An iPhone app that claims to be able to quantify “ugliness” has become a big hit around the world, according to news reports.

“Ugly Meter” analyzes the details of human faces and rates their appearances from 1 to 10, along with nasty comments.

Upon release, it was an immediate success, topping the Chinese iPhone charts for three weeks, and making $80,000 in a single day after being mentioned on the Howard Stern radio show in the United States.

To anyone seeking judgment, the cheeky app dishes out vicious comments like: “Wow, you’re ugly, is your doctor a vet?” “You’re so ugly, you could make a glass eye cry,” “You’re so ugly, when your mother went into labor the doctors went on strike.”

Even some of world-renown celebrities fell prey to sly comments of the app.

Actor Brad Pitt received fairly high marks of 8.0 and received less-than-kind comment that “You could walk through a haunted house and come out with a paycheck.” British Prime Minister David Cameron did slightly better than Pitt with 7.0, but was told “If ugliness were bricks, you’d be the Great Wall of China.”

But it seems that even the snarky Ugly Meter could not resist the charms of Pitt’s other half Angelina Jolie. It rewarded Jolie with 2.0 and said “You’re so hot you make the sun jealous.”

The developers said the Ugly Meter was just a game and nobody needs to take it seriously.



From news reports