Pick your salon type to start faster
A branded salon app in your name, on both app stores, built in hours — not months. Own your clients, keep all revenue.
Your logo, colors, app icon, app store listing. Not a shared booking marketplace. Clients download your salon’s app, not a third-party platform.
Keep 100% of appointments, payments, tips and product sales. Vagaro and Booksy take processing plus platform fees. Appy Pie takes nothing.
Type your salon idea. AI picks a salon template, generates services, booking flow, stylist profiles and client screens. You just customize.
One build, two native apps. Push notifications, camera, GPS work natively. Not a web wrapper. Submitted to Google Play and Apple App Store.
Client history, spend, visit frequency, notes — all yours. Export any time. No platform lock-in. No sharing with competitors.
Appy Pie submits to both app stores for you. Google Play approves in 24 hours, Apple in 24 to 48. Under 2 days from idea to bookings.
Appy Pie covers every salon category. The AI adapts screens, services and booking flow to match your business type.
Stylist profiles, service menus, consultation booking, color maintenance reminders and loyalty for regulars.
Nail art galleries, technician selection, add-on services, rebooking prompts and visual service menus.
Multi-service packages, room assignment, intake forms, HIPAA-friendly notes and membership plans.
Walk-in queues, barber-specific calendars, fade galleries, tip splits and member-only cuts.
Bed schedules, session credits, monthly unlimited plans, UV-time tracking and quick re-booking.
Before/after photos, fill reminders, service packages and technician portfolios.
Everything a salon needs to convert browsers into booked appointments and first-timers into regulars.
Clients pick service, stylist, date and time in 3 taps. Real-time availability. Deposits at checkout. Automatic confirmation by push and email. Reduces phone booking by 70%.
Points per visit, tier rewards (bronze/silver/gold), birthday bonuses, referral credits. Clients see balance in the app. Repeat visit rate typically climbs 25 to 40%.
Appointment reminders cut no-shows up to 40%. Fill-slot offers, new service launches, stylist comeback-welcome. Segment by last visit, service or spend.
Connect Stripe or PayPal. Deposits at booking, balance at service, tips after. Partial refunds, cancellation fees, saved cards. Zero Appy Pie commission.
Sell shampoo, styling products and gift cards inside the app. Track stock, low-stock alerts, barcode scanning at checkout. Retail extends ticket value.
Every stylist has their own schedule. Block time off, vacation, service gaps. Two-way sync with Google Calendar and Outlook. No double bookings.
No coding, no designer, no agency quotes. From idea to live app on Google Play and App Store.
Type what your salon does: hair and color, 4 stylists, walk-ins plus appointments, gift cards. AI generates the full booking app in 60 seconds with services, staff, menus and client screens pre-filled.
Upload logo, set brand colors, choose fonts. Drag in loyalty, Stripe, push notifications, gallery, gift cards, SMS reminders. Preview on a live device simulator. Everything is visual.
Hit Publish. Appy Pie handles the app store submission, metadata, screenshots and icon. Your salon app is live in 24 to 48 hours. Start taking bookings immediately.
Hair, nail and wellness businesses using Appy Pie to run bookings, retain clients and grow retail revenue.
Our regulars book at midnight now. Phones ring less and we make more.
— Mia, Salon Owner
Clients rebook inside the app before they leave the chair. We barely chase anyone now.
— Sasha, Lead Technician
Monthly memberships gave us predictable revenue. The app made selling them painless.
— Ravi, Spa Director
Vagaro, Fresha, Booksy and GlossGenius are closed salon SaaS platforms. Appy Pie builds your own branded salon app in the app stores.
| Feature | Appy Pie | Vagaro | Fresha | Booksy | GlossGenius |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Own Branded App in Stores | Yes · your brand | No · shared app | No · marketplace | No · marketplace | No · shared app |
| AI App Generation | Prompt to app | No | No | No | No |
| Commission on Bookings | 0% | 2.75% + fees | 2.29% trans. | 30% on new leads | 2.6% flat |
| Starting Price | $0 / $18/mo | $30/mo + | Free (fees) | $29.99/mo + | $48/mo |
| Payments & Tips | Stripe, PayPal | In-house | In-house | In-house | In-house |
| Own Your Client Data | Yes · export | Partial | No · shared | No · shared | Yes |
| Best For | Salons wanting a branded app | Multi-location SaaS | Walk-in discovery | Booking marketplace | Solo stylists |
Public pricing and published policies, April 2026. Competitor platforms are strong options depending on business model — this compares for salons wanting a branded app.
Beyond bookings — run payroll, track retention, send campaigns and scale to multi-location.
Checkout services, retail, tips. Cash, card, Apple Pay, Google Pay.
Visit history, preferences, allergies, formula notes, photos.
Push, SMS and email reminders. Cuts no-shows up to 40%.
Staff, inventory and reporting across every location in one dashboard.
Sell digital gift cards and recurring memberships inside the app.
Service, stylist, retail and retention reports. Export CSV.
Win-back, birthday, seasonal promos. Segment by spend or visit.
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR compliant. Your client data stays yours.
Build and preview free. Pay only when you publish. Every paid plan includes hosting, SSL, push, payments and app store submission.
Unlimited time, no card required
Everything to run a booking salon app
Spas, chains, multi-site salons
Free to build. No credit card. Publish to Google Play and Apple App Store in under 2 days.
Build My Salon App NowThis page is maintained by the Appy Pie Salon App Builder product team, which includes product managers, mobile publishing specialists, AI engineers and support professionals who work directly with salon, spa and barbershop businesses using the platform.
Since 2016, over 10 million users have built apps using Appy Pie. More than 100,000 apps are live on Google Play and Apple App Store across 150+ countries, including hair salons, nail studios, day spas, medspas, barbershops, tanning salons and lash/brow studios.
Feature descriptions, pricing, comparison data and capability claims reflect the Appy Pie Salon App Builder platform as of April 2026. Customer success stories use illustrative business names per our editorial policy — described workflows and results are based on actual platform usage.
Competitor comparison data (Vagaro, Fresha, Booksy, GlossGenius) is sourced from each platform’s public pricing pages and published policies as of April 2026. We review and update the comparison table quarterly.
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