Arbrea Suite
Arbrea Suite is a Swiss augmented reality and 3D simulation app for aesthetic practitioners. Running on iPad, iPhone or Mac, it previews breast, face and body outcomes, manages patient profiles and works entirely offline, keeping patient images on the device.
What is Arbrea Suite?
Arbrea Suite is the professional application published by Arbrea Labs AG, a Zurich company that grew out of the Computer Graphics Lab at ETH Zurich. It brings augmented reality and 3D simulation to the aesthetic consultation, and it is explicitly restricted to plastic surgery and aesthetics specialists. The suite combines three modules under one licence: Arbrea Breast, presented as the best seller, which simulates augmentation, reduction and mastopexy; Arbrea Face, described as a magic mirror for rhinoplasty, facial harmonisation, fillers, botox, skin treatments and chin redefinition; and Arbrea Body for body contouring. Around them sit a patient database, a before-and-after image tool and an informed consent form.
The technical proposition is deliberately light. No scanner, no booth and no dedicated machine are required: the practitioner captures the patient with the built-in camera of an iPad, iPhone, MacBook or Mac desktop, and the vendor says a simulation takes up to a minute and a half. The second proposition is independence from the cloud. Arbrea states that the app runs offline and that patient content stays on the device rather than being uploaded to any cloud storage, an argument the company builds on explicitly when discussing clinic data breaches.
The suite is the centre of a small ecosystem. myArbrea is a white-label app for patients, carrying the clinic's logo and connecting to its booking system, whose simulations can be reopened in Arbrea Suite. The Surgeon Platform, reached with the same credentials at platform.arbrea-labs.com, adds an engagement dashboard and a certification programme that Arbrea awards to surgeons.
The vendor publishes figures for the product that are its own claims rather than independent measurements: use in 53 countries, 17,000 patient cases simulated over a quarter, an 88% conversion rate in online consultations, 87% of patients calling the experience indispensable and 92% satisfied with the accuracy of the simulation. The app is free to download and carries paid in-app plans. It is not a medical device and does not replace professional medical advice.
What it does
- Simulate breast augmentation, reduction and mastopexy in augmented reality and 3D
- Simulate rhinoplasty, facial harmonisation, fillers, botox, skin treatments and chin redefinition
- Simulate body contouring outcomes with the Arbrea Body module
- Take automatic measurements and place injection points on the captured model
- Browse an implant catalogue and manage suppliers from within the app
- Store patient profiles and document progress with the before-and-after tool
- Generate an informed consent form and brand the interface with the clinic's identity
When to use Arbrea Suite / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Arbrea Suite is the right fit.
When to use Arbrea Suite
- Plastic surgeons who want to show implant sizes and surgical outcomes during the consultation itself
- Aesthetic doctors and facial injectors simulating fillers, botox and facial harmonisation
- Dermatologists planning non-surgical facial treatments with their patients
- Clinics that need patient records, before-and-after documentation and consent forms in one app
- Practices that refuse cloud storage of patient imagery and need the tool to work offline
When not to use Arbrea Suite
- Patients and the general public, who are directed to the separate myArbrea companion app
- Android-only practices, since the professional app ships on the Apple App Store only
- Anyone expecting a diagnostic or medical device, which the vendor explicitly says it is not
- Teams needing an API or a connection to an EHR, as no public API or named integration exists
- Users under 18, who are excluded by both the terms of use and the privacy policy
How to use Arbrea Suite
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Download Arbrea Suite from the Apple App Store on an iPad, iPhone or Mac
- Register an account to unlock the free features
- Start with the patient database, the before-and-after tool and the informed consent form
- Capture the patient with the device's built-in camera, with no external scanner
- Run the simulation in the relevant module: Breast, Face or Body
- Take automatic measurements and, on the face module, place injection points
- Compare implant sizes from the catalogue while the patient watches
- Subscribe to a plan from the in-app store to unlock the paid modules
- Brand the interface with the clinic's logo and colours
- Sign in to the Surgeon Platform with the same credentials to follow engagement and training
Pros & Cons
Pros
- No dedicated hardware: an iPad or iPhone replaces a scanning booth
- Works without an internet connection, which the vendor presents as a security argument
- Patient content stays on the device and is not uploaded to cloud storage
- Plans place no limit on the number of simulations
- A permanent free tier is available after registration
- Interface can be branded with the clinic's own identity
- App is localised in seventeen languages according to its App Store listing
Cons
- No price is published anywhere on the website; the terms send buyers to the App Store
- No billing period is stated for any of the in-app plans, so a listed amount cannot be read as monthly or yearly
- Apple platforms only, with iOS 18.6 as the minimum; there is no Android version of the professional app
- No public API and no named third-party integration, so no connection to practice or record systems
- No data processing agreement, no subprocessor list and no Article 27 EU representative
- No security certification is held, and the privacy policy has not been revised since 07/11/2019
- The Swiss imprint publishes neither a UID/CHE company number nor a VAT number
Pricing & Plans
Arbrea Suite is free to download from the Apple App Store, and a permanent free tier is available after registration, giving access to the patient database, the before-and-after image tool and the informed consent form. No price is published on the vendor's website: the terms of use state that the plans and their rates are detailed in the Apple App Store. On the United States storefront, the listing shows eight in-app purchases ranging from USD 99.00 for a single simulation to USD 350.00 for the Breast Advanced Plan, with the lowest recurring plan at USD 99.99. These amounts carry no stated billing period, and Apple prices vary by national storefront, so they should be confirmed in the app before any commitment.
- patient database
- before-and-after image tool
- informed consent form
- USD 99.00 (in-app purchase
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- USD 179.00 (in-app purchase
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- USD 199.00 (in-app purchase
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- USD 199.00 (in-app purchase
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- USD 199.99 (in-app purchase
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- USD 299.00 (in-app purchase
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- USD 350.00 (in-app purchase
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Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Arbrea Suite handles your data.
