Comparison

Backline.me vs TourSync

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

Head to head
About

Backline.me

This app helps touring bands and live music venues manage events collaboratively. It ensures teams have updated information, allows management of multiple organizations, and simplifies show planning by indicating missing details. Users can easily share documents and information with relevant parties.

Highlights
  • Team communication and updates
  • Manage multiple bands/venues
  • Intuitive show planning progress indicator
  • Collaborative show detail building
  • Automated document and info sharing
Features
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Backline.me is a tool for managing touring bands or live music venues. - Keep Your Team In The Loop On Backline, your crew will always have access to the most updated information. And with Backline's permission system, you can keep your sensitive information private. - Manage Multiple Organizations Backline makes it easy for users to manage multiple bands and/or venues. Your involvement can be anywhere from owning a band to subbing on just one show. - Plan All of Your Shows With Ease Backline's intuitive progress indicator helps make sure that you have all of the information you need for your upcoming shows. If you don't it will tell you what you're missing! - Build Shows Together When an artist and a venue connect on a show, a shared page is created to work out the details of the event. Everyone can contribute their piece of the advance in the same place. - Share Documents & Info Automatically share documents and information with the right people. Stage plots, riders, tech packs, guest lists, etc. are always available and easily accessible.

About

TourSync

Share tour schedules with loved ones and sync event details directly to your personal calendar. Get real-time updates on load-in, set times, and travel without manual entry. Features a smart assistant to answer schedule-related questions.

Highlights
  • Share tour locations with a link
  • Sync tour dates to Apple/Google Calendar
  • Real-time schedule updates
  • AI-powered tour assistant
  • Customizable visibility for shared links
  • Master Tour integration
Features
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Your tour lives in Master Tour. Your mom does not have a Master Tour login. TourSync fixes that. Share a link and the people who care about you can see exactly where the bus is headed, without the nightly "where are you now?" text. You pick what each person gets: everything for your partner, or just city and venue. Underneath the sharing is the boring magic. Connect Master Tour once and your dates flow into Apple Calendar and Google Calendar all day, every day. Load-in, soundcheck, doors, set time, hotel, bus call. Production moves the schedule at 11pm? Your calendar already knows. Nobody re-types a day sheet. Nobody screenshots one either. Then there is Buddy, a tour assistant that has actually read your schedule, which puts it ahead of at least one person on every crew. Ask what time load-in is. Ask for coffee near tonight's venue, food that is still open after load-out, or the drive time to the next city. It answers from your real dates, not vibes. Who it is for: Tour managers done maintaining the same schedule in four places. Crew who want the day sheet in the calendar they already check forty times a day. Musicians who would like their calendar to be right for once. Families who just want to know where their loved ones are. Plans: Comp keeps one tour synced with a personal share link. VIP adds Google Calendar sync, custom share links with per-person visibility, detailed calendar modes, and the invoice generator. All Access covers unlimited tours, ten share links, and priority support. One requirement, stated plainly: TourSync reads your schedule from Master Tour by Eventric, so you need a Master Tour account with a tour on it. That is the point. Your TM keeps working exactly how they already work. Everyone else finally gets to see it. TourSync fixes that. Share a link and the people who care about you can see exactly where the bus is headed, without the nightly "where are you now?" text. You pick what each person gets: everything for your partner, or just city and venue. Underneath the sharing is the boring magic. Connect Master Tour once and your dates flow into Apple Calendar and Google Calendar all day, every day. Load-in, soundcheck, doors, set time, hotel, bus call. Production moves the schedule at 11pm? Your calendar already knows. Nobody re-types a day sheet. Nobody screenshots one either. Then there is Buddy, a tour assistant that has actually read your schedule, which puts it ahead of at least one person on every crew. Ask what time load-in is. Ask for coffee near tonight's venue, food that is still open after load-out, or the drive time to the next city. It answers from your real dates, not vibes. Who it is for: Tour managers done maintaining the same schedule in four places. Crew who want the day sheet in the calendar they already check forty times a day. Musicians who would like their calendar to be right for once. Families who just want to know where their loved ones are. Plans: Comp keeps one tour synced with a personal share link. VIP adds Google Calendar sync, custom share links with per-person visibility, detailed calendar modes, and the invoice generator. All Access covers unlimited tours, ten share links, and the digital tour laminate. Yes, a laminate. We know who we are. One requirement: TourSync reads your schedule from Master Tour by Eventric, so you need a Master Tour account with a tour on it. That is the point. Your TM keeps working exactly how they already work. Everyone else finally gets to see it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tour-sync.app/privacy

Screenshots

Backline.me4 screens
TourSync4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Backline.me at none against TourSync's 6. Backline.me also leads on iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.2). TourSync's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 17 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. TourSync sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Backline.me asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Backline.me against 5.0 for TourSync. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Backline.me ships an update every 17 months, TourSync every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Backline.me versus TourSync: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBackline.meTourSync
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.2
Further details — not scored
Size0 MB9 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJonathan KohTourSync LLC

Customer experience

Backline.me

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

TourSync

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Backline.me

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

TourSync

Subscriptions6
  • Comp Monthly14 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • VIP Monthly14 Days trial$11.991 Month
  • All Access Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
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  • Comp Annual14 Days trial$59.991 Year
  • VIP Annual14 Days trial$99.991 Year
  • All Access Annual14 Days trial$199.991 Year

Questions

Is Backline.me free?
Backline.me is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TourSync free?
TourSync is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Backline.me or TourSync?
Backline.me and TourSync are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Backline.me or TourSync have ads?
Neither Backline.me nor TourSync shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Backline.me or TourSync?
Backline.me ships an update every 17 months, and TourSync every 5 weeks. Most recently, Backline.me was updated on October 10, 2026 and TourSync on October 8, 2026.

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