Need To Be Told You’re Ugly? There’s An App For That.

By Mark Lorenz on November 17th, 2009

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If there’s one thing society is entirely too focused on, it’s looks. How focused are we on looks? Most of the models who are on “America’s Next Top Model” are actually too old to be professional models. Frightening, no? Also, there’s an iPhone App to tell you how ugly you are.

Yes, that’s right. Your iPhone can judge looks. Hopefully it won’t go sentient and stop you from making late-night calls, thereby killing your social life, but still. Hooray for technology. Did you ever think there’d be a time when your computing devices would tell you how attractive you were, or did you think that was a long way off? Just a dream of science fiction writers, as to what crazy robots did before they killed you?

The app is called Fit or Fugly. Appropriate. It was created by an enterprising teenage entrepreneur from the United Kingdom, hence the colloquialism in the title. But you know what? If this spawns a billion dollar empire like Facebook, ’cause some rich preppy douche wanted to compare the attractiveness of his classmates to barnyard animals, I’m gonna cap someone. The application uses Fibonacci’s golden ratio, and measures symmetry of the face. You put in a picture, point out where the features are, and BAM. It’ll tell you if you’re fit or fugly.

You know what? It sounds shallow, but it’d probably be a fun bar trick. The app is a dollar, and is available now. Download it here.