OYA Colorist vs CLICS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
OYA Colorist
This app assists hairdressers in formulating hair color, serving as a constant resource. It simplifies the color formulation process and offers a database for those using high volumes of specific hair color products. Additionally, it provides access to online video education for product knowledge and techniques.
- Hair color formulation assistance
- Formula database
- Online video education access
- Product knowledge brushing
- Color technique learning
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The OYA COLORIST allows the OYA hairdresser to easily formulate hair color. It represents a 24/7 resource for the hairdresser. The OYA COLORIST is the perfect tool to provide ease and comfort for those that are intimidated by the process of color formulating and it provides an easy-to-use formula database for those hairdressers that apply high volumes of OYA hair color. For those hairdressers that wish to brush-up on their product knowledge and color techniques, the OYA COLORIST allows them to access our OYA online video education at any time from any place.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: CLICS at fortnightly against OYA Colorist's every 5 months. CLICS also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, 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.
CLICS holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of OYA Colorist's written reviews are positive against 100% of CLICS's.
OYA Colorist ships an update every 5 months, CLICS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | OYA Colorist | CLICS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (12 ratings) | 4.4 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Helias LLC | CLICS, LLC |
Customer experience
OYA Colorist
CLICS
In-app purchases
OYA Colorist
No in-app purchases
CLICS
No in-app purchases
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