The engine

How the scan actually works.

Most face-rating apps run six crude measurements on a single selfie and dress it up. Moggable doesn't. Here's exactly what happens when you scan — and why it produces a read you can actually trust.

The pipeline

  1. 1

    478 landmarks, on your device

    Google's MediaPipe FaceLandmarker maps 478 precise 3D points on your face — entirely in your browser. Your photo or video is analyzed in memory and never uploaded. We only ever keep the resulting numbers.

  2. 2

    Multiple angles, not one flat photo

    You turn your head through a guided scan (or upload a front shot plus two profiles). We auto-detect head pose and capture the best frame at each angle. Profiles are the whole point — a front photo physically cannot measure gonial angle, facial convexity, or ramus length. Bone structure only reveals itself from the side.

  3. 3

    Pose normalization

    Before scoring, every capture is corrected for head yaw, pitch, and roll, so a slight tilt doesn't distort your ratios. Metrics are computed relative to your own face size, not raw pixels.

  4. 4

    Research-grounded ideal ranges

    Each of 30+ metrics is scored against published ideal ranges drawn from facial-aesthetics literature and the looksmaxxing measurement corpus — gonial angle 112–123°, canthal tilt +5–8.5°, fWHR 1.90–2.06, and so on. Scoring uses a plateau curve: full marks inside the ideal band, a smooth falloff outside it — no arbitrary cutoffs.

  5. 5

    Four pillars, one number

    Metrics roll up into four weighted pillars — Harmony, Angularity, Dimorphism, Miscellaneous — which fuse into your overall score and seed rating. Your report shows every metric, its measured value, and its ideal, so nothing is a black box.

The four pillars

Thirty-plus metrics are grouped into four pillars, each weighted by how much it drives overall aesthetics.

Harmony

34% of score

How well your features relate to each other — proportion, spacing, and balance. The single biggest driver of how a face reads.

  • Facial thirdsthe three vertical sections of the face, ideally equal
  • Rule of fifthsthe face is five eye-widths wide, evenly divided
  • Eye spacingintercanthal distance ≈ one eye width
  • Facial width-to-height (fWHR)ideal 1.90–2.06
  • Nose–mouth harmonymouth ≈ 1.5× nose width
  • Midface compactness & lip ratiobalanced central proportions
  • Symmetryleft/right agreement across the midline

Angularity

30% of score

How clearly your bone structure shows through — sharpness, definition, and forward growth. This is where profiles matter most.

  • Canthal tiltouter eye corner above inner, ideal +5°–8.5°
  • Gonial anglethe jaw angle, ideal 112–123° (needs a profile)
  • Cheekbone prominencemalar projection, read from depth
  • Jaw & jaw-width ratiobigonial vs. bizygomatic width
  • Facial convexitystraightness of the profile, ideal 168–176°
  • Ramus-to-mandible ratiojaw structure, ideal 0.59–0.78

Dimorphism

22% of score

How distinctly masculine or feminine your features read — scored toward your own sex, using the traits research consistently ties to it.

  • Jaw robustnesswider, more defined jaw reads masculine
  • Brow prominencethe strongest single masculinity signal
  • Lip fullnessfuller lips read more feminine
  • Face taper & widthstructural sex differences

Miscellaneous

14% of score

Perceived health and tissue quality — the fast-moving, high-ROI traits you can change quickest.

  • Skin claritytexture smoothness from the captured frame
  • Skin evennesstone uniformity
  • Eye radiancesclera brightness and clarity
  • Eye opennessalertness and eye aspect ratio

Why this beats a selfie rating

Multi-angle, so bone structure is real

Gonial angle, ramus, convexity — the metrics that separate a strong jaw from a soft one — simply cannot be measured from the front. We capture profiles so they can.

Grounded in published ranges

Every ideal comes from facial-aesthetics research and the looksmaxxing corpus, not vibes. You see the exact target next to your value.

Private by design

Landmarking runs on your device. Your face is never uploaded. We store only the derived numbers — never an image.

Honest about what it is

This is a rigorous geometric analysis, not a clinically validated attractiveness score — no app has that. We tell you so, and we lead every weak metric with a real way to improve it.

The honest fine print

Beauty is cultural, personal, and far more than geometry — and no algorithm, ours included, is a validated predictor of attractiveness. What Moggable gives you is a precise, consistent, research-anchored read of your facial proportions, plus a real ladder where your rank is decided by people, not just the math. Use it to track progress, not to judge your worth. If it stops feeling good, step back.