The Ticket 96.7 vs HockeyShift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Ticket 96.7
Stream your favorite sports radio station live from anywhere. Get instant access to hot sports opinions, interviews with big-name guests, and breaking sports news. Stay connected to the game no matter where you are.
- Live radio streaming
- Sports opinions
- Guest interviews
- Breaking sports news
- Listen anywhere
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Never be without your favorite radio station. Sportsradio 96.7 / 1310 The Ticket is proud to present our OFFICIAL radio app. Listen to us at work, home or on the road. Install our app and get instant access to hot sports opinions, big name guests and breaking sports news!
HockeyShift
This app provides hockey organizations with a comprehensive suite of tools to manage team information. Track schedules, view scoreboards and standings, manage rosters, and monitor leaderboards. Requires league integration for team data.
- Team schedules
- Scoreboards
- Standings
- Rosters
- Leaderboards
- Special teams tracking
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HockeyShift is the next generation of tools for Hockey organizations. Stay up to date with everything related to your team, including - Schedules - Scoreboards - Standings - Special Teams - Rosters - Leader Boards - and more to come! To add your team to this app it requires your team plays in a league that uses HockeyShift for it's stats software. If you experience any problems or have any great features you'd like to see added to HockeyShift, please contact us directly at support@hockeyshift.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HockeyShift at none against The Ticket 96.7's shown. HockeyShift also leads on review sentiment (24% vs 1%) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). The Ticket 96.7's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.8 for The Ticket 96.7 against 2.8 for HockeyShift. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 49 and 58 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 1% of The Ticket 96.7's written reviews are positive against 24% of HockeyShift's.
The Ticket 96.7 ships an update every 2 months, HockeyShift every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Ticket 96.7 | HockeyShift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (49 ratings) | 2.8 (58 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 1.5% of reviews | 24.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 49 | 58 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cumulus Media | DigitalShift Interactive Inc. |
Customer experience
The Ticket 96.7
HockeyShift
Bugs and requests
The Ticket 96.7
Reported bugs
67 issues- App cannot be minimized without pausing stream
- Video ads stop the stream
- Newest update fixed nothing
- Cannot guarantee hearing actual program
- Lots of ads and elevator hold music
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- Cannot get to content due to front-loaded ads
- App only plays live
- Forces user to watch 30-second video ad each time it starts
- Ads every single time, even after calls or Bluetooth disconnects
- Listens to Sante's ad every time Bluetooth connections switch
- Cannot rewind back 1 hour
- Randomly crashes
- Makes user listen to advertisement on every reconnection
- Doesn't work on M1 Macs
- Play/pause does not work when screen is locked
- App crashes more than expected
- Play/pause buttons are too small
- Plays for a minute then stops, requiring ad listen
- Keeps shutting off
- Disconnects audio on WiFi or cellular
- App crashes after 3 minutes of listening
- Nearly 100% useless for live radio
- Buffer time after opening ad is 5+ minutes
- Audio feed doesn't always start
- Has to exit and try again, then gets ad
- Cannot handle switching from WiFi to cellular
- Cannot handle running in background
- Commercial break during game causes audio stream to rejoin late
- App stops working constantly
- App won't stay on
- App crashes
- App closes about 2 minutes in
- App consistently crashes with iOS 13
- App crashes constantly
- App will not stay on with latest iOS update
- App continues to crash
- App stops constantly
- App crashes daily
- App cuts off every minute or so
- App stops playing unless constantly on phone
- App constantly loses connection
- App will just shut down and boot users
- App quits after 10 minutes
- App crashes
- App reboots and forces intro commercial
- App won't launch
- App continually quits
- Constantly cuts out
- App randomly stops playing
- Constantly drops off
- Ads are torture
- App will stay up in commercial
- App closes during funny bits
- App keeps turning off on its own
- App stops in the middle of a segment
- Audio stops every 20 minutes or so
- App drops the feed
- Stream is constantly buffering and restarting
- Commercials cause issues with the app
- App quits constantly
- Update is awful
- Stream will only stay active if app is active
- Top 5 content not updated
- Ads are horrible
- App is unstable
- App crashes initially on Wi-Fi
- Ads roll over broadcast
Requested features
6 requests- Apple Watch Support (cellular without iPhone)
- Pause and rewind functionality
- Ability to listen to earlier shows/segments
- Dark mode option
- Enlarge the buttons
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- Option to pay to remove ads
HockeyShift
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The Ticket 96.7
No in-app purchases
HockeyShift
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is The Ticket 96.7 free?
Is HockeyShift free?
Which has better reviews, The Ticket 96.7 or HockeyShift?
Do The Ticket 96.7 or HockeyShift have ads?
Which is updated more often, The Ticket 96.7 or HockeyShift?
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