Comparison

Tatify Studio vs Chartula

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

Head to head
About

Tatify Studio

This platform streamlines tattoo and piercing studio operations with advanced booking, client management, and financial tracking tools. It helps studios increase bookings, improve client retention, and run more efficiently through a comprehensive system designed for the industry.

Highlights
  • Advanced online booking
  • Industry-first session timer
  • Flash mode & online events
  • Complete CRM system
  • Artist payroll & commission tracking
  • Financial dashboards & reporting
  • Client portal
Features
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Tatify Studio Pro is a full-featured tattoo and piercing studio management platform built to help studios stay organized, increase bookings, improve client retention, and run more efficiently — all from one powerful system. Designed specifically for the tattoo industry, Tatify Studio Pro goes far beyond basic appointment scheduling. It combines advanced booking tools, client management, artist tracking, business analytics, and automation into a single platform created for modern tattoo and piercing studios. Key Features: • Advanced Online Booking Allow clients to request or book appointments online without relying on missed DMs, social media messages, or emails. Reduce no-shows and streamline your scheduling process with a professional booking experience. • Industry-First Session Timer Tatify’s proprietary Session Timer helps studios accurately track tattoo sessions in real time. Monitor appointment duration, improve workflow efficiency, and gain better insight into artist productivity and studio performance. • Flash Mode & Online Flash Events Run professional online flash events directly through your studio. Showcase flash designs, allow clients to claim available pieces, and manage flash event traffic in a streamlined system designed specifically for tattoo studios. • Complete CRM System Store and manage detailed client profiles including contact information, appointment history, medical information, consent records, notes, and client activity. Build stronger relationships and improve customer retention. • Artist Payroll & Commission Tracking Automatically calculate artist payouts and commissions with built-in payroll tools. Simplify financial tracking and reduce manual calculations. • Financial Dashboards & Reporting Access powerful analytics and reporting tools that help you understand studio performance, revenue trends, artist productivity, booking trends, and client retention metrics from anywhere. • Client Portal Give clients access to their own portal where they can book appointments, reschedule or cancel sessions, update personal information, and view appointment history and spending statistics. • Calendar Management Manage your entire studio schedule with a powerful calendar system built for busy tattoo and piercing shops. Stay organized and keep appointments flowing efficiently. • Built for Tattoo & Piercing Studios Unlike generic booking software, Tatify Studio Pro was created specifically for the tattoo industry with features designed around real studio workflows and daily operations. Whether you manage a single artist studio or a growing multi-artist shop, Tatify Studio Pro gives you the tools needed to streamline operations, improve organization, reduce missed opportunities, and help your studio operate at a professional level. Plans start at $49, visit us at www.tatifystudio.com

About

Chartula

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Chartula is a calendar you write in. The name is Latin for “a little sheet of paper”. There are exactly two quick ways to note an appointment: scribble it down or say it. Typing, and fixing the typos as you go, takes far too long. This app is for people who think on paper — and still don't want to give up what only a calendar in a device can do. HANDWRITING IS THE TRUTH Appointments go straight into the time grid with Apple Pencil and stay handwriting. What gets saved is the stroke, not an image of it. Text recognition is a reading aid, not content: it offers up to three readings, but only your tap turns one into a title. Nothing quietly becomes type. OR SPEAK THE APPOINTMENT Say the sentence and the app takes it apart: day, start, duration or end, repeat, alert, location, calendar. Every detail it finds appears on its own and can be changed on its own. Nothing is guessed. Recognition is rule-based and works offline. WHAT PAPER CANNOT DO Written once, the same thing stands in day, week, month and year. One sentence is enough for a series up to "every third Tuesday". Alerts speak up by themselves. Search finds titles, locations, notes — and the handwriting it has read. And what moves isn't crossed out, it is dragged. FOUR ZOOM LEVELS, ONE GESTURE Pinch leads from the day through week and month into the year, swiping turns the page. Press and hold on a time, then drag, and an appointment starts exactly there. PAPER YOU CHOOSE Blank, ruled, dotted or squared; narrow, normal or wide; white, ivory or night paper. The ruling zooms along, so what you wrote stays on its lines. TEMPLATES FROM PRINTED PLANNERS Several layouts per view: the time grid, the day page, the week in rows, the year strip from the office wall. Under the calendar sits a note drawer: the note for the day, the week, the month — next to it every template made for that span: weekly review, monthly goals, habits, mood, task list, meals. A page index with search keeps it together. BINDERS FOR SCHOOL, COLLEGE AND JOURNALING Every lesson in your timetable gets its own sheet, and a binder holds them together: history, maths, the Tuesday lecture. Opened, it reads as one continuous set of notes; as a PDF, one page per lesson. A set square and a circle template lie on the page as on a desk — move them, turn them, snap to whole degrees, and the stroke follows the edge. And the day note becomes a journal that never forgets its date. TOOLS Fountain pen, ballpoint, pencil, fineliner, highlighter, chalk, watercolour. The fountain pen follows pressure and tilt, on Apple Pencil Pro rotation too. Erase by stroke or by point, lasso, free choice of colour. 214 shapes lay down real ink: the one you pick lands in a frame right away — drag, distort, rotate, recolour. A shape assist you can switch off smooths lines, boxes and circles; it never touches your writing. EVERY DEVICE, NO ACCOUNT Syncing runs through your own iCloud. No account of ours, no password, no server of ours. Handwriting travels as strokes, not as a picture. One switch turns it off. WHAT ELSE IS THERE — Several calendars with colours, order and a default — Repeats up to "last Friday of the month", several alerts per appointment — Public holidays for German federal states, calculated on the device — System calendars and ICS subscriptions shown along, never changed — Due reminders from the Reminders app — One photo per appointment — Print and export as PDF, PNG or ICS — with the handwriting — Trash, daily backup, export as a file — Widgets for home and lock screen, Spotlight, Siri shortcuts — VoiceOver in every view, Dynamic Type WHAT THIS APP DOES NOT DO No ad network, no analytics, no tracking. Your appointments stay on your devices and in your iCloud. PRICE Everything is open for 14 days. After that, a yearly subscription or a one-time purchase unlocks writing; reading stays free. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tatify Studio4 screens
Chartula4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tatify Studio at none against Chartula's 2. Tatify Studio also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Chartula sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.00 per year. Tatify Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Tatify Studio versus Chartula: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTatify StudioChartula
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size186 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDavid WilliamsMichael Ketelaar

In-app purchases

None

Tatify Studio

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Chartula

Subscriptions1
  • Chartula Yearly$4.001 Year
One-time1
  • Chartula Unlock$9.00

Questions

Is Tatify Studio free?
Tatify Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chartula free?
Chartula is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tatify Studio or Chartula have ads?
Neither Tatify Studio nor Chartula shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tatify Studio or Chartula?
Tatify Studio ships an update weekly, and Chartula weekly. Most recently, Tatify Studio was updated on November 5, 2026 and Chartula on October 31, 2026.

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