Ticket Holder vs Ticket Brain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Ticket Holder
Organize your purchased tickets by importing them as PDFs. The app sorts them by date and archives expired ones. Easily access and scan tickets with a brightened screen and navigation buttons.
- Import PDF tickets
- Sort tickets by date
- Archive outdated tickets
- Brighten screen for scanning
- Navigate between tickets
- iCloud sync across devices
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Ticket Holder is a utility app that helps you to import any ticket that is in PDF format. It will sort all the tickets by date and will archive them once outdated. Open the ticket when you need it. Zoom to scan will brighten the screen, focus on the barcode and with the navigation buttons, you can iterate through the tickets. All tickets are stored in your iCloud account and available across devices.
Ticket Brain
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Ticket Brain keeps every ticket you own in one place, on your device, ready the moment you arrive. Share a ticket PDF or screenshot into the app and it reads the barcode, pulls out the event, date and venue, and files it for you. Your tickets stay private. There's no account and no server โ everything lives on your iPhone and syncs through your own iCloud, so your library is on every device you own and nowhere else. Key features: โข Add tickets from the share sheet โ PDFs, screenshots, or photos of printed tickets โข Multi-admission PDFs split into one ticket per person automatically โข Barcodes and QR codes detected and shown full-screen, bright, for fast scanning at the gate โข Today view surfaces the event you need next โข Library and calendar to browse everything, upcoming and past โข Open-dated passes (theme parks, day passes) sorted by how close you are to the venue โข Add dated tickets to your calendar, kept in sync two ways โข Home Screen widgets for your next event โข Apple Watch companion โ your next event on a watch-face complication that taps through to its QR-code, and any barcode on your wrist, held bright at the gate โข Per-event colour drawn from the ticket artwork โข No account, no ads, no tracking โ your data never leaves your devices Perfect for concerts, festivals, theatre, sports, theme parks, and travel โ every ticket, ready on arrival.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ticket Brain at every 5 days against Ticket Holder's every 3 weeks. Ticket Holder's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ticket Holder ships an update every 3 weeks, Ticket Brain every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ticket Holder | Ticket Brain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edvinas Bartkus | Willem de Jonge |
In-app purchases
Ticket Holder
No in-app purchases
Ticket Brain
No in-app purchases
Questions
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