L'Oréal Access vs LG CHI Color Master
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.
LG CHI Color Master
This app empowers hair stylists and salons to digitally formulate, dispense, and manage hair color. It offers AI-powered virtual try-ons for clients and streamlined client and stylist management for businesses.
- AI Hair Try-On previews
- Manual and AI color formulation
- Client color history management
- Stylist management
- QR code device connection
- Salon linking for multiple devices
- Virtual hair color try-on for all users
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CHI ColorMaster Factory — Professional Hair Color, Reimagined The official companion app for your CHI ColorMaster, rebuilt from the ground up for stylists and salons. Formulate, dispense, and manage your color business — now with a faster, modern interface on iPhone and iPad. FOR STYLISTS & SALONS AI Hair Try-On — Show clients their new color before you mix a drop. Choose their starting color, pick the target shade, and see a dramatically realistic preview — hairline, texture, and lighting included. Save and compare looks side by side. Color Manual Mode — Full control over every formula. Select from the complete color palette, including Trending Colors, 10 Minute Express Color, Tone and Gloss, Developer, and Adjustments. Set exact quantities and send straight to dispense. Color AI Mode — Let ColorMaster help you find and formulate the right color, with recommended volumes, precise formulations, and processing times. Client Management — Fully redesigned. Find clients, pull up their color history, and update their info in just a couple of taps. Stylist Management — Add, update, search, and remove stylists tied to your ColorMaster in a sleek, refreshed interface. QR Connect — Connect your mobile device to your ColorMaster with a single QR scan — about 10x faster than before. Salon Linking — Run multiple ColorMasters? Link them so clients, stylists, and formulations sync automatically across every machine — one salon or many. (Contact your ColorMaster representative to set up.) FOR EVERYONE Hair Color Try-On — No ColorMaster required. Anyone can preview CHI shades right from their phone, save their favorite looks, and share them — perfect for finding your next color before your salon visit. Download the new CHI ColorMaster Factory app and experience professional hair color, modernized. Requires a CHI ColorMaster for dispensing features; virtual try-on available to all users.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LG CHI Color Master at 5.0 against L'Oréal Access's 2.7. LG CHI Color Master also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). L'Oréal Access's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
LG CHI Color Master holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: L'Oréal Access has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
L'Oréal Access ships an update every 2 months, LG CHI Color Master every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | L'Oréal Access | LG CHI Color Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | L'Oreal | Farouk Systems |
Customer experience
L'Oréal Access
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In-app purchases
L'Oréal Access
No in-app purchases
LG CHI Color Master
No in-app purchases
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