INKBIRD vs Ticket Brain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
INKBIRD
Transform your home into a smart environment with intuitive controls for appliances and automated adjustments of temperature and humidity. Remotely monitor food temperatures and set custom alarms for optimal cooking, creating a more connected and enjoyable life.
- Smart home appliance control
- Automated temperature and humidity adjustment
- Remote food temperature monitoring
- Customizable temperature alarms
- Family network setup
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INKBIRD helps you create a smart home, smart life. We make hard things simple by convenient and fast operation, clear and intuitive interface, considerate and practical functions. Here, you can smartly make home appliances intelligent and automated adjustment of temperature and humidity so as create an optimal environment for your family. Here, you can remotely monitor the food temperature and customize temperature alarms to always cook delicious meals for your family. Here, you can set up a family network of things of your own and experience a more wonderful, more enjoyable life.
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 — 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: • Add tickets from the share sheet — PDFs, screenshots, or photos of printed tickets • Multi-admission PDFs split into one ticket per person automatically • Barcodes and QR codes detected and shown full-screen, bright, for fast scanning at the gate • Today view surfaces the event you need next • Library and calendar to browse everything, upcoming and past • Open-dated passes (theme parks, day passes) sorted by how close you are to the venue • Add dated tickets to your calendar, kept in sync two ways • Home Screen widgets for your next event • Apple Watch companion — 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 • Per-event colour drawn from the ticket artwork • No account, no ads, no tracking — your data never leaves your devices Perfect for concerts, festivals, theatre, sports, theme parks, and travel — every ticket, ready on arrival.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ticket Brain at every 5 days against INKBIRD's fortnightly. INKBIRD's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, 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.
INKBIRD ships an update fortnightly, Ticket Brain every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | INKBIRD | Ticket Brain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 22.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 398 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Inkbird Technology Co. Ltd | Willem de Jonge |
Bugs and requests
INKBIRD
Reported bugs
5 issues- Custom menu names reset after exiting app
- Widgets not working as expected
- Frequent app crashes and disconnections
- Sensor temperature readings inconsistent
- Unable to remove/delete connected devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Improve temperature graph functionality
- Allow custom alarm sounds
- Implement low temperature alerts
- Add support for more devices
Ticket Brain
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
INKBIRD
No in-app purchases
Ticket Brain
No in-app purchases









