Short Hairstyles & Haircuts is a mobile image gallery for women providing inspiration for various short haircut styles on iOS.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Lifestyle
Sentiment
4.3
7 reviews
Nemesis
Hairstyle Try On
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire the app for quick, low-stakes visual inspiration, but the lack of interactive tools forces them to look elsewhere for actual styling decisions.
For Women seeking inspiration and styling advice for short haircuts ranging from pixies to neck-length bobs.
Key features
Collection of over one hundred photos showcasing various short haircuts, driving session frequency to expand ad-impression inventory.
Content filtered by hair texture including thick, fine, wavy, curly, and straight hair types, increasing engagement time.
How much does it cost?
The app is free to download with no explicit subscription or IAP tiers mentioned in the store metadata.
Velocity
Dormant developmentopaqueShow more...
The app has not received a single update in the last 10 months, falling well outside the threshold for active development. With only one minor release recorded in the observed data, there is no evidence of ongoing feature work or maintenance. The development status is classified as zombie due to the lack of activity since September 2025.
Who built it?
Hayrettin Cetintas
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What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for Short Hairstyles & Haircuts
How's the Lifestyle market?
The app maintains a niche presence in the Lifestyle category with a 4.28 rating based on 7 reviews. Its lack of recent feature updates relative to competitors suggests a maintenance-mode posture.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By KBMSoft ApS
With over 129,000 ratings, this app dominates the niche by providing a high-volume, long-standing platform for virtual hair visualization.
- Offers a mature virtual try-on engine that has been refined through years of user feedback
- Maintains a high release cadence with two updates in the last six months to ensure compatibility
- Leverages a massive historical dataset of user preferences to refine its hairstyle recommendation algorithms
Unlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
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Key takeaways for Short Hairstyles & Haircuts
Where is it heading?
The market for hair styling apps is consolidating around interactive, AI-driven visualization tools that provide immediate utility. Without a shift toward interactive features, the app will continue to lose visibility to rivals like Hairstyle Try On that maintain a high release cadence.
- The lack of updates since September 2025 signals a maintenance-mode posture, which accelerates user churn to more active, feature-rich competitors.
The SWOT
- Curated, low-maintenance aesthetic avoids the clutter of complex try-on tools
- Integration of AR-based visualization could bridge the functional gap with market leaders
Next best moves
Pivot to AR-based visualization because static galleries are insufficient for retention against interactive rivals → increase session length.
The counter-intuitive read
The app's simplicity is not a weakness but…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Virtual hair try-on engine (available in Hairstyle Try On but missing here)
Since the last report: The app remains in a maintenance-mode state, with the latest report adding competitive context regarding rival update cadences and formalizing the lack of development as a primary weakness.
Bottom line
The app provides a clean, static inspiration source, but its lack of interactivity makes it a weak competitor against AR-enabled rivals, so the PM must prioritize an interactive visualization pivot to remain relevant.
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- [1] App Store, source
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