The invention belongs to the technical field of LED appearance detection and relates to an LED appearance detection machine and a manufacturing method. The LED appearance detection machine comprises a shell, a material belt, a guide plate and a controller; due to the fact that protruding pins in LEDs enable the LEDs to be in different postures in a transferring process, meanwhile, the LEDs in a photographing process are located at fixed positions, a photographed picture can only obtain the condition of a single view angle of the LEDs, LED images reflected by photographing are located in different postures and view angles respectively, the coverage rate of overall appearance detection of the LED is limited, and the detection effect on the appearance of the LEDs is influenced; and therefore, the postured of the LEDs are adjusted through the guide plate of the LED appearance detection machine of the invention; a traction belt in a detection disc is adopted, so that a detection camera can obtain a multi-view photo of the single LED, the integrity of appearance detection of the single LED is improved, the distribution difference between the LEDs in a picture shot by the camera is reduced, the processing amount of image analysis is reduced, and the detection accuracy is improved. Therefore, the operation effect of the LED appearance detection machine is improved.