Mobile hair stylist app

Mobile hair stylist app and mobile hairdresser app: booking for stylists who travel to clients

Your services with travel built in, a service area instead of an address, and requests that wait for your yes before anything lands in your day. Clients book from your bio, and your city page sends people who have never heard of you. One flat fee.

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Service list

What you charge, and how long it takes

Silk press, at your home 2h 45m $110 to $160
Cut and style, at your home 1h 45m $85 to $120
Bridal hair, on location 3h $250 to $400
Kids cut, same visit add-on 30m $35
Trial run, in studio 1h 30m $90

Availability on the booking page is generated from these durations. Sample list.

Short answer

Hairdressers.io is a mobile hair stylist app for stylists who travel to their clients: your page shows a city and, if you want, a neighborhood, and never a street address. Each service carries its own length and price, so travel time lives inside the booking, clients can only request times inside the hours you set, and nothing is booked until you reply. It costs a flat $39 a month for one stylist, takes 0% commission and lists you on your city directory page.

Booking software assumes the client comes to the chair. A mobile stylist runs the opposite business: the chair is in the car, the drive is part of every appointment, and the address that matters is the client's, not yours. Put a mobile book into ordinary salon software and three things go wrong. The calendar books a 90 minute service into a 90 minute gap with no time to get there. The public page wants a street address you do not have or do not want to publish. And a stranger can take a slot on the far side of the county before you have seen where it is. This page is about fixing those three.

What is the best app for a mobile hair stylist?

The best app for a mobile hair stylist is one that lets you approve every booking before it is final, shows a service area instead of an address, and lets each service carry its travel time. After that, the choice comes down to where your clients come from and what you pay when a new one finds you.

Mobile stylists in the US tend to end up on one of four kinds of app. The table sorts them by the questions a stylist on the road actually has to answer. We compare models, not prices, because every company here changes its numbers; read current figures on each pricing page.

Kind of app	Who owns the client	What a new client costs you	Fits a mobile stylist who
On-demand beauty apps (MOBILESTYLES and similar)	The platform: clients order through its app	Set by the platform's pro terms, read them before you join	Wants jobs sent to her and accepts the platform's rules
Marketplace booking apps (StyleSeat, Booksy)	You, inside their app and profile	A one-time share or commission on new clients the marketplace introduces	Is new to the area and needs strangers to find her
Plain schedulers (Setmore, Square Appointments, GlossGenius, Acuity)	You	Nothing per booking, and nobody new is sent	Has a full book of regulars
Hairdressers.io	You, with a spreadsheet export on any day	Nothing, including clients from the city directory; $39 a month solo	Wants her own link, a way to be found, and a yes before every booking

How do mobile hairstylists handle travel time between clients?

Build the drive into the service. List a silk press at your home as 2 hours 45 minutes when the work takes 2 hours 15, and the calendar can never stack two house calls back to back with no time to get between them. Then set your hours to the window you are willing to travel, and approve each request only after you have seen where it is.

On Hairdressers.io every service has its own name, length in minutes and price, so you can keep an at-home version and an in-studio version of the same cut side by side at different lengths and prices. Clients only see times inside the hours you set for each day. Every request arrives in your email with the client as the reply address, so a request that would mean crossing town at rush hour gets a polite reply offering another time instead of a spoiled afternoon.

Travel inside the length: Each service carries its own minutes, so the drive is part of the booking rather than a gap you have to guard by hand.
At home and in studio, side by side: Name services by where they happen and price each one on its own. A travel surcharge is just a higher price on the at-home version.
Your travel window, day by day: Set different hours for each day, so Tuesday can be house calls in one neighborhood and Saturday can be weddings.
Nothing lands without your yes: Clients request, you confirm. A booking you cannot reach in time never makes it into your week.

Can I use a booking app without a salon address?

Yes. Your page on Hairdressers.io shows your city and, if you choose, a neighborhood. There is no street address field anywhere, so there is nothing to leave blank and nothing to fake. That suits a mobile stylist, and it also suits anyone who works part of the week from a home studio and does not want that address on the open web.

The client's address comes to you after the request, in the email thread you already have with them. You reply to confirm the time and ask where you are going, and only someone you have agreed to see ever exchanges an address with you.

How do mobile hairstylists get new clients?

