The pattern is in the photos.
You just need somewhere to put them.
Skinframe is a photo-first rosacea tracker. Capture in ten seconds a day. Get honest pattern correlations after a few weeks. Hand your dermatologist a one-page report grounded in current dermatology consensus.
App Store 14 days free. $29.99 once or $4.99/mo after. Photos stay on your iPhone.
What's different
The photo is the data.
Most rosacea trackers ask you to score yourself on a sliding scale and trust your memory. Skinframe asks for ten seconds of camera. Your skin is the ground truth, your notes are the context.
Patterns with their evidence shown.
"Hot drinks within 12 hours preceded 4 of your last 5 flares." Every insight comes with the count, the window, and a confidence tier. No black box. No "AI says spicy food." If we don't have enough data yet, we say so.
A report your dermatologist can read.
One US Letter PDF. Side-by-side photos with severity scores, a trigger co-occurrence table, and a methodology footer that lays out exactly how patterns were computed and which consensus framework (ROSCO 2017 + NRS 2017) the severity scoring follows. The clinical reader doesn't have to wonder whether the rubric is something the app invented.
Photos stay on your iPhone.
Selfies live in a sandboxed app folder, not your Camera Roll. Severity scores, trigger tags, and timestamps sync through your own private iCloud container so the timeline survives a phone swap, but the photos themselves never touch a Skinframe server. We don't operate one.
Built for the chronic case.
Rosacea isn't an event with a start and an end. It's a baseline that drifts. Skinframe lets you log a quick check-in even on uneventful days, so the timeline reflects your actual face, not just the bad weeks you remembered to track.
The loop, in a sentence
Selfie. Severity. One trigger tag. Done in under a minute, every morning.
- 1 Capture.Front camera in even light. Skinframe nudges you to the same angle each time.
- 2 Score.A 0–4 severity dial. Optional: pick a subtype (papules, flushing, telangiectasia, ocular).
- 3 Tag.One thing about today, what you ate, how you slept, the weather, a new product. Add notes if you want.
- 4 Wait.After ~3 weeks, the Insights tab starts showing tiered correlations. Until then, it tells you what it's still watching for.
About your photos
Rosacea is on your face. That makes a rosacea tracker a face tracker, and a face tracker is the most personal kind of health data there is. We took that seriously when we designed Skinframe.
- → Photos are stored in a sandboxed app folder. Not in your Camera Roll unless you explicitly export them.
- → Face detection during capture and import runs on-device using Apple's Vision framework. Image bytes never leave your iPhone.
- → Pattern detection runs on log metadata only: severity scores, timestamps, trigger tags. Never on the photos.
- → The dermatologist report is generated on your device. You choose how to share it.
- → No advertising SDKs, no Facebook pixel, no Google Analytics. We do use TelemetryDeck for aggregated app-usage signals and Sentry for crash reports, both with a strict no-PHI guard. See privacy for the full list of what's sent.
For dermatologists
The Skinframe PDF is a one-page handoff: phenotype severity history per ROSCO 2017 features (no composite score), top-three lag-aware co-occurrences with explicit count and window, side-by-side calmest and worst photos for the period, and an optional RosaQoL block. The methodology footer documents how patterns were computed and which consensus framework (ROSCO 2017 + NRS 2017) is used, so any clinical reader can judge the evidence on its own terms.
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