HairApp: Hair Styler App, Bald

Review by eFreeware

HairApp is a free photo editor from Lyrebird Studio, published in the Photography category on Google Play. It is built around one idea: take a picture of a face and see how different haircuts, colors and facial hair would look on it. The main reason to consider it is that it lets you satisfy that curiosity without a salon appointment or a bad decision you have to grow out.

The app has been installed more than a million times and holds a 3.4 average from 19,320 ratings. It is free to download, carries ads and offers in-app purchases. It arrived in January 2024 and was last updated in December 2025, so it has had time to settle into its current form.

It is pitched for a wide audience: men, women, boys and girls, and the tools range from a buzzcut preview to a long hair styler. That breadth is the appeal. You are not limited to one style family or one kind of face.

Trying a cut before you commit

The core of the app is a hairstyle changer that works on a photo of your face. You pick a style and the app shows how it sits on your features. The developer frames this as matching styles to your face shape, which is the sensible way to approach a haircut anyway. Seeing a style on your own head is a different exercise from looking at a model in a magazine.

The range covers the obvious extremes. There is a buzz cut filter for anyone considering going very short, a bald filter and a baldness photo editor for those who want to see a shaved or thinning look, and a mullet filter for the more committed. A curtain bangs filter handles softer, more gradual changes. The app also includes a haircut simulator for testing lengths before a real cut.

What appeals to me here is the low stakes. A haircut is one of those decisions where the difference between the picture in your head and the result on your head can be considerable. Being able to preview a short hair editor result or a longer style on your own photo first is a reasonable use of a phone camera.

There is also a long hair styler aimed at both men and women. Long styles are harder to judge from a photo than short ones, but the principle is the same: you get a rough sense of whether the shape suits you before you spend months growing it out.

Color, beards and the finishing touches

Beyond the cut itself, the app includes a hair color changer with a blonde filter among the options. Dyeing is another decision with a long tail, and a preview is a fair way to test a shade before committing to it. The color tools sit alongside the style tools rather than in a separate app, which keeps the experimentation in one place.

There is also a beard photo editor and a no facial hair filter. For anyone who has worn a beard for years and wonders what removing it would do to their face, that is a genuinely useful option, and it is the kind of thing a mirror does not show you well. The baldness app and no hair filter work in the same territory: showing you a version of yourself you cannot easily see otherwise.

The developer describes the whole package as a hair makeover tool, and the combination of cut, color and facial hair does cover most of what a person might want to change. It is a photo editor at heart, but for planning purposes that is enough.

The app is rated for Everyone and is free to download. Ads and in-app purchases are part of the package, which is worth knowing before you start, since that is the trade for not paying upfront.

What you need before you start

The app works with a photo of your face. That means your first step is a decent picture: front-facing, well lit, hair out of the way if you want to see a change clearly. The quality of the preview depends on the quality of the photo you give it, which is true of any editor of this type.

There is not much else to prepare. The app is free to install, and the tools are organized around the kinds of changes you might want to make rather than around a complicated workflow. If you have used a photo editor before, the idea of picking a style and applying it to a face will be familiar.

The one thing I would flag is that a preview is a preview. Lighting, hair texture and the angle of your photo all affect how convincing the result looks, and no filter can fully account for how a real cut behaves on your head. Used as a rough guide rather than a guarantee, it does its job.

Who gets the most from it

This app suits people who are thinking about a change and want to see it first. That includes anyone considering a significant cut, a color shift, a beard removal or a shaved head, and anyone who simply enjoys seeing themselves in styles they would never actually try. The breadth of the style catalog means there is something for most tastes.

It also suits younger users experimenting with looks, which fits the developer's framing of the app for boys and girls as well as adults. The Everyone rating and free download make it easy to try without commitment.

The 3.4 average from a large number of ratings suggests the experience is not universally smooth, and I would treat that as a signal to keep expectations moderate rather than a reason to avoid it. For a free tool that answers a specific question, that is a fair trade.

It suits anyone who wants a quick way to try different hairstyles on their own face before deciding. It is a preview tool, and it is best judged on whether the preview helps you decide.

A preview tool worth trying before your next appointment

HairApp does one job and does it across a wide range of styles: showing you how a haircut, color or beard change might look on your own face. The mix of buzzcut, bald, mullet, curtain bangs, long hair and color options covers most of the decisions people actually agonize over. The beard and no-facial-hair tools are a nice addition that many similar editors leave out.

It is free, ad-supported and offers in-app purchases, with a 3.4 average from over nineteen thousand ratings. That rating is worth weighing, but for a no-cost download the risk is low. If you have a salon visit coming up, or you have simply wondered what you would look like with a very different cut, it is a reasonable thing to install and try once.

My recommendation is for anyone who wants a second opinion on a hair decision before making it. It is not a substitute for a stylist, and it will not tell you how a cut will grow out, but as a way to see a few possibilities on your own face it is a useful thing to have on the phone.