Lumeria’s new phone attachment uses clinic-style imaging to track your skin at home

Lumeria just launched the Lumoscope, a phone attachment that uses clinic-style imaging to track changes in your skin at home. The company calls it “an Oura Ring for skin,” since it is designed to build a record over time rather than give you a single snapshot.

Users clip the device onto their phone, scan an area of skin in about a minute, and use the companion app to see how things like redness, pigmentation, oil, pores, and texture are changing from week to week.

How the Lumoscope works

The Lumoscope takes a scan using three kinds of light: regular visible light, UV light, and polarized light. Each one can pick up something a standard selfie can miss. Visible light looks at redness and the size and placement of individual spots, UV light can show pigmentation and sebum patterns, and polarized light gives a clearer look at things like texture, pores, and surface gloss.

Consistency is factored in, too. Before-and-after photos can look very different depending on the angle or the room you’re in. Lumeria keeps the light, distance, and imaging settings consistent, so you can compare today’s scan with one from a few weeks or months ago. The app then organizes the results into 7-, 30-, and 90-day trends to show whether your skin is actually changing over time.

The Lumoscope brings multi-light skin imaging usually found in a dermatologist’s office to your smartphone.

Once you take a scan, it shows up in the Lumeria app. The app will then ask a few quick questions about your lifestyle that might be affecting the results, including skincare products, sleep, travel, and weather. It then connects that context with the scan data and shows what changed since the last check-in.

The app’s free tier is included with every Lumoscope and covers every scan plus direct skin metrics. Lumeria also offers an optional Premium subscription, which includes longer-term trends, personalized recommendations, and Lumi, its AI skin coach. Premium is free for the first three months, then costs $10 per month or $100 per year.

The bigger picture

Skincare is getting more science-forward, from longevity ingredients making their way into topical formulas to smart jewelry that tracks sun exposure. Now, Lumeria takes it a step further. Rather than using AI to recommend another product, Lumoscope is designed to make it easier to compare how your skin is changing over time.

While it can’t diagnose skin conditions, it may help users spot changes early and build a clearer picture of what could be affecting their skin between dermatologist visits.

Where to get it

The Lumoscope is available to preorder now at lumeria.com and will begin shipping September–October 2026.