iPhone app: HourFace

HourFace is a 99-cent iPhone app that artificially ages faces in photos. Looks fun!

HourFace: The picture of Dorian Gray in an app

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Anonymous

Shouldn’t this be named, “Mommy, What will I look like?”
Architexas

Awesome! Now I can get those creepy “skin rejuvenation” ads on my iPhone – and the best part – I pay for it!
frankieboy

“the effect is startling”…. I’ll say! Why stop there, what happens after that? Let’s see how we’ll eventually look, go all Yorick on ya! Don’t fear the reaper, yikes!
Anonymous

Interesting, although I don’t know what the developer was thinking about the interface…having to put it upside down to rejuvenate makes no sense, you can’t see the face as you can when it is aging…
Baron Karza

Creepiest app ever?
Sekino

Neat idea, but I don’t find the aging effect very accurate. Old people look old, not necessarily like creepy, pallid living-dead. It seems they’re just adding crappy skin (and a depressed look) on a young face.

But perhaps there have options for people aging gracefully as well?
EH

Looks melty.
neurolux

Aging, or zombification?
Marya

That is idiotic, they just assume that people become morbidly depressed as they age, and even the Mona Lisa would no longer be able to smile? I’ve got an idea, someone who has this app. get a photo a Helen Mirin as a young actress and run her picture through the program, you’ll see how crazy wrong they are.
Dan Mac

Facebook has the Seniorizer..
togetherless

Wow. That’s the saddest app I’ve seen all day. Now I’m searching for a commit suicide app.
Anonymous

Nice iPhone video app review.

thanks

Mike
Patrick Dodds

Is there a $4.00 iPad version?
Anonymous

Apparently, the FBI didn’t have $0.99 in their budget to generate an aged Bin Laden photo.