Barbercita vs Gostelo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barbercita
Manage your client-facing application as a barber or barbershop owner. This dashboard provides tools to oversee your business operations and client interactions.
- Client app management
- Barbershop owner dashboard
- Business operations management
- Client interaction tools
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Barbercita allows you as a barber and or barbershop owner to manage your app that your clients will be using. Barbercita is the dashboard for your client app. For Barbers by a Barber!
Gostelo
Streamline your service business with an easy-to-use booking and scheduling platform. Create a personalized booking page, manage your calendar in real-time, and reduce no-shows with automatic SMS reminders. Build your customer list and maintain full control over your schedule.
- Online booking page
- Real-time dashboard
- Automatic SMS reminders
- Customer list management
- Schedule control
- Custom intake forms
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Gostelo is booking and scheduling for solo operators and small service businesses — barbers, salons, beauty studios, mobile mechanics, tutors, cleaners, and anyone whose calendar is their business. WHAT YOU GET • Your own booking page in 60 seconds. Pick a subdomain (yourname.gostelo.com) — customers book online without downloading anything. • Real-time dashboard. Today's bookings at a glance, swipe through the week, push notifications the moment a new booking lands. • Automatic SMS reminders. Cut no-shows. Customers confirm or cancel by text 24 hours before their appointment. • Customer list that builds itself. Every booking creates a record. Add notes, mark VIPs, block problem clients. • Full schedule control. Weekly hours, vacation blocks, buffer time. Customers only book slots you've opened. • Custom intake forms. Ask the questions that matter — allergies, preferences, vehicle make — right at booking. NO COMMISSIONS No per-booking fees. No upsells. The free tier covers everything most one-person businesses need. PRIVACY FIRST We don't sell your data. SMS goes out from your business name, not ours. No Gostelo ads on your booking page. Sign up takes a minute. Share your booking link, fill your calendar.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gostelo at every 10 days against Barbercita's every 28 months. Barbercita's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Barbercita against 5.0 for Gostelo. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Barbercita ships an update every 28 months, Gostelo every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barbercita | Gostelo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barbercita Co LLC | NIBIYAA LLC |
In-app purchases
Barbercita
No in-app purchases
Gostelo
No in-app purchases
