# Noona review (2026): is it worth $8.50 a month per seat, billed yearly? > Appointment scheduling and booking marketplace for salons and clinics Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Noona is a booking system for appointment-based businesses such as salons, barbershops, clinics and personal trainers, sold as Noona HQ. It combines a calendar, client records, online payments and a booking profile in a consumer marketplace app. Plans are priced per seat, with a lower rate for teams than for a solo user. - **Category:** Calendar & Scheduling - **Made by:** Noona - **Website:** https://noona.app/hq - **Runs on:** Web, iOS, Android - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a free plan, as there is only a 14-day trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Noona is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $8.50 per seat / month for teams, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 14-day free trial with full access, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $8.50 per seat / month, billed annually ($10 billed monthly) | Team rate for up to 3 seats; a solo user pays $12.75 ($15 monthly). Unlimited appointments, calendar, CRM and online payments. | | Professional | $12.75 per seat / month, billed annually ($15 billed monthly) | Team rate for up to 9 seats; solo is $17 ($20 monthly). Adds 40 free SMS reminders per seat a month, POS and a website widget. | | Premium | $17 per seat / month, billed annually ($20 billed monthly) | Team rate for unlimited seats; solo is $21.25 ($25 monthly). Adds unlimited SMS reminders, waitlist and multi-location support. | | Enterprise | Custom | For businesses with 15 or more staff or multiple locations, with dedicated support and tailored onboarding. | Read from https://noona.app/hq/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Noona before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **15% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Noona's pricing page shows annual prices 15% below the monthly ones. Source: https://noona.app/hq/pricing ## Key features - **Calendar and online bookings:** Unlimited appointments in a calendar, with a Noona marketplace profile where clients book online. - **Client records and CRM:** Client cards and a CRM on every plan; custom fields, groups and file attachments start on Professional. - **Payments, POS and vouchers:** Online payments and vouchers on every plan; a POS with payment terminals, inventory and sales reports from Professional. - **Reminders and campaigns:** Email and push reminders are free. SMS reminders are included from Professional, and SMS marketing campaigns are listed. - **Waitlist and offers:** A client waitlist is on Professional and an automatic online waitlist with booking offers is on Premium. - **Multi-location support:** Premium adds multi-location booking pages, custom roles and permissions, and PIN-locked sections. ## Good for - Solo beauty and wellness practitioners - Salons and clinics with a handful of staff - Businesses that want clients to find them in a booking marketplace ## Worth knowing - Per-seat prices are lower on team accounts than for a solo user, and the seat cap is 3 on Starter and 9 on Professional. - SMS reminders are not on Starter; Professional includes about 40 per seat each month. - POS, inventory, sales reports and the website booking widget need Professional or above. - Prices exclude VAT, per the pricing page. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Noona is a booking and client system for salons and clinics, from $8.50 a seat for teams. A solo user pays $12.75 on Starter, there is no free plan, and SMS reminders, POS and the website widget need a dearer plan. - **Value for money: C.** $8.50 a seat for a team, but $12.75 for one person on Starter, around the middle of calendar tools. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial with full access and no card, and no free plan. - **Features: C.** Calendar, client records, payments, reminders and waitlists. SMS reminders, POS and sales reports sit above Starter. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You set up services, staff and payments. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, iPhone and Android, with Google Calendar and Google Reserve. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Noona's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among calendar and scheduling apps - Noona's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 22 of the 114 other calendar and scheduling apps we grade, and level with 23. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 34 of 114) and worst on ease of use (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $8.50 a month for each person, against a middle price of $8.13 for the category: 44 of the 85 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 27 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/calendar ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Noona you would be making texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 69 of the 114 other calendar and scheduling apps grade higher. It costs $102 a year. - You could make: Appointment booking and inventory: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Texts to thousands of numbers, registered with the carriers. - You could not: Booking pages that read and write other people's calendars and send the emails. - You could not: A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page. - You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Calendar and Google Reserve among them, and has an API. - You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Calendar, Google Reserve **Tags:** Appointment booking, Booking links, SMS marketing, Inventory, Public API ## Alternatives - [Planity](https://toolgpa.com/tools/planity): French beauty booking marketplace with salon software, Planity Pro. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/noona-vs-planity) - [Setmore](https://toolgpa.com/tools/setmore): Appointment booking app with a free plan for up to four staff. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/noona-vs-setmore) - [Picktime](https://toolgpa.com/tools/picktime): Appointment and class booking software with a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/noona-vs-picktime) - [theCut](https://toolgpa.com/tools/the-cut): Barber booking app with a free plan and a $25 Pro plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/noona-vs-the-cut) - [Reservio](https://toolgpa.com/tools/reservio): Online booking system with client management and mobile apps. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/noona-vs-reservio) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://noona.app/hq/pricing - https://noona.app/hq - https://noona.app Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/noona Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).