MyFace is like brandishing a hand-held, cultural mirror to your countenance and as such its success really rests upon the satisfying buzz off identity, you get from playing-personal with one.

When you post a picture of yourself, the app's neural engine starts to flick and twist like lightning fast fingers through millions upon millions of facial blueprints it scavenged across every latitude and longitude on Earth. After a few seconds, a gentle overlay appears that maps the regions you inherited those genetic echoes in your cheekbones or the tilt of your eyes or even perhaps the curve of your smile.

Worthy of praise is that MyFace always celebrates diversity without ever crossing the boundary into stereotype. A user from an indigenous hill tribe or a small island nation gets results that are as rich and respectful of reality as the version someone in a continental superpower gets. The people who can still perceive something ready made here, when it is so obviously a mere shape upon mystery, ought to pause for some real reflection on their worldviews. Every screen has a “How we guessed” box detailing which facial markers led to its suggestion, and there is the standard opt-out option letting you delete your picture from one of Google's cloud servers with just one tap. This is what takes it from a gimmick to opening the door to an honest-but-friendly conversation between you and your wife.

It is also a joy to use even at its worst moment, it beats any of the alternatives. The interface is light and sparse, and employs haptic feedback that makes each percentage reveal feel like the tactile pop of a bubble. If you take a selfie, the panel transform its appearance to match the colors featured in your selfie so that it looks like an extension of your own face. For all the selfie apps out there that either appeal to vanity or shock value, its this sense of wonder at who lurks in the fun house mirror that sets MyFace apart and makes it unique.

All in all, MyFace is a fantastic and fabulous app that can tell your nationality and where you are from, if you want to check whether it’s right or not, just come on and try it, it is definitely interesting and fun.