Masquerade Dance vs Applause Talent
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Masquerade Dance
Enhance your competition experience with live event streaming, detailed schedules, and real-time updates. Vote for your favorites and stay connected with event information and social feeds.
- Live video streaming of events
- Digital event programs
- Venue maps and directions
- Live event tracker
- Audience Choice voting
- Social media feeds
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The Masquerade Dance Competition App was created to make the competition process easier and more exciting for all Masquerade attendees! Our app includes: · NEW for 2019 - A subscription is no longer needed - all features are FREE! · NEW for 2019 - A live video feed for streaming events! (This is based upon venue availability from city to city and may not be available in all cities.) · Event information, a Digital Program for all the season's events including Nationals, pages listing the awards and results for each city, venue maps and directions, listing of our events, complete with routines listing, performance order, and location! · A live Event Tracker - It shows what routine number is on stage, how long until the next awards session, and any alerts for important information at the competition. · Audience Choice Voting- With our voting system, you in the audience can vote for the winners of our Award Category- The Audience Choice Awards! · Instagram and Facebook feeds, as well as access to the Masquerade Dance Website. Download the app for your live connection to Masquerade Dance Competition! Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Applause Talent
Enhance your competition experience with cutting-edge technology. Access schedules, facility maps, results, and exclusive photos and videos efficiently on your device.
- Competition schedules
- Facility maps
- Real-time results
- Exclusive photos
- Exclusive videos
- User-friendly interface
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Applause Talent strives to bring their clients cutting edge technology to simplify and enhance the competition experience. The new Applause app is an industry first that brings you schedules, facility maps, results & exclusive photo and videos in an efficient, user friendly format on your iPod or iPhone! Download our free app now! It's a direct connection at your fingertips to Applause Talent!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Applause Talent at none against Masquerade Dance's shown. Applause Talent also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Masquerade Dance's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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.
Masquerade Dance holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 243 and 247 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 44% of Masquerade Dance's written reviews are positive against 50% of Applause Talent's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Masquerade Dance ships an update every 2 months, Applause Talent every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and September 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Masquerade Dance | Applause Talent |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (243 ratings) — better | 4.3 (247 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.1% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 243 | 247 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Encore Productions, LLC | Applause Talent |
Customer experience
Masquerade Dance
Applause Talent
In-app purchases
Masquerade Dance
No in-app purchases
Applause Talent
No in-app purchases
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