Ovalid guides you to a compliant passport or visa photo with live, metric feedback — then scores it against the same ISO standard used at EU borders. It measures and crops. It never touches a pixel.
An ID photo is the most identifying picture you will ever take. Ovalid is built so it cannot leak: there is no server to leak from.
While you frame the shot, Ovalid measures head position, pose, lighting balance and background — and tells you exactly what to fix: “move closer”, “face the light source”, “find a plain background”. The oval turns green when everything checks out.
On capture, your photo is assessed by OFIQ — the reference implementation of ISO/IEC 29794-5, the face image quality standard developed for EU border systems. You see actual scores per measure, not a thumbs-up.
Pick your country and document, and Ovalid crops to its exact geometry — head size, eye line, background rule — and exports print-ready and upload-ready files. Cropping is geometry, not alteration.
Popular ID-photo apps “fix” your picture with AI background replacement and skin smoothing. That’s exactly what passport authorities prohibit — the US State Department requires the original, unaltered photo and checks submissions for software manipulation.
Ovalid’s entire design is the opposite: help you take a photo that’s genuinely right, so nothing needs fixing. Measurement and cropping only. No retouching, no relighting, no beauty filter — and vendor camera “enhancement” is switched off at capture.
Including the rules nobody tells you about — like France rejecting white backgrounds, or China requiring both ears visible. More countries on the way.