A new method of rapidly objectifying and accessing an acne situation using numerical data and a scale measuring the severity of a particular skin condition and charted over time to allow easy identification of progress of the treatment therefor. The apparatus or software program which is also copyright protected, can be used to both numerically diagnose severity of a skin condition and to chart progress. The software apparatus can also be embeddable to other health related sites as an application to use on their site and a marketing tool. The application can be applied to anything visible on the skin such as bumps, dry patches, dark marks, cuts, scabs, scars or anything visible and useful for counting and objectifying the number or severity of the affliction.