HappsNow vs TR Varsity
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HappsNow
Discover live events like games and concerts, and purchase mobile tickets. Enhance your event experience with features designed to help you focus on enjoying the moment.
- Live event discovery
- Mobile ticketing
- Search and browse events
- Purchase tickets
- Curated selection of events
- Optimized event experience
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Know what is happening now. HappsNow is a live event discovery and mobile ticketing platform that allows users to search for, browse and buy tickets to a curated selection of games, concerts, and venues. Your experience shouldn’t end after you scan your ticket at the door. Which is why with HappsNow, that’s when the fun starts, our features are designed to optimize your experience so you can spend more time living in the moment, and less focused on everything else.
TR Varsity
This app provides high schools with advanced ticketing solutions for box office, online, and mobile sales. It's designed to meet the needs of students, fans, and boosters for event management.
- Box office ticketing
- Online ticketing
- Mobile ticketing
- Event management
- Fan engagement
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Upgrade to the future of ticketing technology with TR Varsity. Equip your High School with the latest box office, online and mobile ticketing solutions tailored to meet the demands of your students, fans and boosters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: TR Varsity at 30 against HappsNow's 3. HappsNow's advantage is iOS requirement (8.2 vs 11.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.3 for HappsNow against 2.4 for TR Varsity. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TR Varsity has 30 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.
HappsNow ships an update monthly, TR Varsity every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HappsNow | TR Varsity |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 2.4 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SI Tickets, Inc. | TicketReturn LLC |
Customer experience
HappsNow
TR Varsity
In-app purchases
HappsNow
No in-app purchases
TR Varsity
No in-app purchases
