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 Mobile Authentication

Face Login by BioID - Forget Passwords, Be Recognized

The BioID face recognition app is a multifactor user authenticator for face login. This application is a mobile client for BioID Connect, an OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 identity service based on our BioID Web Service (BWS) – the pioneer ‘biometric as a service’ with ISO/EIC 30107 compliant liveness detection.

BioID FACE Recognition App - THE BENEFITS of Face Login

It allows developers and companies to easily add biometric authentication to their mobile platforms, without the need to be a biometric specialist.
Face login allows end users to log in to apps and websites that are supporting the BioID app (including our BWS developer portal), making it a multipurpose mobile face recognition app using biometrics for authentication.
The facial recognition app allows anyone to explore our biometric technology and see how convenient BioID face recognition and liveness detection technology work.

Facial Recognition App with login face for iOS

Protect Yourself

As a user, you can now enjoy strong, convenient biometric authentication to access an increasing number of apps and websites that are supporting BioID Connect across different platforms.

Protect Your Employees

As an administrator, you can easily enhance your authentication process security by supporting BioID Connect as an industry standard OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 authorization framework.

Protect Your Users

As a developer, with just a few lines of code you can upgrade the security for your applications or websites by supporting BioID Connect. No need to dive into biometrics and its associated user interface development. Simply use standard protocols.

Why face login?

Traditional username/password authentication is no longer adequate in terms of security. As more and more services are going mobile, typing a long, complicated strong password can be frustrating. More and more providers are switching to multifactor authentication systems to include things as hardware/software tokens and/or biometric authentication. Biometric authentication such as face recognition that effectively binds a user to the service, enables convenient and secure authentication that is easy to use without the need of additional hardware.

Simple.
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Authentication
through Mobile Face Recognition

The BioID facial recognition app needs to know how you look.

You introduce yourself to the BioID facial recognition app by using the software to take a few pictures of your face. This is called biometric enrollment. It is as easy as taking a few selfies.

Now you are ready to be recognized.

After enrollment, BioID is ready to recognize you, which is called ‘verification’. To see if BioID recognizes you, simply press ‘Verify’ and take a selfie just like during enrollment. Don’t worry, our ISO compliant Liveness Detection prevents hijackers pretending to be you by using your picture or video. This is a big advantage over other face recognition software that can often be faked easily.

And now comes the magic.

The BioID facial recognition app can also be used by other apps (inter-App communication) or websites, allowing you to gain access exactly the same way by simply taking a selfie – this is the face login.

Let's get started.

To use the BioID biometric technology, you need a free BioID account. You can create it from the iOS and Android apps or sign up right now on our Playground website.