AI Dermatologist: Skin Scanner

This and other skin lesion analyzers on the App Store are regulated medical devices. There are only 3 that have shown enough data to be approved, and this is not one of them! Their claimed performance numbers for melanoma (the most dangerous form of skin cancer) are not high enough to guarantee it won’t accidentally miss a melanoma! Days and weeks matter with melanoma! Ask Jimmy Buffet what happens when you don’t catch melanoma early enough.

Which was later confirmed by my PCP! Thank you for creating and providing this technology.

Submitted the same photo back-to-back and got two greatly different results—One high risk, one low risk. App should not use “Dermatologist” in the name.

I never write reviews but the money I wasted on this app makes me want to. First things first, its results are wildly inaccurate. I fed it 7 pics of a growth I had an 6 of the results said it was 75-95% chance cancer. Doc could tell at first look it likely wasn’t. Even worse though is how bad the interface is. You can’t edit old scans in case you mislabeled them, and “adding to an existing scan” overwrites it, making the old one(s) inaccessible. And on top of all that, the “reports” make you wait for them to be “generated” but are in no way customized for you. It’s literally a copy/paste of relevant info for what it “diagnosed” you with. Yeah, it’s not supposed to replace a doctor. But if it can’t even remotely diagnose anything, and is this inaccurate, I’d just call it a scam.

I was curious so I gave it a try. To be clear, I have a history of melanoma which was between stage 1 and 2 when it was removed and a second procedure occurred to remove the area around and below the original spot. I have a few spots that my dermatologist has been monitoring and one in particular has grown rapidly over the last year and now one side doesn’t match the other at all, it has blurry edges, etc. one side is like brown blotches branching off from a mole if that makes sense. This app scanned the picture and got it all wrong. This app tried to say it was something like a birth mark. My actual dermatologist is certain it’s melanoma. For reference, I am extremely pale and have used UV tanning daily for a long time but have stopped over the last 2 years and switched to spray tans. I have blonde hair and freckles. I have a history of melanoma.

It says it’s accurate it’s not. I am a wrestler and it’s common for me to get weird skin stuff. When I showed it ring worm(I wasn’t sure at the time) it told me I had herpes and had cancer. Not accurate for bumps or weird spots on skin.

The rash on my stomach had a clear bite in the middle of the wide circle rash. The bullseye itched and was painful. I’m guessing a tick bite. This app was totally off the mark. I now have Burning Mouth Syndrome that can be caused by Lymes disease!

$6.99 a week? You’ve got to be kidding, and that limits you to 20 picture a week? You should be ashamed of yourselves. Put ads on, ask a reasonable per week, monthly or annual… but $6.99 a week? That’s $363.48 a year! I gave you 2 stars because you let me take 1 pic but now I’m wondering if it’s accurate or a sales scheme. If I had known I had one shot I would have taken a better picture. I question the validity of all the other reviews. Shameful.

Uses an obviously malicious expensive per week subscription to even use after one scan

It told me my mole was a plantar wart.