What MeloScan reads
Five readings. Six insights. Three scores.
A single 30-second scan reads your face for the signals that underpin wellness – then translates them into a clear picture of where you are right now.
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Overall Wellness · Physical Health · Mental Wellbeing
Overall scores
The headline read on where you are right now. Three scores out of 100, calculated from your core readings
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Energy · Sleep · Stress · Mental Load · Fitness · Blood Pressure
Health insights
The lens that explains the score. Six insight bands that show you what's driving your number – so you know what to work on, and what's working already.
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Heart Rate · HRV · Breathing Rate · Physical Feel · Mental Feel
CORE READINGS
The foundation every result is built on: your heart rate, heart rate variability and breathing rate, read from your face in 60 seconds, plus two interpreted readings – Physical Feel and Mental Feel.
What you need
The shortest list in wellness tech.
GOOD NATURAL LIGHT ON YOUR FACE
This matters most. Sit facing a window with daylight falling evenly on your face – no strong light behind you and no shadows across your face. Good light is what gives you an accurate result.
A device with a camera
Phone, tablet, or laptop. The front-facing camera on any modern device works - including budget devices and older models. iOS 14+ and Android 10+ are supported.
Sixty seconds
That's the whole scan. No appointment, no equipment, no preparation. Sit still, breathe normally, and you're done.
The technology
How sixty seconds of camera footage becomes a full wellness profile.
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Your pulse, captured by your camera.
Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG)
When your heart beats, it pushes a small wave of blood into the vessels of your face. That blood absorbs light at specific wavelengths, which means your skin changes colour by tiny amounts hundreds of times a minute - far too subtle for the human eye to see, but well within the range of a modern camera sensor. MeloScan reads that colour signal across your face and reconstructs the pulse wave behind it.
rPPG is a well-established method, studied in hundreds of peer-reviewed studies. MeloScan applies it to wellness, not medical use.
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From colour signal to your heart rate, HRV and breathing rate.
VALIDATED AGAINST REFERENCE INSTRUMENTS
The colour signal from your face is processed by MeloScan's scanning engine – translating it into your heart rate, heart rate variability and breathing rate in real time, with motion and lighting artefacts filtered out as the scan runs.
What "validated" means here. The scanning engine has been tested against reference instruments in controlled studies. It is not a medical device, and MeloKura makes no diagnostic claims – the readings are accurate to the tolerance expected of wellness-grade measurement.
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From readings to a wellness profile you can read at a glance.
The 3-6-5 framework
Raw numbers are useful, but they aren't a wellness profile. Your HRV of 62 means very little on its own – what matters is whether it's typical for you, what it suggests about your current state, and what insights it unlocks. The 3-6-5 framework does that interpretation, turning five readings into six insight bands and three headline scores.
The 3-6-5 framework in summary: 3 overall scores – where you are right now · 6 wellness insights – what's driving the score · 5 core readings – the foundation everything is built on.
Accuracy
The honest picture on accuracy.
We won't tell you MeloScan is as accurate as a chest-strap ECG – it isn't, and any wellness scanner that claims it is should be treated with caution. What MeloScan offers is something different: wellness-grade measurement in 60 seconds, from your device camera, with no equipment to buy.
In testing, MeloScan's heart rate readings agree with reference instruments within the tolerance accepted for wellness measurement. The HRV and breathing rate readings show the same pattern – accurate enough to be genuinely useful, consistent enough to be trended over time, and validated thoroughly enough that we'll publish the methodology if you ask.
Data protection. Your scan is processed securely and only with your consent. Fully GDPR compliant. Our scanning partner is certified to ISO 27001 for information security.
Research. MeloKura has been studied in research at Aalborg University and in EEG/HRV research in South Korea.
Questions · MeloScan
The technical answers.
Every heartbeat pushes blood into the vessels of your face, which changes how much light your skin absorbs. Those colour changes are invisible to you but measurable by a camera sensor. MeloScan reads them across your face and reconstructs the pulse wave – optically, without contact.
For heart rate, MeloScan agrees with reference instruments within the tolerance accepted for wellness measurement. A chest-strap ECG is still more accurate – we would never claim otherwise. What MeloScan gives you instead is a full 3-6-5 profile in 60 seconds with no equipment to buy or wear.
Yes. The signal comes from blood volume changes beneath the skin rather than from skin colour itself, and the extraction engine is calibrated across the full range of skin tones. Very low light affects all skin tones equally - good lighting is the thing that matters.
Yes. The scan reads several regions of the face, so glasses, facial hair and everyday makeup do not prevent a reading. Heavy full-coverage foundation can reduce signal quality slightly; if the scan cannot get a clean read it will tell you rather than guess.
No. Any front-facing camera on a modern phone, tablet or laptop is sufficient - including budget and older devices. iOS 14+ and Android 10+ are supported.
The scan reads the camera feed to calculate your readings. MeloKura does not build a face database or sell imagery, biometric data is deleted immediately on request, and personal data is deleted within 90 days of cancellation. Full detail is in the Privacy Policy.
No. MeloScan is a wellness and lifestyle tool intended to support self-awareness and wellbeing. It does not diagnose, treat or prevent any condition. The scanning engine behind it has been validated against reference instruments.
It is an interpreted reading, not a direct one. Mental Feel combines your measured signals - chiefly heart rate variability and respiratory pattern - into an indication of how much load your nervous system is currently carrying. It is a wellness signal to track over time, not a psychological assessment.
Scanning is passive and contactless, so it does nothing to you physically. But readings for people with arrhythmias or a pacemaker may not reflect the patterns the framework expects, and MeloScan is not a diagnostic tool - speak to your clinician about anything health-related.
As often as you like - unlimited scanning is included on every paid plan with MeloScan. In practice, scanning before and after a session shows the change, and scanning at a similar time each day builds the most useful trend.
One scan is a snapshot, and factors like caffeine, a rushed morning or poor lighting can move it. Scan again in calmer conditions and look at the trend rather than the single number. MeloScan is not a diagnostic tool - if something about your health concerns you, speak to a clinician.
MeloKura is designed for adults. Users under 16 require parental consent, which can be arranged at privacy@melokura.com.
Crucial Disclaimer
Melokura-ääniterapian tarkoituksena on tukea rentoutumista, stressin vähentämistä ja yleistä hyvinvointia. Se ei korvaa ammatillista lääketieteellistä neuvontaa tai hoitoa, eikä sitä tule käyttää minkään sairauden tai lääketieteellisen tilan diagnosointiin, hoitoon, parantamiseen tai ehkäisyyn. Jos sinulla on terveysongelmia, ota yhteyttä pätevään terveydenhuollon ammattilaiseen.
MeloScan · the measurement engine
Your face. Your numbers. Sixty seconds.
MeloScan reads your heart rate, heart rate variability and breathing rate directly from your face using your device camera – no wearables, no clinic, nothing to wear or attach. Thirty seconds and you have your full 3-6-5 wellness profile in plain numbers.