Barber Chop vs Wig Run
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barber Chop
This app offers a virtual hair salon and barber shop experience with a diverse cast of characters representing various ethnicities, genders, and abilities. Aspiring stylists can practice cutting, designing, and styling hair using realistic tools and share their creations.
- Diverse character selection
- Realistic hair cutting tools
- Hair design and styling
- Share creations on social media
- Undo and zoom functionality
- Save designs to photo album
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Future barbers and stylists enjoy our characters, which represent diverse hairstyles, beauty, and cultures!! Characters: A total of (28) characters from different background like BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color), people with disabilities, and Pride/LGBTQAI+. A total of (3) holiday characters from different holidays like Christmas. • 1 Male with Vitiligo • 1 Female with Vitiligo • 1 Pride/LGBTQAI+ teenager • 1 Black Asian woman • 1 Black Asian man • 2 Black female teenagers • 4 Asian males • 3 Children (1 White child with disabilities, 1 Jewish child, 1 Black child) • 3 White man • 1 White Indigenous man • 1 White woman with disabilities (wheelchair) • 1 White man with disabilities (wheelchair) • 5 Black men • 1 Black women • 1 Black male Santa • 1 White male Santa • 1 White female Santa This game is for anybody with a creative mind. It’s also useful as a learning module for current and prospective hair stylists. All you need is your finger and your imagination. Turn on the volume on your device to hear the tools. You will feel like you’re right there in the barber shop or beauty hair salon. • The ultimate hair salon and barber shop for men and women. • Pick a character of your choice. • Rotate the image to cut and design hair on each side of the head. • Cut hair with precision using tools such as clippers, scissors, razors, and clip guards. The clip guards let you reduce the thickness of the hair, which is a technique known as a fade. • Create a design and share your work on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter). Features: • Added Design Feeds, check out cool designs by other players! • Undo button to undo the last action you did. As long as your finger stays on the screen, it will count as one action. • Zooming options for most characters, allowing more accurate cutting. • Adjustable clip guards to reduce hair thickness. • Razors for complete hair removal. You can shave the face or head bald. • Share button. • Music options to listen to while playing. • Camera button to let you save your work into your photo album. • Rotation button to rotate the head Get ready to experience a realistic game that allows you to show off your skills, be creative or become a better barber. There are different ethnicities, genders, cultural backgrounds to choose from. Each character has plenty of hair on their head to give you a limitless number of hairstyles to create. A timer that appears on the screen once you start to play will show you how long it took you to create your hairstyle. It will also be displayed on your saved photo. You and others will see how skilful you’re getting each time you play. Everything is free! https://barberchop.com/barberchopapp/barberchop-stars/terms-and-conditions.html
Wig Run
Design and customize wigs by collecting hair parts and choosing colors. Create short afro styles or long blonde straight looks to your preference.
- Collect hair parts
- Color hair as desired
- Create short afro styles
- Design long blonde straight styles
- Customize wig appearance
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Collect hair parts and color it as you wish! Do you need short afro hair or long blonde straight? You decide!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wig Run at 4.6 against Barber Chop's 4.2. Wig Run also leads on review sentiment (66% vs 50%) and ratings volume (30K vs 8.3K). Barber Chop's advantage is chart position (#116 vs unranked). 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. Barber Chop sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Wig Run sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wig Run holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8.3K and 30K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Barber Chop's written reviews are positive against 66% of Wig Run's.
Barber Chop ships an update every 5 weeks, Wig Run every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barber Chop | Wig Run |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (8.3K ratings) | 4.6 (30K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 49.9% of reviews | 65.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.3K | 30K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #116 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 317 MB | 224 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lajeune and Associates, LLC | RUBY OYUN VE YAZILIM DANISMANLIK SANAYI TICARET ANONIM SIRKETI |
Customer experience
Barber Chop
Wig Run
User reviews
Barber Chop
From 8.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fun and entertaining
- 👍 Realistic hair cutting experience
- 💡 Ability to get creative with haircuts
- 👍 Good for learning hair cutting skills
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and black screen issues
- 🐛 Unrealistic hair physics and cutting mechanics
- 🔍 Limited character and tool selection
- 💸 Excessive ads and in-app purchases
Wig Run
From 30K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💕 Fun and enjoyable
- 👍 Good game for casual play
- 🎨 Interesting hair and character customization
Room to improve
- 🔍 Repetitive gameplay
- 📺 Too many ads
- 🐛 Glitches and performance issues
- 🚫 Lack of diversity in character representation
Bugs and requests
Barber Chop
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes on launch for many users
- Cutting tools don't work as expected
- Saved haircuts not persisting between sessions
- Frequent freezing and performance issues
Requested features
4 requests- Add more hair styling tools like combs and brushes
- Implement a more realistic hair cutting system
- Expand character selection and customization options
- Reduce ads and make more features freely available
Wig Run
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent crashes and freezes
- Slow loading times
- Inability to load into the game
Requested features
4 requests- More level variety and progression
- Ability to customize character and hair styles
- Reduce ads or offer ad-free option
- Improve performance and stability
In-app purchases
Barber Chop
- Become OG Member$5.991 Month
- Coin pack 1$0.99
- Coin pack of 150$1.99
- Selfie Tool$4.99
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- Coin pack of 500$4.99
- Wallpaper$6.99
- Coloring Tool$7.99
- VIP Lock$8.99
- Coin pack of 1250$9.99
- Remove Forced Ads$19.99
Wig Run
- No Ads$4.99









