Comparison

Barber Chop vs PipNoc

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

PipNoc

Features
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PipNoc is a little pop-it game with a big itch to tap. Bubbles light up, you pop them before the timer runs out, and one quick game somehow turns into ten. Every day there's a Daily Challenge: one run, on the exact same board as everyone else playing it that day, anywhere in the world. Finish it and you'll see where you landed, then come back tomorrow and keep the streak alive. It takes about a minute, and it's the part people stick around for. Then there are three ways to play as long as you like. Reaction is the classic one. Bubbles light up across the mat and you clear them as fast as you can. Every round the next set comes a little quicker, chain your pops together for a multiplier, and watch out for the red ones. A single miss ends the run. See how far you get. Duel is for two people on one phone. You take the left side, your friend takes the right, and you both race to ten. There's a head start you can hand out if one of you is quicker, and it stays fair right down to the last pop, so the bragging rights are honestly earned. Math turns the times tables into a game. A question like 7 x 8 pops up and you tap the bubble with the answer. Get one wrong and the correct answer swells up big so it sticks in your head, then you carry right on. It's the rare kind of practice kids actually ask to do. A few things I cared about while making it: pops that feel good, with sound and a little haptic buzz. A quiet, near-black look with monospaced type, so nothing on screen competes with the bubbles. Proper landscape play built for two thumbs. High-score boards for every mode, and Game Center leaderboards if you want the world. You can pause any time, and it pauses itself if something interrupts you. And when a run goes well you can pass it on in a tap, as a picture or as a line of text your friends can open straight into the game. On privacy, PipNoc keeps to itself. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your scores live on your device. Game Center is optional: switch it on for leaderboards and achievements, and only those scores are shared, handled by Apple. Nothing else is collected. A quick daily run, a duel with a friend, or a sneaky bit of multiplication practice. However you play it, just tap. Pop it. Light it. Beat it.

Screenshots

Barber Chop4 screens
PipNoc4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PipNoc at none against Barber Chop's 11. PipNoc also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Barber Chop's advantage is chart position (#94 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Barber Chop sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. PipNoc asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Barber Chop ships an update every 5 weeks, PipNoc every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Barber Chop versus PipNoc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBarber ChopPipNoc
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (8.3K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews49.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings8.3K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#94 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size317 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLajeune and Associates, LLCDenny Hoh

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

PipNoc

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Barber Chop

Subscriptions1
  • Become OG Member$5.991 Month
One-time9
  • 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
None

PipNoc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Barber Chop free?
Barber Chop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PipNoc free?
PipNoc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Barber Chop or PipNoc have ads?
Barber Chop shows ads; PipNoc does not.
Which is updated more often, Barber Chop or PipNoc?
Barber Chop ships an update every 5 weeks, and PipNoc every 2 weeks. Most recently, Barber Chop was updated on November 2, 2026 and PipNoc on October 28, 2026.

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