GDPR overview
The privacy policy states that it is in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation and acknowledges that the GDPR may be relevant to the company. Arbrea Labs AG, Technoparkstrasse 1, 8005 Zurich, is named as controller, with dataprotection@arbrea-labs.com as the contact address. The rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability are listed, along with the right to withdraw consent. International transfers rely on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses where a country lacks adequate protection. Three concrete gaps remain: the supervisory authority named is the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner rather than an EU authority, no Article 27 EU representative is designated even though the company is established outside the Union, and no data processing agreement or subprocessor list is published. The policy has been in force since 07/11/2019.
Who owns the data?
Under the terms of use, the practitioner keeps ownership of everything created in the app. Arbrea Labs claims no ownership over this User Content and states that the practitioner, or the patient, retains all title, right and interest in it. The vendor goes further and says it has no access to that content at all: images and simulations are stored locally on the device and are not uploaded to any cloud storage. The practitioner remains solely responsible for patient consent and for complying with data protection law. One exception is stated: analytics derived from use of the app belong to Arbrea Labs, not to the customer.
Reuse rights
The practitioner may reuse the content created in the app without asking Arbrea Labs for permission, since ownership is never transferred. The terms explicitly allow sharing User Content with third parties such as patients, but warn that once shared the data leaves the device and the transmission may be neither secure nor encrypted, for instance by email, and that Arbrea accepts no liability for what recipients then do with it. The practical limit is not contractual but ethical and legal: the terms make the practitioner responsible for patients' personality rights, for holding the necessary permissions, and for using the material in line with applicable regulations. Reuse for case studies and marketing is presented as an intended use of the before-and-after tool.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Hosting is unusual for this category because most of the sensitive material is never hosted at all. The terms of use state that User Content, meaning patient images and simulations, is stored locally on the practitioner's device and is not uploaded to the app or to any cloud storage solution. The privacy policy adds that data captured through Apple's TrueDepth API never leaves the device. For account and billing data the picture is vaguer: the controller is Arbrea Labs AG in Zurich, recipients may be in Switzerland but also in any country worldwide, and where a destination lacks adequate protection the company relies on the European Commission's standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules or statutory exceptions. No hosting country or region is named for that account data, and no subprocessor list is published. The website itself resolves to a server in Frankfurt, Germany, but that concerns the marketing site rather than product data.
Where Arbrea Suite works
Country-level availability.
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Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Arbrea Suite.
- A simulation is a persuasion tool as much as a planning tool: an impressive preview can push a hesitant patient towards surgery, and the vendor markets conversion rates as a benefit
- The vendor states plainly that it does not guarantee a realistic visualisation and that rendering can change between versions, so a patient may anchor on an outcome that will not be delivered
- Because patient content lives only on the practitioner's device, loss or theft of that device is the clinic's own risk; the terms make backup the customer's sole responsibility
- Sharing a simulation with a patient sends it off the device, and the terms warn the transmission may be neither secure nor encrypted
- The site's timeline dates the founding of Arbrea to 2018, while the Zurich commercial register records the company (UID CHE-292.633.177) as incorporated in 2021 under a former name; the discrepancy is unexplained
- The help centre claims worldwide availability while the terms exclude countries under United States embargo, a contradiction a buyer should have clarified
- The mailto links in the terms of use point at a dead staging subdomain, so a legal or support message sent by clicking them will not arrive
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Setup is a download from the App Store followed by a registration, with no infrastructure, no scanner and no integration to configure. The same credentials open the Surgeon Platform on the web. The only real constraint is hardware: iOS 18.6 or later, an iPhone 13 or newer, an iPad Pro from 2022 onwards, an iPad v11, an iPad mini 7th generation or an iPad Air 5th generation, and roughly 2.2 GB of storage. Arbrea offers expert training, marketing material and a discovery session with a trainer.
Deployment
Apps stores
Supported languages
Behind Arbrea Suite
Fundraising
Social
Resources
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Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement Arbrea Suite.
Frequently asked questions
What devices do I need to run Arbrea Suite?
Does Arbrea Suite work without an internet connection?
Where can I find the prices?
Is there a free plan?
How many simulations can I run?
Are patient images uploaded to a server?
Is there an Android version?
What is the minimum age to use the app?
How do I reach support?
Can I use the app under my own brand?
Should you pick Arbrea Suite?
Arbrea Suite is a focused, credible product from a Swiss vendor with a real research pedigree at ETH Zurich, an Innosuisse certificate and CHF 2 million of declared funding. Its two arguments are consistent and unusual in this market: the practitioner needs nothing more than an iPad or an iPhone, and patient imagery never leaves that device. For a clinic uneasy about storing patient photographs in a cloud, that second point alone may settle the question, and the vendor is explicit enough about it in its terms of use to be held to it.
The reservations are commercial and documentary rather than technical. Nothing about price is published on the website. Buyers are sent to the App Store, where eight in-app purchases run from USD 99.00 to USD 350.00 with no billing period attached to any of them, on a storefront whose prices vary by country. It is impossible to tell from public sources whether a plan is billed monthly or annually, which is a considerable gap for a professional purchase. The performance figures the vendor advertises, an 88% conversion rate among them, come with no published methodology.
The second reservation is regulatory. This is a medical context, and the publisher sits outside the European Union, yet no Article 27 representative is designated, no data processing agreement is offered, no subprocessor list is published, and the privacy policy has been unchanged since November 2019. None of this makes the product unusable, and the local-storage design genuinely reduces the exposure, but a clinic with a compliance officer will have questions the website does not answer. Ask for the billing period, the DPA and the current privacy terms before signing.
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