The lash specialist
alternative to Booksy.
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Booksy books everyone. Lash Create does lashes.
Booksy is a marketplace first and a booking tool second. It was built to fill chairs for barbers, nail techs, brow artists and every other beauty service, and it does that well. The trouble is that lashes are not just another slot in a diary. The design, the curl map, the lash health and the fill cycle are the work, and a broad marketplace has no place to put any of it. So lash techs end up running Booksy for the calendar, a notes app for the map, and a camera roll for the photos, and the set the client agreed on is never in the same place as the booking.
Lash Create closes that gap. It is the only one of these tools built only for lashes, so the design, the client record, the deposit and the rebook live together. That is why, for a lash tech comparing a lash booking app vs Booksy, it is the alternative that actually fits.
Lash Create vs Booksy, Fresha, GlossGenius and Vagaro
Booksy and the other broad platforms all book appointments and take payments, and some do it well. Where they part company is the work either side of the appointment. Here is how they line up on the things that decide a lash set.
Clients book when it suits them, which is usually late at night from the sofa, and they want to see the set before they say yes.
| For lash work | Booksy | Fresha | GlossGenius | Vagaro | Lash Create |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built only for lashes | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| On photo lash design & try on | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Lash mapping built in | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Client record holds designs, curls & fill cycle | Notes & photos | Generic | Generic | Generic | Lash aware |
| Rebook reminders on the fill cycle | Generic | Generic | Generic | Generic | Yes |
| Online booking page on your link | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Directory listing | Marketplace | Marketplace | No | Marketplace | Members' listing, lash only |
| Fee on new marketplace clients | 30% of first visit with Boost on, capped at $100 | 20% of first visit, $6 minimum | No marketplace | Marketplace fee | None |
| Native iPad design tool | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Patch tests & lash health on record | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Automatic aftercare after each set | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Deposits, gift cards & prepaid bundles | Deposits & gift cards | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, lash tuned |
| Free to start | 14 day trial, then $29.99/mo | No, 7 day trial | No, 14 day trial | No, 30 day trial | Free, then plan |
| Best for | Barbers & all beauty | All beauty | Solo beauty pros | Salons & spas | Lash techs & salons |
| Salon website builder | No | No | No | No | Built in, three templates |
| In app chat, keeps your number private | In app | No | In app | In app | Yes, tied to booking |
| Reviews auto after every set | Generic | Generic | Generic | Generic | Yes, on completion |
| Digital consent forms & patch tests | Intake forms | No | No | No | Signed digitally, saved to record |
| Referral & promotion templates | Basic | Basic | Yes | Basic | Birthday, win back, last minute |
| Embed on your existing site | Booking widget | Rarely | Yes | Rarely | Yes, drop in widget |
Booksy is a marketplace with a diary attached, and the marketplace is the part that earns its money. Switch Boost on and you appear in front of people searching their area for lashes, which your own booking link cannot do by itself. Boost costs nothing to turn on and the fee only lands once: 30 percent of a new client's first visit, capped at $100. If she stays with you, you never pay on her again.
The break shows up at the bed. Booksy's client card takes notes and photos, so last time's set can sit on file, but there is nowhere to draw the map over it, no field for the curl and length you used in each zone, and no way to show a nervous first timer what a wispy hybrid does to her own eyes before she says yes. Its marketing can chase a client who is slipping away, and that helps, though the timing comes from a rule you wrote rather than from the date her fill is due.
The money is easy to lay side by side. Booksy is $29.99 a month plus tax with every feature included, each extra team member adds $20 a month, and you get 14 days to try it. Lash Create is free to start, Premium is $9.99 a month, Business is $129.99 a year and Salon covers up to nine artists for $259.99 a year. Switching is not all or nothing either: plenty of techs keep Booksy for discovery, export the client CSV into Lash Create, and let their own page carry the regulars.
Fair is fair: if you run a multi service salon doing hair, nails, brows and skin under one roof, or you rely on the Booksy marketplace for walk in discovery, a broad platform earns its keep. This one is for the tech who fills a diary with lash sets and nothing else. Booksy figures taken from its own US pricing page in October 2026 and subject to change.
More bookings. Better retention. Less admin.
The booking, the design, the deposit and the follow up all live together here. No marketplace in the middle, and nothing waiting in a second app for you to remember it.
Client records (CRM)
Every client with photos, past designs, health notes and rebook date.
Booking & calendar
A lash native calendar with per style pricing and fill cycle reminders.
Online booking page
Your own booking link, deposits and confirmations handled.
Salon website builder
Pick a designer template, live on your own link with booking built in.
Payments & insights
See what every visit earned and what your busiest styles are.
Reviews & aftercare
Aftercare emailed after every set, reviews you own on your own site.
Every setup in the app, walked through on video, on your own schedule.
Coming from Booksy? Your clients come across on a CSV.
Where each one leaves a lash tech wanting.
No complaints about any of them as software. The gap is the same in all four: a lash set is a design, and a diary has nowhere to keep one.
Booksy
A strong marketplace that sends you discovery, which is real. But it is built for barbers and broad beauty, it charges $29.99 a month plus $20 a month for every extra team member, and its optional Boost takes 30 percent of a new marketplace client's first visit, capped at $100. The design, the curl map and the lash health have no home. Lash Create is the studio Booksy is not: it maps the set, holds the lash aware record, takes the deposit and rebooks on the fill cycle, with no marketplace commission.
