About WhatZoo
WhatZoo is an AI-powered service that discovers your hidden animal "spirit" by analyzing the proportions of your face. Upload a single photo and, in about a second, find out which of 59 animal types you most resemble — then explore that animal's personality, dating style, compatibility, and more.
Our mission
We built WhatZoo around a simple idea: face reading is one of the oldest and most universally enjoyed forms of play, and modern computer vision can make it more fun, more consistent, and far more shareable. Our goal is to turn a curiosity that humans have had for thousands of years — "which animal do I look like?" — into a delightful, private, and genuinely interesting experience that works in five languages, on any device.
How it works
WhatZoo runs on Google's MediaPipe Face Mesh, an on-device machine learning model that detects 478 facial landmarks. From those points we calculate around seven proportional metrics — including eye slant, face aspect ratio, nose width, and mouth width — and match them against detailed profiles for each animal type. Each profile has a defining "critical trait" plus a set of weighted characteristics, so your result reflects the proportions that genuinely make your face distinctive.
Crucially, all of this runs in your browser. Your photo is never uploaded to or stored on our servers — the analysis happens locally on your own device. We explain the full pipeline in our guides, if you'd like to go deeper.
What you can do
- Animal Face Test — Discover your closest animal type in about a second, with a similarity score and detailed breakdown.
- Compatibility — Compare two faces and get love, friendship, and work chemistry scores.
- Group Hierarchy — Upload a group photo to find the "leader" and the rankings within your crew.
- Organization Analysis — Get a playful role for every member of your team, from president to treasurer.
- Encyclopedia — Browse all 59 animal types across five tiers, each with personality, love and work styles, celebrity look-alikes, fun facts, and FAQs.
A word on accuracy and fun
We want to be completely honest about what WhatZoo is. The technology is real — the facial measurements are genuine computer vision. But the interpretations are for entertainment. There is no scientific evidence that the shape of your face determines your personality, your compatibility, or your future. WhatZoo is a modern, lighthearted take on physiognomy, designed to make you smile, spark conversation, and give you something fun to share — not to make decisions about people.
Privacy first
Because every photo is processed entirely within your browser and never stored on our servers, your images stay yours. You can read the full details in our Privacy Policy.
Get in touch
Have feedback, a feature idea, or a new animal you'd love to see? We'd genuinely like to hear it — reach us any time through our contact page. WhatZoo gets better because of the people who use it.