AllEvents - Discover Events

Review by eFreeware

If your weekends tend to fill up with concerts, food festivals and theater shows, AllEvents is the sort of app that earns a spot on your home screen. It is built around finding things to do near you and, when something catches your eye, buying the ticket and keeping it on your phone. The pitch is broad rather than niche: local community gatherings on one side, international music festivals on the other.

What appeals to me is the combination of discovery and ticketing in a single app. You can browse by location and interest, get suggestions shaped by what you have attended before, and then handle the booking without switching to a browser. For anyone who plans outings regularly, that removes a step from the process.

The app is free, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, which is unusual for a listing of this size. With more than a million installs and a 4.7 average across nearly 15,000 ratings, it has clearly found an audience since its release in 2012. The developer, Amitech Business Solutions, describes it as the world's largest event discovery platform, a claim I would treat as marketing rather than a measurable fact.

What you actually get when you open the app

At its core, AllEvents is a catalog of things to do. You can search by where you are, by the kind of event you like and by your broader interests, and the results mix local listings with events in other cities and countries. Concerts, theater performances, festivals, sports games and workshops all sit in the same place, along with free events, which is a useful category if you want a night out without spending much.

The developer says events are covered across 40,000 cities, which is the number that gives the app its range. In practice that means the same app can serve you at home and while traveling: a neighborhood arts festival this weekend, an international music event on a trip later in the year. You are not locked into one city or one genre.

Recommendations are meant to sharpen this over time. The app takes your stated interests and the events you have attended and uses them to suggest what to look at next. That is a sensible approach for anyone who does not want to scroll through everything on offer, though how well it works will depend on how much you tell it and how active you are.

Buying tickets and getting through the door

Ticketing is handled inside the app. You can find tickets for concerts, sports, theater shows and festivals, book them on the spot and keep them stored in one place rather than scattered across email confirmations. Check-in is paperless, so the ticket on your phone is what gets you in.

Perks such as VIP passes, early bird tickets and other deals are also advertised. Those are worth watching if you book well ahead or want a better seat, though availability will vary by event and organizer. I would treat the offers as a bonus rather than the reason to install.

For anyone who goes to several events a month, keeping tickets in the same app you used to find them is the practical advantage. The paperless check-in fits the way venues now operate.

The social side: seeing where your friends are going

AllEvents lets you connect with friends and see which events they plan to attend, then share your own plans with them. That turns the app from a listings board into something closer to a shared calendar for nights out. If your group is scattered across a few cities, it is a way to notice when someone is going to something you would also enjoy.

The social layer also feeds discovery. Seeing what friends are interested in can surface events you would not have searched for yourself, and it makes coordinating attendance easier than trading messages. It is optional in the sense that you can use the app purely for browsing, but the feature is clearly part of the design.

What the app asks of you, and where it narrows

Recommendations work from your interests and past events, so the more you put in, the more tailored the results become.

Location matters too. The app is built around finding events near you, so its value rises sharply when you let it know where you are and falls away when you do not.

The scope is also genuinely wide rather than deep in any single category. It covers concerts, theater, festivals, sports and workshops in one catalog, which suits people with varied tastes. If your interest is a narrow scene, the app may still list it, but the experience is organized around breadth.

Costs are limited to the tickets themselves. The app is free, shows no ads and sells no in-app purchases, so there is no subscription to weigh. What you pay is what the event organizer charges for the ticket.

Who gets the most from AllEvents

The clearest fit is someone who goes out regularly and plans ahead. If you are the person in your group who finds the concert, buys the tickets and tells everyone else, this app handles all three steps. The friend tracking and shared plans reinforce that role.

It also suits travelers who want to know what is on when they arrive somewhere new. With events listed in tens of thousands of cities, the same app works for a weekend trip as for your own neighborhood. And because free events are included alongside ticketed ones, it is useful even when your budget is tight.

The recent update points in the same direction. Season Passes have been improved, and discovering events around you on the map is now easier, which suggests the developer is investing in both the browsing and the repeat-visit sides of the app.

A free, wide-ranging pick for regular eventgoers

AllEvents does one job well: it gathers events from a very large number of places, lets you filter them by what you like, and sells you the ticket when you decide to go. The free price, absence of ads and lack of in-app purchases make it easy to try without committing to anything.

The trade-offs are the ones the app itself implies. You get more from it if you share your location and interests, and the catalog is broad rather than specialized. Those are reasonable conditions for a discovery tool, not flaws.

I would recommend it to people who attend events often, plan outings for friends, or want a single place for tickets and check-in. If you only go to one show a year, the app will still work, but its strengths will not have much to do.

What's new in version 12.7.0

We’ve made a few updates this season, including improved Season Passes and an easier way to discover events around you on the map.