Beauty & Salon · ranked shortlist
Best Beauty & Salon software for Freelancers in 2026
20 approved beauty & salon listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Freelancers are buying one seat, so per-seat pricing works in their favour and the free tiers are worth taking seriously. Read the bottom of every price ladder on this page first.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $9.99-$2,900
- Publish a $0 plan
- 5 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved beauty & salon listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the beauty & salon category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
Belliata
Highest rated herePremium salon software from Europe
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $39 a month.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- european, premium, salon-management, gdpr
- #2
Bookeo
Appointment scheduling for service businesses
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $14.95 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $39.95.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- booking-widget, appointments, payments, reminders
- #3
DaySmart Salon
Intelligent salon and spa business platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $99 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $199 plus a tier sold by quote.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- salon, spa, intelligent
- #4
Envision
Salon management software with integrated POS
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $79 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $159.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- salon, pos, integrated
- #5
Genbook
Online booking and business growth for salons
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $29 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- reviews, booking, client-growth, marketing
- #6G
Goldie
Beauty booking app for independent professionals
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $9.99 a month.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- mobile-first, freelancer, beauty-app, Free
- #7
Insight Salon Software
Intelligent salon management with deep analytics
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $40 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $120.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- analytics-focused, reporting, business-intelligence, performance tracking
- #8
Kitomba
Salon software from New Zealand
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $79 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $149.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- anz-market, salon-management, pos, regional
- #9
Mangomint
Salon & spa software made simple
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $165 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $375.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- simple, modern, automation, efficiency
- #10
Meevo
Salon software with scheduling and POS
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $99 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $299.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- salon, pos, scheduling
- #11M
Milano
Hair salon and beauty studio management software
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $69 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $139.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- hair-salon, styling, salon
- #12
MyTime
Online booking and appointment scheduling platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $39 a month.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- free-plan, booking, appointment
- #13
Phorest
Salon software that grows your business
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $99 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $299.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- client-retention, marketing, salon-growth, reputation-management
- #14
Resurva
Beautiful online booking for beauty businesses
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- booking-page, customizable, free-tier, website-integration
- #15R
Rosy
Appointment scheduling for wellness professionals
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $39 a month.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- wellness, free-plan, booking
- #16
Rosy Salon Software
Affordable salon management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $29 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $69.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- affordable, Small Business, budget friendly, simple
- #17
Salon Iris
Complete salon & spa management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $29 a month, with no free plan.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $109.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- desktop-option, inventory, complete-solution, flexible
- #18
Salon Ultimate
Complete salon management made simple
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $29 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $59.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- salon-management, scheduling, pos, Small Business
- #19
SalonBiz
Complete salon and spa management suite
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $89 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $179.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- salon, pos, management
- #20
Salonist
Complete salon software from India
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $2,900 a month.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $6,580.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- indian-market, gst-compliant, loyalty, billing
What beauty & salon software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $9.99Goldie
- Median entry price
- $40across 19 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $2,900Salonist
- Publish a $0 plan
- 5of 20
Paid beauty & salon plans in this set start anywhere from $9.99 a month for Goldie to $2,900 for Salonist. The median entry price across the 19 tools that publish one is $40, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Salonist's at $6,580 a month, 2.3× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
5 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and every one of those also sells a paid tier above it. 14 tools have no free tier of any kind.
1 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 beauty & salon listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 16
- freemium
- 1
Separately, 1 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 18 beauty & salon tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named by most of the category
- Client management , 11 of 18
- Online booking , 11 of 18
- Marketing tools , 10 of 18
Named by fewer
- Mobile app , 8 of 18
- Priority support , 7 of 18
- Advanced analytics , 5 of 18
- Inventory , 5 of 18
- POS , 5 of 18
- Scheduling , 5 of 18
- API access , 4 of 18
Named by exactly one vendor: Advanced insights, All Starter features, Commission tracking, Forms & intake, Multi-branch management, Sales reports. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Beauty & Salon” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- pos5
- salon5
- booking3
- salon-management3
- free-plan2
- marketing2
- scheduling2
- simple2
- Small Business2
Carried by a single tool: affordable, beauty-app, client-growth, established, freelancer, intelligent, performance tracking, reviews. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
5 of 20 beauty & salon tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with client management, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$9.99 to $2,900 is a $2,890.01 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $2,900 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
Check which tier you actually land on
8 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, client management, online booking, marketing tools, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 2 billing models: subscription on 16 listings, freemium on 1, and nothing else. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Questions people ask about beauty & salon software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this beauty & salon ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved beauty & salon listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- Is this list re-ordered for freelancers?
- No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the freelancers framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Freelancers are buying one seat, so per-seat pricing works in their favour and the free tiers are worth taking seriously. Read the bottom of every price ladder on this page first.
- How much does beauty & salon software cost?
- Across the 20 beauty & salon tools listed here, paid plans start between $9.99 and $2,900 a month, with a median entry price of $40. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $6,580 a month (Salonist). 5 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest beauty & salon software?
- Among the ones that charge, Goldie has the lowest published entry price at $9.99 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free beauty & salon software?
- Yes, 5 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. Each of those also sells paid tiers above the free plan. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should beauty & salon software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are client management (11 of 18 tools that publish plan detail), online booking (11) and marketing tools (10). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as advanced insights or all starter features, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is beauty & salon software usually billed?
- subscription (16), freemium (1), counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 1 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does beauty & salon software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are pos (5), salon (5), booking (3), salon-management (3), free-plan (2). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under beauty & salon may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do beauty & salon tools offer?
- 18 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 8 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many beauty & salon tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved beauty & salon listings appear on this page, including Belliata, Bookeo, DaySmart Salon, Envision. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/beauty-salon, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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