L'Oréal Access vs HAIRCODE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
L'Oréal Access
This app centralizes educational and inspirational content from 12 L'Oréal Professional brands. It offers salon professionals resources for product launches, digital upskilling, trend discovery, and business management.
- 12 L'Oréal Professional brand content
- Educational and inspirational resources
- Product launch information
- Digital upskilling modules
- Trend discovery
- Technique mastery
- Business management tools
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L'Oréal ACCESS brings together all 12 L’Oréal Professional brands’ educational and inspirational content. Localized to your country, salon professionals now access one single hub for all needs. Content on the platform ranges from product launches and digital upskilling, to trend discovery, techniques mastery, business management and much more. In a couple of clicks you’ll have access to everything you need from all your favorite brands. CONNECT, DISCOVER, LEARN, EXCHANGE & GROW today with ACCESS all powered by L’Oréal.
HAIRCODE
Get a personalized hair-dyeing formula and step-by-step instructions in just one minute. This app helps both novice and experienced colorists avoid mistakes and achieve desired hair colors with expert advice.
- Instant hair-dyeing formula generation
- Step-by-step coloring instructions
- Expert advice from top colorists
- Personalized recommendations based on hair data
- Supports various hair types and coloring scenarios
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HAIRCODE - get a hair-dyeing formula within only one minute! Are you a rookie colorist? Are you afraid to mess up the color? Yellow roots? Afraid to try new coloring products? What if the hair fall off? Now you can get an advise from a top colourist or brand ambassador in just 1 minute! This is how it works 1. You enter initial data: thickness, natural hair color, is there any grey hair, are the hair dyed and if they are dyed, how? 2. Choose the color you want to get. 3. Our service selects the work of the top specialists based on the brand you work on. You get the formula of the chosen color and step by step instruction of how to replicate that color. BY - means the mark of authorship. Every formula in our service is art that has its own author.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: L'Oréal Access at 2.7 against HAIRCODE's 1.0. L'Oréal Access also leads on review sentiment (41% vs 0%) and ratings volume (20 vs 1). HAIRCODE's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
L'Oréal Access holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: L'Oréal Access has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of L'Oréal Access's written reviews are positive against 0% of HAIRCODE's.
L'Oréal Access ships an update every 2 months, HAIRCODE every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.
| Parameter | L'Oréal Access | HAIRCODE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (20 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | L'Oreal | BEIL, OOO |
Customer experience
L'Oréal Access
HAIRCODE
In-app purchases
L'Oréal Access
No in-app purchases
HAIRCODE
No in-app purchases