Mostly from three places: referrals from existing clients, a Google Business Profile set up as a service-area business, and a listing where people in their city look for a stylist. Instagram helps, but only when the link in the bio lets someone book without sending a DM first.

Every Hairdressers.io plan includes a listing on the directory page for your city, showing your services, prices and hours with booking straight from the listing, at 0% commission. A client the listing sends costs the same in year two as on day one. Google lets a service-area business hide its address and show the area it covers instead, so your profile and your booking page tell the same story. If you are still weighing marketplace apps against a link of your own, the booking sites for hair stylists page lines up eight of them.

Do I need a license to be a mobile hairstylist?

In the US, yes: hair services are licensed by each state's board of cosmetology, and many states add separate rules for services done outside a licensed salon, from mobile salon permits to limits on where home visits are allowed. The rules differ a lot from state to state, so read your own board's current regulations before you advertise house calls. No booking app changes that, including this one.

How it works

Setup takes about as long as writing your service menu with the travel built in.

1. Pick the Chair plan: Sign up at $39 a month or $390 billed yearly and sign in with a code sent to your email. No password to remember.
2. Add services, lengths and hours: Enter each service with its minutes including travel and its price, then the hours you work on each day. Set your city and, if you like, a neighborhood.
3. Share the link: Put your booking link in your Instagram bio, your Google Business Profile and your text replies. Your city directory listing goes live with it.
4. Confirm with one reply: Requests arrive by email inside your hours. Reply to confirm and ask for the address, or offer another time.

What the app does not do, so nothing surprises you

There is no route planner and no map of your day, so the travel logic lives in your service lengths and your replies. There is no card reader or in-app payment; take payment and any deposit the way you do now and say so on your page. There is no instant slot lock, which is deliberate for mobile work: a stranger cannot put you across the county without a word from you. And the directory is a page on the open web, not a national consumer app.

If you need an app to send you jobs this month, an on-demand platform or a marketplace will do that on its own terms. When most of your week is regulars and referrals, a link of your own costs less every month you grow. The stylist's side of the wider choice is on the hair stylist scheduling app page, and the StyleSeat alternative page shows what leaving a per-client fee saves.

How much does a mobile hairdresser app cost?

Hairdressers.io costs $39 a month for one stylist on the Chair plan, or $390 billed yearly, with 0% commission on every booking. If you grow into a small mobile team, the Salon plan is $89 a month for up to eight stylists, each with a personal link and hours, and the bill does not move again until you pass eight. Full details are on the pricing page.

Chair, $39 a month: One stylist, one link, one city listing, requests by email, a private panel and a client export.
Salon, $89 a month: Up to eight stylists with personal links and hours, plus priority placement on your city page.

Pricing

Flat monthly, from $39. Never a cut of a booking.

Four plans by team size, from a single chair to a multi-location group. The 0% commission line is the same on all of them, including bookings that come from your city directory listing.

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Questions

About mobile hair stylist app

The rest are on the salon booking system FAQ.

What app do mobile hairdressers use?

Mobile hairdressers in the US mostly use one of three kinds of app: an on-demand beauty app that sends jobs, a marketplace booking app like StyleSeat or Booksy, or a plain scheduler like Setmore or Square Appointments. The deciding question is whether you need the app to find clients or only to book the ones you have.

Is there a mobile hair stylist app with no commission?

Yes. Hairdressers.io charges 0% commission on every booking on every plan, including clients who find you through the city directory, for a flat $39 a month. Plain schedulers also take nothing per booking, but they do not list you anywhere clients look.

How do clients give me their address?

In the email thread. Each request arrives with the client as the reply address, so you reply to confirm the time and ask where you are going. The booking page never asks for or shows a street address.

Do my clients need to download an app?

No. They open your link in their phone browser, pick a service and a time inside your hours and send the request. No download, no account and no password on their side.

Can I work from a studio part of the week?

Yes. Name services by where they happen, give each its own length and price, and set different hours for each day. Clients see both versions and pick the one they want.

Can I keep my client list if I switch apps?

On Hairdressers.io, yes: the whole list downloads as a spreadsheet from your panel on any day. Before leaving any other app, run its export first, then cancel. Braiders who travel can compare the booking app for braiders page too.

More salon software pages

Each one covers a different angle on the same product. The directory side lives on the salon directory.

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