do next rather than a claim about what the spot is. The wording is deliberate.

Nothing stood out

Nothing in this photo matched the features we look for. That is not the same as “this is harmless” — photos miss things. Keep it in your log and re-photograph it in about six months.

Worth keeping an eye on

One or two features are worth watching. The useful thing now is a second photo in about three months — change over time tells you far more than any single picture.

Get this looked at

Several features here are the kind a dermatologist should look at in person. Book an appointment in the next couple of weeks. This is not a diagnosis and most spots like this turn out to be harmless.

See a doctor promptly

This has features that should be examined soon — within days, not months. Please book with a dermatologist or your GP. Again: this is a prompt to get checked, not a diagnosis.

What it cannot do

Every competitor buries this page. It is the most important one here, so it is on the front.

Price

Logging

Free

Unlimited spots, unlimited photos, the body map, the AI description, change detection between visits, and reminders. The part that protects you is the part that costs nothing.

Dermatologist opinion

€29 per case

A licensed dermatologist reads your whole history — not one photo — and writes back within 48 hours with an impression, an urgency, and what to do. Pay per case, no subscription.