Point it at any bottle.
Miko reads the label and tells you what is in it, what that means for your skin, and what not to use it with.
iOS 17+ · No account required · Stored locally on your device
AQUA/WATER/EAU, GLYCERIN, NIACINAMIDE, CETEARYL ISONONANOATE, GLYCERYL STEARATE, RETINOL, CERAMIDE NP, CERAMIDE AP, SODIUM HYALURONATE, PHYTOSPHINGOSINE, CHOLESTEROL, TOCOPHEROL, CARBOMER, ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN, CITRIC ACID, PHENOXYETHANOL.
24 ingredients isolated
Step 1 · The Viewfinder
Night Retinol Complex
30ml Emulsion · Step 5 (PM)
High cellular turnover active. Introduce 2 nights/week. Do not layer with AHA/BHA.
Lipid replenishment. Protects moisture barrier while retinoid activates.
Barrier cofactor. Reduces erythema and flaking from retinoid desquamation.
Step 2 · The Read
Decoded from tiny 6pt packaging text into clinical actions and purposes.
Formulation-tested compatibility verdicts, including 4 debunked myths.
Your shelf and skin history live on your phone. No server user table exists.
Thirty-two ingredients. Sorted, and flagged for your skin.
The thing nobody can do for themselves: thirty-two names in six-point type, sorted into what they are each doing there, with the two or three that matter to this person marked and explained.
The Four Evaluation Levels
Neutral is the majority of any bottle · No emotional marketing
Good for you
Aimed at something you said you are working on.
Directly targets your selected skin goals (e.g. barrier restoration or hyperpigmentation).
Neutral
Doing a job, nothing to say about it — the majority of any label.
Emulsifiers, solvents, preservatives, and texture stabilizers essential for formulation stability.
Watch
Worth introducing carefully, given what you told us.
High-potency actives requiring gradual titration or specific application order to avoid irritant dermatitis.
Avoid
You told us you react to this, or your life-state rules it out.
Ingredients flagged by declared contact allergies or restricted during pregnancy and medical procedures.
From Raw INCI Packaging to Plain Biology
Every chemical name is mapped to its active family, formulation purpose, and tolerance threshold. No guesswork, no ingredient lookup rabbit holes.
Tap any ingredient to inspect what it does and why it is flagged:
RETINOL
Vitamin A DerivativeAccelerates epidermal cell renewal. Introduce 2 nights per week to avoid barrier peeling.
Nothing about you leaves your phone.
No account. No sign-up. No database with your name on it — because there is no database. Your shelf, your routine, and your life-state live in an encrypted database on your phone.
Your Phone (Private Enclave)
Everything personal is written into an encrypted SQLite database on your device. There is no user table on any server.
- ✓ Your physical bathroom shelf
- ✓ 7-day weekly scheduled routine
- ✓ Declared contact sensitivities
- ✓ Life-state answers (Pregnancy, Isotretinoin)
The One Exception: Label OCR
When you take a photograph of a bottle, the image is transmitted to extract the 32 raw chemical names off the packaging.
• Not linked to an email, name, phone, or Apple ID.
• Immediately discarded once parsed into INCI text.
• No face data, location coordinates, or telemetry collected.
“Your life-state answer never crosses the network at all. The phone sends a bare list of ingredients to avoid with no reason attached.”
Architectural PrivacyZero Accounts
We never ask for your email address, phone number, or full name. We could not identify you if we were subpoenaed to do so.
The Stated Exception
A photograph of a bottle label goes out to be parsed for its ingredients. Saying so plainly is what makes the rest of the claim credible.
Zero Ad Networks
No Meta Pixels, no Google Analytics SDKs, and no behavioral tracking brokers. The product is financed purely by subscriptions.
Ask Miko.
A chat that already knows your shelf, your products' full ingredient lists, and what you told it about your skin — so a question needs no tedious set-up.
Tonight is Tuesday: you have 0.3% Retinol scheduled in your PM slot. Introducing 7% Glycolic Acid in the same routine will double your exfoliation rate and increase water loss. Use the glycolic toner tomorrow (Wednesday evening) instead, and pause the retinol for that night.
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Available on iOS 17 and later
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Frequently Asked Questions
Honest answers grounded in cosmetic formulation science and epidermal biology — without marketing hyperbole.
Pure L-ascorbic acid operates optimally at a low acidic pH (~3.0 to 3.5) and provides photoprotective antioxidant defense against daytime UV and environmental stressors.
Retinoids (such as retinol, retinal, and tretinoin) function at a near-neutral physiological pH and promote cellular turnover. Applying both simultaneously increases cutaneous irritation without improving clinical outcomes.
Miko automatically assigns Vitamin C serums to your AM slot and retinoids to your PM slot to maximize biological synergy while preventing barrier irritation.