NaillyCutieCure does virtual try-on well. You photograph your hand, it applies designs to your own nails, and it tracks trending styles — chrome, glazed, French tips — with a nail health tracker alongside. It's freemium, with subscriptions running from about $4.99 a week to $99.99 a year, plus one-off credit packs.
If seeing a design rendered on your own hand is the thing you want, CutieCure does that and Nailly does not. That's worth saying first, because it's the honest answer for a lot of people.
Where they diverge is what happens next. CutieCure's own description ends where every try-on app ends: save your favourites so you can show your nail artist. It's a better screenshot. Nailly is built to replace the screenshot entirely — you build the set as a spec, post it to your city, and an artist who can make it claims it, quotes it and books you.
Side by side
| Nailly | CutieCure | |
|---|---|---|
| Try a design on your own hand | No. Built and cut before launch — nail detection drifted on busy backgrounds. | Yes. This is CutieCure's core feature and it works well. |
| Design per finger | Yes. 8 shapes, 4 lengths, any colour, french tips, 5 finishes — each finger separately. | Applies catalogue designs to your photo rather than building a set finger by finger. |
| Book a real artist | Yes. Post to your city's board; artists claim, quote and book in chat. | No. Designs are saved to show an artist yourself. |
| Artist can work from it | Salon Mode prints a per-finger recipe any tech can read. No account needed. | The artist works from a saved image. |
| Commission on appointments | None. The price stays between you and your artist. | Not applicable — no booking. |
| Price | Free week, then one monthly rate. | Freemium. Roughly $4.99/week to $99.99/year, plus credit packs. |
| Nail health tracking | No. Refill reminders at the ~3-week mark only. | Yes, includes a nail health tracker. |
What Nailly does differently
A spec, not a picture
Shape, length, base, tip, finish and art, finger by finger, in terms an artist can work from — rather than a photo of someone else's hands in someone else's lighting.
Artists claim what they can make
Post the design to your city's board. Artists who can actually do it claim it and quote it, so the appointment starts at yes instead of at twenty questions.
No try-on, deliberately
We built the on-hand render and cut it before launch because detection drifted on busy backgrounds. A headline feature that works most of the time is worse than no feature.
Questions
What is CutieCure?
CutieCure is an AI nail try-on app. You photograph your hand and it applies nail designs to your own nails, with trending styles, a nail health tracker and design collections. It's freemium, with subscriptions and credit packs.
Is Nailly a replacement for CutieCure?
Not exactly, and it'd be misleading to say so. CutieCure shows you what a design looks like on your hand; Nailly gets the design made by a real artist. If try-on is what you want, use CutieCure. Plenty of people use one of each.
Does Nailly have virtual try-on?
No. It was built and then cut before launch: on-device nail detection drifted on busy backgrounds, and shipping a shaky headline feature is worse than shipping none. It stays out until it's reliable.
Does CutieCure book appointments?
No. Its description positions saved designs as something to show your nail artist. Booking, quoting and artist matching aren't part of it.
Which is cheaper?
They price differently. CutieCure is freemium with weekly-to-annual subscriptions and credit packs; Nailly gives a free week then one monthly rate, and takes no commission on appointments booked through it.