SalonIQ vs Ovatu
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SalonIQ
Manage your salon team, appointments, and client marketing from your mobile device. Access dashboards, reports, and personalize client journeys on the go. Print schedules and receipts directly from the app.
- Team management
- Appointment book access
- Dashboards and reports
- Client journey personalization
- Marketing performance monitoring
- Direct printing of receipts and schedules
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SalonIQ app is your mobile version of SaloniQ system that helps in authorising and authenticating the different users easily. This provides a quick and easy way of managing your team, accessing your appointment book, dashboards, reports, personalise your client's journey and monitor the performance of your client's marketing from any location on your iphone/ipad. Print receipts, schedules and reports directly from the app on to your receipt printer.
Ovatu
This booking software empowers appointment-based businesses with advanced scheduling tools. It offers comprehensive customer lifecycle management and a suite of features designed for ease of use and business expansion.
- Online booking
- Reminders & Marketing
- Payment & POS
- Scheduling
- Reporting
- Customer lifecycle management
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Ovatu is a powerful booking software tool that gives appointment based businesses access to next generation scheduling features. As the most intuitive, affordable and beautiful booking software available, Ovatu offers full customer lifecycle management, giving you instant access to a complete toolkit for managing appointments. From your 30 day free trial of Ovatu, you'll have access to features that have been rebuilt from the ground up to focus on ease of use and business growth: * Online booking * Reminders & Marketing * Payment & POS * Scheduling * Reporting & so much more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SalonIQ at 100% against Ovatu's 55%. Ovatu's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). 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.
SalonIQ ships an update every 10 days, Ovatu every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SalonIQ | Ovatu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 54.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 11 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 254 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intelligent Salon Software Ltd. | Ovatu Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
SalonIQ
Ovatu
In-app purchases
SalonIQ
No in-app purchases
Ovatu
No in-app purchases
