TroveSkin: Skincare Coach

The analysis portion of this app is useless - back to back readings of the same selfie come up with completely different results - The age factor will be 10 years different plus the “spots” often pick up the corner of my eyes but miss totally obvious acne and scaring and textures are completely random. I’m not even sure there is AI built in this app. The comparison to other users doesn’t even have results. It always just says 0. The redemptive part is the manual tracking tools and interface. The side by side comparison function and skin diary are perfect for historical comparison and assessment of your skin appearance and product usage. It’s great for self analysis. And, it’s the only app available on the usa store that does this.

I was honestly going to start tracking my skincare in Google Keep or a notepad because I was getting frustrated. How do we know what's working unless we track it? And then I have products that I just haven't worked into my regimen regularly. This app resolves all that. I really love it. I was looking for a simple tracker and got so much more. Let's just hope this one doesn't go away and it keeps being updated efficiently. One negative is having to take photos of products. Just give us a drop-down list of brands and products like the Skintime app does. Like I’m gonna go around my dressing room taking photos of all my skincare products. Come in.

This app is very useful. It basically creates a diary kind of format for you to monitor your skins progress and the breakouts that you experienced through blackheads, acne, dry skin and other such things. The app gives you questions to answer about problems you experience with your face, which allow for it to determine solutions for you, so you’ll need to have a good understanding about your skin type. I think the app holds massive potential but the facial skin Analysis is a bit flawed. The analysis told me my skin is 15 years older than I am, and I don’t have horrible skin. In conclusion, I think that this app will only become better with time and people need to use this as a diary and not as much for the analysis.

The best thing about Trove is that it is actually free and doesn’t feel sample-sized or like merely an interactive advertisement like other free apps. There are a lot of useful tools and several different components to play around with. It’s mostly a skin diary, I don’t know how well the analysis tool actually works because it gave me an 87% and I don’t think my skin is anywhere near that healthy looking! But taking the daily pictures and being able to compare them side by side is useful, as is the skin diary which tracks your mood, menstrual cycle status, and products you used that day.

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Not great, not terrible. The only thing I really like about this app is the feature to compare past skin logs. The analyzation feature is completely useless, it completely misses actual dark spots and pores on my face and instead pinpoints the corners of my eyes and mouth as skin issues. Even when taking photos at the same time of day and the same place the AI does not do a good job of pointing out actual skin issues. Thankfully the ability to compare skin logs is there because it grants you the ability to see just how wrong the app is when giving you a rating on your skin and how old it looks. One day my skin could look 100 times better than the previous day and yet the app will still say my skin looks like a 35 year olds and is at 61% yet the previous day looked like a 20 year olds and has 89%. Which is another point, the percentile ranking for people my age does not seem to have an explanation as to whether being in the 6th % or 94% is better, and the percentage rating it seems to give your skin is also quite sketchy as the AI itself does not do it’s job and therefore gives an overall inaccurate reading of the health of one’s skin.