KeySpot vs SBE Events
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
KeySpot
Discover and share local deals, discounts, and events. Find activities based on your location and interests, or post your own for your community. Stay updated with instant notifications and track your purchases.
- Post and manage custom ads
- Search discounts by location
- Filter by category (Free, Food, To Do)
- Traveler-friendly activity finder
- Instant deal notifications
- Sales tracking
- Add activities to calendar
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Key Spot, Connecting Communities. Looking for something to do? Find and Post Deals, Discounts, and Events all in One Key Spot! Features: • Easy Ad Management. Purchase and manage custom ads for your business or to communicate your own event for your neighborhood, church, school, or garage sale. • Easy discount search of things to do in your area, based on location and radius. • Quick search of Free, Food, To Do, or choose specific Categories. Get information at your fingertips. • Great for travelers! Find activities around the country based on location and date. Use your coupons to get discounts and deals wherever you go. • Daily or instant notification updates on new deals, based on category and radius. • Sales tracking of recent purchases. • Adding activities to a Calendar. • Sharing information about a deal with others. • Sharing comments and feedback on area businesses.
SBE Events
This app provides attendees of a major business trade show with essential tools to navigate the event. Access interactive maps, view the full schedule, and connect with other attendees. It also includes features for scanning leads and participating in games for prizes.
- Interactive show floor maps
- Full event schedule
- Lead scanner
- Social feed
- Games and prizes
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Welcome to the Official Small Business Expo Event App! Small Business Expo is America's Largest Business to Business Trade Show, Conference, Educational & Networking Event for Small Business Owners, Entrepreneurs & Start-Ups hosted in major cities around the Country. Passionate Small Business Owners attend Small Business Expo to learn from Industry Experts, and meet with best-in-class vendors and suppliers to help them grow their businesses and network to build important new business relationships. This is the official Small Business Expo Event App with access to: interactive maps of the show floor, games to win points and prizes, the full schedule for the day, a lead scanner to scan people you network with at the Show, a social feed to stay connected, and many more tools. Register today for an event near you at TheSmallBusinessExpo.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SBE Events at 4.8 against KeySpot's 4.3. SBE Events also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (1.9K vs 4). KeySpot's advantage is iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. KeySpot sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. SBE Events asks for nothing beyond the download.
SBE Events holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SBE Events has 1.9K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of KeySpot's written reviews are positive against 78% of SBE Events's.
KeySpot ships an update every 6 weeks, SBE Events monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | KeySpot | SBE Events |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (1.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 77.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 1.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Quality SAP Inc. | Small Business Expo LLC |
Customer experience
KeySpot
SBE Events
Bugs and requests
KeySpot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SBE Events
Reported bugs
2 issues- Freezing screen when trying to update profile
- Incompatibility with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Include more information about upcoming events
- Add a way to go back when updating profile
In-app purchases
KeySpot
- Targeted Ad Premium Feature$9.99
- Sponsored Ad - Premium Feature$19.99
- 1 Week Package$24.99
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- 3 Months Package$299.99
- 6 Months Package$499.99
- 1 Yr Pkg - Huge Discount$699.99
SBE Events
No in-app purchases
