NuraLogix
NuraLogix measures vital signs from a 30-second video of a face, using any ordinary camera. Its DeepAffex cloud engine returns pulse, breathing rate, blood pressure and dozens of wellness indices to apps, kiosks and telehealth platforms.
What is NuraLogix?
NuraLogix is a Canadian company that turns an ordinary video camera into a contactless health measurement device. Its technique, Transdermal Optical Imaging, exploits the fact that human skin is translucent: light reflected from layers beneath the surface carries information about facial blood flow, and that signal is already present in the frames of a normal video. A 30-second face scan is enough. The pipeline runs in five stages. The camera captures the face; the software detects and tracks it, isolating regions of interest; blood-flow data is extracted on the device; an encrypted payload, never the images themselves, travels to DeepAffex, the company's cloud Affective AI engine, where signal processing and deep-learning models run; the results return to the device. What comes back is unusually broad for a single input. Vital signs cover pulse rate, breathing rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, irregular heartbeat and vascular capacity. Beyond those sit ten-year cardiovascular, stroke and heart attack risk scores, metabolic indicators for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, triglycerides and fatty liver disease, estimated HbA1c and fasting glucose risk, more than twenty-five heart rate variability metrics, mental stress and anxiety indices, body mass index and body shape ratios, facial skin age, physiological age, sleep quality, smoking risk and vitality. The same engine is sold in several shapes: the Anura consumer app on iOS and Android, Anura Enterprise for mobile and web, Anura Telehealth for continuous measurement during a video consultation, the Anura MagicMirror tabletop device, a browser-based Web Measurement Service, and mobile and desktop SDKs. The regulatory framing deserves attention and is reproduced here exactly as the vendor publishes it. The site footer describes FDA-cleared measurements of pulse rate and breathing rate; every other insight is declared informational and for wellness purposes only, not intended to diagnose, treat or prevent any condition. Several product pages carry the further statement that the product is not a medical device, and the company's developer portal adds a United States investigational-use notice. Ten peer-reviewed publications are linked from the research page.
What it does
- Measure pulse rate and breathing rate from a 30-second face scan on any camera
- Estimate systolic and diastolic blood pressure, irregular heartbeat and vascular capacity
- Score 10-year cardiovascular disease, stroke and heart attack risk
- Flag metabolic risks including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol and fatty liver
- Return mental stress, anxiety, sleep quality and vitality indices
- Embed the measurement in a mobile, web or desktop product through an SDK or the cloud API
- Run continuous two-minute vital signs during a telehealth video call
When to use NuraLogix / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if NuraLogix is the right fit.
When to use NuraLogix
- Telehealth and remote patient monitoring platforms that want vital signs captured during a video consultation
- Insurers looking for objective, real-time biomarkers to support underwriting and personalised plans
- Corporate wellness programmes offering non-intrusive health checks to employees
- Mobile and web developers embedding health measurement into an existing product through an SDK or cloud API
- Device makers and kiosk operators serving clinic waiting rooms, retirement homes and community sites
When not to use NuraLogix
- Anyone looking for a diagnostic tool: the vendor states its measurements are not intended to diagnose, treat or prevent any condition
- Under-18s, who are explicitly barred from creating or using an Anura account
- Buyers who need published pricing or self-service sign-up, since every commercial route ends at a demo request
- Clinicians expecting a substitute for clinical judgement, as the terms create no doctor-patient relationship
- US organisations needing a settled regulatory status today, given the investigational-use notice on the vendor's own developer portal
How to use NuraLogix
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Download Anura Lite from the App Store or Google Play to try the technology, bearing in mind that not all measurements are included
- Check that you are 18 or over, which both the terms and the privacy policy require
- Take a 30-second video selfie facing a phone, tablet or laptop camera
