When asked for the best salon booking software, 6 AI assistants named 6 brands between them this month. Booksy was named most often, followed by Fresha and Square Appointments. No brand was named by every assistant that answered.
Who named whom
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Claude | Grok | DeepSeek | Cohere | Named by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Booksy | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Fresha | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| Square Appointments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | 5 of 6 |
| Vagaro | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | 5 of 6 |
| GlossGenius | · | ✓ | · | ✓ | ✓ | · | 3 of 6 |
| Acuity Scheduling | ✓ | · | · | · | ✓ | · | 2 of 6 |
Share of voice
What each assistant said
ChatGPT
Named 5 brands, in this order: Fresha, Square Appointments, Acuity Scheduling, Vagaro, Booksy.
Choosing the best salon booking software for a small business depends on several factors, including budget, specific features needed, ease of use, and customer support.
Perplexity
Named 4 brands, in this order: Fresha, Square Appointments, GlossGenius, Vagaro.
For most small salons, the best all-around choice is Fresha or Reservio, depending on whether you want the strongest feature set or the best free-plan value.
Claude
Named 4 brands, in this order: Vagaro, Square Appointments, Fresha, Booksy.
Here are some top options to consider:
Grok
Named 3 brands, in this order: Booksy, Square Appointments, GlossGenius.
DeepSeek
Named 6 brands, in this order: Square Appointments, Vagaro, Fresha, Booksy, Acuity Scheduling, GlossGenius.
The "best" salon booking software depends on your specific needs (budget, team size, services offered, and whether you want marketing tools).
Cohere
Named 3 brands, in this order: Vagaro, Fresha, Booksy.
Choosing the best salon booking software for a small business depends on your specific needs, budget, and the features you prioritize.
The questions asked
- What is the best salon booking software for a small business?
Asked between 2026-09-26 and 2026-09-26. Not answering this month: Gemini, Mistral.
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Each month we ask every assistant the same plain buyer questions, worded the way a person shopping for this kind of product would ask them, with no brand suggested in the question except where the question itself names the market leader to find alternatives to. Each assistant answers in a fresh session with no earlier conversation, so an answer reflects what the assistant says to anyone who asks, not what it was steered towards.
From each answer we keep the product and company names it recommends. A name counts only when it appears in the answer as a proper name, is not a heading such as "Best for" or "Pricing", and is confirmed by a second assistant naming it too, by a website the answer cites, or by being the market leader named in the question. Share of voice is each brand's share of all brand mentions in the category this month. Assistants that could not answer this month are listed as not answering, never counted as naming nobody.
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https://mentionfox.com/ai-recommends/salon-booking-software