SunRail Mobile vs Fest 23
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SunRail Mobile
Purchase and use train tickets directly from your phone. Securely register your payment card to buy fares instantly and avoid paper tickets. Receive real-time service updates and announcements.
- Instant mobile ticketing
- Secure payment registration
- Real-time service alerts
- Paperless fares
- Anytime, anywhere ticket purchase
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The official mobile ticketing app from SunRail! The SunRail app lets you purchase and use fares instantly on your phone–anywhere, anytime. Just download the free app, register your debit or credit card in our secure system, and you're ready to ride. Stay informed in real-time! Enable alerts on your device to receive service updates and announcements.
Fest 23
This app provides the complete schedule, lineup, and venue map for a specific festival. Users can build their own personalized schedule with reminders, view all performing bands and acts, and access a QR code for faster entry. It also offers offline functionality for most features.
- Full schedule browsing
- Personalized schedule creation with reminders
- Lineup browsing (bands, wrestling, comedy)
- QR code for faster ticket pickup
- Venue maps
- Offline functionality
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Full schedule, lineup, and venue map for The FEST 23! FEATURES: BROWSE THE FULL SCHEDULE Stay in the loop and know what’s going on at all times! SHARE YOUR SCHEDULE Save your schedule as perfectly sized photos for your social networks! MAKE YOUR OWN SCHEDULE Get a notification for each set you don’t wanna miss! BROWSE THE LINEUP Check out all 300+ BANDS, the FEST WRESTLING “WE ARE FAMILY” lineup, and the FEST COMEDY SHOWCASE! GET YOUR 3-DAY WRISTBAND FASTER Get a QR code for your ticket order to get through FEST Registration faster! MAPS Don’t get lost stumblin’ from venue to venue! NO DATA NEEDED… MOSTLY Works entirely offline (besides schedule updates & mystery band drops)! --- Follow us on Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram to check out official @thefestfl tweets and photos, AND don't forget to keep checking #fest23 activity to see what other FEST goers are up to! Be sure to check these throughout the weekend for MYSTERY BAND announcements and other last-minute news and surprises. E-mail steve@chill.biz or find @chill_biz on IG / @chilluminati on BSKY for tech support, feedback, and any other nice things you have to say!
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Verdict
SunRail Mobile and Fest 23 both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Fest 23's written reviews are positive against 38% of SunRail Mobile's. SunRail Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (1.4K vs 38). On price, rating, 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.
Fest 23 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SunRail Mobile has 1.4K ratings behind it against 38, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of SunRail Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fest 23's.
| Parameter | SunRail Mobile | Fest 23 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.4K ratings) | 5.0 (38 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.4K — better | 38 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | FDOT | Chilluminati LLC (NYC) |
Customer experience
SunRail Mobile
Fest 23
User reviews
SunRail Mobile
From 1.4K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient
- 👍 Reliable
- 👍 Great option
- 👍 Convenience
- 👍 New Sunrail App
Room to improve
- 🐛 Logs me out
- 🐛 Not convenience or useful
- 🔍 Cumbersome if on the phone
- 🔒 Can't login
- 🐛 Couldn't open app
Fest 23
From 38 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Incredibly fast and responsive
- 👍 Extremely user-friendly and intuitive
- 📆 Excellent scheduling and planning features
- 💡 Helpful updates and notifications
- 🔍 Comprehensive information about bands and events
Bugs and requests
SunRail Mobile
Reported bugs
4 issues- Logs me out
- Not convenience or useful
- Can't login
- Couldn't open app
Requested features
1 request- Needs to run on weekends
Fest 23
No bugs or feature requests surfaced in reviews.
In-app purchases
SunRail Mobile
No in-app purchases
Fest 23
No in-app purchases
Questions
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