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coil compared.
Honest side-by-sides against the tools tattooers actually look at: the price math, the features on each side, and when the other one fits your shop better.
- Tattoo POS + payroll
coil vs Porter
Closest direct competitor. Both flat-monthly, both no-cut. Porter ships POS hardware and payroll; coil ships healing photo checks, apprentice approvals, and pages that go with your artists.
Full comparison - One link, one inbox
coil vs Apprentice
Same pitch as coil, different money. Free plan, then $24.99, plus 2% on top of Stripe on every payment. coil is flat and takes nothing.
Full comparison - Marketplace, books in DMs
coil vs Tattoodo
Free to join: your client pays $10 a booking, and Tattoodo takes 20% of a new marketplace client's first session. coil is $59 to you and the client pays coil nothing. Tattoodo brings strangers; coil runs your book.
Full comparison - Flash days + events
coil vs Venue
Free plan with a 10% card fee on every deposit and payment, charged to the client by default (5% on paid plans). Built for flash drops. coil is the whole loop after the booking, flat, with no fee to anyone but you.
Full comparison - Booking requests, no payments
coil vs Mind Your Ink
$5 per appointment or $100 a month, never touches your money. Does the request form well and stops there. coil is $59 flat and keeps going.
Full comparison - Studio front desk + POS
coil vs Tattoo Studio Pro
$29 there, $59 here, both no-cut. Tattoo Studio Pro is the counter: QR check-in, card reader, tax reports. coil is the artist's page and everything after it.
Full comparison - Shop back office
coil vs Keep The Fees
Both flat-monthly, both no-cut. KTF ships inventory, payroll and 1099 forms; coil ships healing photo checks, apprentice approvals, and pages that go with your artists. coil cheaper solo; KTF cheaper for shops.
Full comparison - Horizontal salon booking
coil vs Booksy
Booksy takes 2.49–2.69% on every deposit, tip, and balance. coil takes zero. Booksy's marketplace is bigger; coil's product is tattoo-specific.
Full comparison - Horizontal salon + spa
coil vs Vagaro
Vagaro takes 2.2–2.6% per transaction. coil is flat-monthly with no cut. Vagaro has retail POS hardware; coil has AI features Vagaro doesn't.
Full comparison - Payment processor + basic appointments
coil vs Square
Square is a payment processor with scheduling bolted on. Great hardware, zero tattoo specifics. Many shops run both: Square at the counter, coil for everything else.
Full comparison - Salon + spa + aesthetics
coil vs GlossGenius
Polished beauty-industry software at $24–48/mo. If you also do hair or lash, GlossGenius is cross-category. Tattoo-first shops want coil for the tattoo-specific features GlossGenius doesn't ship.
Full comparison - Enterprise wellness chains
coil vs Mindbody
Enterprise yoga + spa + gym software at $169–699/mo. Massively overkill for any tattoo shop unless you're a wellness chain that also does ink.
Full comparison - Generic Squarespace-owned scheduling
coil vs Acuity
Competent calendar layer at $20–61/mo. Works if you already have a Squarespace site. coil runs everything around the calendar: deposits, healing photo checks, healed photos, the rest.
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