- Supply age, weight, height and sex at birth when prompted, as they improve accuracy
- Read the results on the device; with no account created, nothing is stored
- Create an optional account if you want your measurement history kept
- For the full version or a business deployment, book a demo through the contact form
- Agree a licence mode with the sales team: mobile, distributed, kiosk, web, SDK or telehealth
- Integrate through the Anura Core SDK, the desktop SDK, the Web Measurement Service or the cloud API
- Administer your organisation's data, studies, users and policies in the DeepAffex Dashboard
Pros & Cons
Pros
- No dedicated hardware: any smartphone, tablet, laptop or kiosk camera does the job
- Facial images and video are never stored or transmitted, only an encrypted blood-flow payload
- Documented compliance programme covering SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, PIPEDA and GDPR
- A named Article 27 EU representative, with European, UK and Swiss data hosted in Germany
- A genuine developer stack: documentation, API reference, release notes, status page and GitHub organisation
- Ten peer-reviewed publications and collaborations with medical institutions are linked from the site
- One engine, many deployments: mobile, web, desktop, kiosk, mirror and telehealth
Cons
- No price is published anywhere; every commercial path ends at a demo request form
- The regulatory story differs between the vendor's two sites, FDA-cleared on one and investigational use only on the developer portal
- No clearance number, CE marking or Health Canada licence is published
- No subprocessor list and no customer-facing data processing agreement are offered on the site
- No documented opt-out from the improvement and research processing, which runs on legitimate interest
- The licence taken over User Content is permanent, transferable and sublicensable
- The Terms of Use date from April 2023 while the privacy policy was updated in April 2025
Pricing & Plans
NuraLogix publishes no price. There is no pricing page, and none of the pages reviewed carries an amount or a currency; the Terms of Use state only that fees, if charged, will be notified separately. Anura Enterprise is described as a monthly or annual SaaS subscription, again without a figure. The Anura Lite application can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play, but the site nowhere states that it is free of charge, so no permanent free plan is recorded here and no free trial is advertised. A quotation must be requested through the contact form.
- Anura Core SDK
- mobile licence for iOS and Android
- Anura Enterprise Mobile App
- distributed mode or kiosk mode licence
- Anura Web Measurement Service
- web licence
- Anura Web Enterprise
- distributed mode licence
- Desktop SDK
- SDK application licence for Windows
- macOS and Linux
- Anura Telehealth
- telehealth licence
- Anura Lite
- reduced consumer version on the App Store and Google Play
- No price is attached to any of these lines on the site
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how NuraLogix handles your data.
GDPR overview
GDPR compliance is claimed explicitly rather than merely implied. The Security & Compliance page states that NuraLogix complies with GDPR, PIPEDA and HIPAA, with a dedicated block describing controls aligned to EU GDPR guidelines. A Data Protection Officer is appointed and reachable at privacy@nuralogix.ai. Because the company sits in Ontario, it has designated an Article 27 EU representative, Chino Srls in Rovereto, Italy, with a published email. Personal data of people in the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland is stored with cloud providers located in Germany. The policy lists the full set of rights, from access and rectification to erasure, restriction, objection, portability and withdrawal of consent, plus the right to complain to a supervisory authority. Health data is processed on explicit consent. No certificate or audit report is published.
Who owns the data?
NuraLogix's terms state plainly that User Content, meaning the height, weight, age, sex and blood-flow data you supply, remains your property. In exchange you grant the company a permanent, non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide and royalty-free licence to use, copy, modify, adapt, translate and create derivative works from that content in order to operate, provide, develop and improve the Services, including services it may launch later. NuraLogix acts as data controller. One limit matters more than the licence itself: facial images and video are never stored or transmitted, so the company never holds the footage, only an encrypted payload of blood-flow data.
