Best AI Hairstyle Generators and Hair Colour Try-On

YouCam Makeup from Perfect Corp is the most complete hairstyle try-on we reviewed. The app has 250+ preset cuts, from pixies and bobs to long waves and bangs, a hair colour changer with natural and bold shades, and a Custom Hair Try On mode: upload a photo of a haircut you like and it applies that style to you, with the option to keep your natural colour. A web version, the YouCam AI Hairstyle Generator, has 200+ styles in separate women's and men's collections and gives new accounts two free previews.

Perfect Corp's privacy policy (effective June 2026) says photos uploaded for cloud try-on are permanently deleted once you have finished using the feature, and that for most features it does not store facial photos or face measurements. Its generative AI features can send data to a long list of outside model providers, and the iPhone app's privacy label lists location, identifiers and usage data used to track you across other apps.

Pick it if you want the widest range of cuts in one app. Skip it if ad tracking bothers you; FaceApp tracks less.

Gemini is not a hairstyle app, but Google's Nano Banana image models are among the best at editing a photo while keeping the face the same, which is exactly what a hair preview needs. Upload a well-lit selfie and ask for "a chin-length French bob with curtain bangs in warm chestnut, keep my face and background unchanged". You can also upload a photo of a haircut you like and ask Gemini to copy it. Generative edits like this usually look more like a real photo than preset filters, and the free tier covers a few tries.

The trade-offs are workflow and privacy. There are no presets, no live camera and no side-by-side grid, so you describe each style yourself. With Keep Activity on (the default), Google keeps your chats, including the selfie, until they auto-delete after 18 months, and a sample is read by human reviewers and kept for up to three years. Turn Keep Activity off first and Google says new chats are kept for 72 hours.

Pick it if you know roughly what you want and value realism. Skip it if you want to flick through hundreds of styles live.

FaceApp is the most privacy-friendly dedicated app here. Its policy says photos are processed on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services, stay in the cloud for 24 to 48 hours after your last edit, and are not used for anything except providing the editing features. The iPhone app's privacy label lists no data used to track you across other apps. FaceApp faced questions in 2019 because it was created by a Russian company; its privacy policy now names FaceApp Technology Limited in Cyprus as the controller.

For hair, FaceApp changes colour, swaps in a few hairstyles, adds volume and adds or removes beards, all on a single selfie in seconds. FaceApp describes its filters as highly photorealistic. The range is narrower than YouCam's, though: you get a set of looks rather than hundreds of named cuts or a reference-photo mode, and many filters need FaceApp PRO, sold in the app from $10 to $100.

With 4.7 stars from about 1.8 million US App Store ratings, it is also the most reviewed app on this list.

Pick it if privacy comes first and you want fast, realistic changes. Skip it if you want to browse a large catalogue of named cuts.

ChatGPT combines a hairstyle generator with a hairdresser you can question. Upload a selfie and ask which cuts might suit your face and lifestyle, then ask it to show the three you like best, then refine one ("shorter at the back", "softer copper"). It follows detailed instructions well, but like any generative edit it can subtly change your face, so compare with your original.

Privacy needs a quick setting change. Unless you switch off "Improve the model for everyone" in Data controls, OpenAI can use your chats to train its models. Deleted chats are removed within 30 days, but OpenAI's help centre notes that deleting a chat does not delete files saved separately in your Library. A Temporary Chat avoids both problems: OpenAI says it is never used for training and is deleted within 30 days.

The free plan has a small image allowance; Go costs $8 a month and Plus $20. There are no presets or live camera.

Pick it if you want ideas and previews in the same place. Skip it if you want to scroll through a catalogue of styles.

If you only want to change colour, L'Oréal Paris's free Virtual Try-On is the easiest place to start. Open it in a browser, use the live camera or upload a selfie, pick a colour family and flick through more than 200 shades from L'Oréal's home hair colour ranges, including Excellence, Féria, Superior Preference and Colorista. It detects your current hair colour first, which matters because the same dye looks different on dark and light hair.

L'Oréal says live and selfie images are never stored, which is the strongest privacy statement on this list, and there is no account or payment. It also claims its colour renderings are 88% accurate on average; we could not check that figure.

The limits are obvious: it changes colour only, not the cut, and only shows L'Oréal products. Use it to narrow down a shade, then take the product name to the shop or a photo to your colourist.

Pick it if you are choosing a hair colour, especially a box dye. Skip it if you want to try new cuts; use YouCam Makeup or Gemini.

