Comparison

CLICS vs MD Aesthetics

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

MD Aesthetics

Features
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MD Aesthetics App - Earn and track your rewards at participating stores Features: Check in on in-store tablet with QR code on app View available rewards and track progress for future rewards View store info Refer friends through app View transaction history And much more!

Screenshots

CLICS4 screens
MD Aesthetics3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: CLICS at fortnightly against MD Aesthetics's every 18 months. MD Aesthetics's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CLICS ships an update fortnightly, MD Aesthetics every 18 months. Both last shipped on September 19, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
CLICS versus MD Aesthetics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCLICSMD Aesthetics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 18 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCLICS, LLCMD Aesthetics

In-app purchases

None

CLICS

No in-app purchases

None

MD Aesthetics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CLICS free?
CLICS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MD Aesthetics free?
MD Aesthetics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CLICS or MD Aesthetics have ads?
Neither CLICS nor MD Aesthetics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CLICS or MD Aesthetics?
CLICS ships an update fortnightly, and MD Aesthetics every 18 months. Most recently, CLICS was updated on September 19, 2026 and MD Aesthetics on September 19, 2026.

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