Comparison

Sold Out! vs LightBox Expo

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sold Out!

Manage event ticket sales and point-of-sale transactions with ease. This app supports general admission and reserved seating, offering features like discounts, coupons, and various payment options. Print or email tickets directly to customers.

Highlights
  • Point-of-sale transactions
  • General admission & reserved seating
  • Discounts and coupons
  • Multiple payment types
  • Partial and split tender payments
  • Ticket printing and emailing
Features
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With the Sold Out box office app from Leap Event Technology, you can sell tickets for both general admission and reserved seating events. While supporting features like discounts and coupons, the app lets you create reservations, run multiple payment types, take partial payments, and split payments. Plus, you can connect with Boca thermal ticket printers, print from your own laser printer, or email tickets to your customers right from the app. For more information about our flexible box office solutions, visit https://leapevent.tech/solutions/event-ticketing/.

About

LightBox Expo

This app connects artists in the entertainment industry, offering a mobile guide to events, exhibitors, and programming. Plan your weekend, navigate the venue with maps, and discover your favorite creators. It aims to inspire and elevate artistic careers.

Highlights
  • Exhibitor and Artist Alley list
  • Schedule planning for panels and demos
  • Favorite programming and events
  • Venue navigation with maps
  • Event discovery and planning tool
Features
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LightBox Expo (LBX) is the Annie Award-winning gathering of artists who work in the entertainment industry bringing your favorite films, animation, games, TV shows and illustrations to life. At LBX, we aim to ignite your passion, fuel your imagination, and propel you to new artistic heights! LBX provides a vibrant space for artists to congregate, meet and celebrate their craft with fellow creatives. It’s a place for artists to share their work with the public, further their skills in their respective industries, and make meaningful connections that will help artists thrive in the entertainment industry. The LBX mobile app provides you with the Exhibitor and Artist Alley list, allows you to start planning your weekend by adding Panels, Demos and Programming to your schedule (and favorite everything you want to see), you can use the maps to navigate around the show, and much more! LightBox Expo takes place every October at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California.

Screenshots

Sold Out!2 screens
LightBox Expo3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: LightBox Expo at 4.4 against Sold Out!'s 1.2. Sold Out!'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 12 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

LightBox Expo holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 1.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 53 and 24 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 0% and 0% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sold Out! ships an update every 5 months, LightBox Expo every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sold Out! versus LightBox Expo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSold Out!LightBox Expo
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.2 (53 ratings)4.4 (24 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings53 — better24
Update frequencyEvery 5 months — betterEvery 12 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB37 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLeap Event TechnologyLightBox Expo LLC

Customer experience

Sold Out!

All ratings45 ratings
Positive2.2%
Neutral2.2%
Negative95.6%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral4.8%
Negative95.2%

LightBox Expo

All ratings18 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sold Out!

No in-app purchases

None

LightBox Expo

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sold Out! free?
Sold Out! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LightBox Expo free?
LightBox Expo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sold Out! or LightBox Expo?
LightBox Expo is rated higher. Sold Out! averages 1.2 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while LightBox Expo averages 4.4 from 24 ratings.
Do Sold Out! or LightBox Expo have ads?
Neither Sold Out! nor LightBox Expo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sold Out! or LightBox Expo?
Sold Out! ships an update every 5 months, and LightBox Expo every 12 months. Most recently, Sold Out! was updated on October 18, 2026 and LightBox Expo on October 27, 2026.

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