Fotor's AI Hairstyle Changer is a friendly web tool with lots of choice. You can pick trend presets for women and men (curtain bangs, blunt bobs, modern mullets, textured crops) or type your own description, such as "French bob with curtain bangs in honey blonde". It also tries colours from blonde to pastel and, Fotor says, suggests shades based on your skin's undertone.

Privacy is mixed. The tool page says photos are processed in real time and deleted from Fotor's servers within an hour of your session. But Fotor's main privacy policy (updated May 2026) says inputs to its AI generation tools stay on its US servers until you delete them, can be sent to outside model providers, and, for free users spending gift credits without a subscription, are made public in the Fotor community by default. We cannot tell which rule applies to this tool, so check your sharing settings.

Pick it if you like presets plus free-text prompts in a browser. Skip it if you want a single, clear promise about your selfie.

Picsart has three ways to change your hair. Retouch Hairstyles, in the mobile app, restyles hair based on your existing colour and texture, from sleek to voluminous curls, curtain bangs and waves. The Hair Color Changer recolours hair in one tap, and AI Replace lets you brush over your hair and type what you want instead. Picsart says the tool adapts to your hair so results do not look cartoonish, and you can finish the photo in the same editor. Read more in our Picsart review.

The free plan includes 5 AI credits a week, enough for a few tries; Pro costs $15 a month or $126 a year on the website.

Privacy is vague rather than bad. Picsart's policy says it scans face geometry in images you upload to apply effects, and that some information can be kept for up to three years after you close your account, but it gives no specific retention period for selfies and does not say clearly whether uploads help train its AI. Picsart's own blog says short hairstyles were still to come when the feature launched.

Pick it if you already use Picsart and want hair changes alongside other edits. Skip it if you want the widest choice of cuts; YouCam Makeup has more.

HairStyle AI takes a different approach. Instead of editing one photo live, you upload a set of selfies, pay $9 once, and about an hour later receive 120 HD photos of yourself in 30 hairstyles and four poses. It comes from the team behind HeadshotPro, one of the leaders in our AI headshot ranking, and uses the same idea: an AI model learns your face from several photos, then renders new portraits.

That gives realistic, varied pictures without a subscription, which is good value for a single decision. But you cannot choose the 30 styles or try colours on demand, and you wait rather than see results instantly.

Privacy documentation is thin for a service that trains on your face. Its privacy policy does not mention photos, face data or AI training at all. It does say personal data is deleted within 14 days after you ask or close your account.

Pick it if you want a batch of realistic photos for $9. Skip it if you want to choose specific cuts or test colours live.

HairApp packs a hairstyle try-on, a hair colour changer and an AI colour analysis into one phone app, plus beard, makeup and nail filters. You snap a selfie and flick through styles; the colour analysis suggests which shades suit your colouring. It has 4.2 stars from about 8,400 US App Store ratings.

The developer's privacy policy, a general one covering several XLABS apps, contradicts itself. It says images are deleted after processing and that face data and photos are not kept beyond 24 hours, but also that facial data is purged one month after it is created, and that anonymised data may occasionally be kept. The App Store privacy label adds that identifiers and usage data may be used to track you across other companies' apps, and lists photos as data linked to you.

Prices are unclear until you are in the app: subscriptions and coin packs run from $7.99 to $39.99.

Pick it if you want colour analysis and hairstyles together. Skip it if you want a clear, single deletion rule; FaceApp and YouCam are clearer.

Hair AI from Spark Dynamics offers hairstyle filters, colour changes, bald and long-hair effects and beard styles on a selfie. It has 4.4 stars from about 5,500 US App Store ratings. Its store listing leans on fun effects, such as bald and long-hair looks, more than on planning a real cut.

Spark Dynamics' privacy policy is reasonably clear: face data is deleted from its servers after each request (a process it says can take up to four days), and personal data is not used to train separate AI models. But your selfie may pass through a long list of outside AI providers to make the images: Google, OpenAI, Replicate, fal.ai, Higgsfield, ByteDance and Kling AI.

The real problem is price. The US App Store lists weekly plans at $9.99, $12.99, $19.99 and $29.99. At $29.99 a week, a forgotten trial could cost more than $1,500 a year. Yearly plans ($49.99 or $69.99) are far cheaper if you must subscribe.

Pick it if you want silly bald or long-hair photos and will cancel quickly. Skip it if you are planning a real haircut; free tools do it better.