Really Advanced AI / Lacking Features – PhotoAge Live - How Old Do You Really Look? Review

Despite a review that says "it only takes pictures", this app is much more than that... It uses advanced machine vision to accurately rate how attractive you are in given lighting from different angles, etc in real time (based on advanced models on what humans find visually pleasing). It is also able to guess your age (or at least how old you look) with stunning accuracy. This is great since we all want to look younger in our photos. The realtime analysis lets you find the best lighting, angle and makeup to look your very best in a shot. I was a paid customer of the earlier versions of this, PhotoAge and PhotoGenic and frankly I'd given up on these apps ever being updated. Neither has worked since iOS 7 and I used them often so I was really annoyed when they stopped working. I even emailed the developers and they promised an update soon (this was over 3 years ago). The old apps only worked on still images, so this update is a major one (but considering it took almost 3 years, I'm deducting a star). I'm also deducting a star because you can no longer evaluate pictures you've already taken. The live function is nice but let's face it, this isn't going to be the camera you use most of the time. It really needs the ability to import photos for analysis in addition to the live real time camera. Also, it overlays the age / rating onto the pictures you save to the camera roll which makes it useless in obtaining photos you actually want to use on social media, etc. Maybe disabling the overlay is a feature in the premium upgrade but it doesn't state that it is. I'll update my review if I find that to be the case. I'm giving it three stars based on the technology being impressive and because it is a truly unique app. Nothing else in the App Store does what this does, BUT the developers really need to consider how end users want to use the technology for it to be useful. Given their track record on updates, maybe we can expect this to actually be a cool, five star product by say 2022.
Review by Enciter on PhotoAge Live - How Old Do You Really Look?.