What is a facial recognition app?

A facial recognition app can be used for securing applications on a phone with face login. It can be used on Android and iOS for locking apps more safely than just with a password for instance. With facial recognition apps, you can also test face login technology of different companies. Download a facial recognition app for iOS and Android with more than 150.000 downloads.

How does a facial recognition app work?

Facial recognition apps can strongly differ concerning their underlying architecture for authentication, but they basically all use the same process including enrollment, storage and comparison. Enrollment trains a face recognition app, so it can recognize you later. It thereby stores a biometric reference for comparison so you can use your face for logging in. A facial recognition app stores a mathematical representation of your facial traits on a device or in the cloud. See a video of how to use a facial recognition app .

Is there an app for facial recognition?

A facial recognition app for Android and iOS with more than 150.000 downloads is offered by the company BioID. It demonstrates the technology’s functionality and shows how easy face login works. Most smartphone companies don’t allow an external app to lock or unlock their phones and/or apps as this would require access to the operating system. Developers can create apps that use face login, here’s an app development guide for facial login using a facial recognition app.

What is the best mobile facial recognition app?

Different facial recognition apps may be considered best, depending on the desired application. Some facial recognition apps are thought for gaming and fun, for instance simulating your face’s aging process. Others aim at demonstrating facial login technology in a mobile app. The latter needs to be designed with high-level accuracy in order to prevent unauthorized access with biometric multi-factor-authentication. Test one of the best facial recognition apps .

Facial Recognition App for Face Login

Device- & platform-independent omnichannel user authentication

facial recognition app used on smartphone

Unlike match-on-device face login solutions, BioID face recognition service is the most cost-effective and supports all service channels ranging from online/mobile services,
self-service mechanisms as well as in-store services.

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best facial recognition app used on smartphone

Omnichannel Facial Recognition Service

Facial recognition app as online channel for user authentication services

Online/Mobile Channel

It serves as a user authentication service interacting with the online services by means of a separate channel, QR codes, etc.

Free Facial recognition app as bring your own ID

In-Store Channel

It serves as a Bring Your Own ID (BYOD) authenticator interacting with the point-of-sale terminal, using QR codes and more.

Self-Service Channel

It serves as a ID authenticator interacting with the self-service terminal, using QR codes and more. Applications include pick-up stations and such self-services.

Secure & Convenient Facial Recognition App with Liveness Detection

Traditional multifactor user authentication is no longer adequate without additional user presence. This is becoming a mandatory part of online services to prevent identity fraud. Therefore, an additional yet simple implementation of a mobile facial recognition app guarantees full-on security in the means of authentication that is intuitive with a great user experience.

Unified Omnichannel User Authentication

Trusted Customer Journey

Empowers customers to be part of a trusted customer journey by means of
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) authenticator.

Consistent Customer Experience

Customers enjoy consistent means of customer identification with an optimal user experience.

Better Customer Support

Unified user authentication means streamlined and cost effective customer support.

Use face recognition and liveness detection demo free of charge.

Free Demo

Download the free BioID Facial Recognition App

Download our free demo app and try it yourself. This BioID face recognition app is a multifactor user authenticator. It serves as a mobile client example developed for BioID Connect, an OpenID Connect identity service based on BWS, that can be used to access BioID Playground and BWS Portal.

More Use Cases

Work from Home

User authentication and user presence detection for remote work ensuring session integrity allowing authorized access only.

Facial recognition app to KYC with biometrics

KYC/AML

ID ownership verification as part of Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering regulatory requirements preventing identity frauds.

Access Control

Secure and convenient physical and logical access control enabling an unified multi-factor user authentication across different platforms.

eSign

“Face-to-face” registration and strong user authentication enabling eIDAS compliant digital signatures.

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Made in Germany
since 1998

BioID Facial Login App is made in Germany

Originating from the research institute Fraunhofer IIS in 1998, BioID is a German biometrics company.

Our technology has a proven record since its inception and is trusted by countless enterprises, banks, and government organizations.