Buyer's guide, July 2026
The best aesthetic clinic software for UK clinics, honestly assessed.
There is no single best tool, only the best fit for the clinic you run. Below are the options UK aesthetics clinics actually consider in 2026, what each is good at, and who each suits. One disclosure up front: we make AesthetiClinic, so weigh our own entry with appropriate scepticism. We have tried to be fair to every option, and to say plainly where someone else fits you better.
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AesthetiClinic
Aesthetics clinics that want depth, not breadth
Our own product, so weigh this entry accordingly. Built for non-surgical aesthetics: booking with commission-free deposits into your own Stripe, e-signed versioned consent, clinical records with batch numbers and photos, and one published price (£25 plus VAT per practitioner, no tiers, no add-ons). It deliberately does not do stock-at-scale, marketing automation or CRM campaigns.
Who it suits: Aesthetics-only clinics, solo to small-team, who want the booking, consent and records jobs done properly without paying for a platform they will not use.
Pabau
Bigger clinics and med spas that need breadth
A large, capable all-in-one covering charting, scheduling, stock, marketing and payments under one roof. The breadth is the appeal, and the cost is a wider surface to learn, configure and administer. Pricing is tiered and quoted by configuration rather than a single published per-user figure.
Who it suits: Larger clinics, med spas and multi-site operations that genuinely need stock control, marketing automation and CRM campaigns in one place.
Aesthetidocs
A focused, bespoke UK aesthetics tool
A booking and documentation app built specifically for UK aesthetics, not adapted from salon software. It handles bookings and treatment documentation in one place. Worth checking what bulk-exports if data portability matters to you.
Who it suits: UK practitioners who want a focused, industry-specific booking and documentation tool and value a close line to the people behind it.
Aesthetic Nurse Software (ANS)
Solo aesthetic nurses
One of the best-known UK names, designed around the solo practitioner workflow: one practitioner, one diary, one set of records. Strong brand recognition and community among aesthetic nurses.
Who it suits: Solo aesthetic nurses who expect to stay a single practitioner, where multi-practitioner features would sit unused.
Faces
Starting out, or budget-led
Free to use, monetised through integrated services such as payments and pharmacy rather than a subscription. Popular with beauty-led practitioners for that reason. A free tool carries no contractual service guarantee, which is worth weighing for the system holding your medical records.
Who it suits: Practitioners starting out or working part-time who need bookings and consent without a fixed monthly cost.
Fresha
Marketplace discovery, beauty-led
A very large consumer booking marketplace, free to use as software and monetised through payments and marketplace fees rather than a subscription. The marketplace can introduce new clients; the trade is that your booking runs on Fresha's brand and the fees are transaction-based. Check the current fee schedule.
Who it suits: Beauty-led businesses, or clinics that actively want marketplace discovery and are comfortable with a payments-monetised model rather than a flat subscription.
Glowday
Consumer directory plus practitioner tools
A UK aesthetics platform that pairs a consumer directory, where patients search for practitioners, with booking and record tools for those listed on it. The directory is a genuine acquisition channel; the trade is a profile within Glowday's brand alongside other practitioners.
Who it suits: Practitioners still building a patient base who value the consumer directory's discovery more than owning every part of the booking journey.
Zenoti
Enterprise salon, spa and medspa groups
An enterprise cloud platform built for large, multi-location salon, spa and medspa businesses, with memberships, marketing, inventory and multi-site reporting. Priced by quote following a demo rather than a published figure. The breadth is the point at scale, and heavy for a small clinic.
Who it suits: Large, multi-site groups that need one enterprise system across many locations and will use the breadth that comes with it.
Cliniko
Allied health, not aesthetics-specific
A well-regarded practice-management system for clinics and allied health, with a strong reputation for security and support. It is not built specifically around aesthetics workflows, consent and batch records the way the aesthetics-native tools are.
Who it suits: Multi-disciplinary or allied-health practices that want a solid general practice-management system rather than an aesthetics-specific one.
Phorest
Salon-led businesses
A salon software platform that some aesthetic clinics use, leaning on marketing and client retention built for salons. It is salon-first rather than clinic-first, so aesthetics-specific consent and clinical records are not its centre of gravity.
Who it suits: Salon-led businesses that want strong marketing and retention tools designed for the salon world.
How to choose, in four questions.
Cut past the feature lists and the answer usually falls out of four questions about your own clinic.
Solo, or a team?
Solo-first tools (ANS, Faces) fit a single practitioner. If you have, or expect, a second injector, a prescriber or reception, look for shift-aware diaries and role-based access.
How much breadth do you actually need?
An all-in-one (Pabau) earns its complexity at scale. A smaller clinic often pays for breadth it never opens. Match the surface area to the clinic you run.
Who touches your payments?
Some tools take a commission on deposits or monetise your payments. Others, ours included, run deposits through your own Stripe at 0% commission to us; you still pay Stripe's standard card fees. The difference compounds over a busy year.
Can you leave?
Ask what bulk-exports, and whether there is an exit fee. The system holding your medical records should make it easy to take them with you, not hard.
Where AesthetiClinic fits.
If you run an aesthetics-only clinic, solo or a small team, and you want depth in booking, consent and records without paying for breadth you will not use, we built it for you. If you need stock at scale, marketing automation or a CRM campaign engine, an all-in-one will serve you better, and we will say so. The honest way to decide is to trial two or three on your own clinic.
Already on one of the tools above and weighing a move? Our switching page covers how migration works, and each brand has a detailed comparison linked in the list above.
Choosing clinic software, answered straight
What is the best aesthetic clinic software in the UK?
There is no single best: the right choice depends on whether you are solo or a team, how much breadth you need, and how you want payments and data handled. Solo nurses are well served by solo-first tools; bigger clinics that need stock and marketing lean to an all-in-one; aesthetics-only clinics that want depth in booking, consent and records without the breadth are who AesthetiClinic is built for.
Should I trust a 'best software' list published by one of the vendors?
Treat any vendor-published list, this one included, with appropriate scepticism. We have tried to describe every option fairly and to say plainly who each one suits better than us. The honest test is to trial two or three on your own clinic before deciding.
What does AesthetiClinic cost?
£25 plus VAT per practitioner per month for the whole platform, with no tiers, no usage caps and no booking fees. Deposits run through your own Stripe at 0% commission to us. There is a 14-day free trial with no charge today.
How do I move from one system to another?
Most clinics switch over a weekend. You export what your current system allows, the new provider imports it and seeds your templates, and you confirm everything before going live. Ask each provider what comes out of your current system before you commit.
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The only real test is your own treatments, your own forms, your own diary. Start a free trial, or book a 20-minute demo and we will walk you through it on your clinic, not a canned version.
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