Men, from fades to hairlines
Scalp condition, dandruff, a beard that behaves differently from the hair above it, and a hairline worth keeping an eye on. Book the barber who already knows your hair type.
In active development
Know your hair.
Know your hair.
Then act on it.
Barette reads your hair with AI — coils, curls, waves or straight, thinning, greying or growing back — then connects the result to the things that change it: the right products, the right barber or stylist, and a feed of people whose hair behaves like yours.
Men and women. Eighteen or eighty. Free to use.
- 3
- Platforms, one codebase
- 4
- Ranking signals
- USB‑C
- Rechargeable device
9:41
Scan result
Type 4B · Medium density
Hydration
62%
Porosity
High
Scalp
Balanced
3 products matched
2 specialists nearby
How it works
Four steps, one loop
Capture, analyse, act, track — then run it again next month and compare.
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01
Capture
Use your phone camera or the Barette device to take a close-up of hair and scalp.
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02
Analyse
The app returns hair type, condition signals and a routine shaped around them.
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03
Act
Buy the recommended products in the marketplace or book a specialist near you.
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04
Track
Re-scan over time and watch the history to see whether the routine is working.
Who it is for
Every head of hair, at every age
Hair care is sold as though it were one type of person's problem. It is not. Barette reads what is actually on your head — at twenty or at seventy, whatever your hair does and whoever you are.
Women, through every change
Natural, relaxed, braided, loc'd, coloured or heat-styled — and the way it shifts after a baby, a treatment or a decade. One history, so you can see what actually helped.
Students and first salaries
Stop buying on packaging. Find out what your hair is, then spend on the two products that suit it instead of the eight that did not.
Fifty, sixty, seventy
Grey comes with a different texture, and thinning is normal. Bigger type, plain language, no jargon, and specialists who work with mature hair.
Anyone regrowing
After a treatment, a shedding season or a big cut, a monthly scan turns “is this working?” into a line on a chart. Cosmetic guidance, not a medical diagnosis.
Every texture, 1A to 4C
Coils, curls, waves and straight hair are read on their own terms. A model trained on one head of hair is no use to the next one.
- Plain words, no jargon
- You are told what your hair is doing before anyone says “porosity” — and the word gets explained the first time it turns up.
- Readable, not decorative
- Real type sizes, contrast that passes WCAG AA, and animation that stops when your device asks for less motion.
- The phone you already own
- One codebase for Android, iOS and the web, so a mid-range phone or a plain browser is a first-class way in. The camera device is optional — never required.
- Free to use
- Scanning, tracking, Reels and booking cost nothing. You pay a store for a product or a specialist for their time — never us for the app.
The system
Everything hair, in one place
Analysis is the front door. Behind it sit a marketplace, a video feed, a booking system and a device that does the capturing for you.
AI hair analysis
Capture a strand or scalp shot and get a structured read on hair type, condition and the routine that fits it.
Reels
Short-form video from barbers, stylists and customers, ranked by a For You and a Near You feed.
Marketplace
Partner stores list products, customers browse, wishlist and check out without leaving the app.
Specialists and booking
Find a barber, braider, loctician or stylist by specialty and service, then book a slot at their place or yours.
Connected camera device
A pocket-sized ESP32-CAM board that captures close-up hair images and sends them to the app over Wi-Fi.
One app, every screen
A single Flutter codebase compiles to Android, iOS and a progressive web app.
Roles
Three sides of the same app
- Understand your hair instead of guessing at products.
- Shop what was actually recommended to you.
- Book someone who works with your hair type — barber, braider or stylist.
- Open a store, list products and manage your catalogue.
- Turn Reels into shoppable content by linking products.
- Reach customers near you through the Near You feed.
- Publish your specialties, services and opening hours — barbershop, salon or home studio.
- Take bookings at your place or at the customer's.
- Show your work where customers are already watching.
The hardware
A camera made for hair, not selfies
A small ESP32-CAM board with its own battery, charger and protection circuitry. It gets close enough to a strand to see what a phone lens misses, then hands the image to the app over Wi-Fi.
On-board camera
Close-up capture driven by the ESP32-CAM module.
USB-C charging
Single-cell Li-ion with a TI BQ24195 charger.
Protected cell
Over-charge, over-discharge and overcurrent cut-off.
Wi-Fi and BLE
Pairs directly with the Barette app.
Latest updates
What changed recently
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Release notes, hardware progress and product news — sent when there is something worth sending.