Reuse rights
The terms give end users no general right to reuse data beyond their own account. Measurements belong to you, and the app lets you pass one to somebody else as a link or an image; that is the only redistribution route described, and it happens on your own consent. On the vendor side, personal data serves three declared purposes: delivering the service, analysing, developing and improving technical functionality and security, and, on the corporate website only and with consent, direct marketing. Health data is a special category processed on explicit consent, and may additionally be processed for statistical and research purposes under pseudonymisation or anonymisation. Anonymous or aggregated data may be shared with partners, advertisers, industry bodies and the media.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Hosting is only partly specified. For people in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, the privacy policy states that all personal data is stored with cloud service providers located in Germany. For everyone else the wording is looser: data processed outside the device is stored in one of various jurisdictions with cloud providers managed by NuraLogix. Amazon Web Services is named, but only as an example of an authorised processor, and no subprocessor list is published. Where data does leave the European perimeter, the policy promises adequate measures to an equivalent standard without naming a transfer mechanism such as standard contractual clauses. Two facts limit the exposure: facial images and video are never stored or transmitted, only an encrypted blood-flow payload, and transport is protected by TLS 1.2 or better with AES-256 encryption at rest. As a separate observation, the marketing site itself resolves to an Amazon infrastructure address in the United States, which concerns the website rather than measurement data.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting NuraLogix.
- The regulatory boundary is the main risk: only pulse rate and breathing rate are presented as FDA-cleared, while risk scores for diabetes, stroke and cardiovascular disease are declared wellness information by the vendor itself
- The company's own developer portal states the product is not a medical device and is for investigational use only in the United States, which sits awkwardly beside the marketing site's FDA-cleared banner
- Reading a personal risk score without clinical context invites both false reassurance and needless alarm; the terms are explicit that no doctor-patient relationship is created
- Face-derived health data is a special category under GDPR, so verify that explicit consent is genuinely collected in your deployment, particularly for kiosk or employer-run scans
- The licence granted over User Content is permanent, transferable and sublicensable, which reaches further than the retention rules alone suggest
- No subprocessor list, no customer data processing agreement, and no documented way to exclude your data from the improvement and research processing
- Smaller hygiene signals add up: a mistyped privacy contact address on the privacy page, canonical tags pointing at a staging host, and terms two years older than the privacy policy
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Effort depends entirely on the route chosen. Downloading Anura Lite requires nothing at all. Anura Enterprise, in its mobile or web form, is advertised as launching quickly with no development work. The Web Measurement Service needs minimal development and is said to integrate within a few days. The mobile and desktop SDKs are the most demanding option but also the most flexible, with product updates installed automatically and technical support promised throughout the development period. Documentation, an API reference, a points reference, a download centre, release notes and a support portal are all available.
Deployment
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Behind NuraLogix
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Frequently asked questions
What can NuraLogix actually measure from a face scan?
What equipment do I need?
Is this a medical device?
Is the video of my face stored?
How much does it cost?
Which compliance standards does the company claim?
Where is the data hosted?
Is there a minimum age?
How would a developer integrate the technology?
Can I try it without signing a contract?
Should you pick NuraLogix?
NuraLogix sits at the more substantial end of the contactless-health field. The company is identifiable and datable, publishes a postal address and a telephone number, names its leadership including a chief medical officer and two regulatory affairs directors, and links ten peer-reviewed papers rather than testimonials. Its compliance page is more detailed than most: SOC 2 Type II, PIPEDA, HIPAA and GDPR, a named Data Protection Officer, an Article 27 representative in Italy, and European data hosted in Germany. The developer portal, with its documentation, API reference, release notes, status page and GitHub organisation, is a working resource rather than a landing page. Two things should shape a decision. The first is commercial: nothing is priced. Anura Enterprise is a monthly or annual subscription and the licence modes are published, but the amount is not, and every route ends at a demo request. That is normal for negotiated B2B licensing, yet it makes a budget impossible to sketch without talking to sales. The second is regulatory, and it is the reason to read the small print rather than the banner. The site advertises FDA-cleared measurement of pulse rate and breathing rate; every other output, from cardiovascular risk to estimated HbA1c, is declared informational and for wellness purposes only by the vendor itself. Several product pages state the product is not a medical device, and the company's own developer portal carries a United States investigational-use notice. No clearance number, CE marking or Health Canada licence is published. None of this is contradictory in a strict legal sense, but the boundary between the cleared measurements and everything else is exactly where a buyer's obligations sit, and the site never draws it in one place. Ask for the clearance documentation before any clinical deployment.
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