Alternatives to StubHub: Event Tickets
By App Store Tracker Editorial · Updated — live App Store data verified
The short version
TickPick is the strongest StubHub alternative, selling the same seats with no buyer fees and a high rating. Ticketmaster is the heavyweight, with the largest primary inventory and resale. Vivid Seats and Gametime cover the same buy-and-sell marketplace, the latter built for last-minute deals. Each shares StubHub's core: buy and sell tickets to concerts, sports, and theater, with delivery to your phone.
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People look for StubHub alternatives after delivery scares, when fan-protection policies fall short, or when fees inflate the final price. The apps below all share its core job: buy and sell tickets to live events, follow artists and teams, and get tickets delivered to your phone. Some are full resale marketplaces, one cuts buyer fees entirely, and others are primary sellers. Reviewers across the category report last-minute delivery anxiety and double-ticket worries, so guarantees matter. We ranked them using embedding similarity against StubHub's marketplace model, then weighed live App Store ratings and how many people use each one. The top picks mirror StubHub's buy-and-sell flow most closely. Pricing and ratings beside each app come straight from the live store.
Why it's similar
Vivid Seats matches StubHub directly: buy and sell mobile tickets to top sports, concert, and theater events in one marketplace.
How it differs
Reviewers report the same pain points as StubHub, with transfer errors and prices they found far higher than expected. With a strong overall rating and a large base, it's a close marketplace alternative with similar risks.
Why it's similar
TickPick matches StubHub's marketplace but cuts out buyer fees, offering the same seats at a lower all-in price.
How it differs
It's praised for simple, affordable buying, though some reviewers still hit last-minute download issues and a duplicate-ticket scare. With one of the highest ratings here and a large base, it's the top alternative for fee-conscious fans.
Why it's similar
Gametime matches StubHub's buy-and-sell model with a focus on last-minute deals and free Ticket Coverage protection.
How it differs
Reviews are mixed, with some praising quick concert purchases and others reporting fraudulent or improperly transferred tickets. With a good rating and large base, it's a deal-focused alternative best for late buys.
Why it's similar
Ticketmaster does everything StubHub does and more: buy and sell tickets across nearly every major event, with the largest primary inventory.
How it differs
It's the dominant primary seller plus resale, so it often has tickets at the source rather than only resale. With a high rating and an enormous base, it's the heavyweight alternative.
Why it's similar
AXS Tickets matches StubHub's buy-and-sell flow with 100% official tickets and the option to resell seats you can't use.
How it differs
It's a primary ticketing platform for many venues rather than a pure resale market, so inventory comes direct. With a strong rating and large base, it's a reliable alternative for official tickets.
Why it's similar
Immortal Seats matches StubHub's marketplace, selling tickets to thousands of US and Canada events with no fees on all orders.
How it differs
It's a smaller no-fee platform with a high rating but a tiny base, so it's less established than StubHub. It's a budget-friendly alternative for fee-averse buyers.
Why it's similar
viagogo matches StubHub's resale model as a global secondary marketplace for live sport, music, and entertainment tickets.
How it differs
It emphasizes worldwide selection across many countries, broader geographically than StubHub's strength. Its rating runs lower with a modest base, making it a global-reach alternative with more variable reviews.
Every app in our database carries a dense vector embedding derived from its title, subtitle, full description, and category metadata. To find apps similar to StubHub: Event Tickets, we compute cosine distance against every other app and surface the closest 60 candidates. The similarity score shown on each pick is 1 - distance/2 clamped to [0,1] — 100% means the embedding spaces are identical, 0% means orthogonal.
We then re-rank the candidate set using current App Store rating and review-count signals so a 4.8-star app with 100,000 reviews ranks above a 4.5-star app with 200 reviews even when their embedding distance is similar. Apps that haven't shipped an update in 12 months are filtered out before re-ranking.
The similarity cache is recomputed weekly. Live App Store data (rating, review count) is verified every 6 hours.
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