Main Event Entertainment vs Elevate Entertainment
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Main Event Entertainment
Enhance your entertainment experiences with easy event management. Skip lines, manage fun cards, book reservations, and gather your group for meals with a simple tap. Discover exclusive mobile offers and make every moment count.
- Fun card management and refill
- Book bowling reservations
- Ring the Dinner Bell feature
- Add and personalize physical fun cards
- Access special mobile offers
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The Main Event app is a simple way to continue your amazing experiences and simplify your Main Event logistics. Spend more time on love and not in the lines with our features like fun card management & refill, booking bowling reservations, and Ring the Dinner Bell. That's not all as there are special mobile offers and much much more! What is "Ring the Dinner Bell" you ask? Time to gather everyone for a meal? Well just Ring the Dinner Bell to pause play and bring everyone to the table for priceless phones-down fun. Trying to keep track of all your family's fun cards? Add everyone's physical cards to your account and personalize them with unique designs.
Elevate Entertainment
Discover movie showtimes, purchase tickets, and explore venue amenities. Manage your loyalty rewards and enjoy features like seat reservations and in-seat food ordering. Access a world of entertainment including IMAX, premium auditoriums, and arcade games.
- Movie showtimes and tickets
- Venue information and amenities
- Loyalty rewards management
- Seat reservations
- Food and beverage ordering
- Ticket refunds
- Arcade games and bowling
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Get access to movie showtimes, tickets, venue information, and rewards for our brands: EVO Cinemas, EVO Entertainment, and Elevate Rewards. With the Elevate Entertainment App you can: • Access and manage your Elevate Rewards account • Easily browse the latest movies • Reserve and purchase your seats in advance • Explore each venue and its amenities • See our food and beverage offering • Easily refund ticket bookings up to scheduled showtimes • View ticket purchase history • And more… Our boundary pushing destinations include amenities like: • IMAX ® with Laser • EVX premium large format auditoriums • RealD 3D • Luxury recliners • Order and delivery-to-seat options • Arcade games • Bowling lanes
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Main Event Entertainment at none against Elevate Entertainment's shown. Main Event Entertainment also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Elevate Entertainment's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 20%) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Main Event Entertainment holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Main Event Entertainment has 8.4K ratings behind it against 897, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 20% of Main Event Entertainment's written reviews are positive against 40% of Elevate Entertainment's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Main Event Entertainment ships an update every 2 weeks, Elevate Entertainment every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Main Event Entertainment | Elevate Entertainment |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (8.4K ratings) — better | 4.3 (897 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 19.8% of reviews | 39.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.4K — better | 897 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 271 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dave & Buster's inc. | EVO Entertainment Group, LLC |
Customer experience
Main Event Entertainment
Elevate Entertainment
User reviews
Main Event Entertainment
From 8.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great customer service
- 🚀 Convenient app
- 👍 Clean and fun place
Room to improve
- 🐛 Consistently frustrating experience with login issues
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 Buggy app with many issues
- 🐛 App and website not working properly
- 🐛 Fun cards not showing up after adding
Elevate Entertainment
From 897 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ⭐ Great app
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 💰 No online fees
- 🎫 Convenient ticket booking
- 👍 Simple and efficient
Room to improve
- 🐛 Apple Wallet integration issues
- 🔍 Unable to see all movie showtimes
- 💳 Rewards/points system problems
- 🔒 Login/account issues
- 🕰️ Slow performance
Bugs and requests
Main Event Entertainment
Reported bugs
5 issues- Login issues
- Booking and reservation problems
- Card balance and history not working
- Crashes and freezes
- Compatibility issues with older devices
Requested features
2 requests- Allow adding any amount to Fun Card
- Improve Fun Card management experience
Elevate Entertainment
Reported bugs
5 issues- Apple Wallet integration not working
- Rewards/points not tracking properly
- Login/account creation issues
- Seat selection/booking problems
- App crashes/freezes
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to redeem rewards when purchasing tickets
- Integration with Apple Wallet
- Display all movie showtimes in one view
- Improved rewards/points system
- Faster app performance
In-app purchases
Main Event Entertainment
No in-app purchases
Elevate Entertainment
No in-app purchases
Questions
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