Sidebop vs Heard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sidebop
Discover Los Angeles events on a map, tailored to your travel time and starting point. Find shows, movies, and happy hours, and get directions and details before you go. Save events and track updates.
- Event discovery on a map
- Customizable travel time and mode
- Event search by date, category, or keyword
- Venue details and directions
- Event bookmarking and updates
- Ticket link integration
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LA has a lot going on. Find something you can actually get to. A show nearby. A movie across town. A happy hour after work. sidebop puts Los Angeles events on a map, so you can spend less time figuring out where to go and more time being there. START WHERE YOU ARE. OR WHERE YOU'LL BE. Choose a starting point, a travel mode and how much time you want to spend getting there. Your ring shows what's in range. Starting somewhere else? Search for a place or move your pin. LOOK AHEAD Open Find to choose when, pick a category, or type an event, venue or what you're looking for. Browse upcoming days across Los Angeles, then use From where? to compare travel from a starting point. Return to Now to see what's within reach. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO See a map of the venue, its address, event time and available price and entry details. Open the source listing for more information or get directions when you're ready to head out. KEEP YOUR MAYBES Bookmark an event and find it again in Saved. See listed updates to your saved events and new listings from venues you follow. When an event has a ticket link, Check tickets opens its ticket page so you can see what's available. Browse without creating an account. Use your location if you want, or choose an address instead. Built for Los Angeles. For the little gap in your afternoon, the spontaneous detour and the night you haven't figured out yet.
Heard
Discover bars with live DJs playing tonight in Los Angeles. The app features a live map showing venues, set times, and DJ information, allowing you to filter by genre or neighborhood for spontaneous night outs.
- Live map of venues with DJs
- Tonight's and upcoming nights
- Filter by genre and neighborhood
- DJ names and Instagram links
- Venue details and event links
- Verified venue listings
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Heard shows you which bars in Los Angeles have a DJ playing tonight. Not concerts. Not shows you plan weeks ahead. The ordinary Tuesday where someone good is on the decks at a bar down the road, and you'd never have known. Open the map and every venue with music tonight is on it. • A live map of the city, bar by bar • Tonight, tomorrow, and the night after • Filter by genre or by neighborhood • See who's on — DJ names linked to their Instagram, set times, genres • Tap a venue for the night's billing and a link to the event • A verified mark on venues that manage their own listings Built for the decision you make at 9pm, not the one you make three weeks out. No account, no sign-up. Los Angeles only, for now. Echo Park to Venice, Highland Park to Santa Monica.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sidebop at every 2 days against Heard's every 3 weeks. On price, rating, 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
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 — 5.0 for Sidebop against 5.0 for Heard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Sidebop ships an update every 2 days, Heard every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Sidebop | Heard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kevin Showkat | Kevin Flood |
Customer experience
Sidebop
Heard
In-app purchases
Sidebop
No in-app purchases
Heard
No in-app purchases









