AirBrush's face shape detector is one tool inside a photo-editing suite: you upload a photo, it names one of six shapes, and the page meters free uses. Our detector runs on-device with published thresholds, free, across seven shapes.
What AirBrush Does
AirBrush is an AI portrait editor by Pixocial Technology, distributed as mobile apps, a desktop studio and a set of web tools, with retouching, background removal, face swap and dozens of similar editing features. The face shape detector at airbrush.com is one of those tools. You upload a photo or take one, the tool names one of six face types (round, oval, oblong, diamond, square or heart) and it also reads eyes, eyebrows, lips and nose to feed hairstyle, eyebrow and lipstick suggestions. The page describes its method as advanced AI and answers its own accuracy question the same way, without naming a formula, a threshold or a landmark count. The detector page shows a metered free-use counter, and the surrounding product sells a subscription suite with a 7-day trial. That is a fair summary of what it is: a styling-suggestion feature inside an editor, built to hand you looks to try.
What We Do Differently
- On-device, no upload: our free scan runs in your browser and the photo never leaves your device. AirBrush's detector works by uploading the image to its site.
- A method you can read: our detector measures forehead, cheekbone and jaw width against face length and publishes the thresholds that sort the classes, so the result can be checked instead of taken on faith.
- Seven classes and a margin: we classify across seven shapes including triangle, which AirBrush's six-class list does not carry, and we print the margin to the next-closest class instead of a single confident label.
Side by Side
This table states only what each product has published on its own pages. Where AirBrush has not published a fact on the page we checked, the table says not stated on the page instead of a guess.
| Factor | AirBrush | Us |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A detector tool inside a photo-editing suite | A standalone measurement instrument |
| How it runs | Photo upload to airbrush.com, with a metered free-use counter on the page | In your browser, on-device; the photo never leaves your device |
| Shape classes | Six: round, oval, oblong, diamond, square, heart | Seven, adding triangle |
| Method published | Described as advanced AI; no formula or thresholds on the page | Four measured spans with published thresholds and a printed margin |
| Photo handling | Not stated on the detector page; a sitewide privacy policy is linked | No upload happens, so there is nothing to delete |
Checked against airbrush.com/face-shape-detector on September 2, 2026. If AirBrush later publishes its method or per-tool photo handling, that page becomes the more current source, not this one.
A Detector Inside an Editor
The deepest difference is not a feature row, it is what each product is for. AirBrush's detector exists to feed its editor: the shape result routes you toward hairstyle, eyebrow and lipstick suggestions inside a suite whose main business is retouching photos. Our detector exists to answer the measurement question and hand you the styling logic in the open: the AI Face Shape Detector gives the class and the margin, and the hairstyles by face shape guide explains which cuts flatter each class and why, in text you can read without an app, an account or an edited photo. If what you want is retouching, an editor serves you better. If what you want is to know your face shape and what to do with it, a measurement with published rules answers that directly.