u/tygasga64

Hi all, i've noticed that a lot of posts in this sub highlight that they've noticed hair thinning recently, OR they make a post with only 1 picture and no before/after. I've been on fin/min for 1.5 years and before I jumped on, this was a huge issue for me too. I didn't monitor my hair, if I did, I would've caught my hair loss way earlier.

So, over the past few months, I built a solution, an app that allows you to take consistent hair progress photos called Follicle - Hair Tracker. I achieved this by creating a "ghost overlay" feature, which displays a transparent old photo over the live camera so you can get the same angle every time. I also created a lighting feature, which compares the lighting of your photos with the "baseline" overlay photo.

I also made other features - such as a progress timeline gallery, treatment reminders and comparisons.

I know how crushing hair loss can be, so I thought this genuinely might help some people here. Happy to answer any questions in the comments. I hope that you all have successful hair journeys!

I’ve been on finasteride + minoxidil for over a year now and one thing that always annoyed me was trying to compare photos. It got to the point where I genuinely couldn’t tell if treatments were working or if the photos were just inconsistent.

So I started building an app for myself called Follicle.

The main feature is a ghost overlay camera, where your old photo appears on screen while taking a new one, so you can line everything up properly and actually take consistent progress pics. I also added a lighting analysis feature because lighting completely changes how your hair looks and I wanted a way to keep track of that too.

I use it for my hair, but I guess it also works if you want to track facial differences too.

There are also comparisons, reminders, AI reports and other stuff, but the consistency part was the whole reason I made it in the first place.

It’s live on iOS and Google Play, just thought I’d share it here because I can’t be the only one who struggles with this.

Hi all, I’ve been tracking my hair regrowth for over a year now and one thing that always annoyed me was trying to compare photos. Sometimes my hair would look noticeably better or worse just because the photo itself was different.

It got to the point where I genuinely couldn’t tell whether treatments were actually helping or if the photos were just inconsistent.

So I started building an app for myself called Follicle.

The main feature is a “ghost overlay” camera where your previous photo appears on screen while taking a new one, so you can line everything up properly and take much more consistent progress pictures over time. I also added a lighting analysis feature because lighting can completely change how hair density looks, and I wanted a way to keep track of that too.

There are also comparisons, treatment reminders, progress tracking and AI reports as well, but honestly the consistency part was the whole reason I made it in the first place.

I’m not the target demographic for this subreddit specifically, but I figured some people here might relate to the frustration of trying to track hair progress accurately.

It’s live on iOS and Google Play now if anyone’s interested.

I’ve been on finasteride + minoxidil for over a year now and one thing that always annoyed me was trying to compare photos. It got to the point where I genuinely couldn’t tell if treatments were working or if the photos were just inconsistent.

So I started building an app for myself called Follicle.

The main feature is a ghost overlay camera, where your old photo appears on screen while taking a new one, so you can line everything up properly and actually take consistent progress pics. I also added a lighting analysis feature because lighting completely changes how your hair looks and I wanted a way to keep track of that too. I use it for my hair, but there's no reason as to why this wouldn't work for beard hair too.

There are also comparisons, reminders, AI reports (not going to really dive into AI as I don't think it really works for hair) and other stuff, but the consistency part was the whole reason I made it in the first place.

It’s live on iOS and Google Play, just thought I’d share it here because I can’t be the only one who struggles with this.

I’ve been on finasteride + minoxidil for over a year now and one thing that always pissed me off was trying to compare photos. It got to the point where I genuinely couldn’t tell if treatments were working or if the photos were just inconsistent.

So I started building an app for myself called Follicle.

The main feature is a ghost overlay camera, where your old photo appears on screen while taking a new one, so you can line everything up properly and actually take consistent progress pics. I also added a lighting analysis feature because lighting completely changes how your hair looks and I wanted a way to keep track of that too.

There are also comparisons, reminders, AI reports and other stuff, but the consistency part was the whole reason I made it in the first place.

It’s live on iOS and Google Play, just thought I’d share it here because I can’t be the only one who struggles with this.

I’ve been on finasteride + minoxidil for over a year now and one thing that always pissed me off was trying to compare photos. It got to the point where I genuinely couldn’t tell if treatments were working or if the photos were just inconsistent.

So I started building an app for myself called Follicle.

The main feature is a ghost overlay camera, where your old photo appears on screen while taking a new one, so you can line everything up properly and actually take consistent progress pics. I also added a lighting analysis feature because lighting completely changes how your hair looks and I wanted a way to keep track of that too.

There are also comparisons, reminders, AI reports and other stuff, but the consistency part was the whole reason I made it in the first place.

It’s live on iOS and Google Play, just thought I’d share it here because I can’t be the only one who struggles with this.

You may just have naturally thin hair, or a naturally high hairline, or maybe your hairline is just maturing. Without before/after pics, it's hard for any of us to tell if you're balding or not. Take pictures months apart! Save them in your camera roll, or use dedicated apps like Follicle - Hair tracker (I made this app specifically for this problem) and then you'll be able to tell if you're balding or not.

Most of you guys are fine, if you had 'before' pics, you'd know that and you wouldn't have to worry.

Hi all, I made an app to track hair growth with some cool features, it's almost like a gym tracker but for your hair. It's out on the app store and currently in review with Google, but I have absolutely no idea how to advertise it without sounding annoying/a spammer. I have got a few users on IOS but I have no real clue how to push it further. I didn't really think this far ahead, I was just going to let it grow organically. I'm wondering what everyone here does?