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Getting started

Set up your account and the skin profile, and finish your first day.

Updated October 2026

What Skinory is for

Skinory is a companion for your acne, not a diagnosis tool. You log small things every day (sleep, meals, stress, your products, where a spot appeared) and the app looks for the patterns memory cannot keep, then puts them on a report you can take to a dermatologist.

Your first ten minutes

• Create an account with your email or Google. You must be 16 or older.
• Skin profile. Skin type, the kind of acne you deal with, and anything you know about your skin. You can change every answer later in Profile.
• The face map. You will be asked where your spots are right now. Tap the face where they are. Each one becomes a dot that stays until you clear it.
• Cycle, if you want it. The app asks whether you have a menstrual cycle you would like to track. "No" hides the whole module. You can turn it on later in Settings.
• Your first log. Onboarding ends inside your first day. Tap "Finish today" and you are done.

What to expect in the first week

Insights need five complete days before they say anything. Until then the tab explains what it is waiting for. Logging the days that go well matters as much as the bad ones: a pattern is a difference between the two.

Skinory never diagnoses and never recommends prescription medicines. When something worries you, see a professional.