Yapp vs ShoWorks™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yapp
Create custom mobile experiences for events, groups, or organizations. Share schedules, connect with people, and access important documents. Stay updated with social feeds and photo sharing, even offline.
- Customizable event apps
- Event schedules
- Attendee and sponsor bios
- Social feed with push notifications
- Document sharing
- Photo sharing and gallery
- Real-time polls
- Offline content access
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With Yapp, you can view the mobile experience for your conference, social event, group, sports team, school, local business, and more. Haven’t been invited to a Yapp? To see a sample, enter CONFERENCE as your Yapp ID. Yapp features include: • Schedule – See up-to-the-minute information so you know where to be when, and create your personal schedule • People – Get bios on people, sponsors, and key contacts • Social Feed – Connect with others and receive breaking news via push notifications • Documents – View important documents right in the app • Photo sharing – Take and share photos. See official photos in the Gallery • Polls – Vote and see the results in real-time • Video - Playback video the Yapp creator has posted • Tickets – Buy tickets through Eventbrite • Offline browsing – See your content even if you are out of network range Have feedback? Email feedback@yapp.us Made with love by Yapp, Inc. and You
ShoWorks™
This companion app streamlines event management for fairs and livestock shows. It allows for easy check-in, judging, and updating of exhibits by syncing with desktop software. Utilize your device's camera for quick scanning and efficient data management.
- Entry management for events
- Check-in and judge exhibits
- Syncs with desktop software
- Barcode scanning via camera
- Kiosk check-in functionality
- Animal weigh-in and placing
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ShoWorks is the world’s leading entry management software for fairs, festivals, livestock shows, and exhibitions. Manage, check-in and judge exhibits with this “must have” tool by swiping ribbons, places, weights, and more, onto entries downloaded from your existing ShoWorks fair management software for Windows. Not a ShoWorks user? Start your FREE trial today. How does ShoWorks work? • Install the full client version of ShoWorks onto any Windows machine. • Receive entries to your show via the built-in online entries website or manual data entry, letting exhibitors optionally print their barcoded receipts and entry tags. • Use this free iPad app as a companion to manage and update these entries in various ways, such as kiosk check-in, animal weigh-in, judging and placing, and more. • Use the existing built-in iPad camera to scan barcoded tags and receipts for quick access. • Sync the changes back to the client version of ShoWorks where you can complete the process of distributing awards and reports for your participants. Requires ShoWorks for Windows.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ShoWorks™ at 100% against Yapp's 56%. ShoWorks™ also leads on rating (4.5 vs 3.6). Yapp's advantage is ratings volume (100 vs 2) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). 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.
ShoWorks™ holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yapp has 100 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Yapp's written reviews are positive against 100% of ShoWorks™'s.
Yapp ships an update fortnightly, ShoWorks™ every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yapp | ShoWorks™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (100 ratings) | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #195 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 163 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yapp, Inc. | Gladstone Inc. |
Customer experience
Yapp
ShoWorks™
Bugs and requests
Yapp
Reported bugs
16 issues- App crashes when watching videos
- App freezes frequently
- Last cell in daily schedule cut off
- App deletes events
- App locks up, requires reboot
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- Cannot refresh news feed (iOS 9)
- Cannot create a username
- Blank white screen after update
- App stops working, shows blank screen
- Doesn't work properly on iPhone 5
- Asks for Yapp ID without providing one
- Cannot create a password
- App asks for Yapp ID with unclear instructions
- App never loads, crashes
- Website not compatible with iPhone
- Requires Facebook to create an event
Requested features
20 requests- Grey out past events
- "You might like" suggestions
- Tag events
- Create groups and group chats
- Group notifications
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- Schedule tagging
- Respond to comments/tag users
- Option to "like" posts
- Swipe left for agenda items
- Edit Yapps in the app
- View other apps people made
- Upload videos to news feeds
- Bookmark schedule events
- Change date format (UK)
- Longer cover page display
- Smaller photo loading
- Edit Yapps on mobile
- Add more social features
- Better design and typography
- More flexibility in app creation
ShoWorks™
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Yapp
No in-app purchases
ShoWorks™
No in-app purchases
