HappsNow vs TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn
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.
TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn
This application streamlines event check-ins by allowing staff to quickly verify attendees. It supports searching for customers by name if they don't have their ticket readily available, ensuring a smooth entry process.
- Seamless attendee check-in
- Order-level customer verification
- Search by customer name
- Ticketless entry support
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Seamlessly check-in attendees with the TicketSocket Premiere Check-in application. Check-in customers at the order level and search by name if someone doesn't bring their ticket with them to the event.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn at 5.0 against HappsNow's 2.3. TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). HappsNow's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (8.2 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
HappsNow ships an update monthly, TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HappsNow | TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SI Tickets, Inc. | Tickets |
Customer experience
HappsNow
TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn
In-app purchases
HappsNow
No in-app purchases
TicketSocket Premiere CheckIn
No in-app purchases
Questions
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