TicketBay vs Student Seats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TicketBay
This app facilitates the buying and selling of student tickets, specifically for college football games. It connects students directly to one another, aiming to provide a fee-free and efficient marketplace for event access.
- Buy student tickets
- Sell student tickets
- Direct student connections
- Fee-free transactions
- Seamless ticketing experience
- College football focus
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Gear up for Ohio State’s football season with TicketBay, your go-to app for buying and selling student tickets. Whether you’re looking to get seats or sell your extras, TicketBay connects you directly with fellow students, eliminating fees and long waits. Avoid the chaotic group chats and enjoy a seamless ticketing experience. TicketBay is the best marketplace for college football tickets. Get in on the action today!
Student Seats
This app facilitates the buying and selling of sports tickets exclusively for college students. It requires university email verification for access and offers secure transactions through an escrow service.
- Student-only ticket exchange
- University email verification
- Secure escrow transactions
- Sports ticket trading
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Student Seats provides an online ticket exchange designed for college students to trade their sports tickets. Users must verify their university emails before being allowed to use the app. Users are also protected through the Student Seats escrow transaction partner service, Trustap.
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Verdict
TicketBay and Student Seats both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 72% of TicketBay's written reviews are positive against 38% of Student Seats's. Student Seats's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (621 vs 65). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 4.6 for TicketBay against 4.7 for Student Seats. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Student Seats has 621 ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of TicketBay's written reviews are positive against 38% of Student Seats's.
TicketBay ships an update every 2 months, Student Seats every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TicketBay | Student Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (65 ratings) | 4.7 (621 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.1% of reviews — better | 38.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 65 | 621 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Salty Software LLC | Student Seats LLC |
Customer experience
TicketBay
Student Seats
Bugs and requests
TicketBay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Student Seats
Reported bugs
26 issues- Push notifications do not work
- "Remember me for 7 days" never works
- Cannot delete the first digit in a ticket price
- Frequent app bugs
- App was completely buggy
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- Couldn’t log into account
- UI glitches
- App is just website crammed into app
- App is buggy
- Visually unappealing
- Hard to use
- Actually impossible to use
- Email is apparently already taken, but can’t login
- Reset password button says it will send an email but it NEVER DOES
- No way to contact them either for help
- Terrible Payment System
- Actually terrible UI, almost impossible to enter information on mobile
- App's interface is glitchy and doesn’t display correctly
- The app does. Not. Work.
- App is just the website portal on a phone screen, so the menus work about half of the time
- Got scammed by a listing that was for a different ticket than was listed
- Cannot get compensation for a scam unless it was 2-3 days before the event
- Cannot even get in
- Verified account but won't allow login
- Tried resetting password twice, not working
- Cannot contact support because not signed in
Requested features
10 requests- Improve platform stability
- Improve customer support
- Better UI for mobile
- Make an iPhone/iPad version that works better
- Fix login issues
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- Fix password reset functionality
- Allow account deletion
- Improve ticket transfer process
- Implement better fraud prevention
- Improve communication features
In-app purchases
TicketBay
No in-app purchases
Student Seats
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is TicketBay free?
Is Student Seats free?
Which has better reviews, TicketBay or Student Seats?
Do TicketBay or Student Seats have ads?
Which is updated more often, TicketBay or Student Seats?
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