Comparison

INKBIRD vs Ticket Brain

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Smart home appliance control
  • Automated temperature and humidity adjustment
  • Remote food temperature monitoring
  • Customizable temperature alarms
  • Family network setup
Features
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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.

About

Ticket Brain

Features
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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.

Screenshots

INKBIRD4 screens
Ticket Brain4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

INKBIRD ships an update fortnightly, Ticket Brain every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
INKBIRD versus Ticket Brain: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterINKBIRDTicket Brain
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews22.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings7K — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size398 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperShenzhen Inkbird Technology Co. LtdWillem 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

None

INKBIRD

No in-app purchases

None

Ticket Brain

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is INKBIRD free?
INKBIRD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ticket Brain free?
Ticket Brain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do INKBIRD or Ticket Brain have ads?
Neither INKBIRD nor Ticket Brain shows ads.
Which is updated more often, INKBIRD or Ticket Brain?
INKBIRD ships an update fortnightly, and Ticket Brain every 5 days. Most recently, INKBIRD was updated on November 5, 2026 and Ticket Brain on October 31, 2026.

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