Hairstyle Try On - AI Haircut

Review by eFreeware

Hairstyle Try On is a free Android app in the Beauty category, published by JYCoder. It puts a virtual haircut and color on a photo of you, so a decision that normally waits until you are in the salon chair can be made earlier, at home, with your own face in the frame.

The case for installing it is straightforward. A cut or a color is expensive to undo, and a wig is more expensive still, so seeing a rough preview first has obvious value. The app also carries a 4.0 average across more than 133,000 ratings and over a million installs, which suggests a large number of people have at least tried it since its June 2021 release.

Lifting a hairstyle straight off another photo

The feature the developer leads with is hair detection and extraction. The app analyzes a target image, isolates the hairstyle in it, and lets you place that style onto your own picture. In practice that means you are not limited to whatever is built into the app: if you see a cut you like in a photo, that photo becomes the source.

That is the most interesting part of the app to me, because it turns any picture into a reference. The developer describes the technology as advanced, and describes the use cases as salon previews and wig visualization, which is a fair summary of what the feature is for. Someone shopping for a wig, in particular, can put a candidate style on their own head before spending money on it.

You supply the target image and a photo of yourself; the app does the segmenting.

The preset library and its color options

If you would rather not hunt for a reference photo, the app ships with more than 500 hairstyles for men and women. The library covers a range of lengths, textures, bangs and styles, and the developer notes that these were professionally designed for instant try-on, meaning no source image is required. You pick a style and it goes onto your photo.

The preset set also reaches into celebrity-inspired territory. The developer lists K-pop looks, Hollywood glam, modern fades, curtain bangs and wolf cuts among the trending styles available, and the pitch is that you can preview an iconic look on yourself before booking a salon appointment or buying a wig. Whether a given trend is in the library at any moment is something you would check in the app.

Color editing applies across the board, to both extracted hairstyles and presets. Classic shades such as blonde, black and brunette are covered, alongside bolder choices like pink, blue and silver. For anyone who has ever wondered whether a dramatic color would suit them, that combination of style and shade on their own photo is the core of what the app offers.

What the app asks of you

The app is free to download, and it carries ads. It also offers in-app purchases, so some spending beyond the download is possible. If you are weighing the app up, treat the ads as part of the deal and decide whether the free experience is enough for how you plan to use it.

The other requirement is more basic: your own photo. Every preview in the app is built on a picture of you, and the extraction feature needs a second image to pull a style from. You supply those images if you want to see anything on your own head. The app is rated for Everyone, and the release date puts it in mid-2021, with the most recent update noted as October 2026.

Getting a useful preview out of it

The most sensible way to use the app, as I see it, is to arrive with a decision already in mind. If you are considering a fringe, a shorter cut or a color change, the preset library can show you a handful of directions quickly, and the color tools let you test shades on the same style rather than starting over each time. That is a fast way to narrow a shortlist before you talk to a stylist.

The extraction feature rewards a little preparation. A clear, well-lit target photo of the hairstyle you want gives the app the best chance of isolating it cleanly, and the same goes for the photo of you. Anyone buying a wig can use the same approach in reverse: pull the style from a product image and see how it sits on your own face before ordering.

I would not treat any of it as a final answer. Lighting, camera angle and hair length all shift how a style reads, and a preview on a phone screen is not the same as a cut in a chair. The app is best used as a way to rule options in or out and to walk into an appointment with something concrete to point at.

A useful second opinion before the salon chair

Hairstyle Try On is a narrow tool, and it is good that it is. It previews hairstyles and colors on your photo, either from a library of more than 500 styles or from hair lifted out of another image, and it does that without charging for the download. The ads and the in-app purchases are the trade-off, and the 4.0 average across a very large number of ratings suggests most people get something out of it.

It suits anyone facing a change they are unsure about: a first short cut, a color they have never tried, a wig purchase, or a style spotted in a photo and wanted for themselves. If you are the sort of person who likes to see something before committing to it, this is a reasonable way to do that from your phone.

My advice is to install it when a decision is actually coming up, rather than to browse it idly. Bring a photo of yourself, bring a reference image if you have one, and use the app to shorten the list. That is where it fits on your home screen.