RODEOHOUSTON vs shotby
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RODEOHOUSTON
Plan your visit to a major livestock show and rodeo event. Access tickets, purchase carnival packs, and discover ground festivities. Stay updated on all event activities, including athlete scoring and results, whether attending in person or livestreaming.
- Ticket access and purchase
- Carnival pack loading
- Grounds festivities guide
- Event marketing and promotions
- Athlete scoring and bios
- Livestock and contestant results
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Let’s Rodeo, y’all! The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™ app remains your go-to utility when attending your favorite event. Our Visitor’s Guide will ensure you’re ready for the action before you arrive at NRG Park - purchase or access your tickets, load up on carnival packs and find out about all the grounds festivities. Whether you’re joining us in-person or livestreaming from home, the rodeohouston app has all you need - right at your fingertips. New features include: - An all-new home page with added functionality and visuals - Additional marketing and promotional options to ensure you know about everything going on at Rodeo - Interactive RODEOHOUSTON athlete scoring and bios - Mobile access to livestock and contestant results
shotby
Discover the creative minds behind music videos. Follow directors, cinematographers, and editors to see their full filmographies and discover new content. Rate videos and explore collaboration networks.
- Music video credits database
- Follow directors and creators
- Personalized content feed
- Build custom video channels
- User-generated ratings
- Collaboration network visualization
- Submit new content for indexing
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Every music video has a director. You just never saw their name. shotby is the credits database for music videos. Who directed it, who shot it, who cut it — and everything else they have made. FOLLOW THE PEOPLE, NOT THE ALGORITHM A director's work hides across a hundred artist channels. Follow them here and everything new lands in one feed, under their name instead of somebody else's. YOUR TV Build channels out of the directors and artists you follow. Shuffle them, sort by newest or best rated, and play the whole run end to end. THE PEOPLE'S RATING Score anything you watch, or put two videos side by side and throw the one you like. Your taste comes from what you actually watch, not from what an algorithm decided to push. COLLABORATION GRAPHS & 6 DEGREES OF ASSOCIATION See who works with who. Every director joined to every artist they have shot, drawn as a map you pull apart with your fingers. Run six degrees between any two names. CREDITS, PROPERLY The full crew on every video — director of photography, editor, colorist, production designer, producer. Tap any name to open their filmography. GET INDEXED Shot something that is not in here? Send a channel or a single video and the team indexes it, credits and all. shotby is free. Claiming your page is free.
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Verdict
RODEOHOUSTON and shotby both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of shotby's written reviews are positive against 39% of RODEOHOUSTON's. shotby also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). RODEOHOUSTON's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 6). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for RODEOHOUSTON against 5.0 for shotby. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RODEOHOUSTON has 1.4K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of RODEOHOUSTON's written reviews are positive against 100% of shotby's.
RODEOHOUSTON ships an update monthly, shotby every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RODEOHOUSTON | shotby |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 39.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™ | shotbyTV, Inc. |
Customer experience
RODEOHOUSTON
shotby
Bugs and requests
RODEOHOUSTON
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to verify and access purchased tickets
- Repeated requests for cookie preferences
- Incorrect event schedule information
- Parking lot availability not accurately reflected
Requested features
4 requests- Offline access to tickets and coupons
- Better organization of tickets and coupons
- Improved parking and directions information
- More comprehensive event schedules and details
shotby
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
RODEOHOUSTON
No in-app purchases
shotby
No in-app purchases
Questions
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