EVENTIM DE: Tickets for Events

Review by eFreeware

The single most distinctive thing about EVENTIM DE is the scale of what it holds: the developer describes it as a route to more than 200,000 events a year, spread across over 2,000 cities in Germany. That is not a niche booking tool for one venue or one promoter. It is a broad ticket shop for concerts, theatre, musicals, festivals and family shows, and the app is the mobile front door to it.

That scale is also the reason the app will not suit everyone equally. If you go to live events often, or you follow particular artists and want to know when they announce dates, the breadth works in your favor. If you only buy a ticket once every few years, the value is thinner, though the app is free, shows no ads and has no in-app purchases, so there is no cost to keeping it around.

Worth setting expectations on the numbers. The app has over a million installs, but its average sits at 2.8 from 16,286 ratings. That is a modest score for an app this widely used, and it tells you the experience has not pleased everyone. I would treat it as a tool you use when you need tickets, not one you open for pleasure.

The core job: finding a date and a seat

The part I would use most is the event list. It shows when and where a given event takes place, and you can save dates straight into your personal calendar so they do not slip past you. Combined with the seating plan, that covers the two questions that matter when you are booking: is this happening on a night I can make, and can I get a seat I am happy with.

Seating plan booking lets you pick your seat directly from the plan rather than accepting whatever the system assigns, and you choose how many tickets you want at the same time. The developer also describes a transparent overview of price and seat categories, from cheap seats and discounts through to premium and VIP areas. Filters and the pricing structure are meant to make that comparison easier, which is the sort of thing that matters when a show has six price bands and you are trying to work out what the difference actually buys.

Favourite artists and favourite venues are the other half of this. The payoff is early information about upcoming events at those venues, plus practical service details such as directions and parking. For anyone who goes to the same halls and clubs repeatedly, that is a sensible way to organize a ticket app.

Tickets on your phone and what happens if plans change

EVENTIM.Pass is the mobile ticket side of the app. Tickets you buy are stored on your smartphone, personalized to you, and available whenever you need them. The developer presents this as protection against black market risks, which is the kind of claim I take as a stated aim rather than a guarantee. Practically, it means you are not relying on a printout or a PDF buried in an email.

The more interesting detail is resale. If you cannot attend, the app lets you resell your tickets conveniently. Anyone who has eaten the cost of a concert ticket after a schedule clash will understand why that matters, and it is the feature that most clearly separates a booking app from a simple listings page.

Your account ties this together. An EVENTIM account keeps your tickets, orders and alerts in one place whenever you need them. Alerts, combined with push notifications for presales, tour announcements and added dates, are how the app tries to keep you ahead of the queue rather than reading about a sell-out afterwards.

Browsing beyond the bands you already know

The app is not only a search box for artists you already like. It offers selected events as inspiration, and fan reports let you see what other attendees thought, with the option to submit your own review afterwards. That is a reasonable way to decide whether a comedian, a musical or a tribute night is worth an evening, especially when you are buying for a group rather than yourself.

The catalog runs across rock, pop, techno, classical, hip-hop, rap and indie, plus comedy, musicals, dinner events and exhibitions. Festival coverage includes names like Rock am Ring, Rock im Park, Hurricane, Southside, Deichbrand and Highfield. For families there are shows such as Holiday on Ice alongside children's shows and musicals, which makes the app usable for a weekend outing as much as a night out.

Vouchers are the last piece. You can give someone a voucher rather than picking a specific date for them, which is a practical answer when you know a person's taste but not their calendar. It is a small feature, but it fits the way tickets are often bought as gifts.

What you need before you book

Setup is about as light as a ticketing app can be. You need an EVENTIM account to reach digital tickets, orders and ticket alerts, and that login is the thread running through everything. The developer's advice is to turn on push notifications so presales, tour announcements and additional dates reach you promptly.

The other requirement is geographic. The events are concentrated in Germany, with the developer naming Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Leipzig, Bremen, Dresden, Hanover, Nuremberg and Duisburg among the cities covered. If your live music and theatre going happens in Germany, the coverage is the point. If it happens elsewhere, the catalog will not follow you.

Nothing here asks you to pay for access. The app is free to download, carries no ads and offers no in-app purchases, so the money you spend is on the tickets themselves and the price categories the app lays out.

Who gets the most from it

The clearest fit is someone who goes to live events several times a year and wants one place to handle it. Marking favourite artists and venues turns the app into a personal radar: you hear about presales and added dates for the acts and halls you care about, and you can move from notification to seating plan to stored mobile ticket without leaving the app. That loop is where the design makes sense.

It also works for the person who organizes outings for other people. Family shows, musicals and dinner events sit alongside the concert catalog, and vouchers cover the case where you want to give an experience without fixing a date. Fan reports help when you are choosing between options you know nothing about.

The 2.8 average is the caveat I would carry into any decision here. A widely installed app with a middling score suggests the experience has rough edges for a fair number of users, and the developer's most recent update note speaks only of performance, stability and bug fixes.

A ticket shop for regular German concertgoers

EVENTIM DE is best understood as the mobile arm of a large German ticket shop rather than a standalone discovery app. Its strengths are the breadth of the catalog, seating plan booking with visible price categories, mobile tickets that can be resold if plans change, and alerts tied to the artists and venues you follow. It is free, ad-free and free of in-app purchases, which removes most of the usual reasons to hesitate before installing.

The reservations are equally clear. The events are in Germany, so it is a poor fit if your live calendar is elsewhere, and the 2.8 average from 16,286 ratings is low enough that I would not assume a frictionless experience every time. The app is also a booking tool first; the browsing, fan reports and reviews are supporting acts rather than the main event.

My recommendation is straightforward. If you live within reach of German venues and go to concerts, festivals, theatre or family shows more than occasionally, this is worth having on your phone, particularly if you follow specific artists and want presale notifications.

What's new in version 6.15.1

Improvements for performance, stability and bugfixing.