The dermatoscope, reimagined.
flacara h1, clinical edition. Built around the phone you already carry: it captures, finds the spot again, and puts today next to last visit.
Exam to record.
Today A scope clipped to a phone, then three apps.
Lift it on. One tap.
It seats over the camera, the ring lights, and the shot lands in the app.
Today “Left shoulder, 2 cm below the scapula.”
Found, not described.
Pinned to a map of the body. Found again in AR, free in beta.
Today Files named by date, scattered across apps.
Every patient, one list.
Every capture, filed under the person it belongs to.
Today The photo in one system, the notes in another.
Notes on the photo.
Clinician comments and AI-drafted write-ups, attached.
Today Comparing visits? Usually skipped.
Today, next to before.
Two visits of the same spot, side by side.
Four rooms for less than one.
Order one.
One for every exam room
Founder price, for the first 300 units only. Ships within 3 months, or a full refund.
Both lighting modes, a machined aluminium top plate, and the clinician side of the app: notes on the capture, drafted write-ups, body mapping and visit-to-visit comparison. It seats over the phone camera array with no added lens, which is why a practice can put one in every room instead of sharing a single $1,695 instrument.
| Lighting | Polarized · Unpolarized |
|---|---|
| Detail | ~16 µm |
| Optics | Phone sensor and software |
| Top plate | Machined aluminium |
| Charging | USB-C |
| Phone | iPhone |
| Regulatory | FDA registered · Class I |
flacara h1 is an FDA registered Class I medical device. It captures and organises images for a clinician to review; it does not diagnose or assess any condition on its own.
Frequently asked questions
When does it ship?
Within 3 months of your order. If we can't ship by then, we refund you in full. Units are between prototype and pilot; we will email a ship date as soon as it's set.
Am I being charged now?
Yes. You pay when you order, through Stripe's secure checkout, and get a receipt and invoice by email. Changed your mind? Tell us any time before it ships for a full refund.
Can my practice pay by invoice?
Yes. Checkout takes up to 50 units on a card. For larger orders, or to pay by bank transfer on 30-day terms, ask for an invoice.
How is the clinical edition different from the home edition?
The clinical edition has both lighting modes (the home edition is polarized only), a machined aluminium top plate, and the clinician features in the app: notes, drafted write-ups and patient lists. Same sensor path, same detail.
Does it work with my phone?
iPhone at launch. The housing seats over the camera array rather than clipping to a single lens, so support is per phone body and we will publish the list.
Where do my photographs go?
They stay on your phone unless you export them. We will publish the full data terms before the first unit ships.
Side by side.
Same target, same mole, one session: flacara against a DermLite DL4. Drag to compare.
Read the fine print.
Same target, same distance, dermatoscope-level detail. Drag to compare.
Not just a test chart.
The same mole, flacara vs. DermLite DL4, side by side.
It finds the frame for you.
Every new photo lines up with the last, before the shutter fires.
The numbers.
- flacara resolves
- ≈16 µm
- Unaided eye
- ≈100 µm
- DermLite DL4, this target
- Clinically indistinguishable1
- Resolution
- ≈16 µm line pairs resolved on a printed resolution target, in the same session and at the same working distance as the DermLite DL4 capture.
- Lighting
- Polarized and unpolarized, one tap apart. The light sits in the housing at a fixed distance from the skin, so it is the same on every capture.
- Optics
- No added lens. The phone's own sensor and the processing behind it do the imaging; the housing fixes distance, framing and light.
- Registration
- Each new capture is aligned to the previous one for rotation and offset before the shutter fires.
- Location
- Lesions are pinned to a scan of the patient's body, a patented technique, so the next visit starts from where the lesion is.
- Regulatory
- FDA registered, Class I.
1 Dermatologists rating the same lesions across five image resolutions found 768×512-pixel images equivalent to substantially higher resolutions for recognizing clinically relevant detail — Bittorf et al., J Am Acad Dermatol 1997;37(2):195–8. Neither lesion image is an assessment of that lesion. DermLite is a trademark of its owner and there is no affiliation.