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17hats vs Studio Ninja Comparison (2026)

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17hats

Studio Ninja

Overview

17hats helps freelancers and small businesses manage projects, marketing, contracts, accounting, online payments, and more. The centralized dashboard in the application displays action items, urgent notifications, upcoming calendar events, and weather forecasts to streamline daily operations.

Studio Ninja is an end-to-end client management software designed for photographers. It helps improve bookings through customizable workflows, automated emails, and easy payment plans. It enables photographers to keep track of clients, jobs, invoices, contracts, and workflows.

Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

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Platforms supported

Web-based
iPhone app
Android app
Windows Phone app

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Customer support

Phone
Online
Knowledge base
Video tutorials

view more detailsview details

Video & Screenshots

Pricing

Starting from

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

Starting from

24.9

Per month

Free trial available
Credit cardless trial
Free account
Subscription based

User reviews

4.4

136

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

67%

would recommend this app

4.4

Value for money

Ease of use

Features

Customer support

75%

would recommend this app

Pros

“hats allows me to have all my business administrative tasks and all records and documents related to each client in one place.”

Iryna I.

owner

“hats is perfect for small 1-2 person freelancing businesses. Once your business expands beyond that with multiple employees and product offerings, it can be lacking.”

Abbey W.

Copywriter, marketing consultant

“Integration with my calendars and Zoom makes setting up meetings a breath - I don't have to double check for time conflicts or go back and forth with the Zoom links.”

Iryna I.

owner

Pros

“It has some ok features for client management, workflow creation.”

Kate W.

Photographer

“I have been involved in many buy-outs of companies and in my experience, you only buy a company out to get their client list, or to get their technology, to keep a company from being a competitor, or to integrate one company with the other.”

Don E.

Owner

“They are prompt in replying to messages.”

Kate W.

Photographer

Cons

“Once my business got a bit more complicated with products in addition to one-on-one services, I "outgrew" 17hats as some basic features inside bookkeeping and contracts didn't exist.”

Abbey W.

Copywriter, marketing consultant

“We just were not in the position to keep paying the amount that was required.”

Alexander G.

Head Photographer and Editor

“The scheduling features weren't super robust (I still used Calendly alongside this).”

Belinda A.

CEO

Cons

“I had a person leave my company and now for the past 2 weeks they can still access everything due to the password not actually changing when it says it has.”

Ashlee K.

Owner and Photographer

“It leaves me feeling frustrated every time”

Kate W.

Photographer

“Looking at changing CRM provides due to lack of communication and safety of my business.”

Ashlee K.

Owner and Photographer