Your skincare shelf, managed.

Skora is an iOS app that scans skincare products and gives each one a personalized match score based on your skin type, sensitivities, and concerns. Separately, Skora watches your shelf and warns when products you own conflict with each other. Every ingredient is explained in plain English, with cited sources.

No. The match score is purely a product-vs-your-skin score — it does not change based on what else is on your shelf. Shelf conflicts are a separate layer: Skora shows them as warnings on your shelf and inside scan results, but they do not lower the product's own match score.

Yuka rates products on a universal scale — every user sees the same score for the same product. Yuka does offer skin-type filters for browsing, but the score itself doesn't change based on who's using it. Skora is different: your skin profile changes the score itself. The same product can be a "great match" for one user and a "poor match" for another. Skora also detects conflicts between products on your shelf, which Yuka does not.

Think Dirty rates products on a 0–10 hazard scale based largely on the EWG database — the same score for every user. INCIDecoder lists what each ingredient does, like an encyclopedia, without telling you whether you should use it. Skora gives a personalized verdict per ingredient (good for you, use with caution, or skip) based on your skin profile, and weighs ingredients by their INCI position so high-concentration actives carry more weight.

Skora actually uses AI under the hood — but with a few things general AI can't easily replicate, even with custom instructions or memory turned on.

Calibrated scoring. Ask a general AI to rate the same product twice and you'll usually get two different answers, both landing in the safe middle (65–75 out of 100) — because AI without a rubric converges on the mean. Skora's scoring runs against a fixed five-tier rubric anchored to calibrated reference cases. The same product against the same skin profile always returns the same verdict — and the verdicts actually discriminate. A great-for-your-skin moisturizer hits 90+, not 72.

Structured shelf, watched actively. You can tell a general AI your skin type once and it'll remember. Maintaining a current list of every product you actually use, with full ingredient lists, across long conversations — that's brittle. Skora stores your shelf as real structured data and automatically checks every new scan against it. You get a conflict warning when you scan, not when you remember to ask.

Grounded in sources. Every Skora verdict ties back to a cited source. General AI will sometimes hallucinate an ingredient or invent a concern.

Built for a fast loop. Skora turns "is this product right for me?" into one workflow — point your camera at the ingredient list and get a structured answer with a score, ingredient breakdown, and any shelf-conflict warnings. The general-AI version is multi-step every time: photograph, wait, re-prompt for the format you want, read paragraphs of caveats.

Skora evaluates each ingredient against your skin type, sensitivities, and concerns, then weighs it by its INCI list position (a proxy for concentration). The product's match score is a weighted average across all judged ingredients. Every judgment is backed by a cited source.

A shelf conflict happens when two products you own have ingredients that cancel each other out, increase irritation, or destabilize each other when used together. Common examples: vitamin C with chemical exfoliants, retinol stacked with benzoyl peroxide, or strong acids layered with high-percentage niacinamide. Skora flags these on your shelf with plain-English explanations.

Yes. The free tier includes unlimited scans and up to 3 products on your shelf. Full Access is $29.99/year (with a 3-day free trial — about $2.50/month) and unlocks an unlimited shelf, full ingredient breakdowns, the routine builder, and product recommendations.

No. Skora is built only for skincare — moisturizers, serums, cleansers, toners, sunscreens, masks, and treatments. Haircare, makeup, and fragrance use different ingredient logic and are not supported.

Not yet. Skora is currently iOS-only and requires iOS 15.1 or later. Android is on the roadmap.

Skora supports oily, dry, combination, sensitive, and normal skin, and concerns including acne, redness, anti-aging, dark spots, dehydration, and large pores. You set your profile once during onboarding and can update it any time in Settings.

Yes. Skora does not sell user data. Your skin profile and shelf are tied to your account and used only to generate your match scores and conflict warnings.