Fresha
Huge marketplace, and it is a paid app now: $19.95 a month for one person or $14.95 per team member, plus a one time 20 percent cut of a marketplace client's first visit with a $6 minimum. Own link bookings are free, which is the good bit. The map, the curls and the lash health still have nowhere to go. Lash Create holds all three next to the booking. See the full Fresha comparison.
GlossGenius
Solo beauty pros love it, and the branding tools deserve the praise. It is paid from the end of the 14 day trial, with Standard at $28 a month, Gold at $56 and Platinum at $168, plus 2.4 percent and 15 cents on every card. Lovely software, no lash map. Lash Create designs the set on her own photo and keeps that design on the record. See the full GlossGenius comparison.
Vagaro
Wider than Booksy and priced differently: $30 a month for one bookable calendar, $10 for each extra up to seven, with forms, text marketing and a website sold on top. No marketplace cut, but no lash map either, and nowhere to keep the curl and length per zone. Lash Create starts from the set and works forward from there. See the full Vagaro comparison.
One loop the broad tools cannot copy.
A marketplace puts a client in your chair once. Keeping her is a different job, and that is the one Lash Create is shaped around. Try the set on her own photo, save it, take the request and the deposit on your own link, then let the fill reminder bring her back with the same map already on screen. No commission on the second visit, or the twentieth.
- Design and try on the set on the client's own eyes
- The design saves to a lash aware client record
- Online booking with deposits on your own link, embed it or use the built in site
- Rebook nudges set by the fill cycle you actually work to
A better fit than a broad beauty marketplace.
What lash techs are really searching for when they look for a Booksy alternative.
A Booksy alternative for lash techs
As a Booksy alternative for lash techs, Lash Create gives you the online booking and deposits that Booksy does plus the lash work it cannot. You design and try on the set, the design saves to the client, and the rebook follows the fill cycle, with no per team member fee and no marketplace commission on the clients you win.
Lash booking app vs Booksy
Put a lash booking app vs Booksy side by side and the difference is where each one starts. Booksy starts from the marketplace and works back to your calendar. Lash Create starts from the set on the client's own eyes and works forward to the booking, the deposit, the aftercare and the rebook. For a lash tech that order matters every single day.
A Fresha, GlossGenius and Vagaro alternative too
Fresha, GlossGenius and Vagaro are all in one beauty tools with the same gap. Lash Create is the lash specialist alternative to all of them, so instead of breadth you never use, you get the on photo design, the lash aware record and the fill cycle rebook that actually grow a lash book. See the Fresha comparison and the GlossGenius comparison.
Lash booking software for iPad
Lash techs will love this bit: it runs where you work. Lash booking software for iPad and iPhone, native and quick, with the calendar, the online booking page and the client record in the same app you are already holding at the bed.
Online booking with deposits, your way
You get a public booking page on your own link with deposits taken through Stripe. Already have a website? Embed the booking link straight on it. No site yet? You get a customisable salon site, plus your own listing in the Lash Create Directory, a lash only directory rather than a marketplace that charges you for the introduction.
Everything around the booking, made for lashes
The calendar is the easy part. Here is what else comes across. Reviews and aftercare send themselves after every set, referrals and promotions win back quiet clients, consent forms and patch tests sign on the iPad, and client chat keeps messages off your personal number, all tied to the lash record.
Your own site, gift cards and bundles
No website yet? The salon website builder gives you a lash site on your own link in minutes, and gift cards and prepaid bundles let a client pay for a run of infills in advance. It is yours, on your domain, rather than a profile on someone else's marketplace.
Free to start, simple to grow
Start free with the design and try on, then move up to booking, CRM and payments. Premium is $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year, Business is $129.99 a year and Salon covers up to 9 artists for $259.99 a year, with a 14 day free trial on Business and Salon. See the pricing, then bring your clients across at your own pace.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Booksy alternative for lash techs?
Whichever one keeps the design next to the booking. Lash Create maps and tries a set on a real photo, saves it to the client record, takes requests and deposits on your own page and tracks the money. Booksy is a marketplace with a calendar attached; this is a lash studio in an app.
How does a lash booking app compare with Booksy?
Booksy is a broad beauty marketplace with a booking calendar attached. A lash booking app like Lash Create starts from the set itself: the design and try on, the curl map, the lash health notes and the fill cycle. The booking, the deposit and the rebook reminder all hang off that record, which a general calendar was never made to hold.
Does Booksy charge for new clients from its marketplace?
Only the first visit, and only with Boost on: 30 percent, capped at $100. We charge nothing.
Is Lash Create cheaper than Booksy?
Booksy's US plan is $29.99 a month plus tax, with every feature in and a 14 day trial, then $20 a month for each additional team member. Lash Create is free to start, Premium is $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year, Business is $129.99 a year, and Salon covers up to nine artists for $259.99 a year with a 14 day free trial. For a solo tech or a small team the maths usually lands our way, and the lash design tools come with it.
Does Lash Create take deposits and online bookings like Booksy?
It does. You get a public booking page on your own link where clients request appointments any time, with your hours, lead time and deposit rules under your control. Payments run through Stripe. If you already have a website you can embed the booking link, and if you do not you get a customisable salon site built in.
Can I move my clients from Booksy to Lash Create?
Export your client list from Booksy as a CSV, then import it here and map the Name, Phone and Email columns. It is free and there is no limit on the number of clients. Build the lash records alongside Booksy for as long as you like, and move the booking over when the design and rebook loop is set up.