Comparison

CLICS vs Wella Professionals ShadeChart

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

CLICS

This app empowers licensed hair stylists and cosmetology students to precisely create any shade of demi or permanent hair color with a touch of a button. It eliminates guesswork in color formulation, offering a mess-free and waste-free solution for mixing and dispensing custom shades.

Highlights
  • Precise color formulation
  • Digital color bar for mixing
  • Save custom color collections
  • Access curated color libraries
  • Client history for touch-ups
  • Reduced waste and mess
Features
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The CLICS® app allows hair stylists to access their salon's CLICS Dispensers to create any shade of demi or permanent color with the touch of a button, expanding their creativity and productivity. This precision system takes all of the guesswork out of color formulation, allowing measuring, mixing and dispensing to be done with ease. There's no waste, no mess, and no mistakes.  Designed exclusively for licensed hair stylists and cosmetology students, it's the color you've always dreamed of. You dream it, CLICS delivers it. It’s visionary hair color, for artists like you! In order to use the CLICS system a stylist must be invited by their salon and set up a CLICS login. If you work in more than one CLICS-enhanced salons you can easily switch between them using the sign-out icon. Mix Color on the Fly Use the CLICS Design area, your own digital color bar, to quickly formulate simple or complex hair color formulas. Your formulas can be dispensed at the touch of a button. Create Your Own Color Collections Save your best color formulas in your own color collections or use CLICS' curated libraries and conversion formula to get started with great looking color. Touch Up with Amazing Accuracy Easily look up color formulas applied previously for a client using CLICS' client history. Reuse that exact mixture or use an earlier color as a starting point for a brand new look. Protect the Environment While Making Clients Look Great! An important mission for CLICS has been to reduce the waste inherent in traditional color application methods. By combining efficient packaging with digitally-accurate dispensing, waste - and its impact on both the environment and your bottom line - are greatly reduced. Protect the environment while making your clients look great - with CLICS.

About

Wella Professionals ShadeChart

Explore a digital shade chart for hair color, featuring realistic on-head results under various lighting. Filter shades by natural base color and access product knowledge and conversion guides for different brands.

Highlights
  • Digital shade chart
  • Realistic on-head results
  • Filter by natural base color
  • Product knowledge access
  • Conversion guide for other brands
  • Hair simulation technology
Features
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The Wella Professionals Digital Shade Chart is a comprehensive education tool which includes all you need to master the new Koleston Perfect Me+ and Illumina Color. - Digital Shade Chart: Browse the shade families and watch a realistic on-head result under different light conditions. filter relevant shades by selecting the natural base hair color. - Product Knowledge: Visit the Wella Professionals e-education website. - Conversion Guide: Provides formulas matching Koleston Perfect Me+ shades with other brands. The images and the videos in this App are generated by Revelation™, a cutting edge highly realistic hair simulation technology developed by Coty. It marks the connection between our traditional expertise in hair colorants over decades and our ambition to always seek new ways to improve the experience of our customers and celebrate hair colour.

Screenshots

CLICS4 screens
Wella Professionals ShadeChart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CLICS at 100% against Wella Professionals ShadeChart's 17%. CLICS also leads on rating (4.4 vs 2.7) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Wella Professionals ShadeChart's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CLICS holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of CLICS's written reviews are positive against 17% of Wella Professionals ShadeChart's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CLICS ships an update fortnightly, Wella Professionals ShadeChart every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
CLICS versus Wella Professionals ShadeChart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCLICSWella Professionals ShadeChart
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (14 ratings) — better2.7 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better17.4% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better12
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCLICS, LLCWella International Operations Switzerland S.a r.l.

Customer experience

CLICS

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Wella Professionals ShadeChart

All ratings12 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral25.0%
Negative41.7%
Written reviews46 reviews
Positive17.4%
Neutral8.7%
Negative73.9%

In-app purchases

None

CLICS

No in-app purchases

None

Wella Professionals ShadeChart

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CLICS free?
CLICS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wella Professionals ShadeChart free?
Wella Professionals ShadeChart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CLICS or Wella Professionals ShadeChart?
CLICS is rated higher. CLICS averages 4.4 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Wella Professionals ShadeChart averages 2.7 from 12 ratings.
Do CLICS or Wella Professionals ShadeChart have ads?
Neither CLICS nor Wella Professionals ShadeChart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CLICS or Wella Professionals ShadeChart?
CLICS ships an update fortnightly, and Wella Professionals ShadeChart every 3 months. Most recently, CLICS was updated on September 19, 2026 and Wella Professionals ShadeChart on June 10, 2026.

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