TRAIN YOUR EYE TO READ EMOTIONAL SIGNALS FASTER.
MicroSigns helps you practice facial emotion recognition through fast visual drills, instant feedback, and adaptive weak-spot training.
528 Expression photos · 22 Faces · 7 Universal emotions
One controlled training catalog. Built to sharpen emotional recognition at speed.
MicroSigns combines faces, emotions, intensity levels, feedback and progress tracking into a top-level repeatable training system backed by a century of science.
Expression photos
A dataset organized by face, emotion, and intensity level for state-of-the-art training.
Faces
Different ages. Different baselines. Get ready to face anyone.
Universal emotions
Train to catch them in a heartbeat.
Neutral baseline + 3 intensity levels
The same signal. Less and less obvious.
Practice
Sudden DeathLab + Arena
Choose between unpaced practice with feedback or enter the arena and compete on a global ladder.
Adaptive drills
Your recurring mistakes become your targeted training drills.
From first guess to targeted drill.
No black box.
Start a free session
See a facial expression and answer under pressure.
Most people read emotions too late.
A person’s facial expression often signals a turning point in a conversation. Without practice, you’ll miss that fleeting moment, you’ll just guess at the emotion, no one will correct you—and you’ll miss the point.
That is exactly what MicroSigns trains.
That is exactly what MicroSigns trains.
Signal missed
Micro-expressions can flash before you consciously process them.
Emotion confused
Fear, surprise, disgust and contempt are easy to confuse under pressure.
No feedback
In the middle of a talk, nobody pauses the moment and tells you what you missed.
Theory is not enough
You don’t build reflexes by reading books. You build them by training and repeated exposure.
01—Signal missed
The flash disappears before conscious processing.
02—Emotion confused
Similar emotions blur under pressure.
03—No feedback
Real life does not tell you what you missed.
04—Theory is not enough
Without repetition, recognition stays slow.
You don’t build a reflex by reading. You repeat it.
MicroSigns exposes you to fast signals, forces a decision, shows what you missed, then turns your mistakes into targeted drills.
No passive lessons. No vague intuition. Just repeated exposure until the signal becomes obvious.
No passive lessons. No vague intuition. Just repeated exposure until the signal becomes obvious.
Not a quiz.
A reflex engine.
Most tools teach emotion labels. MicroSigns trains the reflex: short exposure, forced choice, instant feedback, neutral comparison, and targeted drills.
You do not learn to read faces by reading diagrams. You build the reflex by seeing, naming, comparing, and repeating.
Built around repetition.
Every session follows the same loop: spot the signal, name the emotion, compare the baseline, then drill what you missed.
Controlled photo-style faces.
Each face is structured across neutral baseline, emotion, and intensity. Built for deliberate practice, not random guessing.
Train universal emotion signals.
Seven universal emotions, multiple faces, multiple intensity levels. One repeatable training system.
No camera. No biometric analysis.
MicroSigns trains your eye. It does not record, analyze, or score your face.
Built for high-stakes social reading.
Negotiation, interviews, leadership, coaching, care, security — anywhere fast emotional signals change the conversation.
Recognizing emotions is a skill.
Train it.
Start free, unlock the full Lab, or get a MicroSigns Founder pass.
Free Lab
Try the Lab and start developing your recognition reflexes.
- ✓Super Easy and Easy levels
- ✓4 free faces
- ✓Basic emotion practice
- ✓Short training sessions
- ✓Standard score tracking
No credit card required.
Founder Pass
Founder access to the core MicroSigns training platform.
- ✓Full access to the Training Lab
- ✓All faces (22)
- ✓All emotions
- ✓All intensity levels
- ✓Replay mode
- ✓Full progress dashboard
- ✓Personalized weakness training
- ✓Recurring error analysis
- ✓Review cards
- ✓Arena access
- ✓Unlock all badges
Limited to the first 100 members. Includes core training features. Future Premium Academy programs, certifications, live workshops, coaching, and team licenses may be sold separately.
MicroSigns Pro
$0.50/day to train a skill that most people never practice. Learn to read any room.
- ✓Everything included in the Founder Pass
- ✓Full access to the core training
- ✓Advanced learning paths
- ✓Academy modules based on roadmap
- ✓New drills and training updates
- ✓Advanced progress insights
- ✓Priority access to future features
Annual subscription. Cancel renewal anytime.
FAQ
No. MicroSigns does not use your camera and does not perform biometric analysis.
No. MicroSigns trains facial emotion recognition. It does not determine whether someone is lying.
Lifetime access to the core training platform: full Lab, current faces, intensities, dashboard, confusion analysis and adaptive drills.
Founder is a limited early-access lifetime offer for the core platform. Pro is the annual subscription model for ongoing training and future premium modules.
Yes. The Free Lab lets you test the training experience before upgrading.
The training is inspired by facial expression research, FACS principles and emotion recognition literature, while remaining an educational training tool. Check out the science page for more on this question.
