CrewBrain vs J.SHOW
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Centralized request handling
- Staff availability overview
- Automatic notifications
- Clear event display
- iCal subscription
- Time tracking
- Assignment planning
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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
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.
- Real-time information distribution
- Organize tours
- Individual artist platforms
- Customizable authorization levels
- Intuitive handling
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J.SHOW is a software which lets you organize tours and automatically distributes information to the travel party in real time. Numerous practical tools and the intuitive handling make life easier for artists, musicians, bookers, managers, and crew members. Each artist / band gets their own platform. Platforms can be reached via their respective URL: artist-name.j.show Everyone involved in a tour gets an account for to the platform. There are individual levels of authorization for different groups of people. This ensures that everyone only gets to see relevant information.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CrewBrain ships an update fortnightly, J.SHOW every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and July 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CrewBrain | J.SHOW |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 11.1% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 68 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CrewBrain GmbH | Jonas Stricker |
Customer experience
CrewBrain
J.SHOW
In-app purchases
CrewBrain
No in-app purchases
J.SHOW
No in-app purchases
