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Live AR nail polish try-on. Not an AI photo app.
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seelect - Live AR nail polish try-on. Not an AI photo app.

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seelect paints your actual nails through your live iPhone camera — real-time AR, with per-finger color control. Tap any shade, see it on your hand the moment your finger touches it. Each nail can be a different color. No photo upload, no AI-generated previews, no account. iOS 26 AR runs on-device — your camera stream never leaves your phone. Free TestFlight beta opens in weekly batches. Invite within 48 hours.

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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Igor, the maker behind seelect. Two things came together for this one. First — I've always been fascinated by AR. Not the gimmicky kind, but the moments where it actually lets you do something physical you couldn't before. Second — my girlfriend has a drawer of nail polishes, and she'd routinely spend 20+ minutes in front of it trying to picture which shade she'd actually want on her hands that day. Swatch caps lie. Photos lie. The only honest answer is to paint it on your hand — but that's the one test you can't run without committing to a color you might not even like. The idea was simple: let her see the polish on her own hand before she picks one. See, then select. That's literally where the name came from — see + select = seelect. I looked at what already existed. Most try-on apps fall into two camps: – Brand-locked apps — only ~30 shades from one cosmetics company. You can't try arbitrary colors. – AI photo generators — upload a hand photo, wait, get a weird AI-rendered result that doesn't react to how light actually hits the polish. Neither felt like trying on polish. I wanted what you get in a salon: paint, look, decide. Live. So I built that. seelect paints your actual live camera feed in real-time AR — per finger, any color, on-device. No photo upload, no AI guesswork, no signup. The bit I personally love: you can paint each finger a different color independently. Sounds gimmicky until you're actually deciding between two shades — putting them side-by-side on the same hand is a test no other app lets you do. We're in TestFlight beta — small weekly batches, free, no signup wall. Drop your email at seelect.io if you want an invite. Two questions for PH: 1. What makes you bounce off a try-on app — accuracy, color selection, friction? 2. For other AR makers — what's been the hardest part of getting AR to feel useful, not gimmicky? Appreciate any feedback 🙏

how does it handle different lighting in the room? does the shade adjust to look accurate on cooler vs warmer tones or is it pretty much the same color regardless

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 Lighting yes, colour temperature no. We sample the real luminance of your nail every frame and multiply the shade by it, so real shadows and the room's actual highlight carry through and track your hand as it moves. But we only read brightness, never colour — so warm vs cool light won't tint the shade, you always see the true colour. Adapting to ambient temperature is on the roadmap; getting the shading right came first.

How does it handle different lighting conditions when you're actually painting in real time? Curious if the color matching stays accurate in warm indoor light versus bright daylight, or if you have to recalibrate between sessions.

Maker

 There's nothing to calibrate — no setup step, no session state. We sample the real luminance of your nail every frame, so shadows and the room's actual highlight carry through and update live as you move between warm indoor light and daylight. But we only ever read brightness, never colour — so the hue stays the true catalogue shade in both, rather than drifting warm or cool. That's exactly why it doesn't need recalibrating. In a very dim room it'll read darker (there's a light toggle for that), and adapting to ambient colour temperature is still on the roadmap.

Tried it on the TestFlight and the per-finger color switching feels surprisingly natural, like the polish is actually catching the light on each nail. Loved that nothing left my phone.

Maker

 Thank you — that's exactly the reaction we were going for. The light-catching isn't faked: no baked normal map, we sample the real luminance of your actual nail every frame and pull the highlight out of the genuine bright band, per finger. So it moves because your hand moved. And to be precise on privacy: no camera frame ever leaves the device — all segmentation runs locally, no upload, no server inference. (We do send anonymous usage analytics and fetch the shade catalogue, but never images.)