Booksy alternative for beauty pros
A Booksy Alternative That Brings You the Clients
Booksy gives salons and barbers a booking app and a place where clients can find them. Slad works the other way around: new clients are what you get, booked into your chair while you work.
What Booksy is
Booksy describes itself as an all-in-one booking and business app for beauty and barber professionals. You set up your profile, services and calendar, take deposits, and get a free listing on the Booksy Marketplace, where local clients search and book. Booksy also offers Boost, an optional paid feature that shows you to more people on its marketplace, and it is testing an AI receptionist that picks up calls when you cannot.
How new clients reach you
| Booksy | Slad | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Booking software you set up and run | New clients, booked into your chair |
| Where new clients come from | Clients who find you on the Booksy marketplace, its optional paid Boost, Google, or your own marketing | Slad brings them to you |
| A new client costs you | With Boost on, Booksy takes a share of a new client's first visit | Your plan; 3 new clients in your first month, or your money back |
| Your time | Running your profile, calendar and messages | 15 minutes to start |
Which one fits you
If you want a booking app you run yourself, with a marketplace listing, Booksy is built for that. If what you need is more clients in your chairs without running another app, that is what Slad is for.
The Slad promise
Slad brings new clients to your chair and books them in while you work, with deposits paid straight to your account. All we need from you is 15 minutes, and if you do not get 3 new clients in your first month, you get your money back.
3 new clients in your first month, or your money back. All we need is 15 minutes.
Book 15 minutesQuestions beauty pros ask
Is Slad a Booksy alternative?
Yes, for beauty pros whose goal is more clients. Booksy is booking software with a marketplace; Slad brings new clients to your chair and books them in, with 3 new clients in your first month or your money back.
Does Booksy charge for new clients?
Booksy's Boost is optional. When it is on, Booksy charges a share of a new client's first visit, according to Booksy's Boost page.
How long does it take to start with Slad?
All we need from you is 15 minutes, on a video call with Yann Youbi, Slad's founder.
Sources: Booksy for business (checked Oct 31, 2026) · Booksy Boost (checked Oct 31, 2026) · Booksy AI Receptionist beta (checked Oct 31, 2026)