Now live · Free · No download

read your
light

Aura photography without the line, the polaroid, or the party. Open your camera. We refract the light coming off you and return your aura — in under ten seconds.

Open the lens → How it works
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The Edge

Aura reads are having a moment. We're the version that goes anywhere.

The booths, the chemicals, the influencer-friendly polaroids — beautiful, but slow, in-person, and gated by geography. We rebuilt the whole stack for the camera in front of you.

Traditional aura photographers

  • Need a physical booth, biofeedback handpads, and a queue
  • Show up at one party in one city per night
  • You wait 5–10 minutes for one polaroid you can't reshoot
  • Aesthetic is great. Distribution is brutal.

aura.refract

  • Open your laptop. That's the booth.
  • Real-time refraction read — light analyzed the second it hits the lens
  • Aura returned in under 10 seconds, shareable, savable, reshootable
  • One stream, infinite reads, no location required
How it works

Three steps. One refraction.

01

Open the lens

Click in from any browser. Allow your camera. No download, no booth, no chemicals.

02

We refract the light

Our model reads the color, contrast, and frequency of the light bouncing off you — the same data a prism would split.

03

Your aura, returned

You get your aura portrait, your dominant color, and your reading — in under ten seconds. Save it. Send it. Reshoot it.

Color guide

Every aura is a frequency.

A quick read on the seven dominant bands of the visible spectrum. Your aura is usually a blend — but one band leads.

Red
Force, instinct, hunger. Built to act.
Orange
Pleasure, charisma, social heat.
Yellow
Curiosity, optimism, intellectual spark.
Green
Healing, growth, deep care.
Cyan
Voice, clarity, signal over noise.
Blue
Depth, intuition, the long view.
Violet
Vision, transcendence, the edge.
Refracted today

A wall of recent light.

Every aura people choose to share lands here. Anonymous by default — first name and dominant band only.

Maya VIOLET
Eli CYAN
Jordan RED
Soraya GREEN
Theo YELLOW
Indira BLUE
Cass ORANGE
Noor VIOLET
Live events

Find the lens in real life.

The product lives in your browser. The brand lives in rooms. We pop up at parties, fashion weeks, and culture nights — refracting on full-frame cameras with proper lighting.

Launch
AUG 22

Spectra Studio × aura.refract

Launch night · By invitation
Get on the list →
JUN 12

Aura Night × Erewhon

Los Angeles · 7pm – 11pm · Studio City
RSVP →
JUN 27

The Spectrum Party

Brooklyn · 9pm – late · Greenpoint loft
RSVP →
JUL 19

Refract Sessions × Soho House

London · Member's night · By invitation
SOLD OUT
AUG 14

Aura × Stockholm Fashion Week

Stockholm · Backstage activation · Aug 14–17
Details →

Host the lens at your event.

Brand launches, fashion weeks, dinners, openings. We bring the camera, the lighting, the operator. Your guests leave with their aura portrait shared straight to their camera roll.

Book us →

Or — run the lens in your city.

We're opening twelve operator slots across global cities. You source the room and run the night; we provide the equipment, the brand, and the playbook. 85% revenue share. First cohort applications now open.

Apply to operate →
In the wild

What people are saying.

"first aura read that felt less like a horoscope and more like actually looking in a mirror."
Maya R.
@mayarefract · violet
"the booth lines at parties are over. just open the laptop."
Eli K.
@eli.k · cyan
"sent it to four friends. all four are now refracting at 1am."
Jordan T.
@jt_runs · red
Common questions

The obvious ones.

Is this actually measuring my aura?

We're measuring the light coming off you — the color of your skin, your background, your lighting. That gets split into the band that dominates the reading. It's optics, not biofield. We don't pretend otherwise. The result is a beautiful, brand-true portrait of the light you walked into the lens with.

Do you store my photo or my reading?

No. Everything runs in your browser — your camera feed never leaves your device. We don't upload the frame, we don't keep the result. If you want to save your aura, you download the PNG yourself.

Is it free?

Yes. Forever. Free to refract, free to download, free to share. We make money from the events arm and (eventually) from a paid tier that lets you save your aura history.

Why does my read change in different lighting?

Because it should. The point is that light *changes*. The aura you refract in a warm kitchen at golden hour is meaningfully different from the one you refract under your office's overheads at 4pm. Both are real reads. Try both.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes — front-facing camera in any modern mobile browser. We optimized for laptops because the larger sensor and wider field gives a cleaner refraction, but a phone works fine.

Can we book you for an event?

Yes — email events@refractventures.co or use the booking link on the events section above. We typically need 2–4 weeks of lead time for full setup.

Save every read. Build your spectrum.

Aura+ launches later this year. Every refraction archived. Watermark-free downloads. Time-lapse spectrum view. Quarterly archival print on us.