Comparison

Improv Tonight vs Improv

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Improv Tonight

Discover local comedy shows and classes happening in your city. This app makes it simple to find entertainment options near you.

Highlights
  • Discover comedy shows
  • Find comedy classes
  • Local event listings
  • City-wide search
Features
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Improv Tonight is the easiest way to discover comedy shows and classes around your city!

About

Improv

Discover upcoming improv, sketch, and stand-up shows and classes from major theaters in one place. Organize your plans, get reminders, and filter by comedy type, venue, or date. Includes offline support and native performance.

Highlights
  • Aggregated show and class listings
  • Organized by date and venue
  • Personalized 'I'm Going' list
  • Show reminders and calendar integration
  • Filter by comedy type, venue, and date
  • Offline access to last feed
  • Class registration
Features
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One app for the improv scene. Improv gathers upcoming shows and classes from the theaters you love — UCB New York, Brooklyn Comedy Collective, Magnet Theater, and WGIS in New York; UCB and WGIS in Los Angeles; The Annoyance and iO in Chicago — and puts them in a single, fast, native feed. SHOWS, ORGANIZED BY NIGHT Browse a clean, date-sectioned feed for one theater or your whole city. Every show has a page with the poster, lineup, description, and a Get Tickets button that opens the theater's own box office. I'M GOING Tap the heart on any show and it lands in your I'm Going list — grouped by date, badged with a count, and saved even if the listing later leaves the feed. Allow notifications and you'll get a reminder a few hours before showtime. One tap adds the show to your calendar. FIND EXACTLY YOUR KIND OF FUNNY Filter by comedy type (improv, sketch, standup, character), venue, free shows, livestreams, or a date window like this weekend. Search works across titles and descriptions. Filters persist and never strand you — anything that stops being available clears itself. CLASSES TOO Every theater's classes and workshops, grouped by level, with instructor, schedule, price, and open-seat filtering. Register in a couple of taps. BUILT LIKE APPLE BUILT IT Native SwiftUI, full Dynamic Type, light and dark mode, offline support (your last feed is always available), iPad layout with a persistent sidebar. No accounts, no ads, no tracking — see our one-paragraph privacy policy. Improv is an independent guide. Shows and classes are listed with links to each theater's own ticketing; all sales happen on the theater's site.

Screenshots

Improv Tonight3 screens
Improv4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Improv at 5.0 against Improv Tonight's 4.3. Improv also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). Improv Tonight's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Improv holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Improv Tonight has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Improv Tonight ships an update every 2 months, Improv weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Improv Tonight versus Improv: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterImprov TonightImprov
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (20 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMatthew HoelterSalim Hafid

Customer experience

Improv Tonight

All ratings17 ratings
Positive70.6%
Neutral5.9%
Negative23.5%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.3%

Improv

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Improv Tonight

No in-app purchases

None

Improv

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Improv Tonight free?
Improv Tonight is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Improv free?
Improv is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Improv Tonight or Improv?
Improv is rated higher. Improv Tonight averages 4.3 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Improv averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Improv Tonight or Improv have ads?
Neither Improv Tonight nor Improv shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Improv Tonight or Improv?
Improv Tonight ships an update every 2 months, and Improv weekly. Most recently, Improv Tonight was updated on November 2, 2026 and Improv on October 31, 2026.

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