Comparison

CrewBrain vs J.SHOW

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

Head to head
About

CrewBrain

Streamline personnel planning for events with a central platform for requests and arrangements. It offers clear event displays, staff availability overviews, and automatic notifications to ensure efficient team management.

Highlights
  • Centralized request handling
  • Staff availability overview
  • Automatic notifications
  • Clear event display
  • iCal subscription
  • Time tracking
  • Assignment planning
Features
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Crew management made easy. Simple & efficient personnel planning for Events Flexible planning. Clear display. Always accessible: CrewBrain makes personnel planning for your events fast, easy and efficient. - All requests and arrangements are handled by a central platform accessible to everyone involved - Overview of staff and member availability - Automatic notifications - Clear display of events, rehearsals and holidays - Subscription in iCal format possible - Many useful features like time tracking, assignment planning, travel expenses and much more

About

J.SHOW

Organize tours and share real-time travel information with your entire party. Practical tools simplify logistics for artists, musicians, bookers, managers, and crew. Each artist has a dedicated platform accessible via a unique URL.

Highlights
  • Real-time information distribution
  • Organize tours
  • Individual artist platforms
  • Customizable authorization levels
  • Intuitive handling
Features
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J.SHOW is the app for your J.SHOW platform. It puts everything you need on tour on your phone – and shows it even when there is no signal. You need access to a J.SHOW artist or agency platform. Without an account you cannot sign in here. What you get • Every event at a glance – upcoming, past, sorted by date or shown on the map • The single event with everything that belongs to it: venue, contacts, times, notes • The day sheet with running order, soundcheck and show • Travel, hotels and vehicles including addresses and booking references • Guest list – view it, add people, check them in at the door • Setlist and song pool • Every file for the event – rider, contracts, day sheets, venue plans – readable in the app and easy to pass on • Messages and mentions from your team • Push notifications when something about your event changes Works without a signal Backstage, on the bus, abroad: the app keeps your data on the phone. Open it and everything is there straight away – no waiting, no progress bar, no question of whether you are online. As soon as there is a connection again it fetches the new state in the background and swaps it in without interrupting you. Several platforms at once If you work for more than one artist, sign in to up to three accounts at the same time and see all their dates side by side. Switching takes one tap. Who it is for Artists, tour management, crew, booking and agencies – everyone on a J.SHOW platform. Who sees which events and which figures is decided by roles on the platform; the app shows exactly what you have been given access to. What J.SHOW is beyond this The platform itself brings tour planning, contracts, invoices, settlement, guest lists, travel and availabilities together in one place. The app is the part that travels with you. More at j.show

Screenshots

CrewBrain4 screens
J.SHOW4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: J.SHOW at 86% against CrewBrain's 11%. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CrewBrain ships an update every 3 weeks, J.SHOW every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
CrewBrain versus J.SHOW: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrewBrainJ.SHOW
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.1% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCrewBrain GmbHJonas Stricker

Customer experience

CrewBrain

Written reviews9 reviews
Positive11.1%
Neutral33.3%
Negative55.6%

J.SHOW

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CrewBrain

No in-app purchases

None

J.SHOW

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CrewBrain free?
CrewBrain is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is J.SHOW free?
J.SHOW is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CrewBrain or J.SHOW have ads?
Neither CrewBrain nor J.SHOW shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CrewBrain or J.SHOW?
CrewBrain ships an update every 3 weeks, and J.SHOW every 2 weeks. Most recently, CrewBrain was updated on October 10, 2026 and J.SHOW on October 13, 